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conflict there, expressed in his speech at Johns Hopkins University. 

 Assessment of the Mekong project itself as example of the opportuni- 

 ties and problems of the multinational regional approach to integrat- 

 ing technological achievement and social policy. 



(5) The United Nations and the Seabed. — Interactions of national 

 sovereignty with international technology in an international environ- 

 ment. Attempted resolution of the issue of territorial limits. Problems 

 created by the case seen as political and diplomatic rather than techno- 

 logical, although it is technology that makes the case important. 



(6) U.S. -Soviet Commercial Relations. — Exploratory assessment of 

 the political and economic costs and benefits of the emerging trade re- 

 lationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, and of the 

 transfer of technology from the former to the latter. 



9. Organization of the Total Study 



A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the 12 individual studies 

 (6 cases and 6 issues) and their findings is given in parts 3 and 4. The 

 methodology of the analysis is described in chapter 14. 35 



A word might be said here about the working philosophy which has 

 governed the Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy research 

 project. Authors were encouraged to conduct and present the analysis 

 of each case or issue with two perspectives continuously in mind : that 

 of the case or issue as a worthy subject in itself, as well as that of its 

 relationship to the broad theme of the overall study : i.e., the interac- 

 tion of science, technology, and U.S. foreign policy. 



The returns are in for the first of those two complementary aims — 

 to make available to the congressional (and in general the public 

 affairs) community the analysis and findings of specific cases and is- 

 sues, on their individual merits ; the results are gratifying. All 12 stu- 

 dies have served significant congressional or other governmental pur- 

 poses relating to their specific themes; all have received serious atten- 

 tion in academic circles as well; most have had to be reprinted to 

 satisfy a demand which persisted for some years after the date of 

 publication. 



But it was the second and larger aim that prompted Chairman 

 Zablocki to request this extended research undertaking to begin with, 

 and to seek the critical reactions of knowledgeable persons in and out 

 of government for the benefit of Congress. This was the aim of making 

 an empirical examination, by the case study method, of representative 

 instances of the interplay of science and technology with diplomacy 

 for the light they might shed on how the U.S. Government could bet- 

 ter equip itself to meet the compelling challenges posed by that inter- 

 play. To see this problem whole, it was planned at the outset to bring 

 all of the research results together in one collected study. The present 

 document represents fulfillment of that plan. 



« Numerous references to material In the 12 basic studies occur throughout the overall 

 study In both text and footnotes. These references cite pages of the overall study rather 

 than the original page numbers. 



-.1 P ha Pter-study equivalents are as follows (for full citations of individual studies, see 

 list Of documents in the original study series, p. VII. 



Chapter 1 — Huddle. Toward a New Diplomacy in a Scientific Age 

 Chapter 3 — Wu. The Bamch Plan: U.S. Diplomacy Enters the'Nuclear Age. 

 Chapter 4 — Donnelly. Commercial Nuclear Poner in Europe: The Interaction of 

 American Diplomacy With a New Technology. 



(Continued) 



