LEADER 03671nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910823963803321 005 20240501111340.0 010 $a1-282-49412-0 010 $a9786612494123 010 $a0-7391-3305-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721655 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23062257 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12091904 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10278444 035 $a(PQKB)11083535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC467530 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL467530 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10353516 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL249412 035 $a(OCoLC)311266945 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721655 100 $a20080918d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConservative brain trust $ethe rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute /$fHoward J. Wiarda 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, MD $cLexington Books$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (338 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7391-2884-1 311 $a0-7391-2883-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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 Conclusion 330 8 $aConservative 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. 606 $aPolicy sciences 606 $aEconomics$xResearch$zUnited States 615 0$aPolicy sciences. 615 0$aEconomics$xResearch 676 $a320.60973 700 $aWiarda$b Howard J.$f1939-$0253499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823963803321 996 $aConservative brain trust$93924081 997 $aUNINA