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[CITE: 50USC1901]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
   CHAPTER 37--NATIONAL SECURITY SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
 
Sec. 1901. Short title, findings, and purposes


(a) Short title

    This chapter may be cited as the ``David L. Boren National Security 
Education Act of 1991''.

(b) Findings

    The Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) The security of the United States is and will continue to 
    depend on the ability of the United States to exercise international 
    leadership.
        (2) The ability of the United States to exercise international 
    leadership is, and will increasingly continue to be, based on the 
    political and economic strength of the United States, as well as on 
    United States military strength around the world.
        (3) Recent changes in the world pose threats of a new kind to 
    international stability as Cold War tensions continue to decline 
    while economic competition, regional conflicts, terrorist 
    activities, and weapon proliferations have dramatically increased.
        (4) The future national security and economic well-being of the 
    United States will depend substantially on the ability of its 
    citizens to communicate and compete by knowing the languages and 
    cultures of other countries.
        (5) The Federal Government has an interest in ensuring that the 
    employees of its departments and agencies with national security 
    responsibilities are prepared to meet the challenges of this 
    changing international environment.
        (6) The Federal Government also has an interest in taking 
    actions to alleviate the problem of American undergraduate and 
    graduate students being inadequately prepared to meet the challenges 
    posed by increasing global interaction among nations.
        (7) American colleges and universities must place a new emphasis 
    on improving the teaching of foreign languages, area studies, 
    counterproliferation studies, and other international fields to help 
    meet those challenges.

(c) Purposes

    The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
        (1) To provide the necessary resources, accountability, and 
    flexibility to meet the national security education needs of the 
    United States, especially as such needs change over time.
        (2) To increase the quantity, diversity, and quality of the 
    teaching and learning of subjects in the fields of foreign 
    languages, area studies, counterproliferation studies, and other 
    international fields that are critical to the Nation's interest.
        (3) To produce an increased pool of applicants for work in the 
    departments and agencies of the United States Government with 
    national security responsibilities.
        (4) To expand, in conjunction with other Federal programs, the 
    international experience, knowledge base, and perspectives on which 
    the United States citizenry, Government employees, and leaders rely.
        (5) To permit the Federal Government to advocate the cause of 
    international education.

(Pub. L. 102-183, title VIII, Sec. 801, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1271; 
Pub. L. 102-496, title IV, Sec. 404(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3185; 
Pub. L. 105-272, title III, Sec. 305(a)(1), Oct. 20, 1998, 112 Stat. 
2400.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsecs. (b)(7), (c)(2). Pub. L. 105-272 inserted 
``counterproliferation studies,'' after ``area studies,''.
    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-496 amended subsec. (a) generally, 
inserting ``David L. Boren''.
