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Maintaining Transatlantic Community: US Public Diplomacy, the Ford Foundation and the Successor Generation Concept in US Foreign Affairs, 1960s–1980s

This article explores the role of public–private partnerships in promoting transatlantic unity during the Cold War. Focusing predominantly on the combined activities of American state and private initiatives, it tracks in particular the meaning of the concept of “successor generations” and what this meant in practice in US public diplomacy. A key role was played in these activities by philanthropic organisations such as the Ford Foundation, which used its sizeable funds to support initiatives such as the Atlantic Institute over several decades. The successor generation approach reached its high point during the 1980s as part of the public diplomacy “offensive” in support of the proposed modernisation of NATO's Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF).