The CCCore was formed in late 2003 by private citizens of Europe and the United States, to foster closer cooperation among these individuals and their companies with shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system. Two strong convictions guide the CCCore thinking. First, the CCCore remains as important as ever in helping our companies fulfill their shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system and, second, its framework needs to be widened to reflect broader changes in the world. The CCCore is an independent, international membership organization and a nonpartisan center for artistic sholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world.