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The '''Weatherhead Center for International Affairs''' was founded as the Center for International Affairs in 1958 and assumed its current name in 1998 following an endowment by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The aim of the Center was to confront the worlds problems as diagnosed by [[Robert R. Bowie]] and [[Henry Kissinger]] in their specification of The Program of the Center for International Affairs (1958): | The '''Weatherhead Center for International Affairs''' was founded as the Center for International Affairs in 1958 and assumed its current name in 1998 following an endowment by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The aim of the Center was to confront the worlds problems as diagnosed by [[Robert R. Bowie]] and [[Henry Kissinger]] in their specification of The Program of the Center for International Affairs (1958): | ||
| − | ''Foreign affairs in our era pose unprecedented tasks…Today no region is isolated; none can be ignored; actions and events even in remote places may have immediate worldwide impact…vast forces are reshaping the world with headlong speed. Under the impact of wars, nationalism, technology, and communism, the old order has been shattered. Empires have crumbled; nations once dominant are forced to adapt to shrunken influence. New nations have emerged and are struggling to survive…Nowhere do traditional attitudes fit the new realities…Thus notions of sovereignty and independence need revision to apply to a world where a nation's level of life or survival may depend as much on the actions of other countries as on its own…'' | + | :''Foreign affairs in our era pose unprecedented tasks…Today no region is isolated; none can be ignored; actions and events even in remote places may have immediate worldwide impact…vast forces are reshaping the world with headlong speed. Under the impact of wars, nationalism, technology, and communism, the old order has been shattered. Empires have crumbled; nations once dominant are forced to adapt to shrunken influence. New nations have emerged and are struggling to survive…Nowhere do traditional attitudes fit the new realities…Thus notions of sovereignty and independence need revision to apply to a world where a nation's level of life or survival may depend as much on the actions of other countries as on its own…'' |
The Center is the located within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in [[Harvard University]].<ref>http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/about</ref> Every year, it hosts approximately fifteen Fellows, at least three of whom are from the three major branches of the [[United States Armed Forces]].<ref>http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/people/affiliates/wcfia_fellows</ref> | The Center is the located within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in [[Harvard University]].<ref>http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/about</ref> Every year, it hosts approximately fifteen Fellows, at least three of whom are from the three major branches of the [[United States Armed Forces]].<ref>http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/people/affiliates/wcfia_fellows</ref> | ||
Revision as of 13:24, 2 March 2011
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs was founded as the Center for International Affairs in 1958 and assumed its current name in 1998 following an endowment by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The aim of the Center was to confront the worlds problems as diagnosed by Robert R. Bowie and Henry Kissinger in their specification of The Program of the Center for International Affairs (1958):
- Foreign affairs in our era pose unprecedented tasks…Today no region is isolated; none can be ignored; actions and events even in remote places may have immediate worldwide impact…vast forces are reshaping the world with headlong speed. Under the impact of wars, nationalism, technology, and communism, the old order has been shattered. Empires have crumbled; nations once dominant are forced to adapt to shrunken influence. New nations have emerged and are struggling to survive…Nowhere do traditional attitudes fit the new realities…Thus notions of sovereignty and independence need revision to apply to a world where a nation's level of life or survival may depend as much on the actions of other countries as on its own…
The Center is the located within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Harvard University.[1] Every year, it hosts approximately fifteen Fellows, at least three of whom are from the three major branches of the United States Armed Forces.[2]
