Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations

Template:Infobox Organization The Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations (M-CFR) is an nonpartisan American Foreign Policy membership organization dedicated to advancing dialogue in international affairs. The M-CFR is based at Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The Manhattan Committee is a chapter of The American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. The Committees on Foreign Relations were founded by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1938.

Contents

• Mission
• Council on Foreign Relations- Early history
• About the Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations
• See also
• Notes
• References
  • Publications by the Council on Foreign Relations
  • Books
  • Miscellaneous articles
• External links

Mission

The Committee's mission is promoting understanding of foreign policy and the United States' role in the world. Meetings are convened at which government officials, global leaders, and prominent members debate major foreign-policy issues. A central aim of the Manhattan Committee, it states, is to "find and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders."

At the outset of the organization the group's mission was to invite and educate prominent persons who have the ability to "guide" American public opinion.

Council on Foreign Relations- Early history

The earliest origin of the Council stemmed from a working fellowship of about 150 scholars, called "The Inquiry," tasked to brief President Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world when Germany was defeated. Through 1917–1918, this academic band, including Wilson's closest adviser and long-time friend Col. Edward M. House, as well as Walter Lippmann, gathered at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar world. The team produced more than 2,000 documents detailing and analyzing the political, economic, and social facts globally that would be helpful for Wilson in the peace talks. Their reports formed the basis for the Fourteen Points, which outlined Wilson's strategy for peace after war's end.

These scholars then traveled to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 that would end the war; it was at one of the meetings of a small group of British and American diplomats and scholars, on May 30, 1919, at the Hotel Majestic, that both the Council and its British counterpart, the Chatham House in London, were born. Although the original intent was for the two organizations to be affiliated, they became independent bodies, yet retained close informal ties.

Some of the participants at that meeting, apart from Edward House, were Paul Warburg, Herbert Hoover, Harold Temperley, Lionel Curtis, Lord Eustace Percy, Christian Herter, and American academic historians James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University, Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard, and Charles Seymour of Yale.

About the Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations

From its inception the Manhattan Committee has been non-partisan, welcoming members of both Democratic and Republican parties. Manhattan Committee proceedings are typically private and confidential and observe The Chatham House Rule, "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed"..

Committee membership includes senior serving individuals from the areas of Business, Politics, Government, Academia, Media, and NGO's.

See also

• Bilderberg Group
• Brookings Institution
• Globality
• RAND
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Trilateral Commission
• Le Circle

References

Publications by the Council on Foreign Relations

• Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. Building a North American Community: Report of an Independent Task Force. Washington, DC: Council on Foreign Relations, 2005. (Task Force Observers: Sam Boutziouvis, Canadian Council of Chief Executives; Daniel Gerstein, Council on Foreign Relations; Lawrence Spinetta, Council on Foreign Relations; David Stewart-Patterson, Canadian Council of Chief Executives; multiple authors.)

Books

• De Villemarest, Pierre, Danièle De Villemarest, and William Wolf. Facts and Chronicles Denied to the Public. Vol. 1. Slough, Berkshire, UK: Aquilion, 2004. ISBN 1-904-99700-7.
• Grose, Peter. Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996. New York: Council on Foreign Relations: 1996. ISBN 0-876-09192-3.
• Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline. Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1988. ISBN 0-882-79134-6.
• Schulzinger, Robert D. The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-231-05528-5.
• Shoup, Laurence H., and William Minter. Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy. 1977; New York: Authors Choice Press, 2004. ISBN 0-595-32426-6 (10). ISBN 978-05953-2426-2 (13).
• Wala, Michael. The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War. Providence, RI: Berghann Books, 1994. ISBN 1-571-81003-X
• Griffin, G. Edward "The Creature From Jekyll Island" American Media, Westlake Village, California 1994 ISBN 0-912986-18-2

Miscellaneous articles

• Kassenaar, Lisa. "Wall Street's New Prize: Park Avenue Club House With World View".[1] Bloomberg December 15, 2005. [Profile of the Council and its new members.]
• Mandel, Daniel, and Asaf Romirowsky. "The Council on Foreign Relations Does the Middle East". Middle East Quarterly 12.4 (Fall 2005). Accessed February 23, 2007.
• Sanger, David E. "Iran's Leader Relishes 2nd Chance to Make Waves". The New York Times September 21, 2006, Foreign Desk: A1, col. 2 (Late ed.-Final). Accessed February 23, 2007. (TimesSelect subscription access). ("Over the objections of the administration and Jewish groups that boycotted the event, Mr. Ahmadinejad, the man who has become the defiant face of Iran, squared off with the nation’s foreign policy establishment, parrying questions for an hour and three-quarters with two dozen members of the Council on Foreign Relations, then ending the evening by asking whether they were simply shills for the Bush administration.")

External links

• Council on Foreign Relations – Organization website
  • "For Educators" – "Academic Outreach Initiative": Resources for educators and students; links to selected CFR publications
  • "For the Media" – Resources for the media, concerning requests for press materials, transcripts of meetings, and annual reports; contact information
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