The Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 by businessmen, bankers, and lawyers determined to keep the United States engaged in the world. Today, the Council is composed of men and women from all walks of international life and from all parts of America dedicated to the belief that the nation’s peace and prosperity are firmly linked to that of the rest of the world.

The Council is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy and accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on global issues. The Council's goals are to add value to the public debate on international affairs; energize foreign policy discussions nationwide by making the Council a truly national organization with membership across the country; identify and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders; and make the Council the source for ideas and clear and accurate information on key international issues for the interested public.

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Books

Title: Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options
Author: David G. Victor
Date: August 2004

Title: Toward an Understanding of Russia
Author: Janusz Bugajski and Marek Michalewski, Editors
Date: May 2002

Title: The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Challenge to American Leadership
Author: Jan M. Lodal
Date: February 2001

Title: Refugees into Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Summary)
Author: Donna E. Arzt
Date: December 1997

Title: Pirates on the High Seas: The United States and Global Intellectual Property Rights
Author: Bénédicte Callan
Date: 1998

Title: China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (Summary)
Authors: Elizabeth C. Economy and Michel Oksenberg (eds.)
Date: January 1999

Title: Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy (Summary)
Author: Geza Feketekuty
Date: September 1997

Title: The Expanding Role of State and Local Governments in U.S. Foreign Affairs (Summary)
Author: Earl H. Fry
Date: May 1998

Title: Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy (Summary)
Author: Richard Haass
Date: June 1998

Title: The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War (Summary)
Author: Richard Haass
Date: April 1997

Title: Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (Summary)
Authors: Charles A. Kupchan (ed.)
Date: 1998

Title: For the Land and the Lord
Author: Ian S.Lustick
Date: 1998
Book Summary and Reviews

Title: Arming the Future: A Defense Industry for the 21st Century (Excerpts)
Authors: Ann R. Markusen and Sean S. Costigan (eds.)
Date: 1999

Title: The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Summary)
Authors: Adam Schwarz and Jonathan S. Paris (eds.)
Date: April 1999

Title: The World and Yugoslavia’s Wars
Author: Richard H. Ullman, Ed.
Date: February 1998