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 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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Introduction Sociology of the CFR and RIIA The World View of Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations The Role and Influence of Chatham House in British Foreign Policy Making The Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations in American Foreign Policy Making The Role of the CFR in the Mobilization of American Public Opinion The Role of Chatham House in the Mobilization of British Public Opinion CFR-RIIA Interconnections: A Transnational Ruling Class, Liberal Atlantic Community or Anglo-American Establishment? Conclusion