Profiles
The Profiles page features the biographies of Hans
J. Morgenthau, George F. Kennan, Paul
A. Volcker, William J. Flynn, and
George D. Schwab.
 Hans
J. Morgenthau (1904-1980) was a founder of the National Committee
on American Foreign Policy in 1974 and its first chairman. As he
defined and illuminated the national interests of the United States
from the perspective of political realism, he became a seminal theorist
of international relations. Accordingly, the National Committee's
Hans J. Morgenthau Award is presented in
his memory to individuals whose intellectual and practical contributions
to American foreign policy have been judged to be so exemplary in
the traditon of Professor Morgenthau that they merit this singular
award.
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George F. Kennan, the former honorary chairman of the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy, received the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy’s first George
F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service in 1994. It
honors an American who has served the United States in an exemplary
way by making a seminal contribution to defining and illuminating
the national interests of the United States.
From 1953 until his death in 2005, this recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom was a scholar at the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton University.
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 Paul
A. Volcker, honorary chairman of the National Committee on American
Foreign Policy, was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System from August 1979 to August 1987. He is credited with
playing the leading role in ending a period of high and rising inflation
and restoring a base for sustained growth. Initially appointed to
that position by President Carter for a four-year term, he was reappointed
in 1983 by President Reagan. On the completion of his second term
as chairman, Mr. Volcker returned to private life, becoming chairman
of the firm of James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., a company concentrating
on the provision of investment banking services to a limited number
of large domestic and international organizations. He retired as
chairman and chief executive officer of Wolfensohn when that firm
merged with Bankers Trust Company in 1996.
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William J. Flynn, the
chairman of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, received
the National Committee's first Initiative for Peace Award in 1997.
It was given to him for his decisive leadership and daring diplomacy
in spurring two cease-fires and promoting the peace process in Northern
Ireland. Renamed the William J.
Flynn Initiative for Peace Award in 2001, this prize is presented
to an individual who has worked tirelessly to resolve a conflict
that has affected the national interests of the United States. In
March 1996 Mr. Flynn was the grand marshal of New York City's St.
Patrick's Day Parade.
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George D. Schwab,
co-founded the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in
1974 and has served as its president since 1993. For the past thirty
years he has been the editor of American
Foreign Policy Interests, its bimonthly journal. In the
fall of 2001 the National Committee received a private endowment
designed to honor the work of Professor Schwab which led to the
creation of the George D. Schwab
Foreign Policy Briefings. Speakers at the briefings range from
heads of state, foreign ministers, ambassadors, officials of international
organizations, and other foreign policy practitioners and academic
experts. They are held throughout the year to give members and guests
the opportunity to extend and enhance their understanding of issues
that affect the national interests of the United States.
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