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{{short description|American private non-profit think tank on foreign policy}}▼
{{Distinguish|United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations|European Council on Foreign Relations}}
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As a result of discussions at the Peace Conference, a small group of British and American diplomats and scholars met on May 30, 1919 at the [[Hotel Majestic (Paris)|Hotel Majestic]] in Paris and decided to create an Anglo-American organization called "The Institute of International Affairs", which would have offices in London and New York.<ref name=Shoup/>{{rp|12}}<ref name=Grose/>{{rp|5}} Ultimately, the British and American delegates formed separate institutes, with the British developing the Royal Institute of International Affairs or [[Chatham House]] in [[London]].
Due to the [[isolationist]] views prevalent in American society at the time, the scholars had difficulty gaining traction with their plan, and turned their focus instead to a set of discreet meetings which had been taking place since June 1918 in New York City, under the name "Council on Foreign Relations". The meetings were headed by the [[Corporation|corporate]] lawyer [[Elihu Root]], who had served as [[Secretary of State]] under President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], and attended by 108
In 1922, [[Edwin F. Gay]], former dean of the [[Harvard Business School]] and director of the [[Shipping Board]] during the war, spearheaded the Council's efforts to begin publication of a magazine that would be the "authoritative" source on foreign policy. He gathered US$125,000 ({{Inflation|US|125000|1922|fmt=eq}}) from the wealthy members on the council, as well as by sending letters soliciting funds to "the thousand richest Americans". Using these funds, the first issue of ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' was published in September 1922, and within a few years had gained a reputation as the "most authoritative American review dealing with international relations".<ref name=Shoup/>{{rp|17–18}}
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In November 1979, while chairman of CFR, David Rockefeller became embroiled in an international incident when he and Henry Kissinger, along with [[John J. McCloy]] and Rockefeller aides, persuaded President Jimmy Carter through the State Department to admit the Shah of Iran, [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], into the US for hospital treatment for [[lymphoma]]. This action directly precipitated what is known as the [[Iran hostage crisis]] and placed Rockefeller under intense media scrutiny (particularly from ''[[The New York Times]]'') for the first time in his public life.<ref>[[Murray Rothbard|Rothbard, Murray]], [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch27.html Why the War? The Kuwait Connection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205132652/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch27.html |date=February 5, 2016 }} (May 1991)</ref><ref>Scrutiny by NYT over the Shah of Iran – David Rockefeller, ''Memoirs'' (pp. 356–75)</ref>
In his book ''[[White House Diary]]'', Carter wrote of the affair, "April 9 [1979] David Rockefeller came in, apparently to induce me to let the shah come to the United States. Rockefeller, Kissinger, and [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] seem to be adopting this as a joint project".{{
==Current status==
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* [[William H. McRaven]] – Chancellor, [[University of Texas System]].
* [[Janet Napolitano]] – President, [[University of California]], former [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] (1993–1997), [[Arizona Attorney General|Attorney General of Arizona]] (1999–2003), [[List of Governors of Arizona|Governor of Arizona]] (2003–2009), and [[President of the United States|President]] [[Barack Obama]]'s first [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Homeland Security Secretary]] (2009–2013).
*[[Meghan O'Sullivan|Meghan L.
* [[Eduardo J. Padrón]] – President, [[Miami Dade College]]. Dr. Padrón is a past board chair of the [[Association of American Colleges and Universities]] and of the [[American Council on Education]]. He also serves on the boards of the Business-Higher Education Forum, the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, and the [[International Association of University Presidents]]. Padrón also previously served on the board of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta]].
* [[John Paulson]] – President, [[Paulson & Co.]]
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* [[Margaret Warner]] – Senior Correspondent, [[PBS NewsHour]], previously reported for [[The Wall Street Journal]].
* [[Daniel Yergin]] – Vice Chairman, [[IHS Markit]].
* [[Fareed Zakaria]] – Host, CNN's [[Fareed Zakaria GPS]]. Editor at large of [[Time Magazine]], and
===''Foreign Affairs''===
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* {{Official website|http://www.cfr.org/}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwa00089000/ Archived website] at [[Library of Congress]] (2001-2018)
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* [https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster Membership Roster]
* [http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gb19f5814 Council on Foreign Relations Papers] at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
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