– French think-tank director jailed for one year
– a Swiss think-tanker was given a 3-year prison sentence
– disbanded in September 2025, following the political downfall of its founder
– Why are Hong Kong think tanks facing a bleak future?
– 2 Russian think-tanks monitoring Western think-tanks
– Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events
– secretly funded British government overseas propaganda
– Interview with the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
– and with the president of the Wilson Center
– eliminated by an executive order
– the Pentagon’s internal think-tank is now back, with a reduced budget
– Creative Bureaucracy Festival
– nice error 404 message: “I’ve made quite a few mistakes, but that’s part of life. — Reinhard Mohn”
– and a Bipartisan one : “100% of Americans Agree: This Page Does Not Exist.”
– the Koch-funded Atlas Network is also targeting Europe
– Holacratie, a decentralized management method, that works well to run a think-tank
– 75% of the staff are women
– “foreign assholes with opinions”
– India-Russia Heads of Think Tanks Forum: HoTT
– Central Asian Think Tanks Forum
– China-Korea Think Tank Dialogue
– Russia has invented Binge think-tanking! ( each week, dozens or even hundreds of experts write their opinion on a given subject )
– Think Tank Funding in America
– Top Influential Think Tanks
– new American tech think-tank
– Russian disinformation operation targets Western intelligence officials
– yet another think-tank spy network
– CRANK Call ( monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea )
– new major transatlantic international security conference
– French investigative think-tank harassed by French foreign intelligence services.
– a bill that would throw the philanthropic baby out with the woke bathwater
– nom d’origine retrouvé : Commissariat Général au Plan > 2006, le Centre d’analyse stratégique > 2013 France Stratégie > 2025 Haut-Commissariat au Plan 🙂
– A-t-on encore besoin des think tanks aujourd’hui ?
– Que sont-ils devenus ? les trajectoires professionnelles des anciens chercheurs de l’IRSEM
– histoire – passionnante – de l’IFRI
– Organismes de recherche et think tanks – État de la menace informatique
– obligation nouvelle pour les laboratoires d’idées de transmettre à la HATVP le montant des dons et versements étrangers qu’ils reçoivent
– Art et Géopolitique
> The Study of U.S. Think Tanks’ Cognition of Sino-US Track II Diplomacy 2025
> Think tank output as media input: a case study of transnational climate obstructionism 2025
> The First DevelopmentDecade of the Network ofASEAN–China Think-tanks: Review and Prospects 2024
> “State captured” policy advice? Think tanks as expert advisors in the Western Balkans 2023
> European Think Tanks as a Channel of EU Public Diplomacy Towards Transnational Publics 2023
> Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era 2023
> Think tanks and ‘policy hybrids’ in the Western Balkans and post-soviet space 2018
> The Bank of International Settlements as a think tank for financial policy-making 2018
> Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands: The caseof a Canadian think tank 2025
> African regional economic policy-making:Understanding and catalysing the potentials ofthink tanks 2025
> Les think tanks américains sous Trump 2. Le “blob” en péril ? 2025
> Think tanks, la partie émergée de la politisation de la recherche 2022
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Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests ?
The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime
Lulien Landry – 2022 – 23 pages.
To the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
for its renowned podcast series : TRADE TALKS.
From 2017 to 2024.
Chad P. Bown is now Chief Economist at the the US Department of State !
We will really miss this rigorous podcast series.
The last episode, on the “North American Rapid Response Labor Mechanism” was perfect — few think-tanks have reached this level of professionalism.
Congratulations, and thank you !
To the Fédération Nationale des Agences d’Urbanisme ( a network of 50 local agencies ) for being — from the perspective of local public policy makers — the only truly, concretely, USEFUL French think-tank.
To the Valdai Club, for the regularity, quality, and frequency of its infographics, since 2015 !
How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.
Daniel Drezner – 2017 – 360 pages
To the Heritage Foundation, for its extraordinary independence : no government support, and a share of corporate support under 2% !
( While being one of the most influential U.S. think-tanks. )
To the American Enterprise Institute, for the vibrancy and nonconformism of its podcast productions.
Here are its 16 most dynamic podcast series :
– Political Economy
– Banter Podcast
– What the hell is going on ?
– The Report Card
– The Eastern Front
– Hardly Working
– Are you kidding me ?
– Common Ground
– Explain to Shane
– National Affairs
– On the cusp
– Understanding Congress
– The Campus Exchange
– An Economist goes to College
– AEI Events
– TechEnabled
To The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy : The largest global alliance for CITY Climate Leadership across the globe — 11802 cities !
twitter.com/ThinkTankWatch — Covering The Think Tank Scene in the United States and Beyond. Specializing in Think Tank News and Gossip.
To Politique Internationale : the think-tank with the highest influence / size ratio.
( > Interviews
> Readers )
Analyses how Think Tanks form networks and shape discourses.
( Team from the Berlin Social Science Center. )
Stuti Bhatnagar – 2020 – 178 pages
This companion guide systematises and compiles information and resources that will help policy entrepreneurs to think-plan-start and adapt their nascent think tanks.
( See also :
– The OTT School : offers a unique range of capacity building opportunities for policy entrepreneurs, thinktankers, think tanks and policy research centres to develop their personal and organisational competences.
– Setting up a think tank : step by step. )
The toolkit provides a practical starting point for organisations who want to interrogate the role of gender within their structures.
4 sanctioned US think-tankers ( numbers 22, 25, 26 & 27 ),
and a call to sanction Russian ones.
“The institute acts as an independent research organisation, but is allegedly gathering information“
Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
( The European Political Week in #60secs )
Founders Factory and Nesta to launch startups tackling UK’s social and environmental problems
University of Pennsylvania
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Laura-C-Whelan-2170888420
University of Pennsylvania
https://www.gotothinktank.com/past-summits
https://www.gotothinktank.com/publications
Three questions to James McGann :
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/think-tanks-staying-relevant-todays-world
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/careers/
https://cepa.org/our-people/geysha-gonzalez/
https://www.thehagueinstituteforglobaljustice.org/portfolio-category/publications/
https://uiamp.org.ua/isl/analiticheskie-centry-v-smi-itogi-2020-goda
“Most of the scientific laws/theories that we learn today as Newton’s or Einstein’s or Darwin’s theories or earlier ones such as the Pythagoras theorem, had been written about in depth in the ancient texts of Bharat (such as the Vedas and Upanishads) several millennia earlier. However, over the past millennia of invasions as our education systems were destroyed, we lost this knowledge”
( https://indiafoundation.in/about-us/ )
( among UPen top think-tanks : https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=think_tanks )
https://im.nju.edu.cn/imeng/a6/ab/c40541a501419/page.htm
China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center at Nanjing University (Abbreviated “CTTREC”), is a key research institution jointly built by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Nanjing University,
Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology
“Think tanks”
https://www.epistemopratique.org/en/thematiques/think-tanks/
https://www.epistemopratique.org/en/chaire/equipe/veillette-andreanne/
Université de Sherbrooke ( Québec, Canada )
https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/publications/think-tanks-and-policy-making
Nov 2019
Hartwig Pautz
https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/hartwig-pautz
UWS ( University of the West of Scotland )
Research output : https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/hartwig-pautz/publications/