Los estudios internacionales en América Latina: realizaciones y desafíos

Heraldo Mllñoz I SocIAl. SClENCE IN CHILE: THE INSTlTUTE OE INTERNATlONAL STlJl)IES... RIAL, a regional association of academic centers interested in the study of Latin America's role in the New International Economic Order. The lIs also has an accord with the Fulbright Commission involving the designation of U.S. scholars as visiting professors at the Institute. During 1978 the Fulbright professor was a political scientist from the University of Texas at Austin and, in 1979, the visiting professor 'was an economist from the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver. PresentIy, conversations are being held between the lIS and the Graduate School of International Studies to establish a comprehensive exchange agreement that would inelude exchan– ges of faculty and students, joint sponsorships of international conferences, and joint publications, both in Spanish and English. Last, the Institute has academic accords with the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Administra– ción para la Integración of Venezuela and the Sociedad Internacional para el Desarrollo (SID). Owing to the continuous research efforts in critical issue areas, the high academic standards, and the climate of intellectual pluralism prevailing at the Institue -within a restrained social science context- its programs have received significant support from private and public institutions such as The Tinker Foundation of New York, the Instituto para la Integración de América Latina (INTAL) of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Oficina de Planificación Nacional (ODE– PLAN), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of the Federal Republic of Ger– many, and the Banco Español de Chile. It must be noted, however, that the situation at lIS is unique, and contrasts sharply with the state of other social science departments at publicly supported institutions of higher learning in Chile. For the most part, social science in Chile subsists outside of the universities. 195