By Helen Laville, Hugh Wilford
This new booklet examines the development, actions and influence of the community people kingdom and personal teams within the chilly conflict. through relocating past state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of diplomacy and exploring as a substitute the engagement and mobilization of complete societies and cultures, it provides an intensive new method of the learn of propaganda and American international coverage and redefines the connection among the kingdom and personal teams within the pursuit and projection of yank international family members. In a chain of worthy case experiences, interpreting relationships among the country and women’s teams, spiritual our bodies, labour, internationalist teams, intellectuals, media and scholars, this quantity explores the development of a state-private community not just as a pragmatic approach to communique and dissemination of knowledge or propaganda, but additionally as an ideological building, drawing upon particularly American ideologies of freedom and voluntarism. The case reviews additionally study the power-relationship among the country and personal teams, assessing the level to which the country was once answerable for the connection, and the level to which deepest agencies exerted their independence. This publication can be of significant curiosity to scholars of Intelligence experiences, chilly conflict heritage and IR/security reviews regularly.
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The concept is considered here because it relates to this chapter’s interest in state–private networks, especially in one of its particular forms. 9 Understood in this way, epistemic communities appear to be value-/knowledge-based special interests, very much in the pluralistic mould, seeking to influence the state. In this version, influence, if any, flows from the private group to the state. However, a more nuanced version of the concept may be more helpful to the concerns of this chapter and book.
18 According to Gramsci, such leaders and intellectuals may even come to believe ‘that they are the State . . ’19 As noted above, the leadership groups of key core components of the east coast foreign policy establishment – the elite CFR and the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations – provide perfect illustrations of such state-spiritedness. 21 Council men – such as Isaiah Bowman, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Norman H. Davis and Whitney Hart Shepardson22 – created a research and advisory organisation within the State Department which, in 1943, was assimilated by the Department into its own official planning machinery.
In Latin America alone the Ford Foundation invested $50 million in developing ‘basic training and research capacities in key social science disciplines . . [in order to] stimulate an indigenous tradition of social science research, . . to encourage regional and national networks of social scientists for collaborative work . . 32 23 I N D E R J E E T PA R M A R In Africa, the three major American foundations operated in complementary ways to increase US influence in an era of rising nationalism and decolonisation.