Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies

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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:

"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.

Notes

<note>Tom Easton Who were they travelling with?