The Unique U.S.-Russian Relationship in Biological Science and Biotechnology Recent Experience and Future Directions (2013) / Chapter Skim
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9 Strategies and Coordination
9 Strategies and Coordination
Pages 109-114
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Now, supportive oversight by the two governments will be particularly significant as scientific leaders in the two countries consider adjusting their program priorities and budgets to correspond with changes in the political and economic environments, globally and bilaterally, that affect cooperation. Broad statements by the governments concerning common interests have frequently provided general guidance on important program goals and activities.
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In both countries, organizations interested in bioengagement must often present to budget officials the political, economic, and scientific contexts for requests for funding of relevant activities. Intergovernmental agreements sometimes set forth important frameworks for programs.
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Most agreements contain commitments for periodic consultations to review progress in implementing agreed activities and to consider future activities (e.g., Agreement on Cooperation in Science, Engineering, and Medicine between the U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences of 2008)
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The enormous ecosystem services that they provide are poorly understood, and opportunities abound for Russia and the United States to jointly improve understanding of these services for the common good. SOURCE: Leading American biodiversity expert, August 2012.
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Now, as Russia prepares to withdraw from the ISTC in 2015, the governments of the United States and Russia, along with other ISTC parties, need to carefully consider how they can continue to benefit from the positive legacies of the center in promoting successful international engagement in the life sciences. There has been much discussion in Moscow and in other capitals as to whether a successor organization to the ISTC that emphasizes international science cooperation, and only secondarily promotes nonproliferation objectives, should be established in Moscow.
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The current trend is to emphasize cooperation in rapid development of biotechnology capabilities of interest to organizations in both countries. But such an effort can only be successful if buttressed by strong basic research capabilities in the two countries, as discussed in Chapter 10.
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