The New Powerhouses: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy

摘要

In the course of testing the hypothesis that the think tanks that play an important role in American foreign policymaking may well become further instruments of the divisiveness, fragmentation, and disarray that now characterize American foreign policymaking, this analysis not only explains what think tanks are and do but also provides a fascinating history of how American foreign policymaking has evolved since the post-World War II era, highlighting steps that have led to its outsourcing and privatization.