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.

Inderjeet Parmar's publications include "Special Interests, the State and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945".

About the Author
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.

Reviews

'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

Book Information
ISBN 9781403921031
Author I. Parmar
Format Hardback
Page Count 267
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave USA