University President Steven Knapp was elected to the independent and nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations today.

The think-tank and publisher prints the influential “Foreign Affairs” twice a month. The magazine is one of the leading forums in the world for discussions of international affairs.

The council’s mission is to educate government leaders and members about the “foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries,” according to the CFR website.

Knapp is a specialist in Romanticism, literary theory and the relation of literature to philosophy and religion.

The Council boasts 4,300 members, including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel, and Erin Burnett.