Think Tank Quickies (#404)
- Expert directory: 600 female voices on Greater China.
- Think tankers abound on American Leadership Initiative board.
- Colin Kahl, Biden's nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and a former Senior Fellow at CNAS and CFR, comes under fire from Republicans over past tweets.
- Aggregator of EU think tank reports.
- More than one-third of US nonprofits are in jeopardy of closing within two years because of the financial harm inflicted by the pandemic, says Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.
- Tokyo is planning to establish a new think tank to apply commercial technologies, such as quantum technology and AI, to the national security field in FY 2021.
- Think tanks in politically embedded knowledge regimes: does the "revolving door" matter in China?
- US Mission in Nepal soliciting proposals for grants or cooperative agreements from think tanks.
- Nate Schenkkan of Freedom House: "The problem with website metrics for think tanks is at least half of the clicks are the report authors looking it up to email to someone."
- Robert Blackwill, a former national security aide to George W. Bush, co-authored a new paper for CFR, "The United States, China and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War."
