The Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious Washington foreign policy think tank, has trained its collective contemplation on Angelina Jolie. The group, which includes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is deciding whether Jolie's rampant global adoption spree and nation-hopping charity work qualifies her to join their ranks.

Jolie, 31, has been nominated for a five-year "term" membership. There are no specific academic or social requirements, but it helps that Jolie has served as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and made more than 30 trips around the world on behalf of refugees, AIDS orphans, and victims of natural disasters

It also helps that she's hot—a point not lost on Kissinger, who answered questions last night from Columbia School of Journalism graduate students. "It's my only chance to meet Angelina Jolie," he said.

Jolie wouldn't be the first famous council member if she's approved by a June vote, but she might be the most qualified—a wonk compared to her celebrity predecessors, who include, among others, Ron Silver, Michael Douglas, and Richard Dreyfuss. Below, their curricula vitae for comparison's sake ...

Warren Beatty

• Considered running for president
• Rumored to have been the subject of Carly Simon hit, "You're So Vain"
• Directed the political satire Bulworth and was an advisor on George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign
• Democratic supporter who rallied against Schwarzenegger
• A relative on his mother's side was the last sitting Communist member of the Canadian Parliament

Richard Dreyfuss

• Fantasized about running for president
• Had a well-publicized drug problem
• Engaged in international relations with his wife, Russian-born Svetlana Erokhin
• Was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War
• Claims to be a descendant of Alfred Dreyfus, who was wrongfully imprisoned at the notorious Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana
• Campaigned for peace in the Middle East

Michael Douglas

• Played an American president
• Is of international descent—Russian-Jewish, Scottish, and Irish heritage
• Has international relations with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is from Wales
• Named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. His mission: to focus worldwide attention on nuclear disarmament and human rights
• Was attacked by a jellyfish while on holiday in Majorca, Spain

Ron Silver

• Campaigned for Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race
• Taught Spanish for several years in the 1960s at Roosevelt High School, a Jewish boarding school in Connecticut.
• Played Kissinger in the TV special Kissinger and Nixon
• Because of his knowledge of Chinese, he got a job with the U.S. government and traveled to Taiwan in the early 1970s