Innovation Essay Contest

FPRI’s Wachman Center is pleased to announce a contest for high school students for an essay of between 900 and 1000 words on The top 5 innovations developed in the U.S. since 1945, ranked from #1 to #5. The three winning essays will be posted on our website, and the winners will receive awards of $1,000 each. All entries must be emailed by 5pm Eastern Time Thursday, January 15, 2009. Read more about the essay contest »

FPRI Featured E-Note December 2008

The Greek Riots: Anomic Youths, Headless Government

By Cornelia Tsakiridou

The December 6, 2008 death in Athens of 15-year-old Alexandros Gregoropoulos by police fire triggered riots and mayhem throughout the country. As the riots continue, three myths are dominating public perception: that those in positions of authority cannot be trusted; that the rebellious and poor have a monopoly on justice; and that problems facing the nation are caused by obscure international enemies and their domestic operatives. Read “The Greek Riots” »

FPRI Featured E-Note December 2008

Just What Is Happening in Canada—and What Does It Mean?

By David T. Jones

How has the ice matron of the North morphed into an Arctic soap opera drama queen? Certainly the events of this November-December are out of the norm of blandness frequently attributed to Canadian politics. On the one hand, they are sufficiently unprecedented to spark major political upset within Canada. On the other hand, they are, if not quite Parliamentary Politics 101, hardly extraordinary. Read “Just What Is Happening in Canada” »

FPRI Featured E-Note December 2008

Tahdiya: Calm Before the Palestinian Storm?

By Tally Aharony

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which has been a top foreign policy priority for U.S. administrations since 1948, is about to be shaken up. On December 19, the so-called tahdiya, or calm, is set to expire. Read “Tahdiya: Calm Before the Palestinian Storm?” »

FPRI Featured E-Note December 2008

Time to Change our Oil Policy

By Bernard Munk

The Obama mantra has been “change,” and no policy domain needs change more than our oil policy—indeed, our energy strategy as a whole. The first rule is to keep the price of oil high to the users of oil products! Read “Time to Change our Oil Policy” »

FPRI Featured FootNote December 2008

Ideas: A History of Thought From Fire to Freud

By Peter Watson

On October 18-19, 2008, FPRI’s Wachman Center hosted 40 teachers from 21 states across the country for a weekend of discussion on teaching the history of innovation. he Institute was hosted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri and webcast worldwide. Read “Ideas: A History of Thought From Fire to Freud” »

Recent FootNotes

• Teaching the History of Innovation: A History Institute for Teachers, Trudy Kuehner, 11/2008
• Social and Technological Change in Western History, Alex Wright, 11/2008
• More FootNotes »

From the archives

• Spotlight on Georgia: The Political Economy of Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Vladimer Papava, in Orbis, Fall 2006 (11 pages, 93K )
• Spotlight on Zimbabwe: Comrade Mugabe's 'state of Disaster', Michael Radu, 5/2002
• Spotlight on Iran: Iran: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Tradition of Persian Statecraft, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Summer 1979 (1.3MB )
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Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

The Global "Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World

By James G. McGann

Gone are the days when a think tank could operate with the motto “research it, write it and they will find it”. Today, think tanks must be lean, mean, policy machines. The report that follows summarizes the findings of a pilot project to identify some of the leading think tanks in the world, and provides lists of what might be called the “go to think tanks” in every region.

• View The Global “Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007 (24 pages, 265K )
• More about the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at FPRI