AUGUST 1977 ADDENDUM 



TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBAL INDEPENDENCE: GENERAL ISSUES 



Basiuk, Victor. Technology, World Politics and American Policy. Columbia Univer- 

 sity Press, 1977. 409 p. 



"With experience in the Washington policy-making process and an exten- 

 sive knowledge of science and international politics, Victor Basiuk analyzes 

 the present and projected state of technology, focusing on the dislocations 

 societies will experience from rapid technological advance. The dislocations 

 are contrasted with the ability of individual nations and regions to develop 

 coherent strategies to cope with the post-industrial society. Basiuk examines 

 the relationship between the dependent and independent effects of tech- 

 nology. . ." 



"To avoid crises in readjusting to the new realities of the future, the 

 reponses to the semi-stationary society must begin now. The U.S. must 

 reasses."- its national purpose, emphasizing intellectual and cultural acliieve- 

 ment in its orientation of values and placing less emphasis on material 

 rewards. Throughout, Basiuk favors long-term and well thought-out struc- 

 tural changes over haphazard short-term responses." 

 Bergsten, C. Fred. "Interdependence and the Reform of International Institu- 

 tions." International Organization, v. 30, spring 1976: 361-372. 



Bergsten proposes "to bring all issues of international interdependence 

 under the governance of effective international rules and institutional 

 arrangements. This requires the creation of a few new institutions and the 

 reform of several existing institutions, each to pursue functionally specific 

 tasks. It requires engaging all relevant actors in the decision- making process, 

 while at the same time developing collective leadership of the system through 

 joint management by a small group of the most powerful countries. It requires 

 both more national willingness to submit important issues to international 

 institutional determination, and more effective management in the institution 

 to spur the process." 

 Center for the Study of Social Policy. Assessment of Future National and Inter- 

 national Problem Areas. Vol. I. [Washington, National Science Foundation, for 

 sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1977. 112 p. 



"SRI project 4676" 



"This is a report on an exploratory effort to anticipate emerging and future 



problem areas that can be addressed productively by science and technology. 



The aim of this report is to assist government decisionmakers with systematic 



and credible early-warning techniques to better anticipate future national — 



and international-scale problems so they can be dealt with before they become 



serious or intractable." 



Drath, L., M. Gibbons, and J. Ronayne. "The European Molecular Biology 



Organization: A Case-Study of Decision-making in Science Policy." Research 



Policy, V. 4, Mar. 1975: 56-78. 



"This paper describes how, from the point of view of the British system 



of science, the decision was taken to join the European Molecular Biology 



Conference. The paper concludes that the decision-making process may be 



more aptly described as incremental than rationalistic." 



Haas, Ernst B., "On Systems and International Regimes." World Politics, v. 27, 



Jan. 1975: 147-174. 



Presents "a. four-fold typology of systems theories together with their 

 assumptions and relevance to the creation of international regimes. The 

 article then examines three specific proposals for international action on 

 science and technology, prepared under OECD auspices, in order to demon- 

 strate the extent to which they rely on systems theory and to determine 

 how persuasive the systemic justification is. The conclusion: there is an 

 inverse relationship between the elaborateness of the systemic justification 

 and the acceptability of the regime on logical, empirical, and moral grounds.' ' 



1 Prepared by Genevieve J. Knezo. analyst. Science and Teclinology, Science Policy 

 Research Division. Assistance provided by Elaine Carlson, research assistant, Senior 

 Specialist Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. 



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