TY - JOUR
AU - Nelson, Anna K.
AB - Book Reviews 1037 the Pearl Harbor attack when the prewar plans 2004. viii, 267 pp. $69.95, ISBN 1-4039-2103- 2.) of “a loosely coordinated imprisonment orga- nization . . . in incipient form” transformed This study begins with a brief reference to the into “a meta-organization” that “engaged in common origins of the Council on Foreign cooperative activities for a common purpose” Relations (CFR) and the Royal Institute of In- of interning and suppressing Japanese Ameri- ternational Affairs (RIIA or Chatham House) cans (p. 5). and then discusses their division into two sep- What Kashima uncovers about the impris- arate organizations. e Th author’s conclusion is onment process illustrates the strengths and that division notwithstanding, both organi- weaknesses of his focus on the imprisonment zations served the same purpose in their two mechanism. Since this “meta-organization” in- countries by encouraging internationalism cluded the Justice and State Department–run and linkage within the Atlantic community. sites where over seventeen thousand Japanese In nine chapters the author discusses each were housed, he brings to light in greater de- of the organizations, its effect, or lack there- tail the names, locations, capacities, facilities, of, on foreign policy decisions in its respective internee populations, and 
TI - 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
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660086
DA - 2005-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/think-tanks-and-power-in-foreign-policy-a-comparative-study-of-the-C4eu8NpA7p
SP - 1037
EP - 1038
VL - 92
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -