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A -- AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO ANALYZING WORLD POLITICS SOL DASW01-98-R-0090 POC Alyssa Murray, Contract Specialist, 703/614-6823; fax: 703/695-9746 WEB: DEFENSE SUPPLY SERVICE-WASHINGTON, http://www.hqda.army.mil/dsswweb. E-MAIL: DEFENSE SUPPLY SERVICE-WASHINGTON, MurraAA@hqda.army.mil. The Defense Supply Service-Washington (DSSW) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Dartmouth College for a study effort on an evolutionary approach to analyzing world politics. The requiring activity is the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Director of Net Assessment. This project uses an evolutionary perspective to assess the role of changing technological, demographic, and environmental factors in world politics. The approach is novel in three ways: 1) it will integrate diverse fields in the life sciences, ranging from behavioral ecology to cognitive neuroscience, into a theoretical framework for studying international politics and military affairs; 2) it will identify and illustrate the importance of factors generally ignored in conventional strategic and foreign policy analysis;; and 2) it will use cognitive neuroscience as an organizing principle for the research process itself. The project will utilize neuroscientific research, utilizing a core network of scholars representing key areas of biological research as well as consulting scholars and practitioners. The period of performance is twelve months. The contract effort is unclassified. See CBD Note 22. Posted 07/06/98. (0187)

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