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The '''World Policy Institute''' at New School University in New York is a research and education policy center that seeks innovative solutions to critical problems facing the United States and the world. WPI has been a source of informed policy leadership for close to 40 years. It is renowned for its cutting-edge analysis on managing the global market economy, constructing a workable system for collective security, and fostering civil society. [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/index.html]

"Founded in New York City in 1961 as the Fund for Education Concerning World Peace through World Law, the World Policy Institute has its origins in the post-World War II movement of moderate internationalists. Its three priority areas arefounders --the banker [[Harry B. Hollins]] and the banker and public servant [[C. Douglas Dillon]], inspired by [[Grenville Clark]] -- sought to develop international policies to prevent future carnage and devastation. In 1963, the Institute’s name was shortened to World Law Fund. In 1972, it merged with the Institute for International Order, founded in 1948 and run by [[Earl D. Osborn]]." <ref>World Policy Institute [http://www.worldpolicy.org/history History], organizational web page, accessed April 22, 2012.</ref>

*They describe themselves as a non-partisan source of informed policy proposals "on the measures needed leadership for the management more than four decades, develops and champions innovative policies that require a progressive and global point of a view. [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/index.html] In an increasingly interdependent world , WPI focuses on complex challenges that demand cooperative policy solutions to achieve: an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective governance, and collaborative approaches to national and global security. WPI’s Fellows program, regular public and private events, collaborative policy development, media activities, and flagship World Policy Journal provide a forum for solution-focused policy analysis and public debate. Its programs seek to introduce fresh ideas and new voices from around the world on critical shared global issues including migration, climate change, technology, economic development , human rights, and counter-terrorism. More than 30 senior fellows and program staff—a group of accomplished policy analysts, journalists and writers—give the institute a workable system distinctive voice in national and international affairs. [http://www.worldpolicy.org/wpi/index.html] ==History==[[Archibald L. Gillies]] writes: :"In the spring of collective security1982 the board of directors of the Institute for World Order asked me to become its President and to expand the organization’s activities into the contemporary public policy arena." [[David Romeyn Hunter]], "the progressive Director of the [[Stern Fund]], [[Earl Osborn]], a board member, and [[Harry Hollins]], a founder of the creation Institute, were particularly eager to add a U.S. political focus to the Institute’s international and academic work. Hollins was strongly influenced to consider this new direction by U.S. Senator [[Charles “Mac” Mathias]], a thoughtful “Eisenhower Republican” from Maryland. :"The staff of an active transnational civil society"; the Institute welcomed this change as a way to invigorate its activities and, potentially, to add substantive and financial resources. [[Robert Johansen]], then President, graciously stepped aside to become Senior Fellow and [[Saul Mendlovitz]], the Institute’s principal academic advisor, introduced me and the new initiative to important contributors. * to :"train journalistsDuring the summer and fall of 1982, policymakerswe developed a plan for the Institute, business including a name change “to reflect a new pragmatic approach to building a humane and civic leaders just world order,” in the words of an announcement made on January 1, 1983. The new name was to be capable the “World Policy Institute.” During this time I saw that [[Sherle Schwenninger]], the Institute’s Director of understanding emerging world problems and Studies, had a keen grasp of reconciling the often competing demands making of globalization U.S. foreign and national domestic policy"; *, and, importantly, saw the two arenas as closely connected. In our very first serious conversation, Sherle proposed that we start a quarterly magazine to "nurture a new generation compete with the [[Council of writers Foreign Relation]]’s “Foreign Affairs” and public intellectuals committed the Carnegie Endowment’s “Foreign Policy.” This was an audacious idea. I asked Earl Osborn to internationalist thinking and to provide students underwrite the launch of the magazine, which he did with $200,000. The World Policy Journal was founded in the New School community 1983 with Sherle as its first Editor. It was an opportunity immediate success and continues today as an enduring contributor to gain practical experience in the formation of public policy research and advocacy on global issues...". <ref>World Policy Institute [http://www.worldpolicy.org/wpiblog/2012/04/11/indexinstitute-world-order-world-policy-institute From the Institute for World Order to the World Policy Institute], organizational web page, accessed April 22, 2012.html]</ref>

==Related SourceWatchSenior Fellows and Project Leaders==Accessed March 2009: <ref>[http://www.worldpolicy.org/wpi/fellows.html#sfpf Senior Fellows and Project Leaders], World Policy Institute, accessed March 25, 2009.</ref> *[[Eric Alterman]]*[[Alon Ben-Meir]]*[[Ian Bremmer]]*[[Belinda Cooper]]*[[Ian Cuthbertson]]*[[Patricia DeGennaro]]*[[Siddharth Dube]]*[[Claudia Dreifus ]]*[[Edward Gonzalez-Acosta]]*[[Stephanie Elizondo Griest ]]*[[Mira Kamdar]]*[[Peter Kaufman]]*[[Nina Khrushcheva]]*[[Todd Lester]]*[[Jeffrey Madrick]]*[[James N. Nolt]]*[[Silvana Paternostro]]*[[William Powers]]*[[Kavitha Rajagopalan]]*[[Shaun Randol]]*[[Swadesh Rana]]*[[Andrew Reding]]*[[David Rieff]]*[[Sherle R. Schwenninger]]*[[Kim Taipale]]*[[Masaru Tamamoto]]*[[Martin Walker]]*[[Lissa Ree Weinmann]]*[[Alan Wolfe]]*[[Michele Wucker]]