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The University Teaching of International Affairs1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2014
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The effects of events in other countries upon the affairs of our own have become obvious enough in recent years to turn the statement of interdependence into a commonplace. There is an uncomfortable suspicion abroad that the Fates are no longer British subjects. Yet it is doubtful whether we are fully aware of the implications in such truisms. They imply the necessity of discovering the facts of an interdependent world and of interpreting them by methods as scientific as may be possible in dealing with functions of the human variable. In our own country the need for research, interpretation, and discussion in world problems has produced the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, a semi-public body somewhat similar in conception to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in Great Britain, the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States, and the Institute of Pacific Relations in the countries especially concerned in the affairs of the Pacific area. The Canadian Institute fills a gap in adult education by providing the means of creating a body of public opinion which at least is acquainted with the language of international affairs. The work of the Institute is invaluable, but it cannot be regarded otherwise than as contributory to educational requirements to be fulfilled in the main under other auspices. Whether the study of international relations, in some form, should be part of the curriculum of every unit in the educational system is a matter of importance, but my concern in this paper is not with the schools but with the universities.
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- Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , August 1936 , pp. 431 - 439
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- Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1936
Footnotes
This paper was read at a joint session of the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, and the Canadian Political Science Association, May 26, 1936.
References
2 A Survey of Japanese Studies in the Universities and Colleges of the United States (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1935).Google Scholar
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