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| − | 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, Ray Whitney MP and Steven Haseler. According to Tom Easton: | + | 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, Ray Whitney MP and Steven Haseler. According to Tom Easton's [http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l31whowh.htm Who were they travelling with?]: |
:"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 Londoncouncillor, 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." | :"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 Londoncouncillor, 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." | ||
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Revision as of 17:52, 18 September 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, Ray Whitney MP and Steven Haseler. According to Tom Easton's Who were they travelling with?:
- "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 Londoncouncillor, 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."
funding
Funders included the right wing US foundations The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. and the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. Source
1982 Advisory Council
Richard V. Allen: US National Security Council (NSC)
Luigi Barzani
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. Stephan 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. Stephan 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
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.