FULL-TIME EXTERNAL TRAINING FOR (SANITIZED) DURING THE 1984-85 ACADEMIC YEAR

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2008
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• Publication Date: May 4, 1984
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
THROUGH: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Douglas J. MacEachin
Director of Soviiet Analysis
SUBJECT: Full-time External Training for
During the 1984-85 STAT
Academic Year
1. Approval is requested for full-time training at the
Johns Hopkins'School of Advanced International Studies for
GS-09, intelligence officer/economics, for STAT
the academic year 1984-85. The training would begin in September
1984 and conclude at the end of the Summer semester of 1985.
2. has been an economic analyst in the STAT
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Manpower and Planning Branch ofthe Soviet Economy Division in
SOVA since she-entered on duty in October 1981. She plans to
pursue coursework in both economics and Russian area studies.
Her current duties include research and analysis on intelligence
problems in the area of Soviet consumer welfare (Soviet
consumption trends and policies) and in the area of foreign labor
in the USSR. This program-is designed to enhance her
capabilities and prepare her for further development as an
economic analyst in SOYA. The proposed program is flexible and
well suited for study in economics and Russian area studies, as
well as stressing development of superior oral and written
communication skills. Both skiliils are essential to the work of
any Agency analyst.
3. The estimated cost of tuition, books, and registration
fees for the proposed program i s $9,500 to $10,000.00. An
outline-of a proposed course of,study is attached.
Attachment:
As stated
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SUBJECT: Full-time External Training for
During the 1984-85 Academic YeaLr
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Director of Training and Education
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Proposed Course of Study* .
Fall 1984
Macroeconomic Theory--Theories underlying government
policies for business cycles, inflation, employment, and economic
growth are studied.
Probability and Statistics--Presents. basic statistical tools
for data analysis. Facility in problem solving in statistical
inference and two variable repression and correlation analysis is
stressed. Descriptive statistics, probability, and probability
distributions are presented and are used in hypothesis testing.
Politics of Development in Russia and the USSR, I--Covers
three themes in the development of Russian and Soviet society:
political leadership and institutions, economic change, and
education and intellectual life, by time period.
Soviet Foreign Policy Since Stalin--Topics include Soviet..
relations with the U.S., China, Europe, and the Third World;
external economic relations; and domestic politics of foreign
policy.
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1984-81
STAT
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Spring 1985
International Monetary Theory--Covers the basic theory
underlying the international monetoory system. Topics include
balance-of-payments analysis, foreign exchange markets,
interaction of economies at the macro-level, and exchange rate
regimes.
Basic Econometrics--Provides comprehensive introduction to
econometrics..
Politics of Development in Russia and the USSR, II--See
description above. .
Nationalism and Nationalities in Russia and the USSR.--
Explores the significance of ethnic relations in the historical
development of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, emphasizing
the risk of Great Russian nationalism, the growth of ethnic
consiousness among minority nationalities, and the political
mechanisms that manage ethnic tensions.
Economic Development--A seminar on the basic problems of
economic development of developing countries and the contribution
of contemporary economic theory to their analysis. Topics
include national income as a measure of progress, land and
resources, population, innovation and enterprise, domestic and
international sources of capital, and development planning.
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Summer 1985
International Trade Theory--Consideration of the theory and
practice of international trade and investment.
America and the World Since 1945--History of the foreign
policy of the US since WW II and analysis of the domestic and
international factors that have shaped the evolution of U.S.
policies.
*Final course of study will depend on courses actually
offered for a given semester.
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