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

Think tanks will fall prey to the global political upheaval, plunging public trust, anti-elite sentiment and post-truth politics. The alternative is going beyond traditional roles In November 2018, the International Affairs journal ... ... 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 ...