A century of international affairs think tanks in historical perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5699798
AutoresPriscilla Roberts (0000-0001-8092-303X, University of Hong Kong, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume70
Fascículo4
Páginas535-555
Data de publicação2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0020702015590591
OpenAlexW2217767948
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

This essay surveys the operations of foreign policy think tanks, and how they have functioned to create transnational knowledge networks, since their emergence in the early twentieth century, around the First World War. It discusses how patterns of linkages among foreign policy think tanks changed and evolved over time, and were linked to broader Anglo-American, imperial, and internationalist networks and relationships, and to the changing international political climate and configuration. It suggests some ways in which think tanks contributed to Cold War interchanges between different states, especially to Soviet bloc-Western relations and Asian-Western relations. It concludes by discussing the recent proliferation and frequent globalization of foreign policy think tanks, and suggests how such trends may develop in future

Cold war · Economics · Economy · Foreign policy · Globalization · International relations · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Think tanks · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies