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In a September 2005 makeover of its website, the Council proclaimed itself to be "A Nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis"(sic), "to be the first-stop, nonpartisan resource on U.S. foreign policy and America’s role in the world", according to [http://www.cfr.org/publication/8832/council_launches_new_website.html the press release].
'''''See Also:'''''
*[[Council on Foreign Relations - Homeland Security]]
*[[Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Latin America]]
*[[Council on Foreign Relations: Arthur Ross Book Award]]
*[[Council on Foreign Relations: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers]]
*[[Council on Foreign Relations: Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship]]
== History ==
They hold regular private meetings including members, and very select guests. Occasionally they will hold a public meeting, and invite the open press (including [[C-SPAN]]). The image of the CFR as a closed-shop bi-partisan discussion forum for the foreign policy establishment has fuelled criticism that the organisation and its members are controlling world policy and events.
In 1938 the Council created numerous Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the county, in 1995 the Committees became a separate organization under the umbrella of the American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C..
==Current Independent Task Force Projects (January 2008)==
*Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security (November 21, 2006—Present) – Chairs: [[Bob Kerrey]] and [[William H. Webster]]; Director: [[Daniel B. Prieto]]
*Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy toward Latin America (February 23, 2007—Present) – Chairs: [[Charlene Barshefsky]], [[James T. Hill]], and [[Shannon O'Neil]]; Directors: [[Julia E. Sweig]] - see [[Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Latin America]]
*Independent Task Force on Global Climate Change (July 11, 2007—Present) – Chairs: [[George E. Pataki]] and [[Thomas J. Vilsack]]; Directors: [[Michael A. Levi]] and [[David G. Victor]]
== [[Conspiracy theory|Conspiracy theorists]]' views ==
==CFR Reports & Publications==
*Nicholas Lehman, "How It Came To War" writes in ''The New Yorker'', March 31, 2003, that in an interview with [[Richard Haass]], Director of the Policy Planning staff at the [[State Department]], he learned that Haass would be leaving the State Department to take the position of President of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The position is currently held by [[Leslie H. Gelb]].
*[http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=5849 "Senior Statesmen Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Summers Chair New Council Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward Europe,"] April 14, 2003: Former Secretary of State [[Henry A. Kissinger]] and former Secretary of the Treasury [[Lawrence H. Summers]] will "co-chair a Council-sponsored [[independent task force]] on a new U.S. policy toward Europe. The bi-partisan task force will bring together leaders from business, former senior government officials, and policy experts to issue a report that will address the rift. The group will also include a number of European experts ... The Council-sponsored [[Task Force on Transatlantic Relations]] is made possible by generous grants from ENI SpA and [[Merrill Lynch]]."
*[http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=6076 "U.S. Should Provide Iraqis and Americans With a More Coherent and Compelling Vision for Iraq's Political Future.] Experts Urge President to Deliver Major Address to the Nation on Importance of Getting the Job Done Right in Post-War Iraq... the [[George Walker Bush]] administration must sharpen and deepen its commitment to making Iraq a better and safer place, conclude former UN Ambassador [[Thomas R. Pickering]] and former Defense and Energy Secretary [[James R. Schlesinger]], co-chairs of the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on post-war Iraq," June 25, 2003.
:*"Nearly Two Years After 9/11, the United States is Still Dangerously Unprepared and Underfunded for a Catastrophic Terrorist Attack, Warns New Council Task Force. Overall Expenditures Must Be as Much as Tripled to Prepare Emergency Responders Across the Country."
:*"The study was carried out in partnership with the [[Concord Coalition]] and the [[Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment]], two of the nation's leading budget analysis organizations."
:*"[[Jamie Metzl]], Council Senior Fellow and a former [[National Security Council ]] and [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee ]] official, directed the effort."
:*The Task Force on Emergency Responders is a follow on to the Council's highly acclaimed <strong>[[Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security]] , which made concrete recommendations in February 2001</strong> on defending the country against a terrorist attack.
::*[[Norman J. Ornstein]], Resident Scholar, [[American Enterprise Institute]] for Public Policy Research
::*[[Dennis Reimer]], Director, [[Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism]]; Former Chief of Staff, USA
::*[[George P. Shultz]], Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, the [[Hoover Institution]], [[Stanford University]]; Former Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor, and Director, [[Office of Management and Budget]]
::*[[Anne-Marie Slaughter]], Dean, the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]], Princeton University
::*[[David Stern]], Commissioner, National Basketball Association
:*The central finding of which is stated as "Over the past two decades the United States has spent billions of dollars and significant manpower in the Andes region to stem the flow of illegal drugs; assist local security forces in the [[war on drugs|fight against drugs, terror and insurgency]]; and promote free markets, human rights, and democracy. Yet the democracies of the Andean region-[[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], and [[Bolivia]]--are still at risk, and the prospect of regional collapse is real and poses a serious threat to U.S. lives and interests."
:*[http://www.cfr.org/pdf/Andes2020.pdf link to .PDF version of the report]
:*The Commission attempts to redress what it considers to be a major weakness of current U.S. policy as embodied in [[Plan Colombia ]] and the Andean Counter-drug Initiative: an overly narrow focus on counternarcotics and security issues, and the relative absence of complementary, comprehensive, regionally-oriented strategies.
:*The Commission puts forth three objectives to rectify current policy. Determined action on these three strategic objectives will, over time, accomplish sustainable progress toward political, economic, and security goals that a policy focused mainly on supply-side counterdrug efforts cannot achieve.
::*I. The need to more equitably distribute political and economic resources and power in each country, with a commitment to strategic rural land reform.
*Scott Sherman, [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20041227&s=sherman Kissinger's Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations], ''The Nation'', December 27, 2004 (print edition), December 6, 2004 (electronic version). Article describes the attempts by Kissinger to censor articles in a CFR's publication, ''Foreign Affairs''. It reveals some of the internal politics, and the relationship between the operators.
*William Fisher, "[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00328.htm Hope For Improving U.S. Communications With The Muslim World?]," ''Scoop'' (New Zealand), May 26, 2005. A [http://www.cfr.org/pub8109/press_release/better_communications_efforts_can_significantly_improve_americas_image_in_the_muslim_world_says_new_council_special_report.php CFR report] titled "A New Beginning: Strategies for a More Fruitful Dialogue with the Muslim World" suggests the U.S. try "listening more, a humbler tone, and focusing on bilateral aid and partnership, while tolerating disagreement on controversial policy issues" when trying to relate to Muslim nations. The report, based on [[Focus group|focus groups]] in [[Morocco]], [[Egypt ]] and [[Indonesia]], found that focus group members "do not take seriously [[Iraqi Media Network|U.S. government media]], such as [[Radio Sawa]], [[Al Hurra|al-Hurra TV]], and Hi magazine, as information sources." Specific recommendations include engaging "local and regional media via press releases, interviews, Op-Eds, press conferences, and site visits," and launching "an [[Shared Values|advertising campaign]] on U.S. aid and support for reform in local and regional media, and acknowledge the U.S. government as the source."
*Jim Lobe, in "[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31306 Ignore Africa at Your Peril, Think Tank Warns Bush]" (''IPS News Agency'', December 5, 2005), noted that the CFR's report, "[http://www.cfr.org/publication/9302/more_than_humanitarianism.html More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach toward Africa]," urges the Bush administration "to upgrade its diplomatic and intelligence capabilities in the region by appointing an ambassador to the [[African Union]] (AU) and opening more missions in key African cities, particularly in energy-producing countries. It also calls for greater high-level attention to resolving conflicts in the region, particularly those, such as in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (DRC), that threaten the stability of whole sub-regions or involve large-scale atrocities."
== Board Leadership==*[[Council on Foreign Relations: Historical Roster of Directors ==and Officers]] === Officers (as of April 2004) Executive Office===As of June 2007:[http://www.cfr.org/about/people/staff.html]*[[Peter GRichard N. Haass]], President*[[Janice L. Murray]], Senior Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer*[[Jeffrey A. PetersonReinke]], Chairman Chief of Staff to the President*[[Nita Colaço]], Special Assistant to the President*[[Charles Landow]], Special Assistant to the Board<br> President, Research*[[Carla Anderson HillsHeather Parker]], Special Assistant to the Senior Vice Chairman President, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer*[[Eva Tatarczyk]], Executive Assistant to the President*[[Lilita V. Gusts]], Secretary of the Corporation*[[Sharon R. Herbst]], Assistant Director, Special Projects*[[Alton Frye]], Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus*[[Leslie H. Gelb]], President Emeritus and BoardSenior Fellow*[[Darren Geist]], Research Associate to the President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow*[[Elva Murphy]], Assistant to the President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow ==Board==Accessed March 2011: <brref>[http://www.cfr.org/about/people/board_of_directors.html Board], Council on Foreign Relations, accessed March 20, 2011.</ref> *[[Carla A. Hills]] - Co-Chairman; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company*[[Robert E. Rubin]], Vice - Co-Chairman ; Former Secretary of the Board<br> U.S. Treasury*[[Richard E. Salomon]] - Vice Chairman; Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC*[[Richard N. HaasHaass]]- President, President<br> Council on Foreign Relations*[[Michael John P. PetersAbizaid]]*[[Peter Ackerman]] - Managing Director, Executive Vice PresidentRockport Capital, CEOInc.*[[Fouad Ajami]] - M. Khadduri Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies, and Director Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies<br>, Johns Hopkins University*[[David KelloggMadeleine K. Albright]]- Chair, Senior Vice Albright Stonebridge Group LLC*[[Henry S. Bienen]] - PresidentEmeritus, Corporate Northwestern University*[[Alan S. Blinder]] - Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, and Publisher<br> Princeton University*[[Mary Boies]] - Managing Partner, Boies & McInnis LLP*[[Janice LDavid G. MurrayBradley]] - Chairman, Atlantic Media Company*[[Tom Brokaw]]- Special Correspondent, Senior Vice NBC News*[[Sylvia Mathews Burwell]] - President , Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation*[[Kenneth M. Duberstein]] - Chairman and Treasurer<br> CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.*[[Martin S. Feldstein]] - President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research*[[Irina FaskianosStephen Friedman]]- Chairman, Stone Point Capital*[[Ann M. Fudge]] *[[Pamela Gann]] - President, Claremont McKenna College*[[J. Tomilson Hill]] - Vice Chairman, The Blackstone Group*[[Donna J. Hrinak]] - Senior Director, Latin America Government Affairs, PepsiCo, Inc.*[[Alberto Ibargüen]] - President& Chief Executive Officer, National John S. and Outreach Programs<br>James L. Knight Foundation*[[Shirley Ann Jackson]] - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute*[[Elise Carlson LewisHenry R. Kravis]]- Co-CEO and Co-Chairman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.*[[Jami Miscik]] - President and Vice PresidentChairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.*[[Joseph S. Nye, Jr.]] - Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Membership and Fellowship Affairs<br> Harvard University*[[James MW. Owens]] - Chairman, Caterpillar Inc.*[[Peter G. LindsayPeterson]]- Chairman, Vice Peter G. Peterson Foundation*[[Colin L. Powell]] - United States Army (Ret.)*[[Penny Pritzker]] - President& Chief Executive Officer, Pritzker Realty Group, L.P.*[[Abraham LowenthalDavid M. Rubenstein]]- Cofounder and Managing Director, Vice The Carlyle Group*[[George E. Rupp]] - President<br>and CEO, International Rescue Committee*[[Anne RFrederick W. LuzzattoSmith]]- Chairman, Vice Presidentand Chief Executive Officer, Meetings<br>Federal Express Corporation *[[Joan E. Spero]] - Visiting Fellow, Foundation Center*[[Lisa ShieldsVin Weber]]- CEO and Managing Partner, Vice Clark & Weinstock*[[Christine Todd Whitman]] - President, Communications<br>The Whitman Strategy Group*[[Lilita GustsFareed Zakaria]]- Editor, Secretary of the Corporation<br> Newsweek International ''Officers and Directors Emeriti:''*[[Leslie H. Gelb]] (President Emeritus)*[[Maurice R. Greenberg]] (Honorary Vice Chairman)*[[Peter G. Peterson]] (Chairman Emeritus)*[[David Rockefeller]] (Honorary Chairman)*[[Robert A. Scalapino]] (Director Emeritus)
=== Current Directors ===
As of June 2007:[http://www.cfr.org/about/people/board_of_directors.html]*[[Peter Ackerman]], Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.*[[Fouad Ajami]], M. Khadduri Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies*[[Madeleine K. Albright]], Principal, The Albright Group LLC*[[Jeffrey BewkesCharlene Barshefsky]]*[[Henry S. Bienen]], President, Northwestern University*[[Lee CullumStephen W. Bosworth]], Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University*[[John Mark DeutchTom Brokaw]], former NBC News anchor*[[Frank J. Caufield]], Co-Founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
*[[Kenneth M. Duberstein]]
*[[Jessica PMartin S. Feldstein]], President, National Bureau of Economic Research*[[Richard N. EinhornFoster]]*[[Martin SAnn M. FeldsteinFudge]]*[[Helene D. Gayle]], President & CEO, [[CARE]]*[[Louis V. Gerstner, JrMaurice R.Greenberg]]*[[Richard N. Haas]], ex-officoPresident*[[Carla Anderson Hills]], Vice Chairman; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company
*[[Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke]]
*[[Karen Elliot House]]
*[[William J. McDonoughAlberto Ibargüen]], Vice Chairman*[[George JHenry R. MitchellKravis]]*[[Michael H. Moskow]], President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago*[[Joseph S. Nye, Jr.]]
*[[Ronald L. Olson]]
*[[James W. Owens]], Chairman & CEO, [[Caterpillar]] Inc.*[[Peter G. Peterson]], Chairman; Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The [[Blackstone Group]]
*[[Thomas R. Pickering]]
*[[Colin L. Powell]], United States Army (Ret.)*[[Robert E. Rubin]], Vice Chairman; Director/Chairman of the Executive Committee, [[Citigroup]], Inc.*[[Warren Bruce RudmanDavid M. Rubenstein]], Co-Founder and Managing Director, The [[Carlyle Group]]*[[Theodore CRichard E. SorensenSalomon]]*[[George SorosAnne-Marie Slaughter]]
*[[Joan Edelman Spero]]
*[[Laura D'Andrea Tyson]]
*[[Vin Weber]]
*[[Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.Christine Todd Whitman]]*[[Fareed Zakaria]], Editor, Newsweek International
=== Directors Emeriti ===
*[[David Rockefeller]], Honorary Chairman
*[[Robert A. Scalapino]]
==International Advisory Board==
Accessed September 2008: <ref>[http://www.cfr.org/about/people/international_advisory_board.html International Advisory Board], Council on Foreign Relations, accessed September 21, 2008.</ref>
*[[Peter G. Peterson]], Chairman
*[[Syed Babar Ali]]
*[[Khalid A. Alturki]]
*[[Mukesh D. Ambani]]
*[[Ahmad E. Bishara]]
*[[Mark C. Chona]]
*[[Gustavo A. Cisneros]]
*[[Gerhard Cromme]]
*[[Abdel Raouf El Reedy]]
*[[Jacob A. Frenkel]]
*[[Mikhail Fridman]]
*[[Toyoo Gyohten]]
*[[Baba Gana Kingibe]]
*[[Yotaro Kobayashi]]
*[[Rahmi M. Koc]]
*[[Luiz Felipe Lampreia]]
*[[Maurice Levy]]
*[[Brian Mulroney]]
*[[Sari Nusseibeh]]
*[[Sadako Ogata]]
*[[Lubna S. Olayan]]
*[[Ana Palacio]]
*[[Surin Pitsuwan]]
*[[Prannoy Roy]]
*[[Zalman Shoval]]
*[[Khehla Shubane]]
*[[Washington SyCip]]
*[[Horst M. Teltschik]]
*[[Jacob Wallenberg]]
*[[Jusuf Wanandi]]
*[[Shirley V. T. Brittain Williams]]
*[[Yuan Ming]]
*[[Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León]]
== Contact Information ==
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*[[Council on Foreign Relations - Homeland Security]]
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*[[Center for Preventive Action]]
*[[European Council on Foreign Relations]]
*[[Council on Foreign Relations: Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship]]
===References===<references/> === External Links resources===*Council on Foreign Relations, [http://www.cfr.org/content/about/annual_report/ar_2009/Membership_Roster2009.pdf "Membership Roster"], Council on Foreign Relations 2008 Annual Report. (Pdf) === External articles ===*[[Laurence H. Shoup]], [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy_Institutions/Council_Foreign_Relations.html "Bush, Kerry, CFR and The Ruling Class"], ''Z magazine'', October 2004.*Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, "[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HYJ7JzK-cS0C&dq=imperial+brain+trust&pg=PP1&ots=5uAg7Y9MFe&sig=3cgYY5ULcbCkz3YL6pS2rArrtGs&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Imperial+Brain+Trust&btnG=Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPR7,M1 Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy]", (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977).
*Ben Lando, "[http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/04/23/analysis_report_nuke_reality_dont_mesh/ Analysis: Report, nuke reality don't mesh]," UPI, April 23, 2007.
*Michael Barker, "[http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/16649 Elite ‘Democratic’ Planning at the Council on Foreign Relations]", ([http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/16787 Part 2]), ''Znet'', February 26, 2008.
*American Committees on Foreign Relations [http://www.acfr.org/ American Committees on Foreign relations website]
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