Annual Report

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ANNUAL REPORT July 1,1997 -June 30,1998 Main Office Washington Office The Harold Pratt House 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 Washington, DC 20036 Tel. (212) 434-9400; Fax (212) 861-1789 Tel. (202) 518-3400; Fax (202) 986-2984 Web Site www.foreignrelations.org E-mail [email protected] OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, 1998-99 Officers Directors Term Expiring 2003 Peter G. Peterson Term Expiring 1999 Peggy Dulany* Chairman of the Board Carla A. Hills Martin S. Feldstein Maurice R. Greenberg Robert D. Hormats Bette Bao Lord Vice Chairman William J. McDonough Vincent A. Mai* Leslie H. Gelb Theodore C. Sorensen Michael H. Moskow* President George Soros Garrick Utley Michael P. Peters Senior Vice President, Chief Operating PaulA.Volcker Leslie H. Gelb Officer, and National Director ex officio Term Expiring 2000 Paula J. Dobriansky Vice President, Washington Program Jessica P. Einhorn Honorary Officers David Kellogg Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and Directors Emeriti Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Maurice R. Greenberg Douglas Dillon and Publisher George J. Mitchell Caryl P. Haskins Lawrence J. Korb Warren B. Rudman Charles McC. Mathias Jr. Vice President, Studies Diane Sawyer* James A. Perkins Abraham F. Lowenthal David Rockefeller Vice President Term Expiring 2001 and Deputy National Director Honorary Chairman Lee Cullum Anne R. Luzzatto Robert A. Scalapino Mario L. Baeza Vice President, Programs Cyrus R.Vance and Media Projects Thomas R. Donahue Glenn E. Watts Janice L. Murray Richard C. Holbrooke Vice President and Treasurer Peter G. Petersont Judith Gustafson Robert B. Zoellick Secretary Term Expiring 2002 Paul A. Allaire Roone Arledge* John E. Bryson Kenneth W. Dam Frank Savage Laura D Andrea Tyson * Appointed in 1998 by the Board of Directors. t Elected in 1996 by the Board of Directors to serve a five-year term as Chairman, in accordance with By-LawVII. Note: The list of Officers and Directors is current as of September 1,1998. CONTENTS Officers and Directors 2 Mission Statement 5 Letter from the Chairman 6 The President's Report 8 A Council Role: Adding Value 10 Studies 22 National Security 24 International Economics 26 Asia 27 Africa 29 Europe 30 Latin America 30 Middle East 31 Preventive Action 34 Science and Technology 35 Other 37 Fellows and Named Chairs 38 Special Fellowships 49 1998-99 International Affairs Fellowships 51 Meetings 53 Program Highlights 54 Great Debates 61 Policy Impact Panels 62 Council Policy Initiative Debates 62 Lectureships 64 Washington 65 Program Highlights 67 National 70 Program Highlights 70 Corporate 73 Program Highlights 75 Corporate Program Members 77 Term Member Program 79 Foreign Affairs 84 Publishing 87 Books, Reports, Web Site 87 CONTENTS Development 90 Endowment Gifts, Bequests, Term Grants, and Other Restricted Gifts 92 Annual Giving Donors 93 1998 Board Election 99 Committees of the Board, 1997-98 100 International Advisory Board 102 By-Laws of the Council 103 Rules, Guidelines, and Practices 107 Historical Roster of Directors and Officers 109 Budget and Finance 112 Staff 120 Membership 124 Membership Selection Procedure 125 Membership Roster 127 The Council's Annual Report is designed to focus attention on the in tellectual substance of the organization's activities. A detailed listing of all programs and events is available on the Council's web site at www.foreignrelations.org. MISSION STATEMENT he Council on Foreign Relations was founded in tional security. The Council does this in many ways. Coun 1921 by businessmen, bankers, and lawyers deter cil Policy Initiatives (CPIs) identify major foreign policy is mined to keep the United States engaged in the sues and present policy choices for addressing these issues Tworld. Today, the Council is composed of men and women in language Americans can readily understand. Council- from all walks of international life and from all parts of sponsored independent task forces are convened to ad America dedicated to the belief that the nation's peace and dress urgent foreign policy issues with the aim of prosperity are firmly linked to that of the rest of the world. producing meaningful consensus. Great Debates and Poli From this flows the Council's mission: to foster America's un cy Impact Panels (PIPs) bring together experts to debate, derstanding of other nations, near and far, their peoples, cul discuss, and clarify timely foreign policy issues. And Foreign tures, histories, hopes, quarrels, and ambitions, and thus to Affairs, the preeminent journal on international relations, serve America's global interests through study and debate, often anticipates future foreign policy problems and edu private and public. cates its international readership. The Council is a national membership organization and 2. To transform the Council into a truly national organization. think tank with headquarters in New York, offices in Wash More and more Council members now live outside the ington, D.C., and programs that extend across the country. Its New York and Washington, D.C., areas. As Council mem widely respected and recognized research staff—with back bership continues to grow and diversify, the Council cre grounds in government and scholarship in almost every in ates new ways to involve these members in its intellectual ternational subject—regularly meets with Council members dialogue. The four principal means of involvement are and other leaders and thinkers. These exclusive sessions, through a special members' area of the Council's web site; known as study groups or roundtables, form the intellectual at an annual National Conference; at studies seminars in core of the Council. Their aim is to develop new insights into key cities around the country; and, soon, via a videoconfer international affairs and new ideas for U.S. foreign policy, encing system. particularly national security and foreign economic policy. 3. To find and nurture the next generation of foreign policy Council Fellows produce books, articles, manuscripts, and leaders and thinkers. The Council does this primarily op-ed pieces, and regularly appear on television for expert through a special term membership program for younger commentary. Americans and a "Next Generation Fellows" program that The Council also publishes Foreign Affairs. This magazine brings outstanding younger scholars onto the Council has been host to the most important articles about world af staff, as well as the International Affairs Fellowships and fairs in this century. several other fellowships. The aim is to spark interest and The Council's 3,400 members are divided almost equally involvement in world affairs and U.S. foreign policy. among New York, Washington, D.C., and the rest of the nation. In recent months, Council members have heard Jiang They include nearly all current and former senior U.S. govern Zemin, Robert E. Rubin, and Tung Chee Hwa examine U.S. ment officials who deal with international matters, renowned China relations; Kim Dae Jung, Anwar bin Ibrahim, and scholars, and leaders of business, media, humanitarian, and Michel Camdessus assess the Asian crisis; Edward Said, other nongovernmental groups. Council members choose new Richard Butler, and Nizar Hamdoon search for solutions to members, who aim to educate themselves and then others. crises in the Middle East; Bill Richardson and Christiane The Council is host to the widest possible range of views Amanpour expound on American engagement in the world; and advocate of none. It cultivates an atmosphere of nonparti- Colin L. Powell and Zbigniew Brzezinski evaluate the National sanship and nonideological engagement among members and Security Council on its 50th birthday; Henry H. Shelton and staff. The views expressed in task force reports, by members of George J. Tenet present challenges facing the military and in study groups, or in articles in Foreign Affairs are solely the re telligence communities, respectively, at the turn of the century; sponsibility of the respective authors or groups. This tradition Mary Robinson review human rights progress; Hun Sen pon of impartiality enables the Council to gather contending voices der Cambodia's future; Robert Gabriel Mugabe report on trade for serious and civil debates and discussions. That special con and investment opportunities in Africa; I.K. Gujral take up vening power is almost unique in American society. ways to improve U.S.-India relations; Ernesto Samper Pizano In keeping with its mission, membership, and heritage, the comment on Colombia's foreign policy; and Madeleine K. Al Council now pursues three goals: bright reflect on U.S. foreign policy as Foreign Affairs turned 75. 1. To add value to the public debate on international affairs, As much as at any time during its nearly eight decades, the especially in the Council's three major areas of research Council on Foreign Relations today serves its members and focus—Asia, international economics, and rethinking na the nation with ideas for a better and safer world. FROM THE CHAIRMAN ver the last year we continued to make prog members across the country will also be able to work to ress in a direction that the Board believes is gether on valuable Council study groups and other small Oessential to the Council's role as we move into group discussions. the 21st century: becoming a more national and more di We devoted the better part of Council Board meetings verse organization. As you may know, we now have more this year to reflecting on how we can give greater value members outside New York than inside New York, and we to our nation's knowledge of and thinking about the continue to expand our membership among women, mi world. Out of this has come the sense that we ought to norities, and younger people with their eyes on the future. provide better information and ideas to those who in We also continue to expand our form and make decisions for the membership among thinkers and public.

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