It includes this link to The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination supports teaching, research, publication and negotiation about issues pertaining to the state, self-determination, self-governance, sovereignty, security, and boundaries with particular consideration of sociocultural, ethnic, and religious issues; and related legal, diplomatic, economic, strategic, and environmental matters involving state as well as non-state actors. The program is funded through the generosity of H.S.H. Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, and is directed by program founder Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, lecturer in public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
The Institute’s focus is global, nonpartisan, and innovative. LISD seeks to enhance peace and stability by contributing to the understanding of the root causes of a people’s desire for increased autonomy or independence, while reducing the tumultuous and potentially violent processes that can occur in times of transition. The Institute does this by bringing together key events, practitioners, representatives, and decision-makers to explore conflicts from cultural-religious, economic, and geostrategic perspectives, in order to find new solutions to current and traditional problems, and to educate the next generation of leaders.
Sounds like a typical think-tank, but I wonder if it isn't a bit more useless than most. Then again, even if it is virtually unheard of here in the United States, perhaps it has a greater influence abroad. Although in imperial China, intellectuals believed that they had an obligation to serve the state (especially as they were members of the literati state), and to make policy recommendations, the development of think tanks in the United States (and Europe?) seems to be rather recent? I wonder if it is not tied in some way to the rise of a liberated liberal intelligentsia and the Enlightenment.
Some of the Institute's publications
The Principality of Lichtenstein
Official site for the Princely Family (of Liechtenstein) -- English version
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