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Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy

A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939-1945

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  1. Inderjeet Parmar

    1. Department of Government, University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Part 1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-23

    3. Sociology of the CFR and RIIA

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      Pages 24-47

    4. The World-view of Chatham House and the CFR

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      Pages 48-74

  5. Part 4

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. CFR-RIIA Interconnections: A Transnational Ruling Class, Liberal Atlantic Community or Anglo-American Establishment?

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      Pages 189-214

    3. Conclusion

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      Pages 215-223

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 224-267
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What is the role of elites in shaping foreign policy? Did unaccountable foreign policy elites shape the post-1945 world order? Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations were vital in America's shift from isolationism to globalism, and in Britain's shift from Empire to its current pro-American orientation and were also fundamental in engineering public backing for a new world order. Inderjeet Parmar presents new evidence to show how well-organized and well-connected elite think tanks helped to change the world.

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'Inderjeet Parmar's ambitious composition is a welcome examination of these two institutions, and of their contribution to foreign policy making in each country'. - J. Simon Rofe - The Round Table

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Government, University of Manchester, UK

    Inderjeet Parmar

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INDERJEET PARMAR is Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. His publications include Special Interests, the State and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945 and numerous journal articles on elites and US foreign policy.

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