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Parent topics

• Diplomacy (foreign policy) [r]: The process of negotiations, among nations, usually by accredited representatives of a government. While the details of the negotiations may not be public information, the fact of the diplomatic negotiations is official and acknowledged [e]
• International law [r]: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. [e]
• Think tank [r]: An organization that presents ideas as expert analysis, the level of objectivity of which varies with the institution, but with an implication of at least some intellectual independence. [e]

Subtopics

• Foreign Affairs [r]: The journal of the Council on Foreign Relations [e]

Officers and directors

• William Bundy [r]: Central Intelligence Agency officer who, who shifted to the Department of Defense during the John F. Kennedy administration, and then became Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [e]
• Carla Hills [r]: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company; Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; board, International Crisis Group; Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former U.S. Trade Representative [e]
• Robert Rubin [r]: Co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Bill Clinton administration [e]
• Richard Salomon [r]: Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC [e]
• Richard Haass [r]: President, Council on Foreign Relations; former chief, Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State; senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council in the George H. W. Bush Administration; former vice president of the Brookings Institution [e]
• Peter Ackerman [r]: Add brief definition or description Rockport Capital, Inc.
• Fouad Ajami [r]: M. Khadduri Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Trustee, Council on Foreign Relations; board member, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), Middle East Forum; Vice Chairman, Academic Council, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa [e]
• Madeleine Albright [r]: Former U.S. Secretary of State; Director, Council on Foreign Relations; Principal, The Albright Group LLC [e]
• Charlene Barshefsky [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
• Henry Bienen [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Northwestern University
• Alan Blinder [r]: Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; member of the board, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• David Bradley [r]: Add brief definition or description Chairman, Atlantic Media Company
• Tom Brokaw [r]: Add brief definition or description NBC News
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell [r]: President of the Global Development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Board of Directors for MetLife, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Governing Council of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and as a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Center for Strategic and International Studies Smart Power Commission. previously, in the Clinton administration as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, and Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin; She is a graduate of Harvard University and is a Rhodes Scholar [e]
• Paul Cerjan [r]: Retired lieutenant general, United States Army; w currently President and CEO of the National Defense University Foundation; President of the National Defense University; Deputy Commander in Chief United States Army Europe and Seventh United States Army; Commandant, U.S. Army War College; Registered Professional Engineer and Board of Directors, Army Engineers Association; Board of Directors, Military Heritage Association; Advisory Board of Directors, National Religious Heritage of America Foundation; Board of Directors, Freedom Ministries; advisory board, Council on Foreign Relations; Advisory Board, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. [e]
• Frank Caufield [r]: Add brief definition or description Co-Founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Kenneth Duberstein [r]: White House Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan, 1988-1989; Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.; Director, Council on Foreign Relations, National Endowment for Democracy [e]
• Martin Feldstein [r]: Add brief definition or description President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Stephen Friedman [r]: Chairman — Stone Point Capital, LLC; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e] Chairman, Stone Point Capital
• Ann Fudge [r]: Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands, a diversified media and public relations firm,and a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• J. Tomilson Hill [r]: Add brief definition or description Vice Chairman, The Blackstone Group
• Donna Hrinak [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionSenior Director, Latin America Government Affairs, PepsiCo, Inc.
• Alberto Ibargüen [r]: Add brief definition or description President & Chief Executive Officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• Shirley Ann Jackson [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Henry Kravis [r]: Founding chairman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; member of the board, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• Jami Miscik [r]: Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates; member of the board of Council on Foreign Relations; previously, Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers; Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Intelligence from 2002 to 2005; Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration from 1995 to 1996 [e]
• Joseph Nye, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Ronald Olson [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Partner, Munger Tolles and Olson LLP
• James Owens [r]: Add brief definition or description Chairman & CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
• Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative [e]
• Penny Pritzker [r]: Add brief definition or description President & Chief Executive Officer, Pritzker Realty Group, L.P.
• David Rubenstein [r]: Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group; member of the board, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• George Rupp [r]: Add brief definition or description President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
• Anne-Marie Slaughter [r]: Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the Obama administration, on leave from an international relations professorship at Princeton University; board of Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
• Joan Spero [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Vin Weber [r]: Add brief definition or description CEO and Managing Partner, Clark & Weinstock
• Christine Todd Whitman [r]: President, The Whitman Strategy Group; member of the board, Council on Foreign Relations; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 2001-2003, in the George W. Bush Administration; co-chair of the moderate Republican Leadership Council (RLC) merged with her political action committee; governor of New Jersey 1994-2001. [e]
• Fareed Zakaria [r]: Political scientist; editor of Newsweek magazine; board member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New America Foundation, Yale University, the Trilateral Commission, and Shakespeare and Company; former managing editor of Foreign Affairs; Former Research Fellow, Belfer Center, International Security Program, 1988-1991; CNN and Washington Post columnist; book author [e]
• Leslie Gelb [r]: Chairman, National Security Network; Academic Council, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa; President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize-winning former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1980-81); Assistant Secretary of State for political/military affairs (1977-79); Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (1969-73); Visiting Professor, Georgetown University (1969-73) [e] (President Emeritus)
• Maurice Greenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description (Honorary Vice Chairman)
• Charles Mathias, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description (Director Emeritus)
• Peter Peterson [r]: Add brief definition or description (Chairman Emeritus)
• David Rockefeller [r]: Add brief definition or description (Honorary Chairman)
• Robert Scalapino [r]: Add brief definition or description (Director Emeritus)

Members

• Yehudit Barsky [r]: Director of of the American Jewish Congress Division on Middle East and International Terrorism; Associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute [e]
• Adrian Basora [r]: Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Project on Democratic Transitions, an in-depth assessment of the political, economic and social transitions of postcommunist Europe/Eurasia twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Career Foreign Service Officer who was former U.S. Ambassador in Prague, National Security Council Director for European Affairs 1989 to 1991, Deputy Chief of Mission and then Chargé d’Affaires in Madrid, Political Counselor in Paris; member, Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) [e]
• Ellen Bork [r]: Attorney involved in a number of neoconservative organizations; director, Democracy and Human Rights, Foreign Policy Initiative; previously Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century; staff member for Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and at the Bureau of Latin American Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; member, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• Stuart Eizenstat [r]: Attorney, now heading the international practice of Covington and Burling; Director, Atlantic Council guest scholar, Brookings Institution; member, Council on Foreign Relations; Board of Trustees, Freedom House; past positions including chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Bill Clinton Administration (1993-2001) [e]
• Peter Feaver [r]: Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy — Duke University; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
• Nathaniel Fick [r]: President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security;counterinsurgency theorist; United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars ; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
• Jamie Gorelick [r]: Partner, WilmerHale; Hillary Clinton supporter on Barack Obama transition teaml trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; member, 9-11 Commission and Council on Foreign Relations; former Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae 1993-2003; former Deputy Attorney General; former General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
• Fiona Hill [r]: National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia, National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2009- [e]
• James Kurth [r]: Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College; past visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, visiting professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, and visiting professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College]; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; member of the Council on Foreign Relations; member International Institute for Strategic Studies [e]
• Nancy Lubin [r]: President of JNA Associates, Inc.; senior fellow for Eurasia, American Foreign Policy Council; Director and Principal Author of the Council on Foreign Relations Project on the Ferghana Valley; Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; previously Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Project Director for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment [e]
• Kathleen Troia McFarland [r]: Republican/conservative television and radio news commentator; contributing editor, Family Security Foundation; advisor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Republican Senate candidate against Hillary Clinton; member; Council on Foreign Relations; National Security Council research assistant to Henry Kissinger; staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services; board, Jamestown Foundation [e]
• John Nagl [r]: President of the Center for a New American Security; member of the Defense Policy Board,a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, member Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies; retired lieutenant colonel, United States Army; combat experience in Gulf War and Iraq War [e]
• John Negroponte [r]: A career U.S. diplomat now on the faculty of Yale University, whose tenure included Ambassadorships to Iraq, the United Nations, Honduras, and Mexico and serving as Director of National Intelligence [e]
• Michael O'Hanlon [r]: Senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; Member, International Security Advisory Board, United States Department of State; Advisory council, Center for a New American Security; visiting lecturer at Princeton University; member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• Meghan O'Sullivan [r]: Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard University Belfer Center; previously consultant to then-U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, on the National Security Council, Coalition Provisional Authority, Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, and the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State [e]
• Thomas Pickering [r]: Board of Directors, Henry L. Stimson Center; Executive Committee, Atlantic Council; Advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; Retired Foreign Service Officer who achieved the highest U.S. diplomatic rank, ambassador to many countries; still actively commenting and advising [e]
• Bruce Ramer [r]: Member, Committee on the Present Danger; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Former President, American Jewish Committee [e]
• Ann Rondeau [r]: Vice admiral, United States Navy; President, National Defense University; Board member ex officio, United States Institute of Peace; Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• Wendy Sherman [r]: Principal of The Albright Group LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets; member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; Advisory Council of the Center for a New American Security, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Strategy Group, US-India Strategic Dialogue, Australian American Leadership Dialogue. director of Oxfam America; previously Counselor of the U.S. Department of State [e]
• Walter Slocombe [r]: Law firm of Caplin & Drysdale; Secretary, Atlantic Council; senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction ; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1994-2001); Senior Advisor and Director for Security Affairs (National Security and Defense) Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003 [e]
• Nicholas Veliotes [r]: Now a consultant to a Washington law firm, a Foreign Service Officer who was U.S. Ambassador to Jordan and Egypt and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; member, Council on Foreign Relations and Middle East Institute; intellectual property expert [e]
• James Zogby [r]: Member of the Democratic National Committee and President of the Arab American Institute [e]

Funding

• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation [r]: A private American foundation, which provides funding for projects consistent with its Board's view of the Bradley brothers' view of American ideals; associated with many American conservative projects [e]

Other related topics

• International Institute for Strategic Studies [r]: A UK-based think tank with offices in the US and Singapore, founded in 1958; publishes The Military Balance, Strategic Survey, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Strategic Comment [e]
• Jessica Einhorn [r]: Dean, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; board member, Center for Global Development; former managing director, vice president and treasurer of the World Bank; former visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund; formerly served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• Richard Murphy [r]: President of Richard W. Murphy Associates (2004-present); Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia (1983-1989); U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Phillipines and Saudi Arabia; scholar, Middle East Institute [e]
• Stanley McChrystal [r]: General, United States Army; senior Western military officer in Afghanistan, commanding the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan; professional background in special operations including heading the Joint Special Operations Command and 75th Ranger Regiment; previously Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations [e]