Think Tank Quickies (#281)
- Inside RAND Corp's impressive art collection.
- Meet the artist whose job is to creatively synthesize think tank conversations.
- New Saudi think tank (Center for Strategic Development) is hiring.
- Andrew Schwartz of CSIS featured in Politico's "Birthday of the Day."
- CSIS conducted year-long study to lay out a comprehensive strategy toward Russia.
- Japan expert Michael Auslin leaves AEI and joins Hoover.
- Trump's EPA enlists controversial think tank (Heartland Inst.) to find climate experts to argue with mainstream scientists; obscure right-wing think tank fueling Trump's war on renewables.
- CNAS launches Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative.
- Acton Institute lecture series: "Think tanks, Politics, and the Casualties in the War of Ideas," with James McGann.
- Olin Wethington, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, is the leading contender for the nomination of assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
- Jon Huntsman, Chairman of Atlantic Council, gets nod for ambassador to Russia; will Victor Cha of CSIS become ambassador to South Korea?
- New book by Christopher James Rastrick: Think Tanks in the US and EU - The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels.
