Word: olin
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...addition, Olin gave The Dartmouth Review $100,000 in 1988 to help finance a law suit, and gave $500,000 to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington D.C. conservative thinktank, to study public policy and political economy...
...Harvard, Huntington says Olin's interests have centered an a few key areas. "Olin has been interested in work on national security matters," the government professor says. In that field, there are Olin professors at the army, navy and air force academies, the Harvard scholar adds...
Unlike many other foundations that only fund small projects, the foundation endows Huntington's two-year-old Olin Institute for Strategic Studies with packaged money to help support a variety of programs and personnel...
...Olin currently helps finance post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars, professors and three major projects. These research projects examine Congress and defense policy, Soviet and American views on the post-Cold War and the decline of multinational continental empires, Huntington reports...
...There's a widespread view that mainstream, large foundations have been liberal in their concerns," Huntington says. The John M. Olin Foundation, the Bradley Foundation and the Smith-Richardson Foundation are often perceived as more conservative, he adds...