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'''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''') is a ] think tank based in ]. Founded in 1963 by ] and ] (two former aides to ] advisers), it has been directed by ] since 1998. Its work is organized into over a dozen projects, all of which work collaboratively.
'''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''') is a ]<ref>{{cite web |work=Transnational Institute|publisher=Trasnational Institute|title=Left-wing thinkers|last=Blumenthal|first=Sidney|authorlink=Sidney Blumenthal|date=July 30 1986|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://tni.org/archives/media_ips-wp1986|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=CBC Radio Canada|title=Review: Discussion on The Current about minimum wages and executive compensation, January 29, 2007|date=June 14, 2007|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/ombudsmanweb/41.htm|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Family Security Matters|title=Obama's Preferred Future Spy Chief Leon Panetta Supported Communist-Linked Anti-CIA Think Tank|last=Vermaat|first=Emerson |authorlink=Emerson Vermaat|date=January 12, 2009|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2256/pub_detail.asp|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting|publisher=FAIR|title=Heritage Clones in the Heartland|last=Soley|first=Lawrence|authorlink=Lawrence Soley|date=September/October 1998|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1430|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=FrontPageMagazine|publisher=FrontPageMagazine|title=The ABC's of Media Bias|last=Ponte|first=Lowell|authorlink=Lowell Ponte|date=July Thursday, October 14, 2004|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10987|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>think tank based in ]. Founded in 1963 by ] and ] (two former aides to ] advisers), it has been directed by ] since 1998. Its work is organized into over a dozen projects, all of which work collaboratively.

In 2010, IPS acquired ], an online organization which posts dossiers about its policy opponents. Directed by Michael Flynn, ] and Flynn have come under fire for posting falsehoods{{fact}} and refusing corrections{{fact}}.


== History == == History ==
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The organization was founded in 1963 with a stated mandate to provide "an independent center of research and education on public policy problems in Washington." The organization was founded in 1963 with a stated mandate to provide "an independent center of research and education on public policy problems in Washington."


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The ], an international progressive think tank based in ], was originally established as the IPS's international programme, although it is now independent. The ], an international progressive think tank based in ], was originally established as the IPS's international programme, although it is now independent.


⚫ ], professor of ] and ] at ], in his 1988 book ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' said that IPS "serves as an intellectual nerve center for the radical movement, ranging from ] and anti-intervention issues to support for ] ]."<ref>{{Harvnb|Klehr|1988|p=177}}</ref>
⚫ In 1986, after six years of the Reagan administration, ] claimed that "Ironically, as IPS has declined in Washington influence, its stature has grown in conservative demonology. In the Reagan era, the institute has loomed as a right-wing obsession and received most of its publicity by serving as a target."<ref name=blumenthal>], '']'', 30 July 1986, </ref>


] has also accused the institute of communophilism.<ref name="Communophilism and the Institute for Policy Studies">
==Criticism==
⚫ ], professor of ] and ] at ], in his 1988 book ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' said that IPS "serves as an intellectual nerve center for the radical movement, ranging from ] and anti-intervention issues to support for ] ]."<ref>{{Harvnb|Klehr|1988|p=177}}</ref> ] has also accused the institute of communophilism <ref name="Communophilism and the Institute for Policy Studies">
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}}</ref> while Emerson Vermatt has accused the think-tank of "its bitter opposition to the intelligence community, notably the CIA."<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Family Security Matters|title=Obama's Preferred Future Spy Chief Leon Panetta Supported Communist-Linked Anti-CIA Think Tank|last=Vermaat|first=Emerson |authorlink=Emerson Vermaat|date=January 12, 2009|accessdate=2010-11-04 |url=http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2256/pub_detail.asp|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref> Furthermore, it has been accused by the FBI as a "think factory" that helps to "train extremists who incite violence in U.S. cities, and whose educational research serves as a cover for intrigue, an political agitation."<ref>United States Government, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Memorandum to Director, FBI, Bufile 105-185148, from Sac. WFO (100-45302) (P), May 4, 1970, p. 1 ("communist"), p. 2 (Confidential). Author's file on IPS/TNI. </ref>


⚫ In 1986, after six years of the Reagan administration, ] claimed that "Ironically, as IPS has declined in Washington influence, its stature has grown in conservative demonology. In the Reagan era, the institute has loomed as a right-wing obsession and received most of its publicity by serving as a target."<ref name=blumenthal>], '']'', 30 July 1986, </ref>
===Allegations of links to the Soviet Union during the Cold War===
According to an ] memorandum dated May 7, 1970, it identified the institute's co-founder ] as a communist that had "known contacts with intelligence agents from Soviet and Soviet bloc countries."<ref>United States Government, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Memorandum to Director, FBI, Bufile 105-185148, from Sac. WFO (100-45302) (P), May 4, 1970, p. 1 ("communist"), p. 2 (Confidential). Author's file on IPS/TNI. </ref> and whose speeches were "published by the East Coast Communist newspaper 'Daily World'."<ref>United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, WFO 100-45302, Title Richard Jackson Barnet, May 13, 1971, p. 1 ("Character: Security Matter – Communist"), p. 3, 4 (Daily World). Author's file on IPS/TNI.</ref>
Similarly, in his book ''Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies'' Steven Powell writes about his time as an ] at IPS's Washington Office, noting Soviet diplomats who sought to cultivate IPS staff members or showed up at IPS conferences in New York or Washington<ref>{{cite book | last = Powell| first = S.| middle = Steven authorlink = S. Steven powell | year = 1987| title = Covert Cadre. Inside the Institute for Policy Studies | publisher = Green Hill Publishers, Inc.| location = ] | page = 329}}</ref> and his "strange encounters with communist East Bloc diplomats who frequented the Institute of Policy Studies"<ref>{{cite book | last = Powell| first = S.| middle = Steven authorlink = S. Steven powell | year = 1987| title = Covert Cadre. Inside the Institute for Policy Studies | publisher = Green Hill Publishers, Inc.| location = ] | page = 329-334}}</ref> In particular, Powell gives an anecdotal example of how a Soviet diplomat (who he claims "visited IPS over a dozen times") "perked up when I talked about the possibility of going into the foreign service or becoming a foreign correspondent."<ref>{{cite book | last = Powell| first = S.| middle = Steven authorlink = S. Steven powell | year = 1987| title = Covert Cadre. Inside the Institute for Policy Studies | publisher = Green Hill Publishers, Inc.| location = ] | page = 333}}</ref> Moreover, ex-chairman of the Board of Trustees of IPS Peter Weiss<ref></ref> is married to Cora Rubin Weiss, the daughter of Samuel Rubin who according to Dutch Intelligence "aroused some interest because of his membership of the Communist Party and the underground Comintern in the United States."<ref></ref> Furthermore, the Institute created an 'Organizing Committee for the Fifth Estate' in 1974 as part of its "Center for National Security Studies" which published (and still publishes) the magazine ]. CounterSpy has in turn been the subject of scrutiny by officials and intelligence agencies, who claim that the magazine's "driving force"<ref>Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) (confidential Dutch intelligence report, 1982), p. 7, 8.</ref> was ex-CIA agent and alleged Cuban/KGB agent<ref name = "sword3">Andrew p. 230, referencing {{cite book
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==Current list of ''Fellows'', ''Research Fellows'', ''Senior Scholars'' and ''Associate Fellows''== ==Current list of ''Fellows'', ''Research Fellows'', ''Senior Scholars'' and ''Associate Fellows''==

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not to be confused with the UK-based Policy Studies Institute
Institute for Policy Studies
AbbreviationIPS
Formation1963
Typepolicy think tank
HeadquartersWashington, DC, United States
DirectorJohn Cavanagh
Websitewww.ips-dc.org

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a politically progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1963 by Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet (two former aides to Kennedy administration advisers), it has been directed by John Cavanagh since 1998. Its work is organized into over a dozen projects, all of which work collaboratively.

History

The organization was founded in 1963 with a stated mandate to provide "an independent center of research and education on public policy problems in Washington."

The institute was founded in 1963 by two former aides to Kennedy administration advisers: Marcus Raskin, aide to McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Barnet, aide to John J. McCloy. Start-up funding was secured from the Sears heir, Philip Stern, and banker, James Warburg.

IPS' current director is John Cavanagh.

The Institute sponsors an annual awards ceremony to honor the memories of two employees that were murdered in 1976 by operatives of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The Letelier-Moffitt human rights awards are named for Chilean exile Orlando Letelier, a former member of Salvador Allende's cabinet and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who was a junior IPS staffer.

On September 21, 1976, a car bombing killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Letelier and Moffitt were colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies, where Letelier had become one of the most outspoken critics of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Moffitt was a 25-year-old fundraiser who ran a "Music Carryout" program that made musical instruments accessible to poor communities. A massive FBI investigation traced the crime to the highest levels of Pinochet's regime. The Institute for Policy Studies has continued to host an annual human rights award in the names of Letelier and Moffitt to honor these fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and elsewhere in the Americas. The award recipients receive the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.

IPS has played key roles in the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, the women's and environmental movements in the 1970s, the anti-apartheid and anti-intervention movements in the 1980s, and the fair trade and environmental justice movements of the 1990s and 2000s. In its attention to the role of multinational corporations, it was also an early critic of what has come to be called globalization.

The Transnational Institute, an international progressive think tank based in Amsterdam, was originally established as the IPS's international programme, although it is now independent.

Harvey Klehr, professor of politics and history at Emory University, in his 1988 book Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today said that IPS "serves as an intellectual nerve center for the radical movement, ranging from nuclear and anti-intervention issues to support for Marxist insurgencies."

Joshua Muravchik has also accused the institute of communophilism.

In 1986, after six years of the Reagan administration, Sidney Blumenthal claimed that "Ironically, as IPS has declined in Washington influence, its stature has grown in conservative demonology. In the Reagan era, the institute has loomed as a right-wing obsession and received most of its publicity by serving as a target."

Current list of Fellows, Research Fellows, Senior Scholars and Associate Fellows

Fellows

Research Fellows

Senior Scholars

Associate Fellows

References

  1. Klehr 1988, p. 177
  2. Muravchik, Joshua (1984). ""Communophilism" and the Institute for Policy Studies". World Affairs. 147 (1).
  3. Sidney Blumenthal, Washington Post, 30 July 1986, Left-Wing Thinkers
  • Klehr, Harvey (1988), Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 9780887388750.

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