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commercial policies on the economic and financial condition of Norway and on its relations with
other countries.
As in the past, individual studies have also been requested from international experts on
certain special problems: International Monetary Organisation, by Dr. A. Heilperin1; The
Fundamental Reasons why Economic Policy has become a More Important Instrument of National
Policy, by Dr. J. Bonn 1; Have Unregulated International Economic Relationships made for Peace
or War ? by Professor L. Baudin 1; The Possibility of an Expanding System of Regulated Trade,
by Professor Predohl; Commercial Treaties between Regulated and Free Economies, by Dr. Tasca.
(b) Organisation of the Session. — In addition to the plenary meetings devoted to the
discussion of the general aspects of the problem, three “ round tables ” will be formed by the
Conference for a thorough discussion of the following subjects:
(1) The present relations between closely regulated and unregulated trading systems;
(2) The possibilities of international agreement to expand international trade and
eliminate the possible causes of friction in international relations;
(3) The extent and consequences of economic control—private and public—beyond
national boundaries.
A detailed agenda will be drawn up by the Rapporteur-General, Mr. J. B. Condliffe, Professor
at the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), and published
before the session. The “ round tables ” will be asked to consider the problem of economic
and political security and to deal likewise with the following subjects:
(1) The interaction of political and economic aims in national policies;
(2) The connection between national economic regulations and international economic
relations.
The problem of exchange control, to which the Conference has devoted a correlated study,
will likewise be made the object of a special discussion dealing with its technical and economic
aspects.
Two plenary meetings will close the Conference; the “ Round-table ” Presidents will report
on the discussions in their respective groups, and an effort will be made to integrate the “ round¬
table ” discussions by concentrating this final debate on the question of “ economic relations
between free and regulated economies ”.
On the basis of the documentation and of the discussions at the Conference, Professor
Condliffe will write a volume which will be published in French and English by the International
Institute of Intellectual Co-operation. The Rapporteur-General will arrange to have this work
ready for publication shortly after the close of the session.
5. Publications of the International Studies Conference
In the past year, the Institute has published all the volumes containing the results of the
preceding Conference, and of the two years of study which had been devoted to the problem of
“ Peaceful Change ”. Apart from the six Danubian Chronologies, which, in view of their character
as reference works, have been published in one language only (French or English), all these works
have appeared in both French and English. The largest, a volume of 700 pages, gives a general
view of the study and discussions of the Conference on “ Peaceful Change ; it is entitled Peaceful
Change: Procedures—Population Pressure—The Colonial Question-Raw Materials and Markets.
It is supplemented by three other books of 250 to 350 pages each which deal respectively with
Population and Peace (F. Chalmers Wright), The Raw Materials Problem (E. Dennery), and
Colonial Questions and Peace (under the direction of E. Moresco). To these must be added the
following brochures: Monetary Aspects of the Raw Materials Problem and the Revival of International
Trade, by Michael A. Heilperin ; International Raw Materials Cartels, by William Oualid ; Markets
and the Problem of Peaceful Change, by J. B. Condliffe; and The Synthetic Optimum of Population,
by Imre Ferenczi. To this list will be added a volume prepared under the direction of Professor
Bourquin on Procedures of Peaceful Change) though it is not a report on the activities of the
Conference, this volume nevertheless forms a continuation and a supplement to those activi¬
ties.
Finally, in the near future will be published a volume resulting from the Prague Conference
held last year. This volume, dealing with The University Teaching of International Relations,
has been edited under the direction of Sir Alfred Zimmern, Rapporteur-General for this question,
assisted by an Editorial Board composed of Professor C. Bougle and Professor L. Ehrlich and
Mr. Malcolm M. Davis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Conference.
x These brochures have been published by the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation in preparation
for the Bergen Conference.