Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Think Tank Quickies (#125)

  • Diane Rehm Show: Think tanks funding and influence.
  • The "Golden Age" of think tanks in China.
  • The Hill newspaper announces launch of a new "Contributors" section, with content from more than 100 scholars, think tankers, and others.
  • Brookings establishes SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies; Katharine H.S. Moon to be Senior Fellow and inaugural holder of the new chair.
  • Former Chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's Michael Gould, and former DoD official Paul Kaminski join Board of Trustees at RAND Corp.
  • Robert Hormats named Chairman of the Advisory Board for the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
  • Global Secular Council: A new think tank for secularism.
  • USIP's 60 Second International Film Festival.
  • Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough coming to CSIS June 2.
  • CNAS's 8th annual security conference to feature UN Amb. Susan Rice and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
  • CSIS's new interactive Ukraine crisis timeline.