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British-American Project

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{{Use British English|date=July 2023}}

The British-American Project (BAP) is an organisation intended to strengthen links between the United Kingdom and the United States.{{cite news |last1=Beckett |first1=Andy |title=Friends in high places |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1 |access-date=6 July 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=6 November 2004}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.baponline.org/historyp2.html |title=History of the Project |publisher=British-American Project |accessdate=9 April 2019 |archive-date=30 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930021608/http://www.baponline.org/historyp2.html |url-status=dead }}

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. 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.

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".{{cite news | first=John | last=Pilger | title=Tainted hands across the water | date=13 December 2007 | url=http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/12/pilger-bap-values-british | work=New Statesman | accessdate=2012-11-26 | archive-date=2013-05-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508063953/http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/12/pilger-bap-values-british | url-status=dead }}

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.[http://www.bilderberg.org/bap.htm#own Nick Cohen - Without Prejudice: "Cry freedom... and order a Big Mac - BAP conference"], The Observer, 31 October 1999, hosted at Bilderberg website, accessed 17 June 2013.{{Dubious|date=October 2020}}

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.{{Dubious|date=October 2020}}{{better|reason=link is to the text of the article, but the site hosting it is not a reliable source|date=July 2023}}

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". 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". He notes that people with military experience are important in BAP.

Notable current and former members

=Fellows=

==Politicians==

==Journalists==

  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, The London Evening Standard
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} George Brock, The Times
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Diane Coyle, The Independent
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Evan Davis, BBC
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Daniel Drezner, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Slate, Tech Central Station, among others{{cite web

|url=http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/000887.html

|title=I'm off to join another secret cabal

|author=Daniel Drezner

|date=November 12, 2003}}

  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Daniel Franklin, The Economist
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Jane Hill, BBC{{cite web|url=http://www.britishamericanproject.org/aboutbap.asp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150316014330/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/aboutbap.asp|url-status=dead|title=Welcome to the British-American Project|date=16 March 2015|archive-date=16 March 2015|website=archive.is}}
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Isabel Hilton, The Independent, The Guardian, BBC
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Frederick Kempe, The Wall Street Journal
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} James Naughtie, BBC
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Jeremy Paxman, BBC
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Rowan Pelling, The Daily Telegraph{{cite news

|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3644013/Subversive-politics-and-honey-traps-never-pall.html

|title=Subversive politics and honey traps never pall

|date=13 Nov 2007

|author=Rowan Pelling

|work=The Telegraph}}

  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Trevor Phillips, BBC{{cite web|url=http://www.bilderberg.org/bap.htm#Tom|title=Transatlantic Elite - BAP - British American Project for the successor generation - Peter Mandelson|website=www.bilderberg.org}}{{Dubious|date=October 2020}}
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Caroline St John-Brooks, The Times Educational Supplement, The Sunday Times
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Joel Stein, LA Times{{cite news

|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein30nov30,0,991121.column

|title=Changing the world a drink at a time

|author=Joel Stein

|date=November 30, 2007

|work=Los Angeles Times}}

==Arts and media==

==Other==

  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Janet Bloomfield, peace and disarmament campaigner{{cite news |last1=Elworthy |first1=Scilla |title=Obituary: Janet Bloomfield |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/30/guardianobituaries.politics |access-date=6 July 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=30 April 2007}}
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Shami Chakrabarti, Former director, Liberty{{cite web |url=http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |title=The Governors |publisher=Ditchley Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926002401/http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |archive-date=26 September 2006}}{{Dubious|date=October 2020}}
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Caroline, Lady Dalmeny, former defence policy analyst[http://www.rusi.org/about/staff/associates/ref:B520D131E40215/ Royal United Services Institute Fellows and Associates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315024122/http://www.rusi.org/about/staff/associates/ref%3AB520D131E40215/ |date=March 15, 2015 }}
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Julia Hobsbawm, writer and public speaker
  • {{flagicon|GBR}} Hardeep Singh Kohli British presenter and comedian{{Cite news |last=Rayner |first=Gordon |date=2023-09-01 |title=British-American Project at war after Hardeep Singh Kohli appointment |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/british-american-project-hardeep-singh-kohli-vote/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |issn=0307-1235}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ British-American Project] (official website)
  • [http://www.bilderberg.org/bap.htm Transatlantic Elite - British American Project for the successor generation] collection of articles from various publications{{Dubious|date=October 2020}}

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