Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter, though focused on a specific Chatham House initiative on ‘race relations’, provides a lens to analyze Chatham House more broadly as a think tank and political actor with close relations with the policy world, shaping elite opinion, and unofficial diplomacy. Through the Board of Race Relations, Chatham House helped establish the new academic field of ‘race relations’. Race was recognized as an independent issue but its importance in forestalling the appeal of international communism was seen a key aspect of British strategy during the Cold War both in Chatham House and in the British foreign and colonial policy establishment. Chatham House was highly integrated into that establishment, as well as being embedded in a transnational ‘Anglosphere’ network. The analysis provided is empirical though theoretically informed by a neo-Gramscian framework, revealing much about the workings of British elite knowledge-making and power in a new world order.</jats:p>