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1 New Persp. Q. 1 (1983-1985)

handle is hein.journals/nwpsp1 and id is 1 raw text is: Inside: Yarmolinsky, pg.2; D'dion, pg. 6; Fuentes, p.7; Kelly, p.11 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1 INSTITUTE FOR NATIO The Institute For National Strategy For years in advance of taking power, conservatives relied on think tanks to build acceptance for the monetarist, anti- environmental and Cold War revival policies that now reign from Washington to London to Bonn. The strategies presently in place were developed in these institutes. For those in opposition today who cannot rely on exhausted or failed policies as an alternative, there is a vacuum. The purpose of the Institute for National Strategy (INS) is to fill this vacuum by introducing new perspectives into mainstream political thought which go beyond the liberal and conservative categories of the fading post-war order. BOARD OF ADVISORS David Brower Edmund G. Brown Jr. Chairman Walter Dean Bumham Joan Didion Sidney D. Drell Carlos Fuentes Armand Hammer Alan Kay Francis Kelly Lester Thurow Adam Yarmolinsky President, Friends of the Earth Former Governor of California Historian of the American electorate at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, author of THE CURRENT CRISIS IN AMERICAN POLITICS Novelist and author of SALVADOR and THE WHITE ALBUM Deputy Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, author of FACING THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS Mexican novelist and author of THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ and TERRA NOSTRA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation Chief scientist at Atari Computer Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of THE ZERO SUM SOCIETY Counsel, Kominers, Fort, Schleffer & Boyer r Pi NAL STRATEGY WINTER 1983-84 The aim is to define a political vision that can orient our society in this tumultuous period of rapid technological change and global interdependence. Too many of our governing assumptions no longer seem to fit. America - as six percent of the world - has to carve out a new role. The INS seeks to shape an alternative compatible with new realities, but continuous with our past. The points of departure of this new alternative are the following: * the urgent need to curb the growing power of the modern state to suppress individual liberty and destroy humanity itself through nuclear war. * the responsibility to control the industrial assault on natural systems that degrades our life-sustaining environment. * the need for new forms of regional and global cooperation. The U.S.-Soviet conflict can no longer eclipse the increasing importance of new centers of influence - China, Japan, and the industrializing nations of the Third World. the new opportunities of a post-industrial economy. The information technologies - semiconductors, computers, robotics, biosciences - and a skilled workforce are key elements of renewed prosperity. They hold out the promise of highly-productive yet resource-efficient growth, expanded learning, flexible work schedules and a shorter work week. Prosperity in the future, however, may entail sacrifice in the present. In a democratic society, fairness in the tradeoff between investment and consumption must be assured through a new social contract that involves widespread participation in decisions which affect our economic life. Interviews with Board of Advisors The synthesis we are seeking is suggested in the range and quality of the INS Advisory Board. In a unique way, it brings together leading figures from a variety of fields, including environmentalists, economists, businessmen, diplomats, politicians, historians, novelists and scientists. This introductory issue of New Perspectives, the publication of the INS, contains interviews with four INS Advisory Board members. Adam Yarmolinsky focuses on the deployment of intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe in December. Carlos Fuentes and Joan Didion focus on U.S.-Mexican relations, the Central American conflict and cultural interdependence. In the last interview, Francis Kelly addresses economic problems in their broader political, social and moral (continued on page 2) 1 es n

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