Inside the Hidden World of Think Tanks

Think tanks—the non-profit research centers that try to influence policy—are strange and mysterious places. Depending on who you ask, think tanks are invaluable sources of expertise, intellectual hired guns serving powerful interests, or relics of a bygone era when facts mattered and political leaders actually read things. Tino Cuellar is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a premiere foreign policy think tank. He joins host Jon Bateman on The World Unpacked to pull back the curtain on this hidden world. Tino takes on the skeptics and makes an impassioned case for an “idea sector” independent of government and industry—even in the age of AI. Host: Follow Jon on X: Guest: Tino Cuellar

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Inside the Hidden World of Think Tanks is an episode from DiploPod by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

This episode is 00:43:20 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2026.

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