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Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century: Collaborated on the PNAC’s
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report (3)
Gilder
Foundation: Executive Director (3, 4)
Donner
Canadian Foundation (3)
Smith
Richardson Foundation (3)
Washington
Quarterly: Senior Associate Editor (3)
Government
Service
Defense
Policy Board: Member (5)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Donor's
Forum on International Affairs: President (1)
Education
Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: M.A. (3)
Bryn Mawr College: B.A. (3)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Devon
Gaffney Cross, the sister of the Center for Security Policy’s
(CSP) Frank Gaffney, has worked for a number of staunchly conservative
foundations, including the Smith Richardson Foundation, and is associated
with various rightwing outfits such as CSP and the Project for the
New American Century. She is also a member of the Defense Policy
Board, the Pentagon’s in-house think tank, which has been
heavily criticized because of the potential conflicts of interests
of many of its members and for its stilted ideological profile (nearly
a third of the board members come from the staunchly conservative
Hoover Institution).
In
an article on philanthropy’s role in shaping policy, which
she co-wrote with her brother, Gaffney criticized various liberal-minded
foundations such as Rockefeller and MacArthur for their “ironic
vision of international orderliness,” which she said “must
be contrasted with the world as it actually is.” The authors
write: “And then there is private philanthropy, among the
least recognized forces in the shaping of United States security
policy. Specifically, the leading funders in international security
programs at U.S. think-tanks, academic institutions, and grassroots
groups are generously underwriting an ambitious and highly politicized
agenda. Today, as in the past, arms control and other international
legal endeavors are the organizing principle behind much of what
the Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund calls the ‘One World
Program.’ The operative premise has been described by syndicated
columnist Charles Krauthammer as ‘a world imagined [where]
laws, treaties and binding international agreements can domesticate
the international arena.’”(4)
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