Think Tank Quickies (#431)
- Brookings and Brookings Doha Center end their affiliation.
- Should Nielsen do ratings for think tank discussions?
- Microsoft: Russia the most prevalent hacker of US think tanks in the past year.
- There are very few significant think tanks in Canada that are not recipients of Chinese funds.
- James McGann: How do think tanks remain relevant in today's world?
- Prof. Lawrence Freedman: "I always felt that universities are sometimes better than think tanks because of their students, their engagement, their fresh and changing ideas."
- Citing donor pressure, Yale professor resigns.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) swamped by investigations of foreign influence on grantees.
- "Western think tanks regularly convene events on Gulf issues. Gulf people are massively underrepresented at these events primarily due to their indifference to such gatherings."
- Who has the most coherent and comprehensive model for the bizarre state of our current world?
