This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy.

In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, Western Europe and Japan, the Commission was soon seen by many people as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission s archives, the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should...