Think Tank Quickies (#385)
- At the Atlantic Council, foreign money talks.
- Conservative think tankers, including China hawks, talking to Biden campaign; more than 2,000 people, including think tank experts, advising Biden on foreign policy.
- NYT: How a tech-funded think tank (Global Antitrust Institute) influences global antitrust regulators.
- FBI investigating Russia's Strategic Culture Foundation, which is reportedly directed by Russian intelligence agency SVR.
- Rush Doshi, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, has led a months-long project on China's information influence operations.
- US think tank rankings based on search engine performance.
- Question: "Why did Rome fall? Wrong answers only." Max Abrahms answers: There weren't enough think tanks supplying empirically-based foreign policy advice.
- US military contractors have been enlisting think tanks for years to sell armed drones overseas.
- Jason Stahl, author of think tank book, resigns from university position.
- How one think tank poisoned Australia's climate debate.