03674nam 2200577 a 450 991078298200332120230721005231.01-282-49412-097866124941230-7391-3305-5(CKB)1000000000721655(StDuBDS)AH23062257(SSID)ssj0000336126(PQKBManifestationID)12091904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336126(PQKBWorkID)10278444(PQKB)11083535(MiAaPQ)EBC467530(Au-PeEL)EBL467530(CaPaEBR)ebr10353516(CaONFJC)MIL249412(OCoLC)311266945(EXLCZ)99100000000072165520080918d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConservative brain trust[electronic resource] the rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute /Howard J. WiardaLanham, MD Lexington Booksc20091 online resource (338 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7391-2884-1 0-7391-2883-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1. Introduction: "The Call" Chapter 2. "Mr. Smith" Goes to Washington: An Introduction to Washington and AEI Chapter 3. Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions Chapter 4. Think Tanks and Foreign Policy Chapter 5. Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area Chapter 6. Power and Policy-Making in Washington, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made Chapter 7. The Democracy Initiative in American Foreign Policy Chapter 8. The Kissinger Commission on Central America Chapter 9. Am I Entitled to be Called "Honorable"?:Serving the White House at Home and Abroad Chapter 10. Congress, the President, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation Chapter 11. On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good Chapter 12. Washington Adventures and Misadventures:Are We a Banana Republic or What? Chapter 13. The Looming Crisis of AEI Chapter 14. AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C. Chapter 15. AEI Reborn and Reconstituted Chapter 16 ConclusionConservative 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.Policy sciencesEconomicsResearchUnited StatesPolicy sciences.EconomicsResearch320.60973Wiarda Howard J.1939-253499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782982003321Conservative brain trust3702823UNINA