Igor Grigorash

American foreign policy as we know it developed in the crucible of World War II and the immediate post-war period corresponding to the presidential administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Mr. Grigorash will examine the evolution of the mechanism which drove this process using both American and Russian methods of analysis. His work will be guided by the theory of "organizational process" described by Herbert Simon in his influential works on administrative behavior. In the course of his study, Mr. Grigorash plans to consult a wide range of primary and secondary sources of information for the Roosevelt and Truman years.