Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies

Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies is a Jerusalem based right-wing think-tank with connections to prominent US neocons. In 1996 the think tank published a policy paper for Israel's Likud party urging it to withdraw from the Oslo peace process. The report, titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm", advised the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back" regional threats, help overthrow Saddam Hussein, and strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon" and possibly in Syria proper. Prominent amongst its authors were Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith.^[1]

Key Members

• Robert J. Loewenberg - Founder
• William R. Van Cleave
• Richard Perle
• Douglas Feith
• David Wurmser - Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program (1996)
• Meyrav Wurmser

Funders

• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

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Staff

• Robert Loewenberg, President
• Zev Golan, Executive Director, Jerusalem
• Robert Heiler, Executive Director, Washington
• Ophira Kamar, Secretary, Jerusalem
• William R. Van Cleave], Director, Division for Research in Strategy
• David Yerushalmi, Of-Counsel

Research Staff

• Robert Loewenberg
• William R. Van Cleave
• Yakir Plessner
• Yossi Laster
• Paul Michael Wihbey
• Zev Golan
• Robert E. Heiler
• Yuval Levin

Contact

Website: http://www.israeleconomy.org

References

• ^ A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, (Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies 1996)