Institute for Policy Studies records, 1959-2005.

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Institute for Policy Studies records, 1959-2005.

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Records, mainly 1963-1993, of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think tank founded in Washington, D.C. in 1963 by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin. The records consist of administrative files; correspondence, writings, and subject files of individual fellows; and reference material. Senior fellows Richard Barnet, Saul Landau, Isabel Letelier, and Marcus Raskin and executive directors Robert Borosage and Diana DeVegh are most extensively documented, with less material about Robb Burlage, John Cavanagh, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chester Hartman, Paul Jacobs, Milton Kotler, Michael Moffitt, Sasha Natapoff, Orlando Letelier, Gareth Porter, Julia Sweig, Barbara Wein, and Roger Wilkins. Administrative records include Board of Trustees minutes; fundraising information; formal and continuing education programs; a library of brief writings and other papers by fellows and associates; and subject files including incomplete financial records, congressional seminar files, and fragmentary minutes of the Transnational Institute, an IPS subsidiary.

97.6 c.f. (89 record center cartons, 23 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder),1.2 c.f. of photographs,15 videorecordings, and1 reel of film; plusadditions of 548 tape recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926094

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Transnational institute

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Founded in 1973, initially as the international program of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Washington DC; continued later as a non-profit world-wide fellowship of committed scholar-activists: researchers, scholars, writers and journalists; its areas of focus include militarism, conflict, poverty, social injustice, underdevelopment, North-South relations and environmental pollution; its centre is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From the description of Archief 1973-1989 (1991). ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

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On September 1, 1963, the Peace Research Institute changed its name to the Institute for Policy Studies. The IPS was founded as a "transnational center for research, education, and social invention." It advocates critical study of U.S. policy and suggests alternative concepts and strategies. IPS produces the "independent socialist newpaper," In These Times. From the description of Collection, 1962-[ongoing]. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28296789 ...

Letelier, Isabel de

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Moffitt, Ronni Karpen

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Hartman, Chester W

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Landau, Saul.

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Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Barnet, Richard

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Moffitt, Michael

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Institute for Policy Studies. Third World Women's Project

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Borosage, Robert L.

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