Think Tank Quickies (#400)

• Former Secretary of State George Schultz, who died at 100, remained active into his 90s through a position at Stanford University's Hoover Institution think tank and various boards. 
• New Authoritarian Influence Tracker, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, catalogues the Russian and Chinese governments' activities to undermine democracy in more than 40 transatlantic countries since 2000.
• "Sharp power," a term coined in a Dec. 2017 report by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is being used by the Biden Administration.
  
• Is there too much geographical favoritism in think tank papers?
• Klon Kitchen, previously director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Technology Policy, has joined AEI as a resident fellow.
• "Foreign policy as domestic policy" went from a "buzzy think tank concept to the heart of Biden's remarks in record time."
• CNAS adjunct Jordan Schneider interviews CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine.
• Spotted at a Wilson Center event where former Rep. Jane Harman announced her retirement as president: Justice Stephen Breyer, Ash Carter, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Roger Wicker, Reps. Karen Bass and Debbie Dingell, and Jeh Johnson.
• The death of CAP President Neera Tanden's Twitter feed?  Is Tanden's nomination doomed?
  
• 2018 flashback: The 10 names that matter on China policy.
• Predators and Principles: Think Tank Influence, Media Visibility, and Political Partnership (dissertation by Timothy Beryl Bland of VCU.