A-200 THE MID-CAREER COURSE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPRING SESSION APRIL 7 - JUNE 27, 1958 DESCRIPTION AND OUTLINE

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A-200 THE MID-CAREER COURSE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Spring Session
April 7 - June 27, 1958
DESCRIPTION AND OUTLINE
Objective and Scope
The Mid-Career Course on Foreign Affairs is a condensed 12-week training course de-
signed to permit Foreign Service Officers of classes 3 and 4 to make a break away from the
immediate focus of day-to-day operations, during which they may gain perspective for a mid-
career reassessment of the functions of the Foreign Service and of their own roles in the
Service in the formulation and implementation of United States foreign policy. Considering
the mid-career Foreign Service Officer's principal task to be analytic reporting and policy
recommendation, whether in political, economic, informational, or managerial areas, the
course has been planned to focus upon the following objectives:
(1) To introduce students to generally valid concepts of social behavior analysis
which may help them both to sharpen and to systematize their techniques of observation and
reporting.
(2) To acquaint students with the many significant domestic interests which have a
direct concern in all foreign policy recommendations.
(3) To give students an opportunity to test the utility of the materials presented
under objectives 1 and 2, through oral and written analyses of current problems in the
fields of foreign policy and Foreign Service Management.
(4) To assist officers in making their own analysis of attitudes, values, and current
trends in the United States, which may provide them with a stronger foundation from which
to interpret America and American policies more effectively abroad.
(5) To enable students to develop their executive capabilities and management skills,
with emphasis upon a top management perspective. i.e. the ability to consider problems
from the viewpoint of the Department as a whole.
Methods
Methods of instruction include: lectures by acade!nic leaders, and informal briefings
by qualified experts in appropriate operational areas; question and informal discussion
sessions following lectures and briefings; formal discussion seminars by student panels on
assigned topics; course theses on some aspect of current foreign relations or management
problems in the Foreign Service; assigned general and daily reading assignments; and inde-
pendent research efforts.
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Course Content
Following convocation students normally hear from the course chairman an outline of
the course content and method, devote one period to oral autobiographic introductions, and
then proceed to Front Royal, where they spend the remainder of the first two weeks in a
program of executive management studies, based in large part on an approach through case
studies.
Beginning with the third week the course concentrates on lecture and discussion
sessions in behavioral science fields. These lectures are designed to demonstrate two
allied but distinct overall approaches to a systematic analysis of social problems. The
first interprets societies in terms primarily of their social values and of the institu-
tional patterns which characterize the society. Lectures on the Culture Concept, on
Language in Culture, on the Bases and Exercise of National Power, and on Communications
and Information Theory deal largely with this approach, which has special pertinence for
the analysis of less sophisticated societies.
The second method, which is more appropriate to the understanding of trends in more
advanced areas, interprets societies rather in terms of the psychology of the individuals
who.compose them, and involves examination of both individual and group motivations and
attitudes towards the external influences with which the society is confronted. Lectures
on the Psychological Bases of Cultural Universals, on Psychological Bases of Social Move-
ments, on International Legal Norms, and on Analysis of Decision-Making demonstrate this
approach.
The value to FSO's of these "scientific" frames of social analysis lies in their
systematic method. To begin with they oblige a reporting officer to define his line of
inquiry in specific terms, and then provide him with a frame of reference which insures
his examination of all pertinent aspects of the problem. Attention is focussed throughout
the; course plan toward relating the theoretical material to practical Foreign Service
concerns, through lectures, case studies, formal discussion seminars, course theses, and
informal question periods in which students challenge lecturers to illustrate their points
in current and practical terms.
After examination of behavioral science techniques one week will be devoted to a
close analysis by the class of outstanding patterns and trends in American life, followed
by a similar though shorter program of examination of contrasting Soviet attitudes. In
addition, one week is devoted to class analysis through lectures and seminars of the Sig-
nificant Factors in Economic Development. Emphasis is placed on the two major elements,
Capital and Human Resources, and half of the lectures focus on case studies in economic
development in specific areas.
The final weeks of the course are devoted in large part to briefings from representa-
tives of agencies and groups which have a significant degree of influence on our foreign
policy decisions (or decision-makers), or who are in a position to interpret such influences
in terms of interest to Foreign Service Officers. The JCS, CIA, and USUN each arrange two
day programs of concentrated briefings on US Deterrent Capabilities, US Intelligence
Objectives and Techniques, and The US Role in Multilateral. Diplomacy. Other briefings are
provided by the NSC, AEC, ICA, USIA, a member of Congress, a prominent politically oriented
journalist, a current leader in US Culture, and by representatives of pertinent areas of
the Department.
COURSE DIVISION WEEK DATE PERIODS DIRECTION SUBJECT
Convocation and I Apr 7 I -Talks Mr. Harold B. Convocation and Welcome
Introduction Hoskins and to Foreign Service
Members of FSI Institute
Staff
1 -Talk Course Chairman Introduction to Course
Aims and Methods
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK DATE PERIODS DIRECTION
CLASS MOVES TO FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA
Executive
Management
Apr 9-18 ENTIRE
PERIOD
Mr. Saul Moskowitz, Case Studies
Director, Executive Management
Management Section,
FSI, and lecturers:
Thomas S. Estes,
Deputy Assistant
Secretary for
Administration
Dr. A. Steinbach,
Department of
Labor
Dr. W. S. Sayre,
Columbia Univ-
ersity
The Executive Task in the
Foreign Service
Cross-Cultural Aspects of
Administration in Central
Europe
A Survey of Administrative
Thought
Mr. Herman Pollach, Managerial Problems in the
Management Officer Department of State
Dr. N. H. Martin,
University of
Chicago
Mr. T. C. Barger,
Arabian American
Oil Company
Dr. Afif I. Tannous
FAS
The Contributions of the
Behavioral Sciences to
Administration
An Analysis of Arabian-
American Oil Company's
Managerial Problems
Cross-Cultural Aspects of
Administration in the
Middle East
Mr. Walter Williams The Executive Task in
Under Secretary, Government
Introduction to
3
21
2-Lectures
Dept. of Commerce
Dr. Ordway Tead,
Columbia Univ-
ersity
Ambassador Herbert
Bureley, Chief,
Career Development
Prof. Marion J.
The Art of Management
Career Development in the
Foreign Service
Introduction to the Concept
Conceptual Meth-
and Discus-
Levy, Dept. of
of Functionalism in Cross-
ods of Analysis
sion
Sociology, Prince-
Cultural Analysis
22
2-Lectures
ton University
Effects of Modernization
and Discus-
sion
on China and Japan
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK
DATE
PERIODS
DIRECTION
SUBJECT
Introduction to
3
Apr 24
2-Lectures
Prof. D. Scott
Techniques of Cross-
Conceptual Meth-
and Discus-
Gilbert, FSI
Cultural Analysis
ods of Analysis
sion
Staff
(continued)
25
2-Lectures
FSI Language
Language in Culture
4
28
and Discus-
sion
4-Lectures
School
Prof. Joseph
Psychological Interpreta-
29
and Discus-
lion
Campbell, Sarah
Lawrence College
tions of Cultural Univers-
als
30
2-Lectures
Prof. Gilbert
Psychological Motivations
May 1
2
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
Prof. Gilbert
in Social Action
Social Acceptance of
Elite Groups
India as a Case Study in
5
5
and Discus-
sion
4-Lectures
Edwin M. Wright,
Socio-Psychological Analysis
The Near Eastern Origins of
6
and Discus-
sion
FSI Staff
Western Cultural Patterns
9
2-Lectures
Course Chairman
Prof.W. Phillips
An Analytical Method Derived
from Information Theory
Analysis of the Effects of
12
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
Davison, Massa-
chusetts Institute
of Technology
Prof. F. S. C.
Political Communications
Cultural Understanding in
13
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
Northrop, Yale
University Law
School
Prof. Richard
Foreign Policy
Analysis of the Decision-
14
and Discus-
sion
1-Lecture and
Snyder, Northwest-
ern University
Making Process
US Action in Korea in 1950
Discussion
1
in terms of Analysis of
Pertinent Decisions
Class Discussion Panel
15
1
Outlines of Course Theses
16
2-Lectures
Prof. Arnold
The Bases and the Exercise
American
7
19
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
Wolfers, Johns
Hopkins University
Prof. Lucien Pye,
of National Power
American Political Patterns
Values and
and Discus-
Center for Inter-
in terms of Social Values
Institutions
sion
national Studies,
MIT
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK DATE PERIODS DIRECTION SUBJECT
American
7
May 20
1-Lecture and
To be announced
Interpretation of America
Values and
in Terms of Economic
Institutions
Resources
(continued)
22
2-Lectures
To be announced
Class Discussion Panel
America's Human Resources
The Challenges of the
Factors in
8
26
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
Prof. Yale Brozen,
Future
The Role of Capital Devel-
Economic
and Discus-
Northwestern Univ-
opment, Saving, and Invest-
Development
sion
ersity
ment in Economic Development
27
1-Lecture and
Prof. Brozen
Economic Development in
28
Discussion
2-Lectures
Prof. Frederick
Brazil
The Use of Human Resources
29
and Discus-
sion
1-Lecture and
Harbison, Prince-
ton University
Prof. Harbison
in Economic Development
Economic Development in
30
Discussion
2-Lectures
To be announced
Egypt and Iraq
The Current Role of ICA in
Analysis of
9
June 2
and Discus-
sion
2-Lectures
To be announced
Economic Development
Psycho-Sociological
the USSR
and Disou,-
Attitudes in the USSR
lion
3
2-Lectures
Prof. Warren Eason, Economic Development in
4
and Discus-
sion
1-Lecture and
Princeton Univer-
sity
Prof. Alan M.
the USSR
Information as a Soviet
5
Discussion
4-Briefings
Little, FSI
Joint Chiefs of
Policy Tool
Analysis of US Military
6
Staff
Potential
Significant Dc
10
9
1-Lecture and
Member of Congress Congress and Foreign Policy
estic Influences
on US Foreign
Policy Decisions
10
1-Lecture and
Representative of
The Role of the NSC in
Discussion
1-Lecture and
Discussion
NSC
To be announced
Foreign Policy
The Department of State
in NSC Operations
11
1-Lecture and
Representative of
US Information Policy
12
Discussion
4-Briefings
USIA
Representatives of
National Intelligence
13
CIA
Objectives and Techniques
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK
DATE PERIODS
DIRECTION
SUBJECT
Significant Dom- 11
June 16 1-Lecture and
Edwin M.J. Kretz-
The Foreign Service and
estic Influences
Discussion
mann
NEA
the Press
US F
i
,
on
ore
gn
Policy Decisions
17
2-Lectures
To be announced
A Correspondent's View of
(continued)
and Discus-
Domestic Influences on US
sion
Foreign Policy
US Role in
18
1-Briefing
Assistant Secre-
US Membership in UNO
Multilateral
tary Wilcox
Diplomac
y
19
Briefings by and visits to USUN and UNO
20
12
23
Independent Study
24
Course Chairman
Presentation of Course
25
Theses
26
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