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Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. 

 [Report] June 1975. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. 27S p. 



The Commission was established by P.L. 92-352, to submit findings and 

 recommendations to develop a more effective system to formulate and 

 implement foreign policy. This volume summarizes the major findings. It 

 treats: "The purposes of organizations, [which] outline the importance of 

 sound organizations and decision processes, and discusses the functions that 

 effective organization can and cannot perform. It then suggests the general 

 characteristics of the foreign policy problems of the near future with which 

 any organizational arrangements will have to contend." The next section 

 ^'The President and the State Department, spells out the Commission's main 

 recommendations concerning the organization of the Executive Office of the 

 President, and the Department of State." The section entitled "The Conduct 

 of Foreign Policy, discusses changes in organization which might improve 

 the formulation and conduct of various specific aspects of foreign policy, 

 and contains additional recommendations concerning the White House and 

 State Department as well as the Departments of the Treasury, Defense, 

 and the Intelligence Community. Aspects of congressional organization are 

 also discussed." The last section, "Executive-Congressional Relations and 

 the Organization of the Congress," relates a number of the recommendations 

 made concerning the executive branch to proposed congres.-?ional changes, 

 and reviews the means by which executive and legislative branches of gov- 

 ernment can work together more effectively to carry out their mutual re- 

 sponsibilities for foreign policy. 



Contents of Appendix Volumes I Through VII 



Volume I 

 appendix a: foreign policy for the future 



1. The Future World Environment: Near-Term Problems for U. S. Foreign 

 Policy by Peter L. Szanton. 



2. The International Community in the Next Two Decades by Zbigniew 

 Brzezinski. 



3. The Tasks Ahead for U.S. Foreign Policy by Robert R. Bowie. 



4. Toward an Open Foreign Policy by Mc George Bundy. 



APPENDIX b: the management of global issues 



Organizing for Global Environmental and Resource Interdependence by 

 J. S. Nye, Robert O. Keohane, et al. 



APPENDIX c: multilateral diplomacy 



1. The Management of Multilateralism by Harlan Cleveland. 



2. Foreign Policymaking in a New Era — The Challenge of Multilateral 

 Diplomacy by Richard N. Gardner. 



3. Conduct of Multilateral Diplomacy by the United States Government 

 by Charles W. Yost. 



Volume II 



appendix d: the use of information 



Towards a More Soundly Based Foreign Policy: Making Better Use of 

 Information by Alexander L. George, Stanford University, et al. 



appendix e: field reporting 



Towards the Improvement of Foreign Service Field Reporting by William 

 D. Coplin, Michael K. O'Leary, Robert F. Rich, et al, Prince Analysis, Inc. 



appendix f: policy planning 



1. Organizing for Policy Planning by Lincoln P. Bloomfield. 



2. Commentaries by Robert R. Bowie, Chester L. Cooper, and Henry 

 Owen. 



