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The empirical approach followed in the project, and the broad 

 matrix analysis of project findings in chapters 18 through 23, have 

 resulted in a research product of somewhat formidable proportions. 

 A certain amount of unavoidable repetition has also resulted. (On 

 the other hand, many of the insights scattered through the 12 individ- 

 ual studies could not be captured in the concluding analysis without 

 distracting from the latter, with its main focus on the shortcomings 

 of American institutions for coping with global issues; the individual 

 studies therefore remain unique and useful resources in themselves.) 



The complete study consists of 24 chapters (the major subdivisions 

 of which, identified by Roman numerals, are referred to as sections) 

 organized into a general introduction and 4 parts. A short chapter 

 introducing the main analytical portion of the study intervenes be- 

 tween parts 2 and 3. Following two introductory chapters at the be- 

 ginning, part 1 contains a separate chapter for each of the six case 

 studies. Part 2 is made up of six chapters presenting the studies of 

 continuing issues. Part 3 is devoted to a comprehensive analytical 

 review of the preceding 12 studies, taken individually. Part 4 ex- 

 amines the studies collectively under G cross-cutting headings reflect- 

 ing broad policy concerns, with concluding observations as to policy 

 options for the Congress and the executive branch. The study ends 

 with an extensive annotated bibliography. 



As noted in Chapter 15 under Methodology, the order followed in 

 presenting the cases and issues — both at large in the overall study 

 and, in parallel, in the analysis of parts 3 and 4 — was established by 

 the subject matter itself, independently of the date of publication of 

 the particular study. The aim in any given case is to focus on enduring 

 problems and underlying relationships, not to provide up-to-the- 

 minute details. (As a practical matter, the basic studies — chapters 

 3 through 14 — have not been updated for inclusion in the full study 

 collection; Chapters 1, 2, and 15, however, have been revised from a 

 mid-1977 perspective, and to the extent deemed useful chapters 16 

 through 24 also have been brought up to date.) The appropriateness 

 of this approach seems borne out by the fact that, in general, the in- 

 dividual studies have not been outdated with the passage of time, and 

 that virtually all of their findings remain valid and relevant. 



The foregoing introduction has been a restatement of the original 

 project prospectus. 3 " The latter is here modified only to reflect the 



Continued) 



Chapter 5 — Rullis, The Political Legacy of the International Geophysical Year. 

 Chapter 6 — Huddle, The Mekong Project: Opportunities and Problems of Regionalism. 

 Chapter 7- — Doumanl, Exploiting the Resources of the Seabed. 

 Chapters — Hardt and Holllday, U.S. -Soviet Commercial Relations: The Interplay of 



Economics, Technology Transfer, and Diplomacy. 

 Chapter 9 — Huddle, The Evolution of International Technology. 

 Chapter 10 — Quimby, The Politics of Global Health. 

 Chapter 11 — Nanes, Beyond Malthas: The Food/People Equation. 

 Chapter 12 — Knezo, U.S. Scientists Abroad: An Examination of Major Programs for 



Nongovernmental Scientific Exchange. 

 Chapter 13 — Whelan, Brain Drain: A Study of the Persistent Issue of International 



Scientific Mobility. 

 Chapter 14 — Huddle, Science and Technology in tlic Department of Stat< : Bringing 



Technical Content Into Diplomatic Policy and Operations. 

 Chapters 15 through -i (and Chapter 21 Huddle and Johnston, Science, Technology, 

 ami Diplomacy in the Vge of Interdependence. 

 "U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Toward a New Diplomacy in a 

 scientific Age, in the series Selenee, Technology, and American Diplomacy, prepared for the 

 Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments by Franklin P. Hud- 

 dle, Science Policy Research Division. Congressional Research Service. Library of Congress, 

 Washington, D.C., c.s. Govt. Print. Off., 1970, 28 p. (Committee print.) 



