Word: csia
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...conference, sponsored by the Kennedy School and the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA), will bring together experts in such diverse areas of the freeze movement as ethics, public opinion, and Soviet policy...
Though numerous other examples of the CSIA's ties to government exist. Nacht and Doty are quick to point out that links between university-based research centers and specific policies are often difficult to identify. They nonetheless remain strong advocates of studying nuclear issues in an academic setting...
Carter's relationship with the CSIA began during his campaign for the White House. Several CSIA members helped plan an international conference at the United Nations on "Nuclear Energy and World Order" in 1976, and at that gathering. Carter introduced the issue of nonproliferation as a weapon in his battle against incumbent Republican Gerald R. Ford...
...research centers--including the CSIA--are not without their critics. Some of the more literal experts in the arms control field point to the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown as being an overly enthusiastic proponent of hard-line strategies. Martin Sherwin a visiting professor in Harvard's graduate American history program, divides research centers into two categories: those that criticize government policy constructively without trying to undermine it and those that make "too much of an effort to find creative uses for nuclear weapons...
...CSIA would probably fall somewhere in the middle of Sherwin's two categories, perhaps a little closer to the "critical" side. While Doty maintains that the center "definitely has an arms control bias" and is "a bit more to the left of things," scholars at the CSIA generally span the ideological spectrum on nuclear issues...