Think Tank Watch

How will Washington, DC-area think tanks be impacted by a US government shutdown?  The only major difference Think Tank Watch can envision i...

Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, led one of Iran's most well-known think tanks, the Center for Strategic Research (CSR). ...

Elizabeth O'Bagy, the analyst who was fired by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) for allegedly padding her academic credentials, ...

Check out the snazzy new home of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Here is a 51-second video showing the insi...

A new report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a think tank focusing mainly on national security, says that th...

The Wall Street Journal had an editorial yesterday titled The Cruz Campaign which questions the tactics being used by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ...

CSIS has officially moved. "Worst peace scare in memory is sweeping through the think tanks of Washington." Think tank may fa...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced this month that two former central bank governors have joined the think tank. In early S...

The Brookings Institution announced this week the establishment of the Center for Effective Public Management (CEPM), a new research orga...

Stanford University Press has just released a new book by Andrew Selee titled " What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide to Poli...

WSJ Review has reaction from five think tankers on the Syria situation. Wilson Center: Approx. 1.5 billion people live in conflict-affec...

The Hill newspaper recently released its "100 People to Watch in the Fall," and five think tankers are on the list: Christopher...

As Think Tank Watch previously reported, the Heritage Foundation has received a $26 million gift from the family of the late Kathryn and She...

The Diplomatic Courier has just announced the 2013 top "99 under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders," and think tankers are among the rank...

Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), the head of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, has written a letter to Russian President Vl...

Debt ceiling to be reached between Oct. 17 & Nov. 5, says BPC. Tax Policy Center (TPC) says 47% not paying federal taxes is now 43%....

Hans Gutbrod, a consultant and think tank expert, has put together this word cloud of what the top 20 US think tanks are currently working...

The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a think tank dedicated to women's issues, has facilitated the collection of 450+ ...

Tim Mak of the Washington Examiner has just written a fairly long piece on the Heritage Foundation.  The conclusion: Heritage has decided t...

Tony Blinken, the Deputy National Security Adviser and former think tanker, has been thrust into the spotlight on Syria while National Secur...

Stanley Fischer, former Bank of Israel Governor, joins CFR as Distinguished Fellow. Does Ghana need a diaspora think tank? Cato Institu...

North Korea seems to think that South Korean think tanks hold lots of useful information. TechWorld reports that Kaspersky Lab has unc...

Elizabeth O'Bagy, a Senior Research Analyst and Syria Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), has been fired from the th...

We just saw that we finally got followed by @Heritage ! High-fives around the office. — Brookings (@BrookingsInst) September 10, 2013 T...

The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation announced this week a "mammoth" billboard campaign in New York City warning that ...

The New America Foundation's (NAF) new President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter recently wrote an essay about why she returned to Washin...

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a think tank with close connections to the Obama Administration, will host a live stream toni...

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars reportedly may sell or stop publication of the Wilson Quarterly , a well-known, 37-year...

World's think tanks increasing attention towards Azerbaijan; 1st Forum of Think Tanks of Member States of the Economic Cooperation Org...

The past week or so Think Tank Watch has had numerous posts related to a possible US military intervention in Syria and how think tanks a...

The conservative website WND has a new piece speculating that President Obama may be employing a March 2012 Brookings Institution report...

The RAND Corporation recently released a new study regarding airpower options in Syria.  Here is a summary of the findings: Destroying th...

As the Obama Administration tries to sell intervention in Syria, it is using liberal think tanks to make the case for a strike against th...

Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation think tank, said this week that it opposes action in Syria.  Heritage Action r...

Are staffers leaving the Heritage Foundation at a dizzying pace?  There have certainly been some recent high-profile exits, but it doesn...