A. Doak Barnett papers, 1929-2010, bulk 1940-1999

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Series II: Organizations, 1950-1998

Organizations consists of correspondence, meeting announcements, minutes, reports, background papers, and other documents from Barnett's participation throughout his career in several research and policy organizations in the United States and worldwide.


Subseries II.1: Council on Foreign Relations, 1955-1998

Organizations consists of correspondence, meeting announcements, minutes, reports, background papers, and other documents from Barnett's participation throughout his career in several research and policy organizations in the United States and worldwide.



Box 124 General, 1955-1961


Box 124 Study Group on Burma, 1958


Box 124 Fifield and Palmer-US Policy in Southeast Asia, 1959-1960


Box 124 Young-Problems of Government in Newly Independent Countries, 1959-1962



Box 125 Fifield and Palmer, 1961-1963


Box 125 General, 1961-1965


Box 125 Halperin-China and the Bomb, 1963, (2 folders)


Box 125 Boyd-China and the Security of Southeast Asia, 1963-1964


Box 125 Steering Committee Agenda and Minutes of Meetings, 1962-1963


Box 125 Steering Committee China Project Correspondence, 1962-1963


Box 125 Steering Committee, 1964-1966


Box 125 Steering Committee Correspondence, 1964-1967


Box 125 Halperin-Communist China's Foreign Policy, 1964


Box 125 Griffith-Communist China's Military Doctrine and Capabilities, 1964-1966


Box 125 Eckstein-Economic Development of Communist China, 1963-1965


Box 125 Durdin-Taiwan and the Nationalist Government, 1963-1966


Box 125 Barco: China and the UN, 1964-1965


Box 125 Morganthau Study Group, 1965-1967


Box 125 General, 1966-1967


Box 125 Ball Discussion Group, 1967-1968, (2 folders)


Box 125 International Affairs Fellowships, 1967-1975


Box 125 General, 1968-1969


Box 125 Book Summaries of CFR Books, 1970


Box 125 Study Group on Asia, 1970-1971


Box 125 Robinson Study Group on Chinese Foreign Policy, 1972-1973


Box 125 China Study Group, undated


Box 125 Current Issue Review Group on Arms Control Problems, 1973-1974


Box 125 Survey Discussion Group on Relations Among Communist States and Parties, 1974-1975


Box 125 General, 1970-1975


Box 125 Notices, 1975-1976


Box 125 General, 1976-1977



Box 126 Survey Discussion Group on Sino-American Relations, 1976


Box 126 1980s Project, 1976, 1980s, 1976


Box 126 General, 1978


Box 126 General, 1980


Box 126 General, 1981-1983


Box 126 Discussion Group on The China Factor, 1982


Box 126 Study Group on China, 1983


Box 126 General, 1983-1986, (4 folders)


Box 126 Review Group on Reform in China, 1986-1987


Box 126 General, 1987-1990, (4 folders)


Box 126 Annual Report, 1990


Box 126 General, 1991-1995, (4 folders)


Box 126 Study Group on US Policy Toward Taiwan and People's Republic of China, 1995


Box 126 75th Anniversary Video, 1996


Box 126 General, 1996-1998


Subseries II.2: Institute of Current World Affairs, 1950-1997

Institute of Current World Affairs documents start with a 1950 memo at the beginning of the Korean War and continue through Barnett's retirement. There are Board of Governors', Nominating Committee, and Annual Meeting minutes. Correspondence with Institute Executive Director Richard Nolte details Barnett's active involvement in internal governance and leadership


Box 126 Board of Governors Meetings, 1950-1965, (3 folders)


Box 126 General, 1956-1959


Box 126 Minutes of Annual Meetings, 1959-1966


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Box 127 Correspondence, 1959-1968, (4 folders)


Box 127 Nominating Committee, 1966-1968


Box 127 Membership Committee-ADB Chairman, 1969-1970


Box 127 Board of Governors; Corporate Members; Officers; Committees, 1968-1976


Box 127 Semi-Annual Meetings of Governors, 1967-1975


Box 127 Annual Meetings of Governors and Members, 1968-1973


Box 127 Semi-Annual Reports, 1968-1973


Box 127 Christmas Greetings, 1966-1974


Box 127 Annual Meeting, 1971-1973, (3 folders)


Box 127 Members Meeting-General Program Review, 1974


Box 127 Annual Meeting, 1974-1975, (2 folders)


Box 127 By-Laws, 1955-1974


Box 127 General, 1969-1977, (4 folders)


Box 127 Search Committee, 1977-1978



Box 128 General, 1978-1993, (6 folders)


Box 128 Trustees Meeting, 1993


Box 128 Directories, 1993-1997


Box 128 Board Meeting, 1994


Box 128 General, 1994


Box 128 History, 1994-1995


Box 128 December Trustees Meeting, 1995


Box 128 General, 1992-1996, (2 folders)


Subseries II.3: National Committee on US-China Relations, 1965-1995

National Committee on US-China Relations traces Barnett's role in the Committee's establishment, his tenure as Board Chairman in 1968, and active participation through retirement. Included are proposal drafts for a National Committee on US-China Policy, a draft prospectus using the current organization name, correspondence among founding members, a certificate of incorporation, and a press release announcing the committee's formation. Correspondence with elected and appointed government officials document the Committee's impact on US policy in Asia during the Vietnam War while maintaining its identity as a "catalyst and service organization." There are materials from a 1969 convocation, "United States and China: the Next Decade," along with position papers on topics such as Sino-American cultural exchanges. Also here are memos and other items from the Chinese Table Tennis Team's US visit in 1972, known as "ping pong diplomacy." Board of Directors Meeting records include background papers.


Box 128 Founding, 1965-1966


Box 128 General, 1965-1969


Box 128 By-Laws, 1966


Box 128 Executive Committee & Board Meetings, 1966-1969


Box 128 General Correspondence, 1967


Box 128 June 1967 Meeting, 1967, June 1967, 1967


Box 128 General Correspondence, 1967-1968



Box 129 Board of Directors Meeting, 1967


Box 129 General Correspondence, 1968


Box 129 Program Summary, 1968


Box 129 By-Laws and Meeting Minutes, 1968


Box 129 Board Meeting, 1969


Box 129 Other Board and Executive Meetings, 1968-1969


Box 129 Membership Correspondence, 1966-1975


Box 129 Finance, 1966-1969, (2 folders)


Box 129 Staff, 1968-1972


Box 129 Publications, 1968-1969


Box 129 Finance, 1969-1975


Box 129 University Field Staffs, 1968


Box 129 Publicity, 1966-1968


Box 129 Scalpino-New Chairman Correspondence, 1969


Box 129 China Trade Study Group, 1968-1970, (2 folders)


Box 129 Seminar for California Aerospace & Electronics Executives, 1968-1969


Box 129 Seminar for Press, 1969



Box 130 Convocation-United States and China: the Next Decade, 1968-1969, (6 folders)


Box 130 Proposed National Symposium, 1969


Box 130 General Correspondence, 1969-1971


Box 130 /010/31, 1969 Retreat, Greenwich, Conn., 1969, /010/31, 1969, 1969


Box 130 Journalists Meeting, 1970


Box 130 Board Meetings, 1970


Box 130 Program, 1971


Box 130 League of Women Voters Roundtable-The Taiwan Factor in America's China Policy, 1971


Box 130 Members Symposium, 1971


Box 130 Board Meeting, 1971


Box 130 Greyston Roundtable-Prospects and Problems of Developing Relations with China, 1971


Box 130 Symposium-China and the Press, 1971


Box 130 Board Meeting, 1971


Box 130 Huang Hua Meeting-Table Tennis, 1972


Box 130 Correspondence, 1972, (2 folders)


Box 130 Annual Membership Meeting, 1972


Box 130 20th Board Meeting, 1972


Box 130 China Trip, 1972-1974, (2 folders)


Box 130 General Correspondence, 1973



Box 131 Eighth Annual Meeting, 1973


Box 131 Twenty-Third Board of Directors Meeting, 1973


Box 131 Subcommittee on Exchanges with China, 1972-1974


Box 131 Education Committee, 1973-1974


Box 131 General Correspondence, 1974


Box 131 Spring Symposium, 1974


Box 131 Spring 1974 Board Meeting, 1974, 1974, 1974


Box 131 Executive Committee Meeting, May 1974


Box 131 Expense Account Forms, 1974


Box 131 Fact Finding Committee, 1974


Box 131 November Board of Directors Meeting, 1974


Box 131 Report to the Delegation of University and College Presidents to the PRC, 1974


Box 131 General Correspondence, 1975


Box 131 January Executive Committee Meeting, 1975


Box 131 Spring Board Meeting, 1975


Box 131 Exchanges and Executive Committee Meetings, 1975


Box 131 World Affairs Delegation, 1975


Box 131 October Board of Directors Meeting, 1975


Box 131 December Briefing Meeting, 1975


Box 131 General Correspondence, 1976


Box 131 FebruaryExecutive Committee Meeting, 1976


Box 131 May Board of Directors Meeting, 1976


Box 131 Executive Committee Meetings, 1976-1977


Box 131 General, 1978


Box 131 July Board Meeting, 1978


Box 131 January Board Meeting-General, 1979-1980


Box 131 September Board Meeting, 1979


Box 131 MarchExecutive Committee Meeting, 1980


Box 131 October Board Meeting, 1980


Box 131 November Board Meeting, 1981


Box 131 General, 1981



Box 132 Annual Reports, 1980-1989


Box 132 December Board Meeting, 1982


Box 132 General, 1982-1984, (2 folders)


Box 132 October Board Meeting, 1983


Box 132 MarchExecutive Committee Meeting, 1984


Box 132 December Board Meeting, 1984


Box 132 Membership Lists, 1982-1986


Box 132 General, 1985-1987, (2 folders)


Box 132 December Board Meeting, 1985


Box 132 US-China Dialogue, 1983-1985


Box 132 FebruaryExecutive Committee Meeting, 1986


Box 132 December Board Meeting, 1987


Box 132 Membership Lists, 1987


Box 132 Lampton Proposal to Establish a Center for Public Policy in Beijing, 1987-1988


Box 132 Working Group on Tibet, 1988-1989


Box 132 May Executive Committee Meeting, 1988


Box 132 General, 1988-1989, (2 folders)


Box 132 August Board Meeting, 1989


Box 132 Lampton/Barnett Report on September Trip to China, 1989


Box 132 General, 1989-1990, (2 folders)


Box 132 Fourth US-China Dialogue Discussion on Sino-US Relations, 1990


Box 132 MarchBoard Meeting, 1990



Box 133 General, 1991


Box 133 FebruaryBoard Meeting, 1991


Box 133 September Board Meeting, 1991


Box 133 January Board Meeting, 1992


Box 133 General, 1992


Box 133 General, 1993


Box 133 Annual Report and By-Laws, 1993


Box 133 General, 1994


Box 133 MarchExecutive Committee Meeting, 1994


Box 133 November Board Meeting, 1994


Box 133 General, 1995


Box 133 MarchExecutive Committee Meeting, 1995


Box 133 November Board Meeting, 1995


Box 133 Freeman Foundation Proposal-Project to Enhance Knowledge of China Among American Opinion Leaders, 1995


Box 133 November Board Meeting, 1995


Box 133 General, 1996


Box 133 MarchExecutive Committee Meeting, 1996


Box 133 July Executive Committee Meeting, 1996


Box 133 November Board Meeting, 1996


Box 133 General, 1997


Subseries II.4: Organizations-Alphabetical, 1949-1998

Organizations, Alphabetical contains materials, which Barnett arranged alphabetically, from his participation in several organizations, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies. There are documents from the Government Research Corporation's China Advisory Group, which later became the China Group. In 1970 Barnett helped organize what came to be the China Discussion Group, a gathering of academicians, ambassadors, intelligence officials and others who met at each other's homes to discuss US-China policy. Correspondence, agendas, member lists, and other materials from those meetings are in this subseries. Also here are materials on the origins and activities of the Social Science Research Council's Joint Committee on Contemporary China. Some items on the National Committee on US-Cbhina Relations are here


Box 133 Association for Asian Studies


Box 133 Membership, 1961-1976


Box 133 Annual Meeting, 1961


Box 133 Boston Meeting-Communism in China, 1961-1962



Box 134 Board Meetings, 1962-1963


Box 134 April Annual Meeting, 1962


Box 134 Board Meeting, 1962


Box 134 Annual Meeting, 1963


Box 134 Board Meetings, 1964-1968


Box 134 Panel on the Cultural Revolution, 1968


Box 134 Association for Asian Studies and Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Annual Meetings, 1970-1971, (2 folders)


Box 134 Annual Meetings, 1974-1975, (2 folders)


Box 134 Southeast Regional Conference, 1975


Box 134 General, 1963-1974


Box 134 Atlantic Council China Policy Committee, 1982-1995, (4 folders)


Box 134 Center for US-China Arts Exchange, 1981-1989


Box 134 China Advisory Group-Government Research Corporation, 1979-1984, (9 folders)


Box 134 Culp Film Project, 1985-1993


Box 134 Center for Strategic and International Studies Meeting-The New Balance of Power, 1989-1990


Box 134 Center for Strategic and International Studies-General, 1989-1991


Box 134 Center for Strategic and International Studies Internal Research Council Meeting, 1991



Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies-General, 1990-1991


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies Internal Research Council Meeting, 1992


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies-General, 1992-1994


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies Inaugural Meeting of the US Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, 1993


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies-General, 1993-1994


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies Inaugural Meeting of the US Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, 1994-1997


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies Task Force on US China Policy, 1994-1996


Box 135 Center for Strategic and International Studies-General, 1995-1996


Box 135 China Discussion Group, 1970-1997, (12 folders)


Box 135 East-West Center, 1978-1994, (6 folders)



Box 136 Far East Luncheon Group, 1989-1998


Box 136 Foreign Correspondents Club of Peking, 1949


Box 136 Foreign Policy Association Committee on Substantive Issues, 1959-1974


Box 136 Foreign Affairs Editorial Advisory Board, 1972-1994, (4 folders)


Box 136 Georgia Institute of Technology Center for International strategy, Technology and Policy, 1992-1993


Box 136 Georgetown China Group, 1972


Box 136 Harvard Overseas Visiting Committee, 1961-1964


Box 136 Associate of Harvard East Asian Research Center, 1967-1968


Box 136 Harvard American Japanese Seminar (Bob Brown), 1967-1968


Box 136 Harvard-MIT Arms Control Seminar, 1967-1968


Box 136 Harvard-MIT Far East Policy Group, 1967-1968


Box 136 Harvard-MIT Joint Faculty Seminar on Political Development, 1967-1968


Box 136 Harvard China Journalism Seminar, 1970


Box 136 Hudson Institute, 1962-1978, (4 folders)


Box 136 Institute for Defense Analysis (Consultant), 1961-1971, (2 folders)


Box 136 Institute of Pacific Relations, 1950


Box 136 Interuniversity Research Colloquium on Modern China-Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, 1969-1973


Box 136 Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, 1970-1987, (2 folders)


Box 136 International Committee on China Studies and Hong Kong Center, 1962-1965, (2 folders)


Box 136 International Studies Association, 1974-1977


Box 136 Jiaozi Club, 1990-1997



Box 137 Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1957-1974, (12 folders)


Box 137 Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1963-1980, (11 folders)



Box 138 Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1963-1980, (24 folders)


Box 138 Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1980-1982, (7 folders)



Box 139 Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, 1981-1995, (7 folders)


Box 139 Journal of International Affairs, 1961-1967


Box 139 Korean Institute of International Studies International Advisory Board, 1973


Box 139 Liaison Committee on Study of Contemporary China, 1963-1971, (9 folders)


Box 139 MacArthur Foundation, 1981-1983


Box 139 University of Michigan Board of Visitors, 1974-1978, (2 folders)


Box 139 National Archive on Sino-American Relations, 1978-1980


Box 139 National Committee on US-China Relations, 1968-1969


Box 139 National Council on US-China Trade, 1974-1993


Box 139 National Council of Churches, 1960-1983, (3 folders)



Box 140 National Council of Churches, 1960-1983, (4 folders)


Box 140 National Seminar on China, 1965-1967


Box 140 Office of Technology Assessment-US Congress, 1985-1986


Box 140 Overseas Press Club, 1950


Box 140 Pacific Forum, 1992-1996, (3 folders)


Box 140 Rock Creek Research, 1985-1987


Box 140 Rockefeller Foundation Program in International Relations Advisory Committee, 1961-1968


Box 140 Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1967-1969


Box 140 SAIS Review , 1983-1984


Box 140 Shanghai American School Association, 1961-1997


Box 140 Sidwell Friends Advisory Committee, 1983-1987


Box 140 Special Operations Research Office, 1957-1958


Box 140 United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, 1962-1998, (11 folders)



Box 141 United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, 1962-1998, (8 folders)


Box 141 Union Research Institute, 1965-1971, (2 folders)


Box 141 Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ, 1990-1998, (4 folders)


Box 141 United Nations Association, 1966-1981, (7 folders)



Box 142 Universities Service Centre, 1964-1993, (4 folders)


Box 142 Washington Area Modern China Research Seminar, 1989-1993


Box 142 Washington Council on Non-Proliferation, 1990-1995, (2 folders)


Box 142 Washington Journal of Modern China , 1992-1996


Box 142 Washington Southeast Regional Seminar on China, 1973-1977


Box 142 World Order Models Project, 1967-1971, (2 folders)


Box 142 YMCA, 1966-1995