Harvard University inaugurated a new research center devoted to
international relations in 1958. The Center for International
Affairs (CFIA) was founded by State Department Director of Policy
Planning Staff, Robert R. Bowie, at the invitation of McGeorge
Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Joined by Henry A.
Kissinger, Edward S. Mason, and Thomas C. Schelling, Bowie quickly
established the CFIA as a hub for studying international affairs in
the United States. CFIA affiliates produced seminal work on arms
control theory, development and modernization theory, and
transatlantic relations.
Digging deep into unpublished material in the Harvard, MIT, and
Kennedy Library archives, this book is punctuated with personal
interviews with influential CFIA affiliates. Atkinson describes the
relationship between foreign policy and scholarship during the Cold
War and documents the maturation of a remarkable academic
institution. Atkinson's history of the Center's first twenty-five
years traces the institutional and intellectual development of a
research center that, fifty years later, continues to facilitate
innovative scholarship. He explores the connection between
knowledge and politics, beginning with the Center's confident first
decade and concluding with the second decade, which found the CFIA
embroiled in Vietnam-era student protests.
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