Word: csia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CSIA houses about two dozen scholars and professionals-in-residence during the academic year, offers an undergraduate course on nuclear technology and politics, organizes seminars and publishes a prominent quarterly journal. International Security...
About 35 percent of all CSIA research fellows end up in Washington, some on congressional staffs, others in executive branches such as the Department of Defense. The center's associates director, Michael Nacht, points to the example of Steven Flanigan, a former research associate, who left the CSIA to join the staff of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. That panel debated in 1979 whether the SALT II nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets was sufficiently verifiable, concluding that it was not. The Senate never formally acted on the treaty after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and tensions between Moscow...
...CSIA, which formally joined the K-School in 1978 as its first permanent research center, receives endowment support from Harvard as well as continued funding from the Ford Foundation. Robert Tolles, a spokesmen for the Foundation, calls the center "clearly one of, if not the dominant one in its field...
...revolving door between the CSIA and Washington has not been as active under President Reagan as it had been under previous administrations. "Truthfully, there just wasn't that much going on in Washington [under Reagan] on issues of arms control until very recently," says Doty. "Only just now is the debate, and hence the more direct need for us, picking up again...
Regardless of temporary slow periods, Nacht says, "a tangible case can be made that CSIA personnel have had a fairly significant impact on government." Under President Jimmy Carter, associates of the center played a major role in shaping U.S. policy on matters of international security, energy and arms control...