Chatham House
Deep state milieuthink tank
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| File:Chatham house.jpg Chatham House, St James Square London | |
| Formation | 1920 |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Leaders | Chatham House/President, Chatham House/Director |
| Type | think tank |
| Sponsor of | Institute for Strategic Dialogue,GLOBSEC |
| Membership | Anna Aberg, Adebusuyi Adeyemi, Yasmin Afina, Aliko Ahmed, Iseoluwa Akintunde, Farea Al-Muslimi, Abdul Rahman Alageli, Robyn Alders, Duncan Allan, Alanoud Alsharekh, Tighisti Amare, Urvashi Aneja, Rustam Anshba, Amir Attaran,Ryhor Astapenia, Irma Arguello, Chietigj Bajpaee, Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Anar Bata, Alan Beattie, Ian Begg, Samantha de Bendern, Tim Benton, Pepijn Bergsen, Peter Betts, Gitika Bhardwaj, Alice Billon-Galland, William Blyth, Annette Bohr, John Borrie, Mathieu Boulègue, Duncan Brack, Siân Bradley, Rachel Briggs, Robert Brinkley, Laurence Broers, Oli Brown, Kerry Brown, Marjorie Buchser, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Sara Burch Khairallah, Kateryna Busol, David Butter, Andrew Cainey, John Casson, Francesco Checchi, Junyan Chen, Knox Chitiyo, Laryssa Chomiak, Angelos Chryssogelos, Stefan Cibian, Ruth Citrin, Charles Clift, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Richard Connolly, Michael Cox, James Crabtree, Jeff Crisp, David Cutts, Osman Dar, Rita Dayoub, Leah De Haan, James de Waal, Nitish Debnath, Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Bob Dewar, Toby Dodge, Liam Donaldson, Elizabeth Donnelly, Andrew Dorman, Max du Plessis, Jill Duggan, Isabel Dunstan, Tim Eaton, Michael Edelstein, Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Shereen El Feki,Ryan Gawn, Tin Hinane El Kadi, Nicole El Khawaja, Ngozi Erondu, Georges Fahmi, Robert Falkner, Thomas Farrar, Ama Pokuaa Fenny, Simon Fraser, Antony Froggatt, Sylvia Garry, Sam Geall, Anna George, Cristina Gherasimov, Keir Giles, Bates Gill, Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, Benoît Gomis, Héloïse Goodley, Matthew Goodwin, Dorothy Gordon, Stuart Gordon, Nigel Gould-Davies, Owen Grafham, Amanda Gray Meral, Haid Haid, Hameed Hakimi, Joyce Hakmeh, Fadi Hakura, Adel Hamaizia, Kirsty Hamilton, Philip Hanson, David R. Harper, Susan Harris Rimmer, Bill Hayton, David Heymann, Alison Hoare, James Edward Hoare, Leena Koni Hoffmann, Claudia Hofmann, Gita Honwana Welch, Ben Horton, Hayato Hosoya, Sophia Ignatidou, Ilian Iliev, Calum Inverarity, Faye Ioannou, Elizabeth Isele, Malavika Jayaram, Lyndsey Jefferson, Sharad Joshi, Agantaranansa Juanda, Chronis Kapalidis, Christina Katsouris, James Kearney, Fergus Kell, Amil Khan, Mishal Khan, Lina Khatib, Yougesh Khatri, Ilona Kickbusch, Natasha W. Kimani, Ann Marie Kimball, Richard King, Richard Anthony Kock, Anna Korbut, Nikolay Kozhanov, Hans Kundnani, Damir Kurtagic, Elli Kytömäki, Glada Lahn, Richard Lapper, Charu Lata Hogg, Bernice Lee, Helena Legido-Quigley, Mariot Leslie, Patricia Lewis, Louis Lillywhite, Jennifer Lind, Elizabeth Linder, David Livingstone, Bobo Lo, Carlos Lopes, John Lough, David Lubin, Orysia Lutsevych, Kate Mallinson, Ruma Mandal, Renad Mansour, Valérie Marcel, Rosalind Marsden, Mohammed Masbah, Brian McCloskey, Zaki Mehchy, Yossi Mekelberg, Paul Melly, Anand Menon, Ian Mitchell, John V Mitchell, Michael Moodie, Neil Morisetti, Katherine Morton, Harriet Moynihan, Wim Muller, Jason Naselli, Lindsay Newman, Robin Niblett, Anita Nilsson, John Nilsson-Wright, James Nixey, Vassilis Ntousas, Anne Nyambane, Edward Owusu Nyarko, Jim O'Neill, Jessica Obeid, Roman Osharov, Kevin Outterson, Matthew T. Page, Keun Wook-Paik, Christopher Painter, Roland Paris, Cleo Paskal, Champa Patel, Walt Patterson, Quentin Peel, Chanu Peiris, Nikolai Petrov, Alan Philps, Stephen Pickford, Lubica Pollakova, Amy Pope, Alex Pravda, Gareth Price, Stanislav Pritchin, Neil Quilliam, Thomas Raines, Tajude en (Taj) Raji, Ahmed Razavi, Jim Rollo, Emma Ross, Lynn Forester de Rothschild,Simon Rushton, Stuart J. Russell, Christopher Sabatini, Chloe Sageman, Richard Sakwa, David Salisbury, Elham Saudi, Ben Saul, Jade Saunders, Sonya Sceats, Catherine Schenk, Anneke Schmider, Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, Patrick Schröder, Linda Scott, Farzana Shaikh, Greg Shapland, Vasuki Shastry, Jamie Shea, Nadim Shehadi, Ben Shepherd, James Sherr, Lilia Shevtsova, Anahit Shirinyan, Zaur Shiriyev, Lina Sinjab, Sandra Smits, Ahmed Soliman, Alexandra Squires McCarthy, Paul Stevens, Bruce Stokes, Tim Summers, Emily Taylor, Sola Tayo, Ritgak Tilley-Gyado, Mina Toksoz, Peter Trubowitz, Steve Tsang, Yojiro Uchino, Beyza Unal, Sanam Vakil, Christopher Vandome, Effy Vayena, Sonja Vermeulen, Francesca Viliani, Alex Vines , Leslie Vinjamuri, Benjamin Wakefield, Matt Waldman, Jue Wang, John Ward, David Warren, Peter Watkins, Laura Wellesley, Peter Westmacott, Alan Wheatley, Richard G Whitman, Xenia Wickett, Philip Wilkinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Kataryna Wolczuk, Andrew Wood, Roderic Wye, Farhana Yamin, Robert Yates, Yu Jie, Linda Yueh, Jennifer Ann Zerk, Reni Zhelyazkova, Jennifer Zhu Scott, Alimuddin Zumla,Lilia Shevtsova,Scott Freidheim, Joanna Szostek,Lyse Doucet,Patrick Sheehy |
| A key organ of the UK Deep state | |
The Royal Institute for International Affairs - also known as Chatham House - is an important organ of the UK Deep state. It was founded in 1920 and is a lynchpin of the British Foreign Policy establishment.[1] The Chatham House Rule requires confidentiality of all meeting participants and prohibits attribution of comments.[2].
History
The Royal Institute of International Affairs was founded in 1920 as the Institute of International Affairs following a meeting at the previous year's Paris Peace Conference. The first chairman was Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, while Lionel Curtis was honorary secretary. Arnold J. Toynbee later became director. The Council on Foreign Relations, its American sister institute, was established the following year. Chatham House, The RIIA's well-known headquarters at 10 St James's Square, London, was gifted to the institute in 1923, having previously been the home of three British Prime Ministers: Pitt the Elder, Edward Stanley and William Gladstone.
The name of the building grew to be so synonymous with the Institute that it was officially rebranded as "Chatham House" in September 2004. However, "Royal Institute of International Affairs" continues to be used interchangeably with "Chatham House".
The Chatham House building is located just a few metres from the former Libyan embassy building, and many long term staff members witnessed the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
On July 18, 2005, Chatham House released a paper on Security, Terrorism and the UK which stated that "[a] key problem for the UK in preventing terrorism in Britain is the government’s position as ‘pillion passenger’ to the United States' war on terror." [3]
A hotbed of "One World" propaganda
In 1965 A. K. Chesterton described it as:
Chatham House has long been a hotbed of "One World" propaganda. It was not long before I discovered that it was a platform for internationalists militantly opposed to national sovereignty and any concept of Commonwealth or Empire which had any meaning except to deceive. The next discovery was that the big American Foundations were pouring money into its various projects. After I had landed many body-blows upon the Institute in the columns of Truth, the Secretary-General asked me to lunch, during which he said: "I want to assure you that, because of its constitution, Chatham House is debarred from formulating its own policy". I replied: "I do not doubt you. Chatham House does not need to have policies of its own when it can choose men of known views to comprise its research groups and write its publications." The Secretary-General seemed not to know the answer to that one.[4]
Role
Chatham House conducts original research into a variety of regional and global issues, and describes itself as follows.
... a melting pot that brings together people and organisations with an interest in international affairs. We provide an independent forum in which academia, business, diplomats, the media, NGOs, politicians, policy makers and researchers can interact in an open and impartial environment.
The widespread recognition of the Chatham House Rule as a byword for free and frank debate is a reflection of our unique and non-aligned perspective.
Chatham House is routinely used as a source of information for media organisations seeking background or experts upon matters involving major international issues.
Chatham House reflects a pro-establishment view of the world (due to donations from large corporations, governments and other organisations), but is nevertheless membership-based and anyone may join. The relatively high annual membership fee (approx £200) tends to put access to Chatham House out of reach of many ordinary people.
In 2015, American GOP (Republican) candidates for the 2016 Presidential race, were presented at Chatham House. Each candidate was offered a chance to speak. Candidates included: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush, Rick Perry former Texas governor, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Rand Paul, and Senator Ted Cruz. It was decided Scott Walker and Chris Christie "lacked foreign policy experience". Donald Trump was not presented. Article was cited on PBS Mclaughlin Group by conservative panelist [Pat Buchanan].[5]
Chatham House Rule
- Full article: Chatham House Rule
- Full article: Chatham House Rule
Chatham House is the origin of the confidentiality rule known as the Chatham House Rule, which provides that members attending a seminar may discuss the results of the seminar in the outside world, but may not discuss who attended or what they said. The Chatham House Rule evolved to facilitate frank and honest discussion on controversial or unpopular issues by speakers who may not have otherwise had the appropriate forum to speak freely. However, most Chatham House meetings are held 'on the record', and not under the Chatham House Rule.
The rule currently reads as follows:
"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed". [6]
It has an American wing, the Chatham House Foundation.
See Also
References
- ↑ "Chatham House on Linkedin"
- ↑ "About Chatham House"
- ↑ Security, Terrorism and the UK
- ↑ https://ia803109.us.archive.org/13/items/TheNewUnhappyLords1965/1965%20-%20New%20Unhappy%20Lords%20-%20A.%20K.%20Chesterton.pdf page 176
- ↑ https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/londons-role-in-the-republican-race-1.1458012
- ↑ Chatham House Rule