Using a statecraft framework, the article analyses Cold War US-Soviet exchange programs with a specific focus on scientific-technical exchanges. The practice of scientific-technical exchanges is meaningful at least in three ways: (1) it helps to better understand the art of American and Soviet statecraft that had a major impact on the course of events in maintaining inter-state relations; (2) it shows that statecraft does not make itself, but is accomplished through various tools of public diplomacy in which exchange programs are one; and (3) it allows to utilize a long-term perspective and evaluate the legacy of the exchanges of persons and their impact on bilateral relations despite the Cold War tensions. The legacy of scientific-technical exchanges and their impact on bilateral relations might be incorporated into the contemporary academic and practitioner discourse on public diplomacy.

本文使用治国方略框架分析了冷战时期的美苏交流计划，特别关注科技交流。科技交流的实践至少在三个方面具有意义：（1）有助于更好地理解对维护国家间关系事态发展产生重大影响的美国和苏联的治国之道；(2)表明治国方略不是自己创造的，而是通过各种公共外交工具来实现的，其中交流项目是其中之一；(3) 尽管冷战紧张，但它允许以长远的眼光评估人员往来的遗产及其对双边关系的影响。