Institute for Policy Studies
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| Abbreviation | IPS |
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| Motto | Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice, and the Environment. |
| Formation | 1963 |
| Type | Policy think tank |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC, United States |
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Director
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John Cavanagh |
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Budget
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$3.1 million (2013) |
| Website | www |
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-wingthink tank based in Washington, D.C. It has been directed by John Cavanagh since 1998. The organization focuses on U.S. foreign policy, domestic policy, human rights, international economics, and national security.
IPS has been described as one of the five major, independent think tanks in Washington. Members of the IPS played key roles in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, in the women's and environmental movements of the 1970s, and in the peace, anti-apartheid, and anti-intervention movements of the 1980s.
The institute was founded in 1963 by two former governmental workers, Marcus Raskin (aide to McGeorge Bundy) and Richard Barnet (aide to John J. McCloy).
As soon as IPS opened its doors in 1963, it plunged into the anti-Vietnam War movement. In 1965, Raskin and Associate Fellow Bernard Fall edited The Vietnam Reader, which became a textbook for teach-ins across the country. In 1967, Raskin and IPS Fellow Arthur Waskow penned "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", a document signed by dozens of well-known scholars and religious leaders that helped launch the draft resistance movement. IPS also organized Congressional seminars and published numerous books that challenged the national security state, including Gar Alperovitz’s Atomic Diplomacy and Barnet's Intervention and Revolution. IPS was the object of repeated FBI and Internal Revenue Service probes. The Nixon Administration placed Barnet and Raskin on their now infamous Enemies List.
In 1964, several leading African-American activists joined the staff and turned IPS into a base of support for the Civil Rights Movement in the nation's capital. Fellow Robert Parris Moses organized trainings for field organizers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on the links between civil rights theory and practice, while Ivanhoe Donaldson initiated an assembly of African-American government officials. Port Huron SDS co-writer and Civil rights veteran, IPS Fellow Robb Burlage launched the critical health care justice movement as IPS published his book on New York City "medical empires"; founding the Health Policy Advisory Center and its widely read and quoted Bulletin, published for 25 years [archives: www.healthpacbulletin.org].
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