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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







GRANTS-INTERNATIONAL DIVISION Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Johns Hopkins University [$180,000-1970] 60,000
Pittsburgh, University of [$385,000-1970] 107,250
Social Science Research Council [$249,000-1969] 150,000 110,600
Wisconsin, University of 100,000
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE U.S.S.R.
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Staff expansion, publications, and conferences [$90,000-1969] 30,000
Bibliographic and documentation services
Association of Research Libraries [$350,000-1969] 46,735
Central Asian Research Centre (London) [$60,000-1969] 15,000
Glasgow, University of [$140,000-1969] 30,191
Center for Applied Linguistics
Contrastive analyses of English and Rumanian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, and Hungarian languages [$159,000-1968, 1970] 210,000 142,725
Columbia University
Research on non-Russian nationalities in the U.S.S.R. [$50,000-1970] 25,000
Training and research on East Central Europe [$150,000-1970] 62,500
Training and research at Russian Institute [$300,000-1970] 125,000
Conferences and meetings on East-West relations
Johns Hopkins University [$136,070-1970] 50,000 38,400
Young Men's Christian Association [$10,000-1970] (10,000)
Fellowships and scholarly exchanges
American Council of Learned Societies
International Research and Exchanges Board [$2,782,695-1970] (47,305) 1,497,695
Slavic and East European Studies [$600,000-1968] 350,000 112,000
Council on International Educational Exchange [$150,000-1970] 50,000
Institute of International Education [$800,000-1968] 157,257
National Endowment for the Humanities 250,000 250,000
Social Science Research Council [$151,000-1969] 100,000 137,000
Harvard University
Research and training at Russian Research Center [$300,000-1970] 118,750
Indiana University
Training and research on East Europe 150,000 50,000
Michigan, University of
Comparative Eastern Europe and U.S. social studies [$100,000-1969] 21,000
Wayne State University
Research and training with Yugoslav regional and urban planners [$180,000-1968] 27,500
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
American Economic Association
Training for foreign students of economics [$350,000-1968] 38,000
American Universities Field Staff
Reporting service in international affairs 100,000 50,000
Chicago, University of
Research and training in education for Latin American and Asian graduate students [$200,000-1970] 150,000 62,960
Education and World Affairs
Studies and conferences on education in international affairs [$3,000,000-1966] 357,128
Foreign affairs centers and international studies programs
California, University of (Berkeley) 518,700
Canadian Institute of International Affairs [$165,000-1968] 30,000
Chicago, University of [$8,500,000-1966] 775,000 237,505
Columbia University [$760,000-1970] 305,000
Cornell University [$6,000,000-1967] 814,823
Denver, University of 90,000
Duke University [$150,000-1970] 45,000
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) [$654,880-1967, 1969] 203,259
Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) [$160,000-1968] (4) 40,000
Harvard University [$1,220,000-1970] 507,500


EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Foundation's support for programs concerned with international relations and world problems and with European affairs has followed two main paths—policy research and conferences on such issues as arms control, international economic relations, the uses and regulation of the oceans, and common problems of advanced industrial societies; and academic training, research, and exchanges involving both the East and the West. In addition, the Foundation aids the development in American universities of international research and training focused on both the developed and the less developed world.

Policy Research.

Although individual European universities and multinational organizations have conducted studies of the problems of a united Europe, the Continent has no multidisciplinary, multinational policy research center to stimulate new and independent thinking on European affairs. Recently two groups of European scholars under the aegis of the European Community Institute for University Studies in Brussels took preliminary steps to form such an organization and outlined a program of research on key issues that European policy makers will face in the 1970s. The Foundation, together with a group of European foundations, granted funds to this group for studies that will deal, among other things, with monetary affairs, European security, agricultural policy, American-European relations, and relations with the developing countries. The studies will result in two books to be published in several languages.

The Institute for Strategic Studies in London, supported by the Foundation since its establishment in 1958 and given a supplementary five-year grant of $525,000 in 1971, is an independent center for research, discussion, and publication on international security issues. It seeks to narrow the gap of knowledge and understanding between official policy and public opinion through studies of disarmament policy, military expenditures, and new weapons technology. The institute plans to expand its interests to include Asian security issues.