Stephen Krasner is a former director of CDDRL, former deputy director of FSI, an FSI senior fellow, and the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University.

Between 2004-2006, he served as the Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department. While at the State Department, Krasner was a driving force behind foreign assistance reform designed to more effectively target American foreign aid. He was also involved in activities related to the promotion of good governance and democratic institutions around the world.

At CDDRL, Krasner is the coordinator of the Program on Sovereignty. His work has dealt primarily with sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the political determinants of international economic relations. Before coming to Stanford in 1981 he taught at Harvard University and UCLA. At Stanford, he was chair of the political science department from 1984 to 1991, and he served as the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1992.

He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1987-88) and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2000-2001). In 2002 he served as director for governance and development at the National Security Council. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His major publications include Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investment and American Foreign Policy (1978), Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1985), and Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999). Publications he has edited include International Regimes (1983), Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (co-editor, 1999), and Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities (2001). He received a BA in history from Cornell University, an MA in international affairs from Columbia University and a PhD in political science from Harvard.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara. His book, "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan", was published by Harvard University Press in 2005. It has won various awards, including the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, sponsored by the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize. Earlier this year, Stanford University Press published a volume edited by Professor Hasegawa, "The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals."

This event is cosponsored by the Department of History, CREEES, and FSI.

An additional seminar will be held on May 7th at 3:15pm, Bldg 200, Room 307. Professors Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Barton Bernstein, and David Holloway will be commenting on Professor Hasegawa's work.

This talk will be in Japanese only.

Professor Kawamura is a specialist in colonial literature. His publications include Kankoku, Chôsen, Zainichi o yomu (Inpakuto Shuppankai, 2003). Ever since his debut as a literary critic in 1980, Kawamura has been opening up new vistas in the critical perspective on modern Japan. Whether writing about colonial literature or Japan's minority writers, Kawamura has revealed the central importance of cultural domains previously dismissed as marginal to modern Japanese history; his work has had a profound impact on the very definitions of "Japan" and "Japanese literature."