-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: roundtable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 4:10 PM Subject: British American Project - CFR/RIIA Study Group >Ever hear of the British American Project? The next British American >Project meeting will be held in Harrogate, at the Majestic Hotel, 13-17 >November. > >In 1997 Lobster Magazine, a British journal of intelligence, >parapolitics, and state research published an article about the British >American Project.The article identifies the groups administering the >project as: > >> The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins >>University, >> Washington DC, would administer the American side. The Royal Institute of >>International Affairs >>at Chatham House, London, would serve a similar function in Britain. > >The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a Council on Foreign >Relations think-tank and spook training school, [see Foundations of War >http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/foundation.html ]. The SAIS has a >branch in Red China that has a greater influence on Chinese policy then the >Chinese do. A partial list of SAIS faculty who belong to the CFR has been >added to the end of the Lobster magazine article. > >The Royal Institute of International Affairs is England's CFR sister >organization. > >Serendipitously, the Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of >International Affairs were formally established at another Majestic Hotel >in Paris on March 19, 1919, by a group of Rhodes's secret society members >who attended the Paris Peace Conference as diplomats, members of the >British Secret Service, or members of the first U.S. central intelligence >agency the INQUIRY. Edward Mandell House, close personal advisor to >President Woodrow Wilson, and the first U.S. National Security Advisor, >hosted the meeting. > >Propaganda, is the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to >substitute one social pattern for another. Propaganda is used to create >false reality worlds using sleight of mind. Psycho-political operations are >propaganda campaigns. Strategic psycho-political operations focus >propaganda at powerful individuals, or small groups of people capable of >influencing public opinion or the government of a particular country. >Tactical psycho-political operations focus propaganda at the masses by >interference in specific events, their comments, and their appeals through >mass communication media ( i.e. newspapers, radio, television, textbooks, >educational material, art, entertainment, etc. ). Both forms of propaganda >are used to manipulate public opinion to attain foreign policy goals in a >given period. If the operations are designed to conceal both the operation >and the sponsor the operation is clandestine. If the operations are >designed to conceal only the sponsor the operation is covert. > >The CFR/RIIA has become so successful at scripting, directing, and >implementing psycho-political operations that we are now living in an age >of rationalized propaganda backed by a powerful press and technical media >that consciously manipulates symbols and myths in a calculated manner to >suit CFR/RIIA goals. High international tensions are whipped up with >astonishing rapidity at the dictate of the controlling groups. Tensions >meant to maximize profits of CFR/RIIA controlled medicine, munitions, >media, food, and banking industries which profit most during periods of >unrest and war. Illusions and delusions are deliberately imposed on large >masses on an international scale to conceal real social conflicts of >greater significance. > >The Secret Society of Cecil Rhodes used "discussion-groups" to generate >material used in propaganda campaigns for shaping national policy and >influencing public opinion. The Council on Foreign Relations, Royal >Institute of International Affairs, and other secret-society branch >organizations use "discussion-groups," and a more formalized program known >as "study-groups" to this day. "Study-groups" are organized to investigate >an important national policy issue. A designated expert prepares a draft >statement and presents it to a group of fellow experts who often hold >widely divergent views. The issue is discussed thoroughly, sometimes at >several successive meetings, and the discussion recorded by a research >secretary. A digest of the discussion and a position paper with a written >analysis and policy conclusions credited to a single author is produced. >Material generated is used to shape national policy and influence public >opinion. > >The British American Project is nothing more than a Council on Foreign >Relations/Royal Institute of Internal Affairs, sponsored study-group, meant >to generate material for creating covert strategic, and tactical >psycho-political operations for influencing public opinion to allow >CFR/RIIA industries to maximize their profits at the expense of the public >at large, and to further the CFR/RIIA goal of forming one world government >run by CFR/RIIA members. Hosting the meeting at the Majestic Hotel is a >clue for future historians to credit the formation of the New World Order >to the Secret Society of Cecil Rhodes and the organizations that evolved >from it. > >The Lobster Article follows. > >roundtable >### > >The British American Project for the Successor Generation > >Tom Easton > > Let's start with the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris >Smith and Marjorie 'Mo' Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all >strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about >Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but >both are key figures in the 'modernising project' in Blair's 'New Labour' >government: Mandelson as Minister without Portfolio having a roving brief >to monitor, coordinate and brief the press on all areas of government >activity and Symons, the former leader of the union for top civil servants, >the First Division Association, is the Foreign Office Minister in the House >of Lords. > > Symons shares her unelected status with two other key figures in the new >Blair administration, Jonathan Powell and Michael Barber. Powell, a former >British diplomat in Wash-ington, is now Blair's chief of staff at 10 >Downing Street and Barber is special adviser to Education Secretary David >Blunkett. And what do these two and the four ministers in the new >government share with Ms Symons? They are all members of the >British-American Project for the Successor Generation (BAP for short) - an >elite transatlantic network launched in 1985 with $425,000 from a >Philadelphia-based trust with a long record in the US of supporting >right-wing causes. > >Its membership reaches beyond formal politics to include rising figures in >finance, industry, academia, the military and the civil service. Media >members include Economist political editor David Lipsey, Independent >economics editor Diane Coyle, Times Educational Supplement editor Caroline >St John-Brooks and BBC journalists Jeremy Paxman, Isabel Hilton, Trevor >Phillips and James Naughtie. > >BAP's Origins > >The first recorded mention of the need for a 'successor generation' came in >1983 when President Ronald Reagan spoke to a group, including Rupert >Murdoch [Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 1997] and Sir >James Goldsmith, in the White House. The reason for the 21 March gathering >that year was US fear of the rising opposition to the siting of Cruise and >Pershing missiles in Western Europe. Reagan's administration took this >movement so seriously that it recalled its ambassador to Ireland, Peter >Dailey, to Washington. He was given the task of coordinating a strategy to >defeat the broad-based opposition to Reagan's 'evil Empire' policy and with >it the first major European challenge to the NATO orthodoxies of the >previous 35 years. The meeting, organised by National Security Council >staff with the support of USIA director Charles Wick [Council on Foreign >Relations. Annual Report. 1988 ], was intended to recruit 'private sector >donors' to help in this task. > > In a confidential NSC memorandum Walt Raymond, the CIA director of >operations who had left Langley for the NSC shortly before, described the >upcoming meeting as 'the first session with donors and Charlie [Wick] has >focused this meeting specifically on our needs in Europe ... I do not know >whether the group assembled on March 21 will serve as the core for a large >funding effort which could support the "National Endowment for Democracy" >or whether the group, by background and interest, will remain focused on >Europe. The problems of European public opinion, however, are sufficiently >great that this is enough of a task to take on at this time.' > > When Reagan stepped into the Situation Room that March afternoon his >audience was not only [ CFR member ] Murdoch and Goldsmith, but also >Ambassador Dailey, now restyled 'Chairman, European Public Diplomacy >Committee', George Gallup, chairman of the polling organisation and Joachim >Maitre, 'coming as personal representative of Axel Springer, German >publishing executive.' > > Reagan told them: 'Last June I spoke to the British Parliament, >proposing that we - the democracies of the world - work together to build >the infrastructure of democracy. This will take time, money, and efforts by >both government and the private sector. We need particularly to cement >relations among the various sectors of our societies in the United States >and Europe. A special concern will be the successor generations, as these >younger people are the ones who will have to work together in the future on >defense and security issues.' (emphasis added) 1 > > The British-American Project's own account of its foundation makes no >reference to the President's remarks, but clearly shares the same concern >for an improvement in US-UK relations when, in the early Eighties, both the >Labour and Liberal parties opposed the major arms spending increases - >nuclear and non-nuclear - central to Reagan and the Conservative government >of Margaret Thatcher. > > In the BAP version of its foundation it would appear that the >institution of regular meetings of '24 Americans and 24 Britons aged >between 28 and 40 who by virtue of their present accomplishments had given >indication that, in the succeeding generation, they would be leaders in >their country and perhaps internationally' was the idea of two old Oxford >friends - Sir Charles Villiers and US Rhodes scholar Lewis Van Dusen. >Villiers, an old-Etonian banker, was a wartime Special Operations Executive >veteran who subsequently became chairman of the British Steel Corporation. >Van Dusen, senior partner in the law firm Drinker, Biddle and Reath, was >deputy to the first US representative to NATO between 1950 and 1952. > > The BAP account describes a dinner between the two old friends early in >the Reagan presidency and observes that Villiers' 'relationship between him >and Lew [Van Dusen] had implications far beyond their personal friendship >and in fact provided networking for personal friendships and broader >relationships between Britain and the US, with countrywide benefits. He >[Villiers] further observed that such relationships were not continuing as >they had hoped. > > 'Arrangements were made for Charles [Villiers] to see Robert I Smith, >then the head of the Pew Memorial Trust. Subsequent discussions resulted >in a grant underwriting the first three years of the Project. Advisory >Boards were established in the US and Britain. The School of Advanced >International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, Washington >DC, would administer the American side. The Royal Institute of >International Affairs at Chatham House, London, would serve a similar >function in Britain. [ Chatham House is a commonly used alternative name >for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Chatham House is also the >Institutes headquarters. Chatham House is located in the heart of London at >10 St. James's Square. The building was home to three prime ministers >including Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham, before being gifted to the >Institute in 1923.] > > 'Since that time, alternate conferences lasting approximately four days >have been held annually in the US and Britain. All expenses including >travel are paid for first-time delegates. Initially topics for study and >discussion were proposed by Chatham House and SAIS.' > >BAP people > >George Robertson > >One of the Britons chosen for the delicate task of selecting participants >for the Successor Generation project was George Robertson MP, the former >Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland who, to the surprise of some, was >made Defence Secretary in the new Blair government. Why there should have >been any shock in this move is in itself surprising because Robertson has >been a pillar of the Anglo-American/NATO establishment from the time he >left the service of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (as it then >was called) in 1978 to become Labour MP for Hamilton. > > A former secretary of the right-wing Labour Manifesto group (most of >whose members defected to the Social Democratic party in 1981), Robertson >joined the government-funded British Atlantic Committee in the same year >that it was publicly attacking the Labour party's non-nuclear defence >policy. He was on the Council of the Royal Institute for International >Affairs (Chatham House) from 1984 to 1991 and on the steering committee of >the annual Konigswinter conference for much of that time. He has been a >governor of the Ditchley Foundation since 1989 and was vice-chairman of the >Westminster Foundation for Democracy from 1992 to 1994. A man more likely >to be given the defence brief and less likely to include the possession of >nuclear weapons in the Blair government's newly announced defence review >can scarcely be imagined. > >David Lipsey > >Robertson was helped in the task of selecting promising transatlantic >talent for the early years of the BAP by David Lipsey, a man who also >started life as a researcher with the GMWU. After Oxford Lipsey got to know >and admire Anthony Crosland, the Gaitskellite MP, author of The Future of >Socialism and one-time consultant to the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural >Freedom. Crosland became Lipsey's mentor, hiring him as adviser at the >Department for Environment and then at the Foreign Office. After >Crosland's death in 1977, Lipsey moved to the office of Prime Minister >James Callaghan. With the defeat of Labour in 1979 Lipsey switched to >journalism, first at New Society and then the Sunday Times before returning >as editor of New Society in 1986. At the time he was helping to launch >the BAP he was also involved in setting up the Sunday Correspondent, the >short-lived and largely US-funded weekly. When it folded in 1990 he became >associate editor of [CFR member] Murdoch's Times, quitting that for the >Economist in 1992 and becoming its political editor two years later. Along >the way he has been chairman of the Fabian Society, a visiting professor at >the University of Ulster and a non-executive director of the Personal >Investment Authority. > >Nick Butler > >An old Streatham Labour party friend of Lipsey's from the Seventies, Butler >is a central figure in the British-American Project. Alongside a career in >British Petroleum, Butler has combined political activity in the Fabians >(for many years he was its treasurer), Chatham House and Konigswinter with >writing for the US Council for Foreign Relations journal Foreign Affairs. >The Cambridge-educated Butler jointly authored with Neil Kinnock Why Vote >Labour in 1979 and through the Fabian Society was deeply involved in the >former Labour leader's successful efforts to move the party away from >unilateral nuclear disarmament in the late Eighties. His wife, a former >senior BBC current affairs executive, now works for the Institute for >Public Policy Research. > > Butler has been deeply involved in the BAP programme from the outset. >He was UK treasurer when, in 1984, the Pew Trust - a big funder of the >right-wing Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute at the >time - chipped in with the $425,000 launch money. After Robertson, he is >the senior Labour member of the UK advisory board, which is chaired by the >former conservative Foreign Secretary and NATO secretary general Lord >Carrington. The two other party political mem-bers of that board are Alan >Lee Williams and Lord Holme of Cheltenham. 3 > >Alan Lee Williams > >Williams was Labour party national youth officer under Hugh Gaitskell's >leadership before becoming an MP. He was parlia-mentary private secretary >when Roy Mason was Defence Sec-retary and he followed when Mason became >Northern Ireland Secretary. Defence was a constant interest of Williams, >chair-ing the Parliamentary Labour Party's Defence Committee and, after >losing his Hornchurch seat in 1979, chairing Peace Through NATO. In >addition to work for the European Movement - he was treasurer from 1972 to >1979 - he has strong US links. He is currently director of the Atlantic >Council. He became one of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission members >in 1976 and has chaired the European working group of the right-wing Centre >for Strategic and International Studies in Washington since 1987. In 1981, >Williams was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic party and >subsequently of the Liberal Democratic alliance. > >Richard Holme > >Lord Holme of Cheltenham came to that alliance via the Liberal party of >which he was president in the year the SDP was launched. After Oxford and >Harvard, Richard Holme became active in the Liberal party and stood for >them unsuccessfully on several occasions. A director of RTZ-CRA, which now >helps fund the Successor Generation project, Holme is a central figure in >'centre' politics. He has directed the Campaign for Electoral Reform; >chaired the Constitutional Reform Centre; remains a director of Political >Quarterly, as well as vice-chairman of the Hansard Society for >Parliamentary Government and, in addition, chairs Threadneedle Publishing, >a major publisher of political reference works. > > He has been chairman of Brassey's, the defence publishers once owned by >Robert Maxwell with a US subsidiary chaired by the late Senator John Tower >[ in 1975 CFR member Anthony Lake commissioned Tower and 21 other American >and Foreign Authors to write "The Vietnam Legacy" CFR member Lake >eventually became National Security Advisor under CFR member Bill Clinton >], (President [ & Director, Council on Foreign Relations 1977-79 ] George >Bush's unsuccessful nomination for Defence Secretary). He took over the >chairmanship of the consultancy firm Prima Europe from Dick Taverne, the >former Labour MP turned Social Democrat. Until his election as policy >adviser to the Blair government, Prima also employed Roger Liddle, the >former SDP candidate who jointly authored The Blair Revolution with Peter >Mandelson. > > Holme acted as treasurer of the Green Alliance for 11 years, during some >of which time Tom Burke, an SDP activist turned adviser to Conservative >governments, was director. Burke, a former adviser to David Owen [ >Trilateral Commission. List of Members. 1998-], was one of a batch of >younger SDP figures selected by the UK board for Successor Generation >membership in its early days a decade ago. > >SDP activists > >Others SDP activists receiving early invitations to join the Successor >Project were Sue Slipman, the former Communist president of the National >Union of Students; Penny Cooper, an old Communist party and NUS colleague >of Slipman's who, like her, was a founder member of the SDP; Becky Bryan, a >defence analyst and later BBC reporter who was 1983 Alliance candidate for >East Hampshire, and Rabbi Julia Neuburger, a member of the >government-backed multilateralist Council for Arms Control in the early >Eighties and a prominent member of the SDP national committee. > >Chris Smith > >Slipman, Bryan and Neuberger were joined at the 1986 BAP gathering in >Philadelphia by George Robertson's fellow Cabinet colleague, Chris Smith. >The MP for Islington South is no stranger to the United States. Between his >first degree at Cambridge and his doctorate there, a Kennedy scholarship >took him to Harvard for a year. A few years in local government earned him >the chance of a seat and shortly after being elected became, first, >secretary and then chairman of the Tribune group of Labour MPs. > >Majorie Mowlam > >Even more familiar with the United States is another Blair Cabinet member >with a doctorate and a past involvement in the Tribune group, Northern >Ireland Secretary 'Mo' Mowlam. After Durham University, Mowlam studied and >taught in American universities for most of the Seventies. After winning >Redcar in 1987 she followed Smith as secretary of the Tribune group at the >time it was becoming less the voice of the radical Left in the >parliamentary party and more of a support group for Neil Kinnock in his >'modernising' moves, particularly on defence. > > Mowlam attended the 1988 gathering of the BAP in St Louis, where she was >joined by the Labour Party's then director of campaigns and communications, >Peter Mandelson. The theme, 'Present Alliance, Future Challenges', was very >relevant to a world in which the Cold War was moving into a new phase with >the crumbling of the former Soviet empire. Kurt Campbell [ Council on >Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 1997], a Harvard academic who had >lectured on Soviet studies in what was then apartheid South Africa, led the >first session on 'New Empires for Old'. > > In the subsequent discussion - led, according to the confeence report by >British participants - Mowlam and Mandelson heard the contributions of Tim >Gardam, the editor of the BBC TV current affairs programme, Panorama, and >Michael Maclay, at that time a producer for 'Weekend World', London Weekend >Television's rival programme on which Mandelson had been working before his >Labour party job. > >Michael Maclay > >Maclay is an interesting figure in the BAP network. A career Foreign Office >official, he left the diplomatic service for a media career, first at LWT >and then, with David Lipsey, as a founding figure of the Sunday >Correspondent. After that paper's collapse Maclay was rapidly recruited to >Robert Maxwell's new newspaper venture, The European. His latest >appointment has taken him out of journalism and back into diplomacy as >special adviser to the European Union's High Representative in the former >Yugoslavia, the Swedish Conservative, Carl Bildt [Trilateral Commission. >List of Members. 1998-]. > >Colonel Bob Stewart > >That same 1988 BAP gathering also included a soldier subsequently widely >known through television for his presence in Bosnia and subsequently as a >supporter of BBC war correspondent Martin Bell's 1997 election candidature >in Tatton - Colonel Bob Stewart. Less well known, perhaps, is that Stewart >was a key figure on NATO's military committee and between 1994 and 1995 was >chief of policy at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe. Since >resigning from the Army in 1996 Stewart has been hired by the international >public affairs consultants, Hill and Knowlton. 4 Also at the same BAP >meeting were Jill Rutter, now Chancellor Gordon Brown's Treasury publicity >chief [ and participant at the June 1991 Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden >] who in 1988 was private secretary to John Major. Her attendance in St >Louis was during her Harkness Fellowship at the University of California, >Berkeley. Her fellow Treasury colleague Douglas Board was along with her, >as was Colin Walters the then head of the police division at the Home >Office. So, too, was Iain Elliott, associate director of the CIA-funded >Radio Liberty and former editor of Soviet Analyst. > > Andrew Gimson, a former Conservative Central Office researcher who was >then editorial page editor of the Independent newspaper was one of two >British journalists present, the other being Yasmin Alibhai Brown, then an >editor of the New Statesman and now a freelance writer whose work appears >widely. > > The purpose of the 1988 gathering - as of all the BAP functions - was >summed up by Tory MP David Willetts, previously director of studies at the >Centre for Policy Studies founded by Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph >in 1974. Willetts said: 'The object of the conference is to enable bright >young people from the United States and the United Kingdom to get to know >each other in a friendly environment. This will help reinforce >Anglo-American links, especially if some members already do, or will >eventually, occupy positions of influence.' Given the result of the 1997 >general election, it is unlikely that David Willetts will have quite the >same influence for Atlanticism he exercised as a Tory minister or as a >pathfinder for privatisation at the Centre for Policy Studies. > >Liz Symons > >But there are plenty of Successor Generation members around to carry on the >work. Robertson, Mowlam, Smith and Mandelson are central figures in the >Blair regime. In place, too, is 1990 BAP attendee Liz Symons, the partner >of [CFR member] Rupert Murdoch's labour editor at the Times, Phil Bassett. >The BAP's 1996 newsletter welcomed her elevation to the Lords as follows: >'Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, aka Liz Symons, has tendered her >resignation as general secretary of the FDA following the announcement of >her life peerage in August. She will continue there until the end of 1996. >After that she can be reached at House of Lords, London SW1A 1AA. >Congratulations from all of us.' > > Symons came to trade unionism by a somewhat unusual route, being an >official of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation while her father, Ernest >Vize Symons, was the Board of Inland Revenue's director general. (He was >also, coincidentally, governor of the English-Speaking Union at about the >time Alan Lee Williams was successfully seeking a post-parliamentary career >as director of the ESU). Alongside her as a trade unionist within the >Project is Barry Reamsbottom, the former editor of the Civil Service union >paper Red Tape. Since 1992 he has been general secretary of the Civil and >Public Servants' Association - the other end of the public service spectrum >represented until last year by Symons at the FDA. > > A third trade unionist with long-standing US connections was an early >participant in the Successor network. He is John Lloyd, then of the >electricians' union, the EEPTU, as it was called at the time of his >participation in the 1987 conference.5 Lloyd's successive bosses at the >union, Frank Chapple and Eric Hammond, are long-standing anti-Communist, >pro-NATO figures in the trade union movement. Both were active in the >US-funded Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding and Alan Lee >Williams's European Working Group at the CSIS in Washington. [ CSIS is a >Washington think tank the majority of whose staff belongs to the Council on >Foreign Relations. A list of CFR members who work at CSIS has been added at >the end of this article. To learn more about the CSIS see "The CFR & the >Center for Strategic and International Studies" >http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/emcsis.html] 6 > > The only other figure with a trade union connection in the BAP network >would appear to be Michael Barber, the Uni-versity of London education >specialist who was, for a short time, a policy official at the National >Union of Teachers. Barber now has the role of principal policy adviser to >the new Education Secretary, David Blunkett. > >BAP in the media > >Readers who have followed this catalogue of careers and connections thus >far might ask why they have read and heard nothing of the Successor >Generation network in the media - after all, it has been in existence since >1985 and some quite important figures have taken part in its deliberations. > > > One reason might be that the network contains lots of journalists, a >group who are often less willing to disclose their own activities than >those of others. Of the most familiar names James Naughtie, the >co-presenter of Radio Four's daily current affairs programme Today, is >probably least surprising to find on the BAP's list of alumni. Naughtie's >postgraduate studies were in New York at Syracuse and in 1981 he was >awarded the Laurence M Stern Fellowship to spend a summer working on the >Washington Post [ acquired by CFR member Eugene Meyer (deceased) in 1933, >who was succeeded by his son-in-law CFR member Philip Graham (deceased), >who was succeeded, by his wife CFR member Katherine Meyer Graham). . A >review of his radio documentary out-put makes it clear that transatlantic >relations are a key field of interest. > > Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight interviewer was a BAP participant in 1990, along >with BBC current affairs producer Margaret Hill. Christopher Cragg of the >Financial Times, kept them company, as did George Brock, the foreign editor >of the Times. > > Before them had come Michael Elliott and Daniel Franklin of the >Economist; Isabel Hilton, at the time Latin America editor of the >Independent and now freelancing, among others for the BBC and the Guardian; >Frederick Kempe [Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 1997 ] of >the Wall Street Journal; Charles Moore, then of the Spectator and now the >editor of the Daily Telegraph; Trevor Phillips, an ex-National Union of >Students president at the time with LWT and now, more recently with the BBC >and Pepper Productions, a joint UK/USA/South Africa production company, and >Hugh Raven of the Sunday Telegraph. > > The journalists' list is completed by Diane Coyle, a Treasury economist >turned economics editor of the Independent and Caroline St John-Brooks, a >former colleague of David Lipsey at New Society and the Sunday Times. After >a spell working with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and >Development in Paris, she has this year been appointed to edit [CFR member] >Rupert Murdoch's Times Educational Supplement. > >Defence and security specialists > >Dotted around these annual gatherings are always a few defence and security >specialists. Calum McDonald, the University of California-educated Labour >MP for the Western Isles, is a stalwart opponent of unilateralism. Raj >Thamotheram founded Saferworld, a defence and foreign affairs think-tank >opposed to unilateralism. Colonel Tom Thomas is a NATO adviser with >expertise in counter-insurgency. James Sherr is a New Yorker based in >Britain who has worked for Group Captain Bolton's RUSI and the >Heritage-funded Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, the >latter a fierce opponent of the Labour party and the Campaign for Nuclear >Disarmament in the Eighties. Gloria Franklin has headed the Ministry of >Defence's civilian think-tank and has been responsible for the annual >Defence White Paper. Steve Smith of the University of East Anglia lectures >on strategic issues and Gregory Treverton [Council on Foreign Relations. >Membership Roster. 1997] of Princeton and Harvard has worked closely with >the Council for Foreign Relations, the US sister organisation to Britain's >Chatham House [aka Royal Institute of International Affairs]. > > Last, but by no means least, on the foreign policy and defence front, we >have Jonathan Powell, the career diplomat who gave up his posting at the >Washington embassy to work for Tony Blair in opposition and now runs his No >10 office as chief of staff. Powell is the youngest of the Powell >brothers, of whom Charles, the eldest, was Thatcher's foreign policy >specialist and the middle one, Chris, advertising adviser to the Labour >party. Jonathan Powell was the smiling presence at the Successor >Generation's 10th anniversary get-together at Windsor in 1995. > > The British organiser of that conference was a member of a familiar, if >not quite so influential, family. Matthew Taylor is the son of >sociologist-cum-media personality Laurie Taylor. Taylor Jr is the Labour >party's new policy director. His US counterpart, Nina Easton, looked back >proudly on that Windsor meeting. > >'Once again the project demonstrated its commitment to grooming leaders for >a new generation, and highlighted the leading global role that these two >allies will continue to play in promoting democracy.' > >A decade after calling on his visiting White House multi-millionaires to >help create a reliable 'successor generation', a fitter Ronald Reagan might >today have cause for a chuckle. The Labour administration his successor >[CFR member] Bill Clinton came to smile upon in May seems safely in the >hands of an elite well-groomed in the ways of Atlantic cooperation. > >### > >FACULTY JOHNS HOPKINS PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL >STUDIES (SAIS) > >Council on Foreign Relations Paul Nitze SAIS founding father, has been >diplomat-in-residence at SAIS since retiring >from the State Department on April 30, 1989. >Council on Foreign Relations member Paul Wolfowitz, Ph.D. is SAIS Chairman >and Dean >Council on Foreign Relations Zbigniew Brzezinski is SAIS Robert E. Osgood >Professor of American Foreign Policy >Council on Foreign Relations Fouad Ajami (Majid Khadduri Professor and >Director of Middle East Studies) >Council on Foreign Relations member A. Doak Barnett (Professor emeritus of >Chinese Studies), >Council on Foreign Relations member Frederick Brown (Fellow, Foreign Policy >Institute and Adjunct Professor >Southeast Asian Studies Program), >Council on Foreign Relations member Charles Doran (Andrew W. Mellon >Professor of International Relations and >Director of Canadian Studies), >Council on Foreign Relations member Isaiah Frank (William L. Clayton >Professor of International Economics), >Council on Foreign Relations member Francis Fukuyama (Director of the SAIS >Telecommunications Project and >Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute), >Council on Foreign Relations member Charles Gati (Fellow, Foreign Policy >Institute) >Council on Foreign Relations member Christian Herter (Professorial Lecturer >in International Relations) >Council on Foreign Relations member David M. Lampton, Ph.D.(George and >Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies >and Director of China Studies) >Council on Foreign Relations member Michael Mandelbaum (Christian A. Herter >Professor and Director of American >Foreign Policy) >Council on Foreign Relations member Steven Muller (Fellow, Foreign Policy >Institute) >Council on Foreign Relations member Donald Oberdorfer >(Journalist-in-Residence, Foreign Policy Institute) >Council on Foreign Relations member George Packard (Edwin O. Reischauer >Professor and Director of the Reischauer >Center for East Asian Studies) >Council on Foreign Relations member Riordan Roett (The Sarita and Don >Johnston Professor and Director of Latin >American Studies) >Council on Foreign Relations member Hederick Smith (Editor-in-Residence, >Foreign Policy Institute) >Council on Foreign Relations member S. Frederick Starr (Chairman, Central >Asia Institute) >Council on Foreign Relations member I. William Zartman (Jacob Blaustein >Professor of International Organizations and >Conflict Resolution and Director of African Studies). >The two Council on Foreign Relations Fellows on the SAIS faculty are Andrew >J. Bacevich and Wilford L. Kohl. > >CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES(CSIS) > >CFR members on CSIS Board of Trustees include: > >Council on Foreign Relations member Anne Armstrong*, former U.S. Ambassador >to Great Britain; Chairman, CSIS >Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Maurice R. Greenberg*Chairman, American >International Group, Inc.; Vice >Chairman CSIS Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member William A. Schreyer Chairman Emeritus, >Merrill Lynch& Co., Inc.; Chairman, >Executive Committee CSIS Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member David M. Abshire*, member CSIS Board >of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member William E. Brock, member CSIS Board of >Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Harold Brown, member CSIS Board of >Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski, member CSIS Board >of Trustees > Council on Foreign Relations member Joseph T. Gorman, member CSIS Board >of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Henry A. Kissinger, member CSIS Board >of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member John C. Sawhill, member CSIS Board of >Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member James R. Schlesinger, member CSIS >Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Brent Scowcroft, member CSIS Board of >Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member R. James Woolsey, member CSIS Board of >Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Amos A. Jordan, Emeritus, member CSIS >Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Leonard H. Marks, Emeritus, member CSIS >Board of Trustees >Council on Foreign Relations member Robert S. Strauss, Emeritus, member >CSIS Board of Trustees > >CSIS Advisory Board- The Advisory Board is composed of both public and >private sector policymakers, including 14 members of Congress. The Board is >cochaired by Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski and >Carla Hills. >Council on Foreign Relations member David M. Abshire, Chancellor (effective >January 1, 1999) >Council on Foreign Relations member Robert B Zoellick, President and CEO >(effective January 1, 1999) >Council on Foreign Relations member Richard M. Fairbanks III, Managing >Director for Domestic and International >Issues >Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Taylor, Jr., Senior Vice >President for International Security Affairs >Council on Foreign Relations member Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice President >and Director of Studies >CFR CSIS Counselors are world-class strategists who have formerly held >top-level government posts. They bring to >the Center and extensive reserve of expertise and experience. >Council on Foreign Relations member William E. Brock >Council on Foreign Relations member Harold Brown >Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski >Council on Foreign Relations member Henry A. Kissinger > Council on Foreign Relations member James R. Schlesinger > >CFR CSIS Advisers - Senior advisers and associates are an integral part of >the CSIS family. They provide substantive counsel and input on the full >range of Center projects. >Council on Foreign Relations member, Fred C. Ikl� (in residence), CSIS >Distinguished Senior Scholars >Council on Foreign Relations member Bernard Lewis (Princeton University) >CSIS Distinguished Senior Scholars >Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Crowe. Jr.,CSIS >Distinguished Senior Adviser >Council on Foreign Relations member J. Carter Bees, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Richard R. Burt, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Arnaud de Borchgrave, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Diana Lady Dougan, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Dante B. Fascell, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Amos A. Jordan, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Max M. Kampelman, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Robert H. Kupperman, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member David McCurdy, CSIS Senior Advisers >Council on Foreign Relations member Stephen J. Solarz, CSIS Senior Advisers1 >CFR CSIS research specialists >Council on Foreign Relations Member David Manker Abshire, President >Council on Foreign Relations Member M. Delal Baer, Deputy Director, >Americas Program, Director, Mexico Project >Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard Burt, Senior Adviser >Council on Foreign Relations Member Joseph J. Collins Senior Fellow, >Political-Military Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member L. Gray Cowan, Senior Associate, >African Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Arnaud de Borchgrave, Project Director, >Global >Council on Foreign Relations Member Diana Lady Dougan Senior Adviser and >Chair, International Communications >Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard M. Fairbanks III Managing >Director, Domestic and International Issues >Council on Foreign Relations Member Charles M. Herzfeld Senior Associate >Council on Foreign Relations Member Shireen T. Hunter, Program Director, >Islamic Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Fred C. Ikl� Distinguished Scholar >Council on Foreign Relations Member Amos A. Jordan, President Emeritus, >Senior Adviser, Pacific Forum/CSIS >Council on Foreign Relations Member Max M. Kampelman, Senior Adviser >Council on Foreign Relations Member Judith Kipper, Codirector, Middle East >Studies Program >Council on Foreign Relations Member Helen Kitchen Chairman, African Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Robert H. Kupperman Senior Adviser >Council on Foreign Relations Member Edward N. Luttwak Chair, New Itlay Project >Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard W. Murphy, Senior Associate >Council on Foreign Relations Member Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice >President and Director of Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Stephen J. Solarz, Senior Adviser >Council on Foreign Relations Member William J. Taylor Jr., Senior Vice >President, International Security Affairs, >Director, Political-Military Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Howard J. Wiarda, Senior Associate, >Political-Military Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Dov S. Zakheim, Senior Associate, >Political-Military Studies >Council on Foreign Relations Member Robert B. 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