Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Think Tank Quickies (#198)

  • CEIP: Could 3-D printing make it easier for states to build nuclear weapons?
  • Former CAP staffer Zaid Jilani: We had a ban on writing about Jamie Dimon because JPMorgan Chase gave around a quarter of a million dollars to the think tank.
  • Brookings President Strobe Talbott: "We are all French now."
  • Prime Minister of Georgia hosts dinner for Atlantic Council delegation.
  • Bruce Katz of Brookings named first-ever Centennial Scholar; Amy Liu appointed VP and Director of Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings.
  • Subir Gokarn of Brookings India appointed as Executive Director at IMF.
  • Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) on the Netanyahu fiasco at CAP (includes staff rebuttal).
  • CBPP staffers ("Center on Buckets") playing some hoops (a new think tank basketball league?).
  • 30 think tanks attended the 2015 Latin America Think Tank Summit.
  • How the Heritage Foundation uses Medium to replace PDF reports.
  • New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks joins Atlantic Council.