To contribute to a diagnosis of the present state of world affairs will be the primary task of the new Institute of World Affairs, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. Our work is to center in collective research of fundamental trends with special regard to social controls on the international level, and to the dominant forces, material and spiritual, as they foster or impede the establishment of permanent world order. Here the sociologist joins hand with the economist and both are to integrate their findings with those of the political scientist and the moral philosopher.