Frederick Sherwood Dunn
[4] At the same time he was a co-founder of the Yale Institute of International Studies along with Nicholas J. Spykman, the new entity's first director, and Arnold Wolfers.
[10] Dunn's own investigations broadened greatly in scope from his earlier work but he still applied the perspective he had developed studying international law to issues of world politics.
He maintained that ignorance and dissatisfaction were what gave rise to war, and advocated for a United Nations that could contribute to world peace through provision of education and raising living standards.
[2][3] During 1950–51, the Yale Institute of International Studies ran into a conflict with the new President of Yale University, A. Whitney Griswold, who felt that scholars should conduct research as individuals rather than in cooperative groups[13] and who thought that the institute should do more historical, detached analysis rather than focus on current issues and recommendations on policy.
[14] In addition there was some personal animosity involved, related to Griswold believing that institute members had argued against his receiving tenure.
[15] In April 1951, Dunn and five of his political science colleagues – Percy Corbett, Gabriel Almond, Klaus Knorr, William Kaufmann, and Bernard C. Cohen – left Yale en masse and went to Princeton.
[16] The news of the shift from Yale to Princeton made the front page of The New York Times;[13] the new center became known as the continuation of the old institute, with one government publication later terming it a "reincarnation".
"[5] In addition to being director of the center, Dunn was named the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton.
[4] Dunn's later scholarly work included a focus on decision-making and some of the self-deceptions made by Foreign Offices: in particular, he stated that people often thought they were finding a solution to a technical problem when in actuality they were making a political choice.
[4] During his career Dunn also served as a trustee for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was the chair of the board of editors of the quarterly academic journal World Politics, which had been founded at the Yale institute, and did consulting work for the RAND Corporation.
