Think Tank Quickies (#166)

• Atlantic Council launches new strategy initiative on America's role in the world; Secretary of State John Kerry to speak at the think tank's "Road to Paris Climate Series."
• New CFR InfoGuide explores the two Talibans.
• Cool think tank event of the week: CSIS event on Confucius.
• CSIS to host Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on March 17.
• UK's Prospect Magazine has recently nominated 50 people for its 2015 top thinkers list, and some think tankers made the cut, including Bruce Katz and Tyler Cowen.
• Leon Wieseltier, long-time literary editor of The New Republic, joins Brookings as Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy.
• Heritage Foundation releases first annual Index of US Military Strength.
• AEI at CPAC 2015; AEI polls public opinion of the police.
• Carnegie Moscow Center announces new online project.
• CAP and SiX host state legislators for event on economic opportunity agenda for states; Michael Sozan (formerly with Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado) becomes CAP's VP of Government Affairs.