| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945. By Inderjeet Parmar. (New York: Palgrave, 2004. viii, 267 pp. $69.95, ISBN 1-4039-2103-2.)
This study begins with a brief reference to the common origins of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (riia or Chatham House) and then discusses their division into two separate organizations. The author's conclusion is that division notwithstanding, both organizations served the same purpose in their two countries by encouraging internationalism and linkage within the Atlantic community.	1
In nine chapters the author discusses each of the organizations, its effect, or lack thereof, on foreign policy decisions in its respective country, and its influence on the mobilization of public opinion. Inderjeet Parmar is not writing a complete history of the organizations but rather a study centered around World War II.	. . .

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