Founded in 1938 as a committee of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Denver Council on Foreign Relations (DCFR) is incorporated as an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization. Since 1993 it has been located at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), University of Denver.
Member of the American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
DCFR Dinner Meeting Speaker Presentations
Afghanistan's Clouded Future (Transcript) presented by Robert P. Finn
The Decline and Fall of the CIA presented by Melvin Goodman, Senior Fellow Center for International Policy, Former Division Chief and Senior Analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Less Safe, Less Free presented by Professor David Cole, Georgetown University Law School
Regional ACFR Meeting Planned
The Denver CFR has accepted the challenge to organize the first ACFR meeting in the Rocky Mountain region, October 23-26, 2008, at Vail Cascade Resort & Spa in Colorado: www.vailcascade.com where rooms will be available at a $109 conference rate--a great opportunity to bring together ACFR members from Albuquerque, Billings, Boise, Casper, Denver, Nevada, and Salt Lake City. Members from all other committees are also invited, particularly those in adjoining states on the west coast and in the midwest.
The overall theme for the meeting is "Foreign Policy and National Security in the New Administration". It will feature a wine-and-cheese reception Thursday evening, panels and roundtables Friday and Saturday morning, and plenary events at lunch and dinner on Friday. ACFR members wishing to do so will have an opportunity to sit as panel and roundtable members or engage in discussion from the floor with presenters. Speakers at plenary events are still in the planing stage. Also joining us and adding substantially to our conference resources will be members of the international security studies sections of the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. Mark your calendars. The call for proposals and other conference details will be forthcoming this spring.
Our Mission
To conduct informed, non-partisan discussions on foreign policy between citizens, community leaders, and policy makers, to heighten public awareness and expand understanding of contemporary and emerging international issues, locally and regionally, and to generate inputs to policy makers, based on research and related activities, that reflect perspectives developed in Denver and the Rocky Mountain region.
Vision
Denver’s Council on Foreign Relations is primarily concerned with the new dimensions of foreign policy and security that are emerging in the early decades of the 21st century. The Council will define and address such issues as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other forms of weaponry, terrorism and homeland security, national sovereignty, ethnic nationalism, inter-communal strife, and failed states, peacemaking, North-South relations, global warming, and pandemics.
Tackling this 21st-century global agenda is facilitated by the Denver Council’s location in the center of the continental United States and its links to the Institute on Globalization and Security (IGLOS), which serves as DCFR’s point of contact for relations with the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies. Not only will the Council continue to expand its contribution to public education on policy aspects of these topics, but it will also become the Colorado and Rocky Mountain regional center for non-partisan analysis and input of this agenda to U.S. policymakers.