Democracy's think tank : the Institute for Policy Studies and progressive foreign policy /

"This book is an institutional history of the Institute for Policy Studies, one of the first Washington, DC, think tanks and a model for other think tanks. The founders intended IPS to be a clearinghouse of information for activists outside DC that would help them do their work"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mueller, Brian S. (Brian Scott), 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Institute for Policy Studies.
1900-1999
Progressivism (United States politics) > History > 20th century.
Research institutes > United States > History > 20th century.
Democracy > History > 20th century.
Progressisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Democracy.
Diplomatic relations.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Research institutes.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Peace intellectuals against Cold War liberalism
  • On a mission to save liberalism
  • A world safe for diversity: IPS's road map for a post-Cold War order
  • Let the dominos fall where they may: Ideological pluralism in Vietnam
  • The national security state and the men behind it
  • Pocketbooks, morality, and human rights
  • A war for the world's resources
  • A citizen's army for a post-Cold War order
  • Arms control is not disarmament
  • Epilogue: Reviving democracy in post-Cold War America.

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