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...view of the performance of the CFIA depends largely on what one thinks its functions should be. Despite its title, the Center does not view itself as responsible for the whole area of international affairs, since there is a great deal of research at Harvard outside its aegis. Rather. Center programs for the past decade have been derived from the interests of its principal members. These have shifted over the years from the traditional concerns of foreign policy with security and the North Atlantic region to a major emphasis on the economic, social, and political aspects of modernization in Latin...
...convert his radical thoughts of U.S. foreign policy into a radical book, it will be the Center for International Affairs which will support him. If another member wishes to convert his radical thoughts on Spanish politics or on Cuban politicsinto a radical book, it will again be the CFIA which will support him. So the CFIA can support these men in their research...
From my own experience and from that of many colleagues, I say categorically that the CFIA supports radical and critical scholarship and will continue to do so in the future...
...CFIA does not merely support critical and radical scholars insofar as they exist on the Harvard faculty. The CFIA has a flexibility which the Harvard Departments lack; it can bring to the Center, for a year or two of full-time research, a scholar whose own university gives him insufficient research support and to whom the Harvard Department cannot give a position...
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...