British-American Project
Template:Short description Template:Use British English The British-American Project (BAP) is an organisation intended to strengthen links between the United Kingdom and the United States.[1] BAP operates on a not-for-profit basis, funded through its membership and support from corporate partners. It was originally named the British-American Project for the Successor Generation.[1][2]
Goals
Established in 1985, BAP was created to help maintain and enrich the long-standing relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. The Project was the brainchild of Nick Butler, an economist at BP, who at that time was also a prospective Labour Party parliamentary candidate.[1] Along with others in both countries who viewed the special relationship favorably, he had become concerned about a growing tide of anti-American sentiment among his generation in the UK. Butler's response was to propose a series of conferences, developing relationships between the participants and broadening understanding.[1]
A US BAP organiser describes the BAP network as committed to "grooming leaders" while promoting "the leading global role that [the US and Britain] continue to play".[3]
Organisation
The British-American Project is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). BAP is a non-profit, funded by its members and donations from corporate partners.[4]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Nick Cohen, writing in The Observer in 1999, criticised the scheme on the grounds that it encouraged the adoption in Europe of policy from the United States.[4]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Better
Andy Beckett, writing in The Guardian in 2004, said of the organisation "You won't have heard of the British-American Project, but its members include some of the most powerful men and women in the UK".[1] He writes that in the work of the organisation "a process of political education can be discerned of which J Howard Pew would have approved", and that "American notions such as less regulated capitalism, a smaller 'enabling state' and a world kept safe by the Pentagon came to be regarded as sensible, inevitable".[1] He notes that people with military experience are important in BAP.[1]
Notable current and former members
Fellows
Politicians
- Template:Flagicon Douglas Alexander, former Labour MP[3]
- Template:Flagicon Rushanara Ali, Labour MP[5]
- Template:Flagicon Stephen Dorrell, former Conservative MP and Liberal Democrat[1]
- Template:Flagicon Steve Hilton, political commentator and former political adviser[1]
- Template:Flagicon David Miliband, former Labour MP[3]
- Template:Flagicon Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, former Labour MP, life peer[3]
- Template:Flagicon Mo Mowlam, former Labour MP[1]
- Template:Flagicon Geoff Mulgan, academic and former Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit[3]
- Template:Flagicon Jonathan Powell (Tony Blair's chief of staff)[3]
- Template:Flagicon George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Labour MP[3]
- Template:Flagicon Patricia Scotland, diplomat, barrister and Labour life peer[1][3]
- Template:Flagicon Alan Sked, founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)[1][6]
- Template:Flagicon Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, trade unionist and Labour life peer[1][3]
- Template:Flagicon Matthew Taylor (political strategist), former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation[1][3]
- Template:Flagicon David Willetts, former Conservative MP, life peer[1]
- Template:Flagicon Kate Forbes, Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party MSP
- Template:Flagicon Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour Party Leader
- Template:Flagicon Diana Villiers Negroponte, trade lawyer and academic[3]
Journalists
- Template:Flagicon Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, The London Evening Standard[1][3][5]
- Template:Flagicon George Brock, The Times[7]
- Template:Flagicon Diane Coyle, The Independent[7]
- Template:Flagicon Evan Davis, BBC[3]
- Template:Flagicon Daniel Drezner, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Slate, Tech Central Station, among others[8]
- Template:Flagicon Daniel Franklin, The Economist[7]
- Template:Flagicon Jane Hill, BBC[9]
- Template:Flagicon Isabel Hilton, The Independent, The Guardian, BBC[7]
- Template:Flagicon Frederick Kempe, The Wall Street Journal[7]
- Template:Flagicon Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator[1]
- Template:Flagicon James Naughtie, BBC[3]
- Template:Flagicon Jeremy Paxman, BBC[3]
- Template:Flagicon Rowan Pelling, The Daily Telegraph[10]
- Template:Flagicon Trevor Phillips, BBC[7]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Template:Flagicon Caroline St John-Brooks, The Times Educational Supplement, The Sunday Times[7]
- Template:Flagicon Joel Stein, LA Times[11]
Arts and media
- Template:Flagicon Margaret Hill, BBC current affairs producer[7]
- Template:Flagicon Benjamin Zephaniah, poet[1]
Other
- Template:Flagicon Janet Bloomfield, peace and disarmament campaigner[12]
- Template:Flagicon Shami Chakrabarti, Former director, Liberty[13]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Template:Flagicon Caroline, Lady Dalmeny, former defence policy analyst[14]
- Template:Flagicon Julia Hobsbawm, writer and public speaker[1]
- Template:Flagicon Hardeep Singh Kohli British presenter and comedian[15]
References
External links
- British-American Project (official website)
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