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− | [[Richard V. Allen]] | Rt. Hon Sir [[Peter Blaker]] KCMG MP | Dr. [[Iain Elliot]] | Dr. [[Edwin J. Feulner]] Jr. | Dr. [[ | + | [[Richard V. Allen]] | Rt. Hon Sir [[Peter Blaker]] KCMG MP | Dr. [[Iain Elliot]] | Dr. [[Edwin J. Feulner]] Jr. | Dr. [[Stephen Haseler]] | Prof. [[Antonio Martino]] | [[Gerald Frost]] (Ex. Dir.) | [[Jonathan Luxmore]] (Editor) |
===1990 Advisory Council=== | ===1990 Advisory Council=== |
Revision as of 08:43, 5 October 2007
The Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies (IEDSS) was set up in London in 1979 to study poitical change in Europe and to assess its impact on strategic and defence issues. It was particularly concerned with those developments which affected the Western Alliance. It was founded by Peter Blaker MP (now Lord Blaker), Ray Whitney MP and Steven Haseler. According to Tom Easton [1]:
- "Haseler was not only a member of the SDP, but a founding member of the Social Democratic Alliance which preceded it. An academic who, as a London councillor, had become a vociferous critic of changes within the Labour Party in the Seventies, Haseler had spent some time at the third big Washington think-tank, the Heritage Foundation. With its money he had helped set up in London the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, a forceful and well-resourced foe of both the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Labour Party in the Eighties."
IEDSS was the subject of a profile in City Limits (14 August 1986). According to Robin Ramsay [2], it was formed as part of the response to the British peace movement; Ramsay also suggests that Haseler has CIA connections[3], and Richard V. Allen was NSC advisor to Reagan until he got caught (or set up) taking a bribe. IEDSS appeared to be run by Gerald Frost who was in the Thatcher/Joseph Centre for Policy Studies.
Funding
Funders included the right wing US foundations The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. and the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. [4]
Soviet view
The institute was denounced as a propaganda body by the Soviet Moscow Home service in 1987:
- It is not only the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence that are engaged in fostering an aggressive image of the Soviet Union in the minds of the British people. Academic bodies have also taken up this unseemly task on the orders of the British Conservative Government. Amongst them is the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies.[5]
No doubt this is just the kind of criticism that the Institute wanted. what is more interesting is that it should be reported as an 'academic' body. In fact it was chock full of cold warriors with intelligence connections.
People
1982 Advisory Council
Richard V. Allen: US National Security Council (NSC), appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board (DPB) Advisory Committee November 2001; Senior Fellow Hoover Institution 1983-present; Center for Strategic and International Studies Advisory Board; Project for the New American Century; Member Heritage Foundation; Council on Foreign Relations; The Nixon Center Advisory Council, International Crisis Group,
- [[Luigi Barzini]
- Dr. Robert Conquest
- Rt. Hon Lord George Brown
- Brian Key MEP
- Melvin J. Lasky: Ex-editor of Encounter
- Leonard Schapiro
- Pedro Schwartz
- Frank Shakespeare
- Dr. G. R. Urban
1982 Board of Management
Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr. (Chairman) president of the Heritage Foundation | Dr. Stephen Haseler (Sec) | Congressman David R. Bowen| Peter R. Durrant | Douglas Eden | Prof. Antonio Martino | Ray Whitney Information Research Department (IRD) | Gerald Frost (Ex. Dir.) | George Miller (research officer)
1985 Advisory Council
Dr. Robert Conquest
Brian Key MEP
Leopold Labedz
Melvin J. Lasky
Rt. Hon Reginald Prentice MP
Hon Frank Shakespeare
Dr. Philip Towle
Dr. G. R. Urban
1985 Board of Management
Richard V. Allen | Rt. Hon Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP | Dr. Iain Elliot | Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr. | Dr. Stephen Haseler | Prof. Antonio Martino | Gerald Frost (Ex. Dir.) | Jonathan Luxmore (Editor)
1990 Advisory Council
Prof. Jean-Marie Benoist | Dr. Christopher Coker :BAP steering group 1996, RUSI, Chatham House and Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies | Dr. Robert Conquest | Baroness Cox | Leopold Labedz | Melvin J. Lasky | John O'Sullivan | Pedro Schwartz | Hon. Frank Shakespeare | Dr. Philip Towle | Dr. G. R. Urban | Alan Lee Williams | Prof. Albert Wohlstetter
Members
1996
Contact, publications, notes
Contact
The IEDSS operated out of 13/14 Golden Square while 12a was used by Brian Crozier’s Institute for the Study of Conflict. Round the corner from Poland Street London, W1P 3FP
Publications
- Kuzio, T. (1995) "Back from the Brink", Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies. London: Alliance Publishers Ltd.
- Occasional paper No 7: 'Peace studies: a critical survey' by Caroline Cox and Roger Scruton, 1984.
- Occasional paper No 9: 'Idealism, Realism and the Myth of Appeasement' by Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1984.
- Occasional paper No 13: 'The Soviet connection': 'State sponsorship of terrorism' by Jillian Becker 1985.
- Occasional paper No 14: 'Neglect and betrayal: war and violence in modern sociology' by Donald Marsland 1985.
- Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies press release: 'Sociology courses infected with anti-NATO bias, says report' 7 October 1985.
- Occasional paper No 15: 'World studies: education or indoctrination?' by Roger Scruton 1985.
- Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies press release: "Curriculum activists" waging propaganda war in schools' 11 December 1985. [7]
References
- ↑ Tom Easton's Who were they travelling with? - full ref needed
- ↑ in Lobster 13, 1987 - full reference needed
- ↑ Source needed
- ↑ Media Transparency RECIPIENT GRANTS Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies London, W1P 3FP, accessed 18 September 2007
- ↑ BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, November 18, 1987, Wednesday 'BRITISH EXERCISES THEATRE OF THE ABSURD OVER SPETSNAZ TROOPS' SOURCE: Moscow home service 0348 gmt 15 Nov 87 Text of commentary by Viktor Borozdin
- ↑ Press Association, April 11, 1996, Thursday, 'TRUE TORY BLUE BLOOD' BYLINE: Eileen Murphy, PA News
- ↑ This list is mostly drawn from the listing of the paper of Air Vice Marchal Stewart Menaul, MENAUL 9/1-145 Papers and publications produced and issued by organisations with which Menaul was associated http://www.umds.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/menaul/mn09.shtml