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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Ms. Lorna Brennan

Membership Secretary

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
The Harold Pratt House

58 East 68th Street

New York, New York 10021

Dear Ms. Brennan:

It is my honor and privilege to nominate Professor
Robert Jervis for membership in the Council.

His qualifications are formally summarized in the
attached C.V. and especially in his magisterial book
"Perception and Misperception in International Politics"
Princeton University Press, 1976. This is a survey that
comprises such a breadth of historical knowledge and in-
sight about the practice of international relations, and
such sensitivity about the bureaucratic and personal
psychological processes entailed in decision making, that
I recommend it as an indispensible first principles to
anyone undertaking a serious examination of foreign policy.
I was delighted then to find that his credentials as a
scholar were recognized by Columbia University in offering
him the professorship to which he has just come: an inci-
dent that makes him more readily available for discourse
with the Council, as well as, I hope, myself. I believe
these credentials also give objective substantiation about
all of the criteria that the Council has articulated for
membership.

I doubt if there is any scholar in the field of inter-
national politics who is not aware of Dr. Jervis' work:
presumably his immediate colleagues at Columbia and his
recent ones at Princeton would be those most intimately ac-
quainted with him for purposes of further reference.
Ms. Lorna Brennan
October 7, 1980

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. I can hardly think of a figure more appropriate for
the earliest and most favorable consideration and I hope
you will promptly invite him to become a member.

I have asked one or more of my colleagues to join me
in seconding this nomination and you should receive the
Supporting correspondence shortly.

Yours sincerely,

shua Lederberg

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Ms. Enid Schoettle