Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the story of the Third World today must be that of an angry anti-colonial revolution working itself out, our liberal commitment to order, although apparently harmless at first glance, is objectively counter-revolutionary. And we attack the CFIA because we believe that no force, no matter whether it wears a uniform or not, has a right to tamper with the process of social liberation that revolutionary change opens up to the people of the old colonial empires. And of course we have learned from Vietnam what the next step is if peaceful counter-revolutionary attempts fail...
...academic communities for long-range policy planning. Many would also refuse employment with centers such as the Stanford Research Institute, Institute for Defense Analysis, and the Rand Corporation. Fewer would refuse to cooperate with the Ford Foundation. And virtually none would refuse to participate in centers such as the CFIA, which are usually portrayed as exciting new adventures in interdisciplinary social science...
...State Department to Ford, remains the best example). They are tied to the universities, and to government and CIA-front organizations such as the Dearborn Foundation and the Institute for International Education (which, in turn, are connected to university centers; for example, the Development Advisory Service of the CFIA at Harvard is linked...
Samuel Huntington can move freely from the government to the university to private foundations, as can (and do) his colleagues at the CFIA (Bowie, Kissinger. Lipset Schelling Inkeles). The books that they publish explain the ideologies that they perpetuate. But their most important role is in accelerating the process by which social science serves the ends of those who make policy. From the formulation of theoretical problems to the most direct applications...
...Vietnam. Some professors might oppose this. Few are prepared to move against it, for in the final analysis most are tied by a thousand threads of privilege and ideology to the same forces that Huntington serves. The integration of government, private foundation, and university in such institutions as the CFIA is an important component of the imperial strategies of those who make and control U. S. foreign policy...