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“I name technology, youth exchange, universities, science, and culture.”1 So began German chancellor Helmut Kohl’s ringing declaration at his historic meeting with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in July 1990. Kohl’s list of the building blocks on which to erect Europe’s future constituted a crucial part of the two leaders’ nonaggression pact. In quick order they arranged to increase the numbers of exchange students between Germany and the USSR and to encourage collaborative research between their universities. Clearly Kohl and Gorbachev believe education, human resources, and science and technology have great significance for the future of their nations and international relations. Kohl’s strong words underscored the vital roles their governments’ expect universities to fulfill in the achievement of peace and prosperity, and vividly demonstrated how elevated universities have become in global politics.
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Zinberg, D.S. (1991). Introduction. In: Zinberg, D.S. (eds) The Changing University. NATO ASI Series, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3170-4_1
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