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Conservative Brain Trust
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the American Enterprise Institute
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2009
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Conservative Brain Trust traces the rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). More than that, it is the story of one of Washington's leading think tanks: what it's like to work there, how Washington works, and how AEI influences policy, including policy on the controversial Iraq War. This is a wide-ranging review of the Washington think tank world, focused particularly on AEI. The book is a social science and political study of the role of think tanks in Washington policy-making and, in part, a personal memoir of the author's adventures and perceptions in seeking to link academic research and American foreign policy. What emerges is a portrait of AEI as an influential, but also troubled, think tank with access to the highest levels of the U.S. government. Irreverent as well as analytic, the author recounts his adventures and experiences in the think tank and policy worlds.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2883-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3305-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
328
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Preface No access
Chapter One: Introduction: “The Call” No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”: An Introduction to Washington and AEI No access Pages 13 - 28
Chapter Three: Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions No access Pages 29 - 44
Chapter Four: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy No access Pages 45 - 62
Chapter Five: Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area No access Pages 63 - 78
Chapter Six:Power and Policy-Making in Washington, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made No access Pages 79 - 92
Chapter Seven: The Democracy Initiativein American Foreign Policy No access Pages 93 - 108
Chapter Eight: The Kissinger Commission on Central America No access Pages 109 - 136
Chapter Nine: Am I Entitled to Be Called “Honorable”? Serving the White House at Home and Abroad No access Pages 137 - 164
Chapter Ten: Congress, the President, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation No access Pages 165 - 186
Chapter Eleven: On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good No access Pages 187 - 208
Chapter Twelve: Washington Adventures and Misadventures: Are We a Banana Republic or What? No access Pages 209 - 234
Chapter Thirteen: The Looming Crisis of AEI No access Pages 235 - 256
Chapter Fourteen: AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C. No access Pages 257 - 278
Chapter Fifteen: AEI Reborn and Reconstituted No access Pages 279 - 302
