American foundations, think tanks and the liberal international order
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2021

American think tanks and foundations have been significant in key moments of the liberal international order from the First World War to the present. They are symptoms and drivers of domestic and global power shifts, managing change and developing governing concepts. Their power-technology is the ‘elite knowledge network’ in and through which spaces are created for the construction of the boundaries of ‘thinkable’ thought. Elite networks house the core actors at the heart of Gramsci’s ‘hegemonic