• Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy Study Group

  Director:	Alton Frye, Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus
  Chairs:	Thomas E. Donilon Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.

  September 1, 1997 - Present

  While many able and dedicated public servants work in the legislative branch, their hectic schedules often deprive them of the chance to engage in reflective, nonpartisan discussion about essential policy issues outside their professional duties. An informed Congress is essential to an effective American foreign policy, and an informed congressional staff is essential to an effective Congress. The Council’s congressional staff roundtables provide a forum for discussion of essential issues under the Council tradition of nonattribution.

  This Council project engages key congressional staff in a neutral setting outside the political arena to discuss international issues of concern to them. To date the program has enlisted some one hundred staff members of both parties and both houses in three roundtable discussion groups, focused respectively on Asian politics and security, national security, and international trade and economics. These groups are chaired by R. James Woolsey (Asian politics and security), Stephen J. Hadley (national security), and Thomas E. Donilon and Robert B. Zoellick (international trade and economics).

  For topics and speakers, the project draws upon the Council’s ongoing studies in the general topic areas, as well as on proposals of legislative staffers participating in the program. A Congressional Staff Advisory Committee of senior staff members helps to guide the program and ensure the quality of its participants and programs. Four Council members with long experience as leaders in the House and Senate—Howard H. Baker Jr., Thomas S. Foley, George J. Mitchell, and Vin Weber—serve as conveners for the project.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Spain and the War on Terrorism

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  April 2, 2004

  Related Project: Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy Study Group

  Presider:	Nancy E. Roman
  Speaker:	Javier Ruperez

   

  British Foreign Policy: Bridging the Gap Between the United States and Europe?

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  March 5, 2004

  Related Project: Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy Study Group

  Presider:	Arnold Kanter
  Panelist:	Alton Frye
  Speaker:	Gerard Baker, Washington Bureau Chief,, Financial Times

   

  The Next Phase in Chinese American Relations

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  April 14, 2000

  Related Project: Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy Study Group

  Panelist:	R. James Woolsey
  Speaker:	Zhaoxing Li, Chinese Ambassador to the United States

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  New CFR Books

  

  In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  New Council Special Reports

  
  

  Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism

  In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.

  China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security

  In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9627
  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
  smallaby@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
  +1.212.434.9753
  jhill@cfr.org

   

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