What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences

What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences

This paper was originally published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association and is reprinted with permission of author. Through the use of survey methods, the study presents the first systematic comparison of America-based international relations professors to think tank employees (TTEs) in terms of their preferred conduct of the United States in international affairs. The difference between the two groups in their support for military intervention is stark. TTEs are 0.47 standard deviations more hawkish than professors based on a standard measure of...

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Max Abrahms and Richard Hanania

Max Abrahms is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Northeastern University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He is also a Research Fellow at Defense Priorities.



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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

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