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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and national membership organization dedicated to improving understanding of international affairs by promoting a range of ideas and opinions on United States foreign policy. The archives of the CFR are held at Princeton University Library, and document the history of the organization and its activities from its founding in 1921 through the present.This digital archive brings files from the Studies Department Records of Groups and the Records of Meetings from the establishment of the CFR up to the year 2000. These records document the history of this research organization and its role in underpinning the development of an internationalist tradition in the twentieth century United States, providing insight into the history of the organization itself as well as every aspect of foreign relations since the 1920s.