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The Streit Council for a Union of Democracies is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit foreign-policy organization working toward closer cooperation and deeper integration among the US and Europe, as well as OECD democracies. It researches transatlantic and other inter-democratic institutions, as well as global problems and issues that might benefit from integration among democracies.Combining academic research with policy work, the Streit Council provides a non-partisan forum where policymakers and scholars explore new approaches to inter-democracy relations and their impact on global stability. ==History== Formed in 2004, the Streit Council is a successor to Federal Union Inc.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Federal Union, Inc. )〕 founded by Clarence Streit with the 1939 publication of ''(Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Leading Democracies )''. Alarmed by the rise of the Hitler-Mussolini-Hirohito totalitarian forces and the failure of Western democracies to agree on measures to halt their aggression, Streit proposed a federal union of democratic nations with a common foreign policy and defense force. He hoped that this federal union would prevent a second world war and expand the area of democratic government. His proposal generated a great deal of discussion: he was featured on the cover of ''Time'' magazine and became a frequent guest on top radio programs. He also met with presidents and prime ministers, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Federal Union members and supporters were among the leaders of organizations that, in close cooperation with the Roosevelt Administration, helped bring the United States from neutrality to intervention in World War II. After Pearl Harbor, the Streit proposal became one aimed at winning the war and the peace. It also helped pave the way for the formation of the United Nations. In 1949, Federal Union members founded a sister organization, the Atlantic Union Committee (AUC),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Atlantic Union Committee )〕 a political action group that played a significant role in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Members included US Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Elmo Roper, and many European leaders. The Federal Union was renamed the Association to Unite the Democracies (AUD) in 1985 and became the first Western organization to foresee expansion of the EU and NATO in the event of an end of Communism. The Streit Council, an organization working toward freedom and union, democracy, and effective government, became a successor organization of the AUD in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Streit Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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