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Conservative Brain Trust
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the American Enterprise Institute
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Conservative Brain Trust
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the American Enterprise Institute
About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Conservative Brain Trust
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One: Introduction: “The Call”
- Chapter Two: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”: An Introduction to Washington and AEI
- Chapter Three: Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions
- Chapter Four: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy
- Chapter Five: Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area
- Chapter Six:Power and Policy-Making in Washington, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made
- Chapter Seven: The Democracy Initiativein American Foreign Policy
- Chapter Eight: The Kissinger Commission on Central America
- Chapter Nine: Am I Entitled to Be Called “Honorable”? Serving the White House at Home and Abroad
- Chapter Ten: Congress, the President, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation
- Chapter Eleven: On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good
- Chapter Twelve: Washington Adventures and Misadventures: Are We a Banana Republic or What?
- Chapter Thirteen: The Looming Crisis of AEI
- Chapter Fourteen: AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C.
- Chapter Fifteen: AEI Reborn and Reconstituted
- Conclusion
- Index
- About the Author