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Schelling's observation hits upon an important point. Prior to the founding of the Center, there was no mechanism at Harvard for the study of international politics and all its integral components: economics, theories of government, balance of power concepts, diplomatic strategies. The CFIA incorporated these component disciplines for the...
With the decline in importance of the Fellows' program in the early '60's, the significance of the Center's scholarly activity shifted to the field of arms control. The major specialists in this field were Schelling and Morton H. Halperin, a close associate of Henry A. Kissinger (also on...
In Schelling's judgment, the arms control work at the Center in theearly '60's had several positive effects on government policy:
at the prodding of the Center, Walt Rostow and Henry Rowen persuaded the American negotiator at Geneva, Llewelyn Thompson, to propose the "hot line" to the Russian delegate; the proposal was accepted ("Neither is known as being a dove," Schelling said of Rostow and Rowen, "but both were very strong...
This fear was part of the rationale for also seeking to prevent other nations from becoming nuclear powers; but behind that rationale was the more basic theorem that the possession of atomic weapons, even in their nonuse, was an incalculable political asset. In a proliferating world community, the U. S...