Council on Foreign Relations - Homeland Security

The concern that the Council on Foreign Relations had for homeland security pre-dated the events of September 11, 2001. For example, on January 1, 2000, the Council received a grant award of $123,503 from the conservative Smith Richardson Foundation to fund research by the Council's Stephen E. Flynn. According to MediaTransparency.Org, the money was given under the understanding that:

"Stephen Flynn will research and write a book on how to balance the growing pressures for economic globalization with the need to police and protect U.S. borders against national security threats."

Homeland Security Publications from the Council on Foreign Relations

• Independent Task Force Report: "America--Still Unprepared, Still in Danger" (2002) by Gary Hart and Warren Bruce Rudman, Co-Chairs. Also known as the Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security.

• "Free Trade, Smart Borders, and Homeland Security: U.S.-Caribbean Cooperation in a New Era of Vulnerability" (September 2002) by Stephen E. Flynn and Anthony T. Bryan, University of Miami.

• "Constructing a Secure Trade Corridor" by Stephen E. Flynn, March 11, 2002, presented to The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, The Marine Exchange of Los Angeles and Long Beach, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs Service, and U.S. Immigration Service.

Transcripts

• "Current U.S. Defense Issues"; Speaker: Dov S. Zakheim, Undersecretary of Defense. Presider: Bernard E. Trainor, Lt. Gen., USMC (Ret.); Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. No date.

External Links

Council on Foreign Relations website