More on Government-Sponsored Foreign Affairs Research
Two excellent sources of information on university-conducted foreign affairs research are: University Centers of Foreign Affairs Research: A Directory. This book was just published (October...
...At the meeting, largely unreported by the U.S...
...It will not, however, have any eaa1l eratlve power...
...It includes extended descriptions of 191 university programs on foreign affairs, and comes with a good index, a chronology of the "Development of Foreign Affairs Research Centers," and an introductory essay describing the development of a network of university centers on foreign affairs which supply the State Department with data and trained personnel...
...This book was just published (October 1968) by the Office of External Research of the U.S...
...Available for $1.00 from the U.S...
...This excellent directory, compiled by the Institute of Advanced Projects of the East-West Center in Honolulu and the International Programs office of Michigan State University, was published in 1966...
...It is indexed by institution and country, and contains valuable introductory and bibliographic material...
...As the Latin American edition of The Economist (October 16, 1968, p. 14) stated: "It [the IDB: will be, in reality, a kind of American military central intelligence: its tasks will be limited to the compilation and evaluation of information, carrying out studies and formulation of suggestions for the improvement of the national defense systems...
...The International Programs of American Universities (2nd Edition...
...They decided, however, to strengthen the intelligence role of the Inter-American Defense Board (IDB) created under the Treaty of Rio in 1942...
...representatives, among others, have been proposing...
...20402...
...Below is the full text of General Westmoreland't address to the conference (available from the Pentagon's Office of Information), where he passes on the lessons he learned in Vietnam to the men who are charged with containing potential Vietnams...
...press, the Generals stopped short of creating an official Inter-American Defense Board, as Argentine and U.S...
...Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C...
...Available from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.-9For six days, beginning the 23rd of September, representatives of the Chiefs of Staff of all Western Hemisphere nations (except Cuba, Honduras and Haiti) met in Rio de Janeiro for the Eighth Conference of the American Armies...
...Department of State...
Vol. 2 • October 1968 • No. 6
