The Centers Cannot Hold: What’s the Next Step for Think Tanks?

... United States involving Middle Eastern and Chinese financing of major policy organizations [ 2 ]. Third, the nascent wave of populism and anti-elitist attitudes could not but hit think tanks as well. Most policy institutes in the West constitute the so-called ... ... spoils worldwide. The waning trust in traditional institutions — the government and international organizations, as well as the media — manifests in phenomenon of post-truth. All this creates grounds for criticizing professional opinions from both the ...