Council on Foreign Relations
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The Council on Foreign Relations |
The
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an
American foreign policy think tank based in
New York City. It describes itself as being "dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to
U.S. foreign policy," and accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive, closed debates and discussions, clarifying world issues through research and analysis, and publishing the noted journal
Foreign Affairs and related content online.
The Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the
Royal Institute of International Affairs in
London, came about as a result of a meeting on
May 30,
1919, at the
Hotel Majestic in
Paris. Some of the fifty participants were
Edward M. House,
Harold Temperley,
Lionel Curtis,
Lord Eustace Percy,
Herbert Hoover,
Christian Herter, and American academic historians
James Thomson Shotwell of
Columbia University,
Archibald Coolidge of
Harvard and
Charles Seymour of
Yale.
Formally established in
1921, it is one of the most powerful private organizations with influence on
U.S. foreign policy. It has about 4,000 members, including former national security officers, professors, former
CIA members, elected
politicians, and
media figures. The council is not a formal institution within U.S. policy making.
The
Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed of thirty-one members.
There are two types of membership - term membership (which lasts for 5 years and is available to those between 30 and 36) and regular membership. Only US citizens (native born or naturalised) and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible for membership. Proposed members must be nominated by current members.
*de Villemarest, Pierre,
Facts & Chronicles Denied to the Public, Vol. 1, Aquilion, 2004, ISBN 1904997007
*Grose, Peter,
Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996, New York, N.Y.: Council on Foreign Relations: 1996. ISBN 0876091923
*Perloff, James,
The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, Western Islands, 1988. ISBN 0882791346
*Schulzinger, Robert D.,
The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. ISBN 0231055285
*Shoup, Laurence H., and William Minter,
Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy, New York: Authors Choice Press, Reprint, 2004.
*Wala, Michael,
The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War, Providence, R.I.: Berghann Books: 1994. ISBN 157181003X
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Trilateral Commission*
Bilderberg Group*
Brookings Institution*
David Rockefeller*
Rand Corporation*
PNAC*
Council on Foreign Relations - Official website
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CFR Website - Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 Council history by Peter Grose, a Council member.
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Council on Foreign Relations does the Middle East*
Focus on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)Criticism
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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (from the
John Birch Society)
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CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada*
Cuba and the Council on Foreign Relations*
Building a North American Community - CFR document promoting a North American union
