Think Tank Quickies (#148)
- Chinese ramp up spying on Australian think tanks.
- Think tanks in South Korea blasted for fund misuse.
- Brookings' Strobe Talbott to be honored by Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
- Dan Drezner on thinking about think tanks; and five things I now think I think about think tanks.
- Aspen Institute head: There's no real reason to have think tanks start before 10am.
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry gives speech at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
- Plagiarism from think tanks costs US senator his degree.
- Heidi Shierholz, former economist at EPI, becomes Labor Department's chief economist.
- CSIS launches "Global Sustainability Series" with support from Bechtel Corporation; announces new initiative in partnership with Fortune Magazine called "Smart Women, Smart Power."
- CNAS announces formation of Defense Strategies and Assessments Program.
- Andrew Selee of Wilson Center has piece in Time magazine - "Think Tanks: What Are They Good For?" (cites Jerry Seinfeld on think tanks)
