Created in 1920, the London-based ‘British Institute of International Affairs’ (in 1926 renamed Royal Affairs) has for a century been at forefront an ongoing ‘Anglo-American’ conversation about world politics. Yet even though was regarded from outset as institutional expression very ‘special relationship’ between UK and United States, it did little independent research its own on US foreign pol...

The article analyses the emergence and development of foreign policy think tanks in Russia Turkey, as well their role political decision-making process. According to author, reasons for appearance these research centres during Cold War differ between two countries. However, 1990s both states, processes such democratization, strengthening civil society, especially Russia, new power form parties ...

Abstract Four think tanks with close ties to the highest levels of government have shaped American foreign policy for decades. They are Council on Foreign Relations, RAND Corporation, Bilderberg Group, and Trilateral Commission. With direct officials who engaged in various covert operations, these organizations provide a space within which advocates global control can share ideas develop new po...

Introduction: Primary care providers are needed who provide cost-effective, comprehensive care that is teambased and patient-centered (i.e., Patient-Centered Medical Homes-PCMH). Although PCMH implementation is underway in a variety of settings across the U.S, adopting the PCMH model can be challenging even in motivated and efficient practices. The purpose of this study was to help facilitate P...

The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) solicited (and continues to solicit) the input of more than 400 subject matter experts in various areas of public health during the development and ongoing revision of the accreditation standards and measures. This process is designed to ensure that the standards and measures remain relevant and accommodate the various contexts under which public hea...

PURPOSE Addressing important but complex research questions often necessitates the creation of innovative mixed methods designs. This report describes an approach to developing research designs for studying important but methodologically challenging research questions. METHODS The Methodological Think Tank has been held annually in conjunction with the Primary Care Research Methods and Statis...

Este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva socio-histórica el papel que jugó la Fundación Ford en promoción, financiación y exportación del modelo think tank a Argentina entre los años 1975 1983, examinando particular relación existió investigadores de dos centros académicos argentinos fundados 1975: Centro Estudios Estado Sociedad (CEDES) Investigaciones Sociales sobre Administración (CISEA)....

In this article, we argue that a major reason the United States failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to ameliorate global warming is the opposition of the American conservative movement, a key segment of the antienvironmental countermovement. We examine how the conservative movement mobilized between 1990 and 1997 to construct the “non-problematicity” of global warming. After we describe how con...