Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the new program, the 20 students will receive office space and secretarial help at the CFIA. Except for members of the Quantitative Economic Research Program-which studies financial trends in developing nations-the Associates will receive...
...past years, graduate students have acted as research assistants but never as members of CFIA panels. Joseph S. Nye Jr., Research Fellow in the CFIA. described the new program as "another step in our program to make the Center available to a wider range of students" and as "an effort to make the Center a more lively place...
...other thought concerns the CFIA. I have long disagreed with Mr. Bowie on the major questions of foreign and military policy. This has not been passive argument between establishment types. As it has carried into public life it has involved sharp political infighting. But during much of the period of our controversy, Mr. Bowie's position on the Cold War and Vietnam has been that of the majority. Those of us who disagreed were greatly in the minority. On occasion we were cited as the agents of imperialism- in this case Communist imperialism. Had we been suppressed our position would...
Further, what the attackers of the Center want to do to it. they could also do to the rest of the university. Any argument used to attack the CFIA or any of its programs can be used to attack a host of other university programs, including many of the Departments, and especially those of largest enrollment-Government, History, Social Relations, and Economics. This is obviously true of the test of having the right politics, which some attackers want to apply to the CFIA and beyond. But even if the attackers were to succeed in applying a political test throughout...
Again, radical scholars will form only a part of the CFIA. but here the reasons do not include the interests of socio-economic elites but only the individual ideas and temperaments of the men who study politics and economics in contemporary America. And. not surprisingly, the proportion of radical scholars (there are many more than the recently cited figure of two) to conventional ones in the CFIA is as high as it is in any of the Harvard Departments, and it is certainly higher in the CFIA than it is in the political science departments of any other American university...