REQUEST FOR IC/FAR RESEARCH PROJECT INFORMATION FOR 4TH QUARTER FY 79

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000200020010-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 27, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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NFAC #5190/79
27 September 1979
FROM : Coordinator for Academic Relations, NFAC
SUBJECT . Request for IC/FAR Research Project Information
for 4th Quarter FY 79
1. For your information and guidance I am attaching the memorandum
from the State Department, requesting compliance with Foreign Affairs
Research reporting requirements. In order that we may meet the 31 October
deadline, please have your returns to us by 15 October 1979.
2. Attached also are copies of the pertinent forms. The Smithsonian
Science Information Exchange (SSIE) form can be used to report unclassified
projects, The Foreign Affairs Research Summary form is required for
reporting classified projects. If you have any questions, please contact
Attachments:
As stated
State Dept. review completed.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Agency Representatives for Interagency Coordination
of External Foreign Affairs Research
SUBJECT Request for IC/FAR Research Project Information for
4th Quarter FY 1979
To comply with section VI. B. of the Policies and Procedures for
Department of State Review and Coordination of Government-Sponsored
Research on Foreign Affairs dated January 16, 1978, please have the
attached sheet completed and returned to this office by October 31.
Attached is a copy of the "Working Definition" of Foreign Affairs
Research to assist you in determining which of your agency's projects
should be reported. Also attached are samples of the forms to be
used in submitting project information.
If you have any questions, I can be reached on [phone].
(Mrs.) Barbara W. Morlet
Special Assistant for Research Review
and Interagency Coordination
Office of External Research
Attachments:
1. IC/FAR Research Project
Information Sheet
2. Working Definition of
Foreign Affairs Research
3. SSIE Notice of Research Project
4. Foreign Affairs Research Summary
(Form DS-1728)
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Working Definition
Subject Matter
Foreign and domestic affairs are increasingly difficult to sort out, both
in the United States and in other countries. Actions and attributes of the
United States, governmental and private, shape both foreign and domestic
affairs. For these reasons, a broad rather than narrow definition of foreign
affairs research is required if knowledge and analyses adequate to current
and emergent realities are to be developed.
Therefore, a foreign affairs research program, project or activity is one
that focuses, in part or entirely, on recent, contemporary, or future:
-- Attributes, ideas or behavior of non-U.S. individuals, groups, societies,
or nations. This includes not only studies of discrete foreign areas or
peoples but also multinational studies and cross-national comparative
studies. It also includes more distant historical studies that draw
parallels with or lessons applicable to the contemporary scene.
-- Relations between and among nations or relations between and among
individuals or groups located in different nations.
-- Ways in which U.S. individuals, groups, ideas, attributes or activities
bear on the position or behavior of the United States in international
affairs.
Research Approaches and Methods
As in other categories of human and social affairs, knowledge about foreign
affairs neither fits neatly into disciplinary categories nor emerges exclu-
sively from a limited number of specifiable approaches, methods, techniques,
et cetera.
-- Generally, foreign affairs research uses the approaches and methods of
one or more of the basic or applied social, behavioral, or policy
sciences. But, alternatively or in addition, it may also use the ap-
proaches and methods of one or more of the humanities. It should be
specially stressed that these approaches and methods can be applied to
the foreign affairs aspects, uses, or implications of the physical and
life sciences and of technologies (weapons, energy, industrial, agri-
cultural, medical, etc.); studies of this nature are an increasingly
important part of foreign affairs research.
-- As in many other fields, foreign affairs research can be categorized
as pure, exploratory, basic, applied, developmental, evaluative,
policy, etc. All such categories should be included when foreign
affairs is the subject matter.
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NOTICE OF RESEARCH PROJECT
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION OFFICE: SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION NUM.ERISJ:
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Control No:
PROJECT TITLE:
INV[STIGATORtSI: DEPARTMENT/SPECIALTY, school or Division
PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: PERIOD FOR THIS NRP:
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Start Date;
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Including
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