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Government-Sponsored Research in International Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Cyril E. Black
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The purpose of this paper is to make a preliminary evaluation of the pattern of support of research in international studies in the United States by federal agencies, with a view to identifying critical issues in research policy deserving of more detailed study.

The security and welfare of the people of the United States depend to a significant degree on the quality of the system of knowledge available to their leaders and to the community of scholars on whose advice regarding the international system in all of its aspects their leaders depend.

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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , July 1970 , pp. 582 - 596
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1970

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References

1 The most recent of these are The Behavioral Sciences and the Federal Government [Report of the Advisory Committee on Government Programs in the Behavioral Sciences. Publication 1680, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council] (Washington 1968), Knowledge Into Action: Improving the Nation's Use of Social Sciences [Report of the Special Commission on the Social Sciences of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation] (Washington 1969), The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Outlook and Needs [Report of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences and Social Science Research Council] (Washington 1969), and Lyons, Gene M., The Uneasy Partnership: Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twentieth Century (New York 1969)Google Scholar, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.

2 Congressional Record (December 6, 1969), S15927-S15929.

3 “Research Council Activities: A Summary,” Far Horizons, 1 (May 1968), 6–9. Far Horizons is the bimonthly newsletter of the interagency Foreign Area Research Coordination Group (FAR), established in 1964, whose objective is the coordination of government-sponsored foreign area research. FAR represents twenty-one government departments and agencies, and is administered by the Office of External Research, Department of State.

4 Defense Department Sponsored Foreign Affairs Research [Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, May 9, 1968, and Part 2, May 28, 1968].

5 Congressional Record (August 11, 1969), S9608-S9631; and (August 12, 1969), S9725–975O, S9767–S9773.

6 The author used this classified inventory in his capacity as a consultant to the Department of State for this purpose for a period of five days. The author is solely responsible for the content of this paper, including the accuracy of both statements of fact and interpretative comments. Partial support of this research by the Department of State does not imply official endorsement of the conclusions expressed.

7 Far Horizons, 11 (January 1969), 2.

8 “Federal Funding of Foreign Affairs Research,” Far Horizons, in (January 1970), 1–5, includes a four-year table for fiscal years 1966–1969 from which these figures and those subsequently cited are taken.

9 These figures are derived from National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research, Development, and Other Scientific Activities. Fiscal Years 1967, 1968, and 1969 (Washington 1969), XVII, 14, 19Google Scholar. Hereafter cited as NSF, Federal Funds.

10 Coddington, Dean C. and Milliken, J. Gordon, “Future of Federal Contract Research Centers,” Harvard Business Review, XLVII (March-April 1970), 103–16Google Scholar.

11 Another study of NSF grants presents the picture more sharply by showing that political science received $761,785 in actual allocations for fiscal year 1968 as compared with $3,503408 for anthropology and $3,734,496 for sociology and social psychology. Eulau, Heinz and March, James G., eds., Political Science (Englewood Cliffs 1969), 103Google Scholar.

12 “Changes in Defense Department Support of Social Science Research,” Far Horizons, 11 (September 1969), 1–3.

13 NSF, Federal Funds, XVII, 10.

14 NSF, Federal Funds, XVII, 15.

15 “Federal Funding of Foreign Affairs Research,” Far Horizons, 11 (January 1969), 1–4.

16 The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Outlook and Needs, 238–242.

17 “African Research Needs,” Far Horizons, 1 (November 1968), 5–6; “Communist China-Latin America: Government Research Needs,” Far Horizons, 11 (July 1969), 4–6; and “Near East and South Asia: Research Needs,” Far Horizons, in (March 1970), 5.

18 Eulau and March, Political Science, 103.