Lexington Books
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Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations at the University of Georgia; professor emeritus of political science and comparative labor relations and the Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Chapter 1. Introduction: "The Call"
Chapter 2. "Mr. Smith" Goes to Washington: An Introduction to Washington and AEI
Chapter 3. Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions
Chapter 4. Think Tanks and Foreign Policy
Chapter 5. Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area
Chapter 6. Power and Policy-Making in Washingon, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made
Chapter 7. The Democracy Initiative in American Foreign Policy
Chapter 8. The Kissinger Commission on Central America
Chapter 9. Am I Entitled to be Called “Honorable”?:Serving the White House at Home and Abroad
Chapter 10. Congress, the President, and Foreign PolicyDecision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation
Chapter 11. On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good
Chapter 12. Washington Adventures and Misadventures:Are We a Banana Republic or What?
Chapter 13. The Looming Crisis of AEI
Chapter 14. AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C.
Chapter 15. AEI Reborn and Reconstituted
Chapter 16 Conclusion
Howard Wiarda authors a fascinating evocative memoir as a 'semi-insider' to the Reagan 'Conservative Revolution' in his capacity as director of the Latin American program for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Howard offers a candid and revealing assessment of Washington Think Tanks from his personal diaries and his involvement with the White House and Congress, the Defense and State Departments, and the CIA, blending with these also a description of the programs and individuals with which he dealt during the 1980s.
— Philip Kelly, Emporia State University
Howard Wiarda's observations on his years at the American Enterprise Institute and his service as key adviser to the Kissinger Commission on Central America provide an invaluable glimpse at the way in which United States foreign policy was formulated and implemented during the Reagan era. Wiarda is a keen observer of the Washington policy scene and a provocative critic of the major players who shaped U.S. policy during the Central American revolutions. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand how Washington really works.
— Michael J. Kryzanek, Bridgewater State College