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

... those think tanks that are lucky enough to have diversified sources of funding — suffice it to recall the scandals in the 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 “globalized elites,” not only in terms of class affiliation, but also in terms of ideology [ 3 ]. Niblett does not spare himself or his colleagues, chastising western ...