Global Elite Knowledge Networks and Anglo-American Power: Think Tanks, Foundations and Universities and the New World Order, 1940–1990

Joint IDEAS - City University London - Princeton University International Workshop

This international workshop examined the role of think tanks in foreign policy making.

In particular, it focused on the huge influence of think tanks in post war planning during and after World War II, and the establishment of international informal networks of policy evidence.

Held over two days at City University London and LSE IDEAS, the workshop welcomed participants from around the world in a truly international collaboration.

Programme

Day One - City University London

Panel 1: WWII, Elite Institutional Networks and a New World System

• Peter Lamb (Stafford), The British Left and World Order
• Stephen Wertheim (Cambridge) – The CFR Plans for a New Postwar World Order
• Andrew Johnstone (Leicester) – CEIP and the United Nations
• Danya Barnes (LSE) - The CFR, IPR and US Planning for Post-War Japan

Panel 2: Global Knowledge Networks

• Inderjeet Parmar (City UL) – US Elite knowledge networks: infrastructure, functions, influence
• Dino Knudsen (Copenhagen) The Trilateral Commission and Global Order
• Jennifer Bair  (Virginia)– Neoliberalism and the Battle Against The NIEO

Panel 3: The Academy and Global Knowledge

• Robert Vitalis (Pennsylvania) – The Howard School of International Relations and the World
• Mick Cox (LSE) – The LSE: Red Flag over LSE? Myth, Fact and Legacy
• Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden, NL) – Political-Cultural Networks and the Cold War

Day Two - LSE IDEAS

Panel 1: Key Intellectuals and World Politics

• Mark Ledwidge (Canterbury CCU) – Pan-Africanism, George Padmore, and Bandung
• Robert Vitalis (Pennsylvania) – Stefan Possony and the Intellectual Right in the Cold War
• Nikhil Menon (Princeton) – Nehru, the USSR and Indian State Planning
• Abigail Kret (Princeton) - Social Democrats and the North-South Dialogue

Panel 2: Sino-American Knowledge Networks

• Priscilla Roberts (Hong Kong U) – American Knowledge Networks and China in the Cold War
• Shuhong Huo (City UL/Shanxi U, China) – American Soft Power in China

Wrap Up

• Jeremy Adelman (Princeton)
• Inderjeet Parmar (City University of London)
• Michael Cox (LSE)