Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy

Brian S. Mueller

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Democracy's Think Tank

The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy

Brian S. Mueller

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299601

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In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller tells the story of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and its crusade to resurrect democracy at home and abroad. Borrowing from populist, progressive, and New Left traditions, IPS challenged elite expertise and sought to restore power to "the people."

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Brian S. Mueller teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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"In this highly intelligent, well-written, and very well-researched book, Brian S. Mueller offers the first comprehensive history of the Institute for Policy Studies [IPS], the leading progressive think tank whose presence on the liberal-left political scene in the United States from the 1960s through the 1980s was ubiquitous. The IPS stance was very much one of a responsible, rational, democratic opposition to the Cold War policies of the United States and to the Cold War itself. For Mueller, the vision of IPS thinkers remains relevant for us to today, worth considering as Americans and people around the world continue, in some ways, to search for a genuinely democratic international order."—Doug Rossinow, author of Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America

"It was a pleasure to read Democracy's Think Tank, on the Institute for Policy Studies [IPS], a little-studied but important node in the Washington intellectual and policy establishment after its founding in the early 1960s. We have few studies of what we might call the institutional left, as opposed to social and political organizations, of the period. IPS is important to this discussion both for its longevity, as well as for the persistence of its progressive critique of both mainstream Republican and Democratic foreign policy currents, especially on human rights, nuclear policy, and the war in Vietnam."—Bradley Simpson, author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S. Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION. Peace Intellectuals Against Cold War Liberalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. On a Mission to Save Liberalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 2. A World Safe for Diversity IPS’s Road Map for a Post–Cold War Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
CHAPTER 3. Let the Dominoes Fall Where They May Ideological Pluralism in Vietnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
CHAPTER 4. The National Security State and the Men Behind It Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
CHAPTER 5. Pocketbooks, Morality, and Human Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 6. A War for the World’s Resources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER 7. A Citizen’s Army for a Post–Cold War Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER 8. Arms Control Is Not Disarmament Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
EPILOGUE. Reviving Democracy in Post–Cold War America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Political Science; Public Policy; American History; American Studies

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Published: July 2, 2021
ISBN: 9780812299601