The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan activist organization dedicated to the resolution of conflicts that threaten U.S. interests. Founded in 1974 by Hans J. Morgenthau, the NCAFP works to identify, articulate, and advance American foreign policy interests within the framework of political realism.

Mission

American foreign policy interests include:

• Preserving and strengthening national security
  National security
  National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
  
  
• Supporting countries committed to the values and practice of political, religious, and cultural pluralism
• Improving U.S. relations with the developed and developing worlds
• Advancing human rights
  Human rights
  Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
  
  
• Encouraging realist arms control
  Arms control
  Arms control is an umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction...
  
   agreements
• Curbing the proliferation of nuclear and other unconventional weapons
• Promoting an open and global economy

The National Committee believes that an informed public is vital to a democratic society. To promote this, it offers educational programs that address security challenges facing the United States and publishes a variety of publications, including the bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests.

Task forces

Long-term National Committee task forces bring together U.S. and foreign scholars, foreign policy practitioners, and others to off-the-record and sometimes closed-door forums where adversaries can, over a period of years, air their views unencumbered by official rhetoric.

Shorter-term task forces deal with immediate foreign policy challenges facing the U.S.

Meetings

The Meetings Program offers members and guests the opportunity to share their thoughts on American foreign policy with influential policymakers, diplomats, renowned scholars, and foreign policy specialists. Each year, the National Committee convenes a series of programs, including single speaker events, panels, and roundtables addressing immediate and long-term issues of national security.

Special initiatives

In May 2004, the National Committee launched its Forum on Northeast Asian Security. Projects chaired by Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...

 and Paul Volcker

Paul Volcker

Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr. is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and...

 include exploring the potential for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, a Northeast Asian Security Forum composed of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

, and North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

, and breaking the impasse between China and Taiwan.

Publications

A distinguishing activity of the National Committee is the publication and dissemination of firm, reasoned positions designed to help formulate U.S. foreign policy. When, after study and discussion, the National Committee or one of its Task Forces reaches a consensus on an aspect of foreign policy that affects American national interests, the National Committee makes that judgment known to the Administration, the United States Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

, the media, and the general public.

American Foreign Policy Interests

A cornerstone of the National Committee's publication series is its bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests. It presents authoritative and provocative articles on critical questions of foreign policy written by leading scholars and policy experts.

Books and booklets

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy publishes hardcover, book-length analyses of foreign policy issues that affect the national interests of the U.S. as National Committee on American Foreign Policy Studies.

The National Committee also publishes short booklets of policy reports and recommendations. Additionally, it publishes speeches and summaries of discussions that have been the hallmarks of its foreign policy briefings, lecture series, and award ceremonies.

Awards

The National Committee presents five distinguished awards:

Hans J. Morgenthau Award

Established in 1981 to commemorate the seminal contributions made by Professor Hans J. Morgenthau to the theory and the practice of American foreign policy, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy presents the Hans J. Morgenthau Award. The person to be so honored is one whose intellectual attainments and/or practical contributions to United States foreign policy have been judged so exemplary in the tradition of Professor Morgenthau as to merit this singular award.

Recipients include:

• Angier Biddle Duke
  Angier Biddle Duke
  Angier Biddle Duke had a career which included being a diplomat in the United States foreign service.-Biography:Angier Biddle Duke was born November 30, 1915 in New York City....
  
  
• Sol Linowitz
  Sol Linowitz
  Sol Myron Linowitz was an American diplomat, lawyer, and businessman born in Trenton, NJ.Linowitz helped negotiate the return of the Panama Canal to Panama under the direction of President Jimmy Carter...
  
  
• Henry A. Kissinger
• Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
• George P. Shultz
  George P. Shultz
  George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989...
  
  
• David Rockefeller
  David Rockefeller
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• James A. Baker III
• Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
  
  
• Thomas R. Pickering
  Thomas R. Pickering
  Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...
  
  
• His Majesty King Hussein
• Colin L. Powell
• Richard N. Haass

George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service

Established in 1994 in honor of George F. Kennan, scholar, diplomat, and statesman, this award honors an American who has served the United States in an exemplary way and has made a seminal contribution to defining and illuminating the national interests of the United States.

Recipients include:

• George F. Kennan
  George F. Kennan
  George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...
  
  
• Cyrus R. Vance
• Paul A. Volcker
• Richard C. Holbrooke
• Maurice R. Greenberg
  Maurice R. Greenberg
  Maurice Raymond "Hank" Greenberg is an American business executive and former chairman and CEO of American International Group , which was the world's 18th largest public company and its largest insurance and financial services corporation.He is currently chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....
  
  
• John D. Negroponte
• General David Petraeus
  David Petraeus
  David Howell Petraeus is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, sworn in on September 6, 2011. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander...
  
  
• NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly

William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award

Established as the Initiative for Peace Award in 1997 in honor of William J. Flynn, NCAFP chairman, for his decisive leadership and daring diplomacy in spurring two cease-fires and promoting the peace process in Northern Ireland, the award, renamed in 2001, is presented to an individual who has worked tirelessly to resolve a conflict that has affected the national interests of the United States.

Recipients include:

• William J. Flynn
• George J. Mitchell
  George J. Mitchell
  George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...
  
  
• Marjorie Mowlam
• Viola Drath
• Hugh Carey
  Hugh Carey
  Hugh Leo Carey was an American attorney, the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, and a seven-term United States Representative .- Early life :...
  
  
• Gerry Adams
  Gerry Adams
  Gerry Adams is an Irish republican politician and Teachta Dála for the constituency of Louth. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, the second largest political party in Northern...
  
  

Global Business Leadership Award

This award is presented by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy to honor a prominent business leader whose efforts have contributed to setting an unimpeachable standard for globally oriented corporate citizenship promoting the national interests of the United States.

Recipients include:

• Paul E. Jacobs
  Paul E. Jacobs
  -Career:Paul E. Jacobs has been Chief Executive Officer of the company since July 2005, having previous to that date served as the Group President of Qualcomm Wireless and Internet Group from July 2001. Jacobs started with the company as an engineer in the wireless technology development group in...
  
  

21st Century Leader Award

The 21st Century Leader Award was created to recognize the achievements of individuals under the age of 40 who display a serious commitment to furthering the United States’ strategic policy interests in accord with the principles of political realism. Through their professional or personal pursuits, they make important contributions to the international dialogue and demonstrate a promising future in the realm of American foreign policy.

Recipients include:

• Nancy Walbridge Collins
  Nancy W. Collins
  Nancy Walbridge Collins is a European Studies professor at Columbia University. Collins focuses on contemporary Europe and transatlantic affairs....
  
  
• Abraham Denmark
• Marisa Porges
• Nathaniel Fick
• John Delury
• Joshua Cooper Ramo

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