ABSTRACT
The grand strategies for the reorganization of the postwar world, and particularly the guidelines for "asymmetric interdependence" between the United States and Europe, were shaped gradually in a process determined by a multiplicity of sources, beyond the scope of any one group, even the specialists. The role played by organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations was to assist in and enrich the ambitious transformation process in US foreign policy, the evolution of which seemed to take on aspects of Wilsonian idealism. The memoranda of the Council on Foreign Relations regarding the implications of war developments in Europe for US foreign policy, especially in the two-year period 1940-1941, betray traces of the new modernist and globalist mentality. The inherent pragmatism of US foreign policy during World War II is clarified in Dallek, who supplied a detailed chronology of Roosevelt's policies as an expression of the domestic political system and its forms of mediation.
