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By Louis Mark As the Brookings-Tsinghua Center celebrates its 100th anniversary this month, its director Dr. Qi Ye was able to give NexGen an informative lecture on the challenges and goals for think tanks. His presentation covered the process of creating a vision for Brookings and its strategic planning, a Read more…

By Zhang Hanqi On March 23, Mr. Jan Techau, Director of Carnegie Europe came to our class and shared his valuable insights on the operation of a think tank. His own experience in directing the European center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as his well-organized and Read more…

By Emily Conrad​Strong labor laws are seen as a necessity by most United States politicians; if workers are unhappy, politicians risk losing their seats at election time. In fact, labor laws, unionization, and political mobilization are often viewed hand-in-hand. In China, strong labor laws also take on extreme importance: labor Read more…

By Gibson Haynes What does it take to elicit a local government response in China? Professor Meng Tianguang of the department of political science at Tsinghua University wanted to know the answer, and on March 17, 2016, he shared stories of his process and results with members of the NexGen Read more…

By Byungnam Jin ​On Thursday 9th March, Mr. Alexander Gabuev from the Carnegie Moscow Center joined our simulated think tank course for a discussion with the first cohort of the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Degree program.  Mr. Gabuev is a senior associate and the chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific program Read more…

By Emily Conrad​As the spring semester is already up and running, many of the NexGen fellows are thinking ahead to the adventures on which we will embark next academic year as we begin our studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). On March 9th, we met two Read more…

By Kyle Kessler​On July 9th 2011, the Republic of South Sudan was founded after years of civil war, becoming the newest country in the world. Our NexGen Global Forum members were lucky enough to meet with representatives from South Sudan in a meeting organized by the international NGO Safer World. Read more…

By Gibson Haynes  ​张涵奇供稿 On December 23, 2015, Dr. Zhu Xufeng, Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, met with members of NexGen Global Forum and delivered a lecture about think tanks and their functions within China. Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on think tanks and Read more…

By Louis Mark Tsinghua University saw its first ever interdepartmental collaboration between the School of International Relations and the School of Economics and Management (SEM) on December 9th, 2015. NexGen Global Forum, together with the Net Impact chapter of SEM, co-hosted Shanghai consulting group Collective Responsibility’s sustainability series, “Creating the Read more…