Appendix IV: Research in International Relations

Abstract

As used in this report, the term is employed to refer to efforts on the part of human beings to discover information concerning the universe in which they live. This universe includes non-human elements such as geography and climate, and also these human beings themselves, together with their to one another and to the earth on which they live. No attempt is made to distinguish sharply between the attainment of knowledge not yet formulated by others and the reorganization of already formulated knowledge, although the former is, of course, the more important. Similarly, the phrase relations is intended to refer not only to international law and international organization but also to all phases of international social and political relations; the more specific subdivisions of the general field, when intended, will be cited by name. The scope of this report is not intended to include the teaching of international relations, nor even particularly the training of research workers. These problems are considered and discussed and decisions are taken upon them, from time to time, by the (national) Conference of Teachers of International Law (and related subjects). The Conference met in Washington in 1914, again in 1925, and again in 1928, and its Proceedings have been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Attention is concentrated in this report upon the organizations sponsoring research, although in a sense the key to the problem of research lies in the question of personnel, and attention is given in due course to the question of fellowships or subsidies to individuals to enable them to engage in research, of which there are a large number at the present time. The field covered by the report was intended originally to include research in international outside of the United States. The author of this section began to collect material from certain institutions in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, conducting or sponsoring research in international relations, and now has on hand materials from the 52