{"product_id":"democracys-think-tank-9780812253122","title":"Democracys Think Tank","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eVisions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIt was a pleasure to read \u003ci\u003eDemocracy's Think Tank\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eEconomists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S. Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Peace Intellectuals Against Cold War Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. On a Mission to Save Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. A World Safe for Diversity: IPS's Road Map for a Post-Cold War Order\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Let the Dominoes Fall Where They May: Ideological Pluralism in Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The National Security State and the Men Behind It\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Pocketbooks, Morality, and Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. A War for the World's Resources\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. A Citizen's Army for a Post-Cold War Order\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Arms Control Is Not Disarmament\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Reviving Democracy in Post-Cold War America\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405746217303,"sku":"9780812253122","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812253122.jpg?v=1730493467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/democracys-think-tank-9780812253122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}