THINK TANKS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:
A POLICY-MAKER'S PERSPECTIVE

By Richard N. Haass
Director of Policy and Planning, Department of State

THINK TANKS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:
AN HISTORICAL VIEW

By Donald E. Abelson
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario

THINK TANKS AND THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION
OF FOREIGN POLICY

By James G. McGann
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: HOW A THINK TANK WORKS

By Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution

RAND: HOW THINK TANKS INTERACT WITH THE MILITARY

By Michael D. Rich
Executive Vice President, RAND

THE U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE:
A HANDS-ON APPROACH TO RESOLVING CONFLICT

By Richard H. Solomon
President, United States Institute of Peace

HAVING AN IMPACT:
THINK TANKS AND THE NATO ENLARGEMENT DEBATE

By Ronald D. Asmus
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: INFLUENCING THE DEBATE ON MISSILE DEFENSE

By Baker Spring
F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy, The Heritage Foundation

A NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON ESTABLISHING A THINK TANK:
THE CASE OF HONDURAS

By Amy Coughenour Betancourt
Adjunct Fellow of the Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

THE REVOLVING DOOR

THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY --
A SELECTION OF INTERNET SITES

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