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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn 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 *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction. Peace Intellectuals Against Cold War Liberalism
Chapter 1. On a Mission to Save Liberalism
Chapter 2. A World Safe for Diversity: IPS's Road Map for a Post-Cold War Order
Chapter 3. Let the Dominoes Fall Where They May: Ideological Pluralism in Vietnam
Chapter 4. The National Security State and the Men Behind It
Chapter 5. Pocketbooks, Morality, and Human Rights
Chapter 6. A War for the World's Resources
Chapter 7. A Citizen's Army for a Post-Cold War Order
Chapter 8. Arms Control Is Not Disarmament
Epilogue. Reviving Democracy in Post-Cold War America
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
