Friday, June 23, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#478)

  • David Dewhirst, senior advisor to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, joins Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation.
  • CSIS launches bipartisan Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention.
  • CSIS launches Hess Center for New Frontiers to work on macrotrends and forces shaping the global landscape over the next century; and launches Wadhani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies (it launched an AI Council in 2022).
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace opens new Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin.
  • Carnegie Endowment and Princeton launched initiative to counter threats to the information environment.
  • Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison joins CNAS Board of Advisors.
  • Wilson Center's Mexico Institute receives grant for work to strengthen protections for migrant workers in North American agriculture.
  • Wilson Center launches Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition to shape conversations and reforms in era of great power competition.
  • Wilson Center launches Latin America marine protection partnership with the US State Department.
  • Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI): "Unlike establishment think tanks, we rely exclusively on small donations."