Cooperation between American Think Tanks and the Media on Public Diplomatic Policies

Abstract

Public diplomatic decisions are one of the main themes of the American think tanks, they are committed to the sustainable development research of the national policy and they utilize the media in a variety of ways. This paper offers an overview on the classification of American think tanks and mainly chooses CNAS (Center for a New American Security); CSIS (institute of international relations strategy); Brookings (Brookings institution) as examples to discuss the cooperation between think tanks and the media on public diplomatic policies in three periods: prior to the release by the media; while promoting of the policy; encountering problems after implementing. This paper concludes by emphasizing on the use of media for think tanks on public diplomatic policies, especially for counter-terrorism cooperation, and proposes several suggestions for China.