The International Relations Council (IRC) is a non-partisan organization which provides world affairs educational programming in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

. The IRC develops and maintains various programs to foster understanding of international affairs

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

 among the citizens of the greater Kansas City area. Programs emphasize the role of the informed and responsible citizen in the formulation, development and conduct of United States foreign policy. Since its founding, IRC has hosted many world leaders, including cabinet

Cabinet (government)

A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

 level officials, ambassador

Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

s, and leaders from business, media, politics, government, and education. Guests give lectures and presentations on international politics, economics, and social issues.

Overview

The International Relations Council served its millionth customer in 2002. Each year, approximately 20,000 students and 10,000 friends in the community benefit from IRC programs.

History

Founded in 1954 by Dr. Eliot S. Berkley, a graduate in international relations from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 and advocate of citizen involvement in the foreign policy

Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

 process, IRC grew from a small "kitchen table" gathering to large number of Kansas City area members.

Finances

The IRC is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. It is funded almost entirely by memberships, both individual and corporate, donations, program fees and some small grants. Memberships can be purchased on an annual basis. IRC members receive discounts on admission to most IRC events. Students from IRC-member universities often attend IRC events at a further discounted rate and sometimes for free.

Young Ambassadors

The IRC conceived Young Ambassadors as an avenue for globally aware rising professionals to get involved with IRC activities, as well as connect with other young people interested in world affairs. The Young Ambassadors volunteer to assist in staging IRC events and providing educational experiences. Young Ambassadors benefit from contact with more professionally established members of the IRC.

Eliot S. Berkley Lectures

The Eliot S. Berkley Lecture was initiated in 1996. It is funded by the Eliot S. Berkley Endowment which was established in 1994 by the International Relations Council membership and the community to honor Dr. Berkley's 40 years of service as IRC's Founding Executive Director. The Eliot S. Berkley Endowment brings to the area persons highly knowledgeable about foreign policy and international affairs. The lecture is held in cooperation with the University of Kansas.

List of Past Eliot S. Berkley Lectures

• 2007 Dr. Allison Stanger Russell Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College
  Middlebury College
  Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
  
  
• 2007 Walter Russell Mead
  Walter Russell Mead
  Walter Russell Mead is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine, and is recognized as one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy . Until 2010, Mead was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior...
  
   Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations
  Council on Foreign Relations
  The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
  
  
• 2006 Dr. George Rupp
  George Erik Rupp
  George Erik Rupp is an American educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee since July 2002.-Biography:...
  
   President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
• 2005 The Honorable Thomas R. Pickering
  Thomas R. Pickering
  Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...
  
   Former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Nigeria, El Salvador, Israel, United Nations, India, Russia
• 2004 The Honorable Lawrence J. Korb
  Lawrence Korb
  Lawrence J. Korb , is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information...
  
   Senior Fellow, American Progress and Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information

• 2003 James Fallows
  James Fallows
  James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a...
  
   National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly
• 2002 The Honorable Marc Grossman
  Marc Grossman
  Marc Grossman is the United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs....
  
   Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• 2001 The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman
  Princeton N. Lyman
  Princeton Nathan Lyman is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa , and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs...
  
   Former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
• 2000 The Honorable Frank G. Wisner
  Frank G. Wisner
  Frank George Wisner II is an American businessman and former diplomat. He is the son of Frank Wisner . On 31 January 2011, he was sent to Egypt by President Barack Obama to negotiate a resolution to the popular protests against the regime that have swept the country...
  
   Vice Chairman, American International Group
• 1999 Hodding Carter III
  Hodding Carter III
  Hodding Carter, III , is an American journalist and politician best known for his role as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration.-Biography:...
  
   Journalist, Assistant Secretary of State for Carter Administration
• 1998 Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom
• 1997 "Mid-Point in the Legacy" Conference and Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
  Marshall Plan
  The Marshall Plan was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948...
  
  

• 1996 The Honorable Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
  Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. is a former American ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, an historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S...
  
   Former U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union

Speakers Bureau

The International Relations Council's Speakers Bureau provides volunteers, both IRC members and Kansas City area citizens, to community groups across the greater Kansas City area. Speakers have knowledge of the historical and contemporary aspects of specific countries, foreign policy, geography, and culture. The IRC Speaker’s Bureau places speakers at civic groups, governmental organizations, church groups and assisted living communities.

Great Decisions

Great Decisions is a program produced by the Foreign Policy Association

Foreign Policy Association

The Foreign Policy Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, it serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding of, and providing informed opinions on global issues...

 and offered in Kansas City through the IRC. Groups participating in Great Decisions receive and study a briefing book. The topics change annually. After becoming familiar with and developing an opinion on each topic, Great Decisions groups hold a discussion, moderated by a Discussion Group Leader. All participants' opinions have equal weight within the group, regardless of age, occupation, or education.

School programs

The IRC devotes a large portion of its resources to programs for school-aged young people. IRC programs aim to break stereotypes/myths about various world cultures and inspire a passion for international studies. Speakers teach the importance of learning to compromise with people from various world cultures who may look and act differently and have a world vision unlike the American experience.

International Classroom Partnership Program (ICPP)

The ICPP is a program which sends international students from several Kansas City area colleges and universities to visit elementary schools in order to share their life and culture with school children. International college students share facts about language, dress, and etiquette of their home countries with American students. The program aims to dispel stereotypes of other nations while sparking an interest in foreign languages and cultures in elementary-aged children.

Eliot S. Berkley Award

Each year the IRC awards the Eliot S. Berkley Award to a high school junior or senior in the Kansas City metropolitan region who has shown superior interest and competence in the field of international relations. Finalists are selected by a committee of IRC members. After personal interviews with the finalists, the winner is selected and is presented an inscribed award and a $500 prize at an IRC fall event.

Global Connections

Global Connections is similar to IRC's Speakers Bureau Program. Global Connections provides volunteers, both IRC members and Kansas City area citizens, who share their international experience and expertise with a wide variety of schools throughout the Kansas City metro area. Global Connections speakers are available on a wide variety of topics and connect classrooms to the world in a meaningful way.

Academic WorldQuest

Academic WorldQuest is a competition in which teams of high school students are challenged on their knowledge of world affairs, geography, history, and current events. WorldQuest is a copyrighted program of the World Affairs Council of America and is held in more than 40 cities throughout the country annually. The topics for the 2010 Academic WorldQuest will be announced by the World Affairs Councils of America in early fall of 2009. The topics from Academic WorldQuest 2009 were the following: Population Issues in Developing Countries, Water, Alternative Fuel, Biotechnology and Genetics, Connectivity, Globalization, Transnational Crime, Great Decisions 2008, Current Events, and Germany.

Culture Kits

IRC has Culture Kits on China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

, and Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa as a geographical term refers to the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. A political definition of Sub-Saharan Africa, instead, covers all African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...

, which are available to classroom teachers. Each IRC Culture Kit includes historical and cultural information and objects that can be touched and explored. Some kits also include videos and games.

Awards Banquet and Honors

In 1984, IRC began its annual Awards Banquet. Each year it awards the Distinguished Service Award for International Statesmanship to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in international commerce, diplomacy, education or understanding, and who has a connection to Missouri or Kansas. IRC also presents awards for Contributions to International Commerce and/or Community Service and for Academic Leadership.

Distinguished Service Award for International Statesmanship

• 2009 C. Fred Bergsten
  C. Fred Bergsten
  C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, formerly the Institute for International Economics,...
  
    Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics
• 2008 Strobe Talbott
  Strobe Talbott
  Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio...
  
    President, Brookings Institution
• 2007 Senator Chuck Hagel  U.S. Senator, Nebraska
• 2006 Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
  
    Former Secretary of State
• 2005 Senator John Danforth  Former U.S. Senator, Missouri; former Ambassador to the United Nations
• 2004 Senator Sam Brownback  U.S. Senator, Kansas
• 2003 Robert M. Gates, Ph.D  President, Texas A&M University; former Director of Central Intelligence Agency
• 2002 Dan Glickman
  Dan Glickman
  Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman is an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the...
  
    Head, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Secretary of Agriculture; former Congressman
• 2001 Alan N. Mulally  President and CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• 2000 Kenton W. Keith  Senior Vice President and Director, Programming Division, Meridian International Center
• 1999 Stephen G. Butler  Chairman and CEO, KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP
• 1998 Marshall Loeb
  Marshall Loeb
  Marshall Loeb is an American author, editor, commentator and columnist specializing in business matters, who spent 38 years in the Time Inc. publication network which included service as managing editor of both Fortune and Money magazines...
  
    Managing Editor, Fortune and Money
• 1997 James B. Steele  Senior Writer-at-large, Time, Inc.
• 1996 Byron Calame
  Byron Calame
  Byron Calame was the second public editor of the New York Times. He succeeded Daniel Okrent in this ombudsman-like position in 2005, and was followed by Clark Hoyt...
  
    Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
• 1995 Delano E. Lewis  President and CEO, National Public Radio
• 1994 Roger Morris, Ph.D  Author, syndicated columnist, White House and National Security staff for Presidents Nixon and Johnson
• 1993 Robert J. Eaton  Chairman and CEO, Chrysler Corporation
• 1992 Robert F. Ellsworth  Chairman, Council for the International Institute for Strategic Studies; former Deputy Secretary of Defense
• 1991 John McManus  Editor-in-chief, Time-Warner, Inc.
• 1990 Bill Kurtis
  Bill Kurtis
  Bill Kurtis is an American television journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor. He is also the current host of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files...
  
    Executive Producer, The New Explorers; former co-anchor, CBS news
• 1989 Charles H. Price II
  Charles H. Price II
  Charles H. Price II is a prominent American businessman and former Ambassador of the United States.-Early life:Price was born to a prominent family in Kansas City, Missouri, who owned a local candy manufacturing firm, the Price Candy Company...
  
    Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland
• 1988 William Atkins McWhirter  Senior Correspondent, Time Magazine
• 1987 Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum  U.S. Senator, Kansas
• 1987 Senator Thomas F. Eagleton  Former U.S. Senator, Missouri
• 1986 Jim Lehrer
  Jim Lehrer
  James Charles "Jim" Lehrer is an American journalist and the executive editor and former news anchor for PBS NewsHour on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections...
  
    Host, Lehrer Newshour
• 1985 U. Alexis Johnson
  U. Alexis Johnson
  -Background:Ural Alexis Johnson was born in Falun, Kansas into a family of Swedish descent. His mother named him for the mountain range, of which she learned from a geography book. He had a rural upbringing and schooling until 1923, when the family moved to Glendale, California. He graduated...
  
    Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
• 1984 William G. Hyland
  William G. Hyland
  William George Hyland was Deputy National Security Advisor to President of the United States Gerald Ford and editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.-Biography:...
  
    Editor, Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Assistant to the President for International Security Affairs

Award for Academic Leadership

• 2009 Stowers Institute  William Neaves, accepting
• 2008 KU Confucius Institute  Sheri Willis, accepting
• 2007 Richard Derman, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Dean for Women's Health at UMKC
• 2006 Beverly Byers-Pevitts President, Park University
  Park University
  Park University is an independent, private institution of higher education based in Parkville, Missouri. Established in 1875 as a small church-related college, it has now expanded into an electronic learning institution and provider of education courses for the U.S...
  
  
• 2003 Paul and Colleen Nance Founders, Nance Museum and Library of Middle Eastern Art
• 2002 Gary Armstrong, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Political Science, William Jewell College
  William Jewell College
  William Jewell College is a private, four-year liberal arts college of 1,100 undergraduate students located in Liberty, Missouri, U.S. It was founded in 1849 by members of the Missouri Baptist Convention and other civic leaders, including Robert S. James, a Baptist minister and father of the...
  
  
• 2001 Hal Jehle Secondary Resource Specialist, Shawnee Mission School District
  Shawnee Mission School District
  The Shawnee Mission School District is one of the major school districts in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Located in northeast Johnson County, Kansas, the school district enrolled approximately 40,000 students in the 2009-2010 school year...
  
  
• 2000 Maria Carlson, Ph.D. Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, The University of Kansas
• 1999 KCPT
  KCPT
  KCPT virtual channel 19 is a Public television station in Kansas City, Missouri serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area as a Public Broadcasting Service member station....
  
   Public Television 19 William T. Reed, accepting
• 1998 John E. Cleek, Ph.D. Director, Center for International Business, Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, UMKC
• 1997 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art....
  
    Marc F. Wilson, accepting
• 1996 Terry Rodenberg, Ed.D. Director, International Program, Central Missouri State University
• 1995 Janet R. Baird, Ph.D. Program Administrator, Southeast Magnet High School for International Studies
• 1994 George Woodyard, Ph.D. Dean of International Studies, The University of Kansas
• 1993 Carolyn J. Kadel Director of International Education, Johnson County Community College
  Johnson County Community College
  Johnson County Community College Is referred to locally by the synechdoche "Ju-co", and is located in Overland Park, Kansas at College Boulevard and Quivira Road.-History:...
  
  
• 1992 Paul A. Garcia, Ph.D. Instructional Specialist for Language and International Studies, Kansas City Missouri School District
• 1991 Henry A. Mitchell Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic and International Affairs, UMKC
• 1990 Miyo Wagner Visiting Instructor of Japanese Language, Rockhurst College
• 1989 E. Grey Dimond, M.D. Provost Emeritus, Health Sciences, UMKC
• 1987 Ed Chasteen Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, William Jewell College
• 1986 David Wolfe Director, Social Studies, Shawnee Mission School District
• 1985 Harry L. Klut Social studies teacher, Paseo High School, Kansas City School District
• 1984 Joyce Cox Social studies teacher, Center High School, Center School District

Award for Contributions to International Commerce and/or Community Service

• 2009 Danny O'Neill President and Owner, the Roasterie
• 2008 Len Rodman President, Chairman, and CEO, Black & Veatch
• 2004 Consul General Takao Shibata Consulate General of Japan at Kansas City
• 2004 Benny Lee Chairman and CEO, Top Innovations, Inc.
• 2003 Dr. Min H. Kao President and CEO, Garmin International; Co-founder and co-chairman, Garmin
  Garmin
  Garmin Ltd. , incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is the parent company of a group of companies founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao , that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System...
  
   Corporation
• 2002 Michael R. Haverty Chairman, President and CEO, Kansas City Southern Industries
  Kansas City Southern Industries
  Kansas City Southern Industries is the former diversified parent company of the Kansas City Southern Railway, a Class I railroad headquartered in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, USA...
  
  
• 2001 Lillian Gonzalez Pardo, M.D. Medical Director, TEVA Neuroscience; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, KU Medical Center; President, Filipino Cultural Center Foundation
• 2000 Dr. Richard W. Harriman Founder and Director, Harriman Arts Program, William Jewell College
• 1999 Jeffrey W. Colyer Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center
• 1998 John P. McMeel Chairman, Andrews McMeel Universal
  Andrews McMeel Universal
  Andrews McMeel Universal is an American corporation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1970 by Notre Dame alumni Jim Andrews and John McMeel as Universal Press Syndicate and was renamed in 1997 to AMU to reflect the diversification that had taken place since its founding...
  
  
• 1997 Stanley H. Durwood Chairman and CEO, AMC Theatres
  AMC Theatres
  AMC Theatres , officially known as AMC Entertainment, Inc., is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,325 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's four national cinema chains AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), officially known as...
  
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• 1996 Anne and Norman Burkart President and Director, Language Link
• 1995 William D. Chapman President, Butler International
  Butler International
  Butler International, Inc. was an engineering services and employment agency based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With roots dating back to 1946, the company provided on-site and off-site engineering services to its clients, which include companies in the aerospace, communications, commercial,...
  
  
• 1994 Lawrence D. Starr President and CEO, Koch Supplies, Inc.
• 1993 Gary B. Morsch, M.D. Founder and Chairman, Heart to Heart International, Inc.
• 1992 Morton I. Sosland Chairman, Sosland Publishing Co.
• 1991 Robert A. Cushman President, ARMCO Worldwide Grinding Systems; Vice President, ARMCO Inc.
• 1990 James L. Rainey President and CEO, Farmland Industries
  Farmland Industries
  Farmland Industries was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America when it declared bankruptcy in 2002.The Farmland brand and its slogan "Good Food From the Heartland" is now owned by Smithfield Foods. While owned by Smithfield Foods, Farmland Foods, Inc...
  
  
• 1989 William T. Esrey President and CEO, United Telecom and Sprint
  Sprint Nextel
  Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...
  
  
• 1988 John T. Pierson, Jr. President, PRECO Industries
• 1987 Heinz K. Wehner Group Vice President and General Manager, Agricultural Chemical Division, Mobay Corp.
• 1986 Allen M. Acheson President, Black & Veatch International
• 1985 Stanley A. Hamilton President, Hallmark International; Honorary British Consul
• 1985 James E. Burke Late Honorary Consul of Japan
• 1984 Rod Turnbull Director of Public Affairs, Kansas City Board of Trade
  Kansas City Board of Trade
  The Kansas City Board of Trade , is an American commodity futures and options exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
  
  

Affiliations

The International Relations Council is a member of World Affairs Councils of America

World Affairs Councils of America

The World Affairs Councils of America represents and supports the largest national non-partisan network of local councils that are dedicated to educating, inspiring and engaging Americans in international affairs and the critical global issues of our times. The network consists of 94 councils in 40...

(WACA), an association of independent organizations that work to engage and educate Americans on international affairs and foreign policy. Ninety member councils can be found in 39 states, plus the District of Columbia. Through WACA, IRC's voice on international issues is combined with other international citizens. Decision makers visit Councils across the United States to communicate about their areas of expertise.

External links

• UMKC Library Western Historical Manuscript Collection's IRC records on file