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Introduction
Pages 1-4

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... The central purpose of the committee was to identify knowledge in basic behavioral and social sciences that is relevant to issues of war and peace, to communicate that knowledge to the appropriate audiences, and to encourage research in areas that appeared ripe for developing new policy-related knowledge. The committee brings together people with policy-oriented backgrounds (security specialists, international relations scholars, and Sovietologists)
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... General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had been using the term "interdependence" frequently in his descriptions of the world situation, apparently in place of older characterizations in terms of "imperialism" and "class struggle." This new language made an idea from American social science (Cooper, 1968; Young, 1968-69; Morse, 1969; Waltz, 1970; Rosecrance and Stein, 1973; Keohane and Nye, 1977) attractive to Soviet academics, who could reasonably expect to be called upon to provide the detailed analyses needed to implement Gorbachev's "new thinking." Second, the topic combined policy relevance with potentially strong conceptual and empirical bases in social science literature.
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... Soviet social researchers are beginning to welcome the sort of peer review that typifies scientific interchange in other parts of the world. As they adopt international scientific norms, Soviet researchers will become more easily integrated into the international social scientific community.
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... Keohane, R.O., and J.S. Nye 1977 Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition.
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