http://worldpolicy.org/2012/04/11/from-the-institute-for-world-order-to-the-world-policy-institute/
During the summer and fall of 1982, we developed a plan for the Institute, including a name change “to reflect a new pragmatic approach to building a humane and just world order,” in the words of an announcement made on January 1, 1983. The new name was to be the “World Policy Institute.” During this time I saw that Sherle Schwenninger, the Institute’s Director of Studies, had a keen grasp of the making of U.S. foreign and 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 compete with the Council of Foreign Relation’s “Foreign Affairs” and the Carnegie Endowment’s “Foreign Policy.” This was an audacious idea. I asked Earl Osborn to underwrite the launch of the magazine, which he did with $200,000. The World Policy Journal was founded in 1983 with Sherle as its first Editor. It was an immediate success and continues today as an enduring contributor to the formation of public policy.
Over the next five years, The Security Project team of analysts published over 50 separate reports and released two major summary reports. These were distributed widely to hundreds of elected officials, policymakers, activists, and the media. Major columnists in the New York Times and the Washington Post reported favorably on the Institute’s work.
National public opinion polls were conducted in 1997 and 1989 by Stanley Greenberg and his associates based on our central themes and policy recommendations, which soon were taken up by candidates for the Presidency of the United States—most famously by Bill Clinton when he argued successfully in his 1992 campaign that: “It’s the economy, stupid.”