Think tanks form a knowledge-based network that engages with new ideas, promotes their dissemination, and contributes to the shaping of political debate and public policy. Although think tanks are nonprofit and nonpartisan, they are not necessarily...

1. A group of people called together to solve problems, assist make policy decisions by thinking through problems and giving advice. 2. A term used to describe some policy institutions, whether government sponsored or...

A think tank (also called a policy institute) is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or...

An international think tank urged the new leadership of gas-rich Turkmenistan on Tuesday to renounce former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov's iron-fisted rule, and described a vote for his successor as a "blatantly falsified election."The election commission, meanwhile, was finishing the vote count after Sunday's balloting to...

Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned amid a furor over his handling of a bank pay package for his girlfriend, has joined the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, as a visiting scholar.AEI's president, Christopher DeMuth, made the announcement Monday. Wolfowitz will work...

The Jews of the United States and Israel are growing further apart, and the schism is a contributing factor to the declining numbers of Jews outside of Israel, a Jewish think tank concluded in a report released Thursday.The Conference on the Future of the Jewish...

Southern Methodist University professors on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a plan to hold a faculty-wide vote on whether the campus should host a partisan think-tank as part of George W. Bush's presidential library.Faculty Senate President Rhonda Blair said it was defeated because the measure was too...