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Organisation aims and activities: The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 by businessmen, bankers, and lawyers determined to keep the United States engaged in the world.

Further details: Today, the Council is composed of men and women from all walks of international life and from all parts of America, dedicated to the belief that the nation's peace and prosperity are firmly linked to that of the rest of the world. From this flows the Council's mission: to foster America's understanding of other nations - - their peoples, cultures, histories, hopes, quarrels, and ambitions - - and thus to serve our nation through study and debate, private and public. The Council is a national membership organization and think tank with headquarters in New York, offices in Washington, D.C., and programs that extend across the country. Its widely respected and influential research staff - - with backgrounds in government and scholarship in almost every international subject - - regularly meets with Council members and other leaders and thinkers. These exclusive sessions, known as study groups or roundtables, form the Council's intellectual core. The aim is to provide insights into international affairs and to develop new ideas for U.S. foreign policy, particularly national security and foreign economic policy. Council Fellows produce books, articles, manuscripts, and op-ed pieces and regularly contribute expert commentary on television and radio.

Organisation type: NGO - non governmental organisation

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