Institute for Policy Studies

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The Institute for Policy Studies is one of the five major independent think tanks in Washington, DC. It advocates "Peace, Justice and the Environment" and was founded in 1963 by Marcus Raskin (an employee of McGeorge Bundy ) and Richard Barnet (an employee of John Jay McCloy ) founded. Since 1998 it has been directed by John Cavanagh .

The institution supported the US civil rights movement and the international movement against apartheid in South Africa ; it defends human rights , published critical studies and the like a. on the Vietnam War , US interventions in Latin America and elsewhere, social inequality and environmental problems and deals with the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement "TTIP".

The institute is considered politically left- wing; Raskin and Barnet were on the " enemy list " of former American President Richard Nixon , agents of Augusto Pinochet murdered two of his employees, and it was attacked by right-wing critics, especially during the presidency of Ronald Reagan .

Other collaborators were (selection): Maude Barlow , Phyllis Bennis , Norman Birnbaum , Sidney Blumenthal , Rita Mae Brown , Charlotte Bunch , Noam Chomsky , Barbara Ehrenreich , Richard A. Falk , Bernard B. Fall , Paul Jacobs , Bob Moses , Vandana Shiva and Arthur Waskow .

The Transnational Institute in Amsterdam was established as an international branch, but has been independent since 1973.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Howard J. Wiarda, Esther M. Skelley: The Crisis of American Foreign Policy. The Effects of a Divided America . Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, ISBN 0-7425-3038-8 , pp. 102-103.
  2. ^ About , Institute for Policy Studies.
  3. ^ History , Institute for Policy Studies.
  4. ^ Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies, in: Peter Kreysler : deutschlandfunk.de: TTIP - Transatlantic Dream or the Sellout of Democracy . Deutschlandfunk , Das Feature , December 9, 2014; Manuscript , p. 23.
  5. ^ Sidney Blumenthal: Left-Wing Thinkers. In: Washington Post , July 30, 1986.