Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment on a couple of points concerning the current criticism of the Center for International Affairs and the Development Advisory Service. First, as instruments of American imperialism they have surely been remarkably incompetent. Stanley Hoffmann's attack on an ambitious and obtrusive and thus, presumptively, imperialist foreign policy has. I sense, been the most widely influential work by anyone associated with the Center in recent years. The history of the DAS is even more striking. Pakistan was the original theatre of its efforts. It remains its show-case achievement. During the period when DAS was most effectively at work...
What is true of the university and a critical theory of society is true of the Center for International Affairs and a critical theory of American foreign policy. A conventional scholar need only cross the T of a pre-existing theory; a radical scholar usually must create his own theory. Radical scholarship takes more thought, more time, and more sweat than conventional scholarship, and this makes research support necessary for radical analyses...
...realm of the mind into spheres of intellectual interest- The Joint Center for Urban Studies, The Institute of Politics, The Center for International Affairs, and the East Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern Research Centers. If a member of the Government Department wishes to 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...
...does it? The above projects on U.S. foreign policy, on Spanish politics, and on Cuban politics have in fact been supported by the Center for the past year, as have been many others, including radical analyses of peasant movements and of armament reduction...
...short, the Center for International Affairs is a necessary condition for systematic and sustained radical analyses of American foreign policy here at Harvard; again, to diminish it is to diminish our radical future...