Council on Foreign Relations
URL: http://www.cfr.org/
Mission Statement
The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
Founded in 1921, the Council takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. The Council carries out its mission by:
- Maintaining a diverse membership, including special programs to promote interest and develop expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders;
- Convening meetings at its headquarters in New York and in Washington, DC, and other cities where senior government officials, members of Congress, global leaders, and prominent thinkers come together with Council members to discuss and debate major international issues;
- Supporting a Studies Program that fosters independent research, enabling Council scholars to produce articles, reports, and books and hold roundtables that analyze foreign policy issues and make concrete policy recommendations;
- Publishing Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy;
- Sponsoring Independent Task Forces that produce reports with both findings and policy prescriptions on the most important foreign policy topics; and
- Providing up-to-date information and analysis about world events and American foreign policy on its website, CFR.org.
Additional Materials from Council on Foreign Relations: Policy Briefs | Working Papers | Videos | Journals: Foreign Affairs
Books
Title: Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options
Authors: David G. Victor
Date: August 2004Title: Toward an Understanding of Russia
Authors: Janusz Bugajski, Marek Michalewski
Date: May 2002Title: The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Challenge to American Leadership
Authors: Jan Lodal
Date: February 2001Title: The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia
Authors: Jonathan Paris, Adam Schwarz
Date: April 1999Title: China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects
Authors: Elizabeth Economy, Oksenberg Michel
Date: January 1999Title: Arming the Future: A Defense Industry for the 21st Century
Authors: Sean Costigan, Ann Markusen
Date: January 1999Title: Atlantic Security: Contending Visions
Authors: Charles A. Kupchan
Date: November 1998Title: Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy
Authors: Richard N. Haass, Gary C. Hufbauer
Date: June 1998Title: The Expanding Role of State and Local Governments in U.S. Foreign Affairs
Authors: Earl H. Fry
Date: May 1998Title: The World and Yugoslavia's Wars
Authors: Abram Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes, Paul A. Goble, David C. Gompert, Stanley Hoffman, Jean E. Manas, Richard Sobel, Richard H. Ullman, Thomas G. Weiss
Date: February 1998Title: Pirates on the High Seas
Authors: Benedicte Callan
Date: January 1998Title: The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War
Authors: Richard N. Haass
Date: December 1997Title: Refugees into Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Authors: Donna E. Arzt
Date: December 1997Title: Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy
Authors: Geza Feketekuty, Bruce Stokes
Date: September 1997Title: For the Land and the Lord
Authors: Ian S Lustick
Date: January 1988