Monday, May 3, 2021

Think Tank Quickies (#410)

  • How media outlets describe DC's tax think tanks.
  • On the UAE's strong relationship with US think tanks. 
  • Japan's only national think tank covering security, the National Institute for Defense Studies, makes predictions on the Quad.
  • Jelena Brankovic thread: Why rankings, such as those for think tanks, are awful.
  • ADBI discusses ways to boost Central Asia's think tanks.
  • C. Lea Shea is "founder and chairman of the Center for the Study of Great Power Competition, formerly known as the Long War Institute on Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency and, prior to that, as the New Globalization Initiative."
  • Academics in Myanmar being rounded up and "disappeared."
  • Former Brookings fellow Maati Monjib released from detention in Morocco.
  • The National Pulse: China boasts control over Western think tanks. 
  • "I would love to see a paper comparing the stock phrases used by think tanks in Brussels, London, and DC."