Think Tank Quickies (#191)

• China's rise alarming US think tanks.
• Search think funding around the world (including US) at Foundation Maps, via Foundation Center.
• Prominent healthcare economist Deborah Freund joins RAND. 
• Spencer Ackerman: "Just once I want a DC think tank report to say plainly, 'This research is not designed to be true.  It is designed to be useful.'"
• Indian think tanks in the military field.
• Brookings: Is al-Bahgdadi the new bin Laden?
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) does libertarian Cato on Sept. 16.
• State Dept. and White House interact regularly with think tanks; intel community not so much. 
• "Higher education providers" like think tanks are booming.
• Partisan think tanks/researchers prone to produce results that confirm their own political leanings.

Think Tank Quickies (#188)

• Thomas Pritzker appointed Chairman of CSIS's Board of Trustees; succeeds former senator Sam Nunn, who will remain as Chairman Emeritus.
• Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint gives keynote at Jackson Hole summit.
• Professor attacks African think tanks as "tanks that do not think."
• Is Bangalore the next think tank hub?
• Cato "goes off the rails" on health policy?
• Sri Lanka made hundreds of contacts with US think tanks in 2014.
• Emanuel Pastreich: Think tanks suffer from a number of shortcomings.
• Bruce Jones named VP and Director of Foreign Policy at Brookings; Hamilton Project at Brookings appoints Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach as new director.
• Rexon Ryu, former Chief of Staff to former DefSec Chuck Hagel, joins Carnegie as Senior Advisor.
• CSIS hires Olga Oliker from RAND to replace Andy Kuchins who will head Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; Kuchins will be a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CSIS.
•  Two leading US think tanks (CEIP and Stimson) say that Pakistan will have 350+ nuclear weapons in a decade.

Think Tank Quickies (#187)

• China-backed think tank (Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation) exits Brussels.
• Chinese defense think tanks face enormous challenges.
• India's most influential think tanks.
• Leader of Korea's ruling Saenuri Party, Rep. Kim Moo-sung to visit think tanks such as Wilson Center and Brookings during 7-day trip.
• Conservative think tanks wants the White House Science Czar's private emails. 
• Guyana needs more think tanks.
• Renaming a think tank in Singapore.
• Ideological divide between US and Russian think tanks? 
• Jimmy Carter's grandson to take over as chairman of Carter Center.
• What's the point of development think tanks?
• CFR map on vaccine-preventable outbreaks.
• Who says the summer doesn't have cool think tank events?  See Hudson Institute's August 3 event Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare - An Evolving Challenge, and Atlantic Council's July 29 event Rethinking Commercial Espionage.