Informal think-tank news — August 2024

• A think-tank bought by a Competitive Intelligence agency
• What is a think-tank ? ( 15:00 )
• ( after this one ) Yet another think-tank that does not exist ( “Partners : EPI” )
• Unpacking the Washington, DC Think Tank Scene
• FBI raids home of a key Washington think-tank founder
• Once again, another think-tanker that does not exist
• EU legislative projects traffic light system
• The man who has coined the terms BRICS+ — and BRICS++
• think-tank spy ring
• A ( Russian ) think-tank game ( theme : atomic bombs )
• Interview with the founder of Israel’s most influential think-tank
• How a U.S.-Funded Israeli Think Tank is Working
• Four types of Chinese think-tanks
• Young Leaders ( made in China )
• Chinese Track-2 Diplomacy
• Freedom award
• Influence Watch
• Another think-tank corruption scandal
• A fact tank
• American TechTank and French think-tech
• Richard Haas and Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Ph.D ( Park Avenue 2:31 )
• 42:15 : “we’re trying to think big ; and so we are relying also on those outside of government who have more time to think than we do ; for some of the big ideas”
• A think tank offers $10,000 for the seizure of an Estonian robot
• President of Ukraine held a meeting with representatives of leading think tanks of Europe and the U.S.
• ( more ) think-tank cartoons in Czech Republic
• A think-tank, and its director, on OFAC’s list
• Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund is also on the sanctions list
• The Spectre of Neuroscience in Security Studies
• think tank with Chinese characteristics
• 1–2–3 extremely opaque think-tanks working against disinformation …
• The first podcast by and for women in the US Intelligence Community ( > origin of the name )
• “Lebanon is not a real state; it is a money-laundering headquarters.” 17:33

INFORMAL THINK-TANK NEWS — MAY 2024

• Paweł Karbownik ( Bruegel ) is now the Polish Deputy Minister of Finance
• Chad P. Bown ( PIEE ) is now Chief Economist at the the US Department of State
• Urban Warfare Experts’ Christmas Wish List
• A think-tank idea picked up by the U.S government : Thousands of seized Iranian guns, rocket launchers and munitions transfered to Ukraine
• Fast Thinking, Atlantic Council
• ASPI the American, and ASPI the Australian.

Alternatives to Wikipedia think-tank pages

• militarist-monitor.org
• GroupWatch archive
• LittleSis : 25 think-tanks ; news.
• citizenaudit.org ( paid )
• insidephilanthropy.com ( paid )

INFORMAL THINK-TANK NEWS — June 2022

• 850 active projects in Georgia, and 630 in Moldova.
• 64% of women in one of the world’s most influential think-tanks.
• Gender equality plan 2022-2026.
• Parity Pledge for gender balanced events.
• A webinar about working in the think tank sector.
• What does it take to start a think-tank ?
• A mission-driven think-tank.
• Inaccuracy correction.

Think Tank Watch

twitter.com/ThinkTankWatch — Covering The Think Tank Scene in the United States and Beyond. Specializing in Think Tank News and Gossip.

Informal Think-Tank News — May 2022

• Nobody reads think-tank reports.

• “Your Central European Intelligence” : “Good Russians do not exist. They have not been born yet.”

• In 2 weeks a major think-tanker will become a French MP.

• A  think – tank  battle.

• There is already a little think-tank in the metaverse.

• Accepting bitcoins.

• 1847 initiatives , and around 300 projects in Kosovo. And 124 ongoing programs in Georgia.

• Acknowledgement of country.

Informal think-tank news — April 2022 :

• After WIIS : WCAPS.

• On domestic matters, Russia starts think-tanking cautiously :
  Open & Interactive Map of Environmental Conflicts in Russia

• Elves against Trolls.

• The 3 SUPER HEAVYWEIGHTS of the Think-Tank WORLD : > https://www.fes.de/standorte/fes-international/  > https://www.boell.de/en/worldwide  > https://www.kas.de/en/worldwide

• JOINT comes out of stealth, to “understand and strengthen EU Foreign and Security Policy in a complex and contested world”.

• New name ( it was the “Bonn International Center for Conversion” ) ;
  new name ( it was the “Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces” ).
  

• 2 examples of think-tanks that have recently decided to hide their full / initial name :
  Tata Energy Research Institute
  Rocky Mountain Institute
  
• New HQ ( from London to Berlin ).

Sanctioned think-tankers

4 sanctioned US think-tankers ( numbers 22, 25, 26 & 27 ),

and a call to sanction Russian ones.

think-tank & ecstasy

At a Parisian party.

accusation of espionage

“The institute acts as an independent research organisation, but is allegedly gathering information“