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17-812: FPRI was founded by Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé , a Vienna native who immigrated to the United States in 1923. Dissatisfied with the containment strategy of John Foster Dulles and the Eisenhower administration 's foreign policy in general, Strausz-Hupé founded FPRI in 1955 with support from the University of Pennsylvania , an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, and the Smith Richardson Foundation . In 1957, FPRI began publishing Orbis , its quarterly journal. Since

34-589: A member of the prominent Hasbrouck family . Thomas DeWitt Sr.'s sister, Mary, married James Clinton and had New York Governor DeWitt Clinton , making him a first cousin, twice removed of Thomas DeWitt Cuyler. His maternal aunt, Maria van Antwerp DeWitt, was married to banker and philanthropist Morris Ketchum Jesup . He was directly descended from Hendrick Cuyler, who came from Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1664, settling in Albany, New York . After studying in

51-1135: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , the Rutland Railroad , the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad , the Maine Central Railroad , and the Long Island Railroad , the Interborough Rapid Transit Company , the Equitable Life Assurance Society , the Bankers Trust Company , the Western Union Telegraph Company , the Guaranty Trust Company ,

68-814: The Metropolitan Trust Company , the United States Mortgage and Trust Company , the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society , the Commercial Trust Company , among other railroads and corporations including hotel and real estate companies. Beginning on May 1, 1918, Cuyler succeeded Frank Trumbull as the chairman of the Association of Railway Executives . On May 3, 1881, Cuyler married Frances Lewis (1860–1941) in Philadelphia. She

85-638: The Foreign Policy Research Institute as Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence and president emeritus. On April 26, 1938, in New York City, he married Eleanor DeGraff Cuyler Walker (1898–1976), daughter of railroad director Thomas DeWitt Cuyler (1854–1922) and his wife, Frances Lewis Cuyler (1860–1941). She was a descendant of the Hasbrouck family and a second cousin, once removed of New York Governor DeWitt Clinton . She

102-765: The Middle East (directed by James Ryan); its Eurasia Program (directed by Maia Otarashvili); its Center for Study of America and the West (founded in 1997, directed by Ronald J. Granieri, and chaired by Walter A. McDougall ); and the Africa Program (chaired by Charles A. Ray ). As of 2023, FPRI's board of trustees includes: Funding report as of 2019 (no specific details about grants or contributions): Revenue and support as of 2018: $ 2,036,261 Expenses as of 2018: $ 2,479,874 Robert Strausz-Hup%C3%A9 Robert Strausz-Hupé (March 25, 1903 – February 24, 2002)

119-523: The age of 98. Notes Further reading Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Thomas DeWitt Cuyler (September 28, 1854 – November 2, 1922) was an American lawyer who served as director of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the chairman of the Association of Railway Executives . Cuyler was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1854. He was the son of attorney Theodore Cuyler (1819–1876) and Mary Elizabeth ( née DeWitt) Cuyler (1829–1892). He

136-665: The appointment was blocked by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright , head of the Foreign Relations Committee , on the grounds that Strausz-Hupé was too strongly against communism . Despite this, the following year he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands , and subsequently served as ambassador to Belgium (1972–1974), Sweden (1974–1976), NATO (1976–77), and Turkey (1981–1989). In 1989, upon retirement after eight years as Ambassador to Turkey , Strausz-Hupé rejoined

153-545: The details of both operations." He later served as counsel in the reorganization of the Asphalt Company of America as "taking part in many of the most complicated and important railroad reorganization plans." In May 1889, he was elected as a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad (of which his father had been general counsel). He was also a director of several railroads in the Pennsylvania system as well as of

170-615: The end of the Cold War , the institute has focused on education in international affairs, sponsoring various programs in Philadelphia-area schools as well as conferences and seminars for high school and junior college teachers and lectures for the general public. FPRI manages and sponsors several divisions and programs, including its Program on National Security (chaired by John Lehman Jr.); its Asia Program (directed by Michael Beckley and chaired by Jacques deLisle); its Program on

187-508: The institute's flagship publication. Strausz-Hupé authored or co-authored several important books on international affairs. Strausz-Hupé was a foreign policy advisor to Barry Goldwater when Goldwater was the Republican Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1964, and also advised Richard Nixon in his successful 1968 campaign. As president, Nixon appointed Strausz-Hupé to be Ambassador to Morocco in 1969, but

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204-516: The schools of Pennsylvania, Cuyler attended Yale University , from where he graduated in 1874. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. Cuyler started his career as counsel for "a number of Scottish and English development companies that brought settlers to the West to open up new territories. Much of his time was spent in Texas, California, New Mexico and other States, in which roads were being built and financed, and he became acquainted with

221-479: Was a daughter of John Thompson Lewis and Maria Litchfield ( née Scott) Lewis. For many years, she was a member of the board of the Orphan Society of Philadelphia and served as president. Together, they were the parents of four daughters: Cuyler died of apoplexy in his private rail car on November 2, 1922. In his will, he left his widow $ 250,000 to his wife and $ 100,000 to each of his daughters, with

238-834: Was an Austrian-born American diplomat and geopolitical theorist. Born in 1903 in Austria, Strausz-Hupé immigrated to the United States in 1923. Serving as an advisor on foreign investment to American financial institutions, he watched the Depression spread political misery across the America and Europe . After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, Strausz-Hupé began writing and lecturing to American audiences on "the coming war." After one such lecture in Philadelphia , he

255-642: Was invited to give a talk at the University of Pennsylvania , an event which led to his taking a position on the faculty there in 1940. He became an Associate Professor in 1946. Strausz-Hupé founded the Foreign Policy Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, which later became independent in 1970. In 1957, the Institute published the first issue of Orbis , the quarterly journal that remains to this day

272-574: Was named for his maternal grandfather, Rev. Thomas DeWitt Jr., who was the pastor of the Collegiate Dutch Church in New York City for forty years. His younger brother, Cornelius C. Cuyler, a Princeton graduate and banker, was named for their paternal grandfather, Cornelius C. Cuyler, and his sister, Eleanor DeGraff Cuyler, was named for their paternal grandmother, Eleanor ( née DeGraff) Cuyler. His maternal great-grandparents were Thomas DeWitt and Elsie ( née Hasbrouck) DeWitt,

289-652: Was the youngest of four daughters, and was divorced from Joseph Walker with three children of her own: Eleanor Cuyler Walker Seyffert (1917–1992), Joseph Walker IV (1920–2007) and Peter Cuyler Walker (1925–2000). They did not have any children together, and Eleanor died on March 8, 1976, while in Sweden. Strausz-Hupé married secondly Mayrose (nee Ferreira) Nugara (b. 1936) on August 22, 1979. She had three children of her own: Ingrid, Cynthia and Ricky. He died at home in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania , on February 24, 2002, at

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