TY - BOOK ID - 78491634 TI - Wall Street's think tank PY - 2015 SN - 1583675523 1583675531 9781583675533 1583675515 9781583675519 9781583675519 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - World politics KW - Council on Foreign Relations. KW - C.F.R. KW - CFR KW - American Institute of International Affairs KW - United States KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491634 AB - The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percentage of government officials, media figures, and establishment elite. For decades it kept a low profile even while it shaped policy, advised presidents, and helped shore up U.S. hegemony following the Second World War. In 1977, Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter published the first in-depth study of the CFR, Imperial Brain Trust, an explosive work that traced the activities and influence of the CFR from its origins in the 1920s through the Cold War ER -