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B -- BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY POC Karen O. Kolosvary, Contract Specialist, (703) 614-6846 E-MAIL: www.hqda.army.mil/dssw/, KolosKO@hqda.army.mil. The Defense Supply Service-Washington, intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to Dartmouth College to continue work, begun last year, using an evolutionary perspective to assess the role of changing technological, demographic, and environmental factors which have an impact on military organization, the life cycles of its members, the role seemingly irrational personal motives in affective practical events, the nature of the interaction of individual players in the strategic game, and the outcome of the game itself. The contractor's approach integrates diverse fields in the life sciences, ranging from behavioral ecology to cognitive neuroscience, into a theoretical framework for studying international political, social and military affairs. Findings in these diverse scientific fields are used to identify and illustrate factors that might add a new range of tools to the inventory of strategic and foreign policy analysis (which has served in the past and the present, but has always been whollyadequate, particularly in assessing rapdily changing conditions). The project will continue to utilize neuroscientific research, with consultation with selected scholars representing key areas of biological research. This is not a request for proposals and no solicitation exists. This announcement is for information only. Posted 01/14/00 (W-SN416079). (0014)

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