COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, INC.

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• Publication Date: September 17, 1979
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE HAROLD PRATT HOUSE 158 EAST 68TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 I TEL. [phone] I CABLE: COUNFOREL, NEW YORK
ALTON FRYE
Director
International Affairs Fellowships
August 1, 1979
We are pleased to announce the International Affairs Fellowship compe-
tition for 1980-81. The program seeks to nourish the relationship between
scholarship and stewardship in international affairs by facilitating active
policy involvement for analysts and reflective policy analysis for those in
more active roles. As in the past, the Council will offer a number of grants
to outstanding candidates between the ages of twenty-seven and thirty-five 7'?_
from government, academic life, business and the professions.
If you know of any exceptional man or woman who might be a suitable
nominee for the program, we would be very pleased to have your suggestions.
We need to know the name, age, and address of your candidate, and we would
appreciate a brief description of his or her background together with the
reasons for your recommendation. You need not go into great detail since
we will request a full curriculum vitae from each person we invite to apply
for the competition.
As you know, we are especially interested in two types of candidates:
1) promising people in public service who have displayed notable intellec-
tual gifts and whose professional growth would benefit from a period of
reflection and writing about an important contemporary issue in interna-
tional relations; and 2) those now in private life whose professional de-
velopment and potential contributions to foreign policy would particularly
benefit from a period of active public service. We plan to extend our in-
vitations promptly, so nominations should be submitted as soon as possible,
preferably by September 15, 1979. I hope we shall be hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Vincent Davis, Director
William Andrew Patterson School of
Diplomacy & International Commerce
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
1980-81 Competition
The Council on Foreign Relations is pleased to announce its 1980-81 International
Affairs Fellowship competition. Initiated in 1967, the fellowships are designed
to bridge the gap between theory and practice in international relations and to
encourage the better use of scholarly or reflective wisdom in decisions on inter-
national problems. The Council will award a number of fellowships to Americans
between the ages of twenty-seven and thirty-five with demonstrated intellectual
ability and promise who come from the academic, government, business and profes-
sional communities. The fellowships will enable each to undertake an examination
of an important problem in international affairs and to explore the implications
of that problem for the interests and policies of the United States, foreign
states, or international organizations.
With this broad objective, a wide variety of proposals will be considered. For
example, the Advisory Selection Committee will welcome proposals which focus the
fellowship year on the task of looking for solutions, or partial solutions, to an
identified problem. Taking the point of view of government officials or others
who are faced with alternative courses, a candidate might lay out a year's work
designed to produce practical recommendations based on the information, analyses
and theories already available.
An alternative for the candidate from the private sector, including academics who
have already developed some hypotheses about policies to be adopted by governments,
would be to spend up to a year in government in a position which permits him or her
to observe and understand the forces that influence the decision-making process.
The younger government official, on the other hand, is encouraged to reflect on a
problem in a scholarly environment free from the pressures of daily decision-making,
and based on the lessons of his or her own first-hand experiences, to draw conclu-
sions that may be of value both to scholars and to decision-makers who may be faced
with similar problems in the future.
A fourth possibility would be to study some aspect of the policy-making process it-
self and how that process might be improved. One might, for example, study the pro-
cess by which theoretical knowledge and scholarly understanding at present affect the
conduct of foreign relations, and formulate suggestions for improving the process.
While these suggestions are illustrative of the main focus of the program, other
proposals that examine the policy implications of a given problem may be considered.
The program will not, however, support research as traditionally understood - the
gathering of new information and the development of generalizations concerning it -
if the results will be of primary interest only to scholars or theoreticians. Since
one of the major purposes of the program is to have a constructive impact on the ca-
reers of promising young persons, the proposals will be judged not only for their
creativity and practicality, but for the contribution they seem likely to make to
each recipient's individual development.
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While there is no fixed requirement that a Fellow produce a book, article or report,
it is hoped that some written output will ordinarily result. Awards will not gener-
ally be made to complete books or other projects on which substantial progress has
been made prior to the beginning of the fellowship period. In any case, candidates
are urged to consider their proposals with care and to discuss them thoroughly with
advisors or others who are knowledgeable,in their project area before submitting them
to the Council for consideration. The Council may suggest revisions before a propos-
al is submitted to the Selection Committee.
Fellowships will ordinarily cover a period not to exceed twelve months. Since broad-
ening the experience and understanding of each Fellow is an important aspect of the
program, only under exceptional circumstances will an award be made permitting the re-
cipient to remain at his or her home institution during the fellowship year. There
are no other restrictions as to where or how a Fellow may work, although some Fellows
may find it advantageous to be in residence in New York for all or part of the period.
Fellows residing in the New York area may participate more conveniently in Council
meetings, study and discussion groups, and other activities relevant to their area of
interest. They will also have the benefit of the advice of the Council's senior re-
search staff.
The small size of the program affords Fellows an opportunity to develop a special
sense of community. Those who are not resident in New York City will be brought to
the Council during the year to meet with other Fellows, the Council's studies staff,
and Council members. Fellows based in Washington will take part in the Council's
program there.
To ensure nomination of superior candidates, application will be primarily by invita-
tion, on the recommendation of a national panel of individuals in academic, govern-
ment, and other institutions, who have occasion to know able young persons particu-
larly well-suited for the experience the Council program offers. Others who inquire
directly and who meet preliminary requirements may also be invited to apply without
formal nomination.
To be eligible for the fellowship, an applicant must be an American citizen or a per-
manent resident who has made application for citizenship. Candidates should be between
the ages of twenty-seven and thirty-five at the time of nomination. While the PhD
degree or its equivalent is not a firm requirement for academic applicants, the Coun-
cil will not grant fellowships to support writing of dissertations or research toward
the PhD.
Application forms (which will be sent by the Council after receipt of nomination) and
supporting materials must be filed not later than October 31, 1979. Following a pre-
liminary screening by the Selection Committee, those candidates who are selected as
finalists may be asked to furnish additional material and, where possible, to partici-
pate in a personal interview. All candidates will be informed of their status follow-
ing the preliminary screening, and notification of the awards themselves will be made
by April 1980. In most cases fellowships are expected to begin in the fall of 1980,
although in special circumstances they may begin earlier or later in the year.
In making awards, consideration will be given to income from all sources and to the
total expenditures essential to carrying out the project. The fellowship stipend
normally will not exceed the salary relinquished during the period of the fellowship.
There is no objection to combining a fellowship with grants from other sources so
long as these impose no conditions inconsistent with the Council's requirement that
a Fellow devote full time to the project he has outlined. Indeed, such additional
grants will often be the best way of financing travel and other extra expenses.
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Announcement of Awards
1979-1980
Since 1967 the Council on Foreign Relations has maintained a unique program
of fellowships offering outstanding young men and women between the ages of
twenty-seven and thirty-five an opportunity to broaden their expertise in the
field of international affairs. The distinctive character of the International
Affairs Fellowships lies in the provision of contrasting experiences for young
professionals working at the nexus of policy research and policy action. Thus,
academics and other professionals from the private sector are enabled to apply
their humanistic disciplines in a policy-oriented environment, and government
officials are encouraged to consider problems in a scholarly atmosphere free
from the pressure of decision-making.
Thanks to the continuing support of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, the Council is pleased to announce the appointment of the follow-
ing eleven International Affairs Fellows for 1979-80.
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