Proliferation Rings: An Update on Nuclear Proliferation
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Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
Chaim Braun
Speaker
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The Political Economy of Caspian Oil
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Steve LeVine, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and SIIS Visiting Fellow 2004-2005, will speak on the topic of his new book project.
Encina Hall Basement Conference Room
Steve LeVine
Wall Street Journal and CDDRL Visiting Fellow
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Civil War and Development
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Professor James Fearon will present this paper as part of an ongoing research project into the relationship between civil wars and economic development.
Encina Ground Floor Conference Room
James D. Fearon
CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
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jfearon@stanford.edu
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
James Fearon is the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a professor of political science. He is a Senior Fellow at FSI, affiliated with CISAC and CDDRL. His research interests include civil and interstate war, ethnic conflict, the international spread of democracy and the evaluation of foreign aid projects promoting improved governance. Fearon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Some of his current research projects include work on the costs of collective and interpersonal violence, democratization and conflict in Myanmar, nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy, and the long-run persistence of armed conflict.
Affiliated faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
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Resisting the State: Russian Reform and Retrenchment
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Kathryn Stoner-Weiss is the Associate Director for Research and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. This talk is drawn from her forthcoming book on the Russian state under Yeltsin and Putin.
Encina Hall Basement Conference Room
Kathryn Stoner
FSI
Stanford University
Encina Hall C140
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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kstoner@stanford.edu
Satre Family Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Satre Family Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). From 2017 to 2021, she served as FSI's Deputy Director. She is Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford and teaches in the Department of Political Science, the Program on International Relations, and the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program. She is also a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.
Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Princeton School for International and Public Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School). At Princeton, she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship, awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
In addition to many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia, she is the author or co-editor of six books: Transitions to Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, written and edited with Michael A. McFaul (Johns Hopkins 2013); Autocracy and Democracy in the Post-Communist World, co-edited with Valerie Bunce and Michael A. McFaul (Cambridge, 2010); Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge, 2006); After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge, 2004), coedited with Michael McFaul; and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton, 1997); and Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2021).
She received a BA (1988) and MA (1989) in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University (1995). In 2016, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ilia State University in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia.
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Mosbacher Director, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), Stanford University
Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution
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Areas of Limited Sovereignty
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Professor Thomas Risse of Freie University in Berlin, Germany will lead off the weekly CDDRL research seminar on October 6 at 12 pm. Professor Risse is a renowned international relations scholar. Among his varied research interests are new forms of state sovereignty in failed and failing states.
Encina Hall Basement Conference Room
Thomas Risse
"Areas of Limited Sovereignty"
Freie University, Berlin
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Civil War, Neotrusteeship, and the Problem of Weak States
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Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
James D. Fearon
CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
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jfearon@stanford.edu
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
James Fearon is the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a professor of political science. He is a Senior Fellow at FSI, affiliated with CISAC and CDDRL. His research interests include civil and interstate war, ethnic conflict, the international spread of democracy and the evaluation of foreign aid projects promoting improved governance. Fearon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Some of his current research projects include work on the costs of collective and interpersonal violence, democratization and conflict in Myanmar, nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy, and the long-run persistence of armed conflict.
Affiliated faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
Affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
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You, The People: Iraq and the Future of State-Building
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U.S. President George W. Bush came to power emphasizing that he did not regard nation-building as an appropriate activity for the U.S. military. As he prepares to run for re-election, the United States is engaged in two of the most ambitious nation-building projects in its history in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. undertook a lead role in part because of the circumstances in which the two conflicts commenced, but also as an extension of the present administration's more general opposition to multilateral institutions such as the United Nations. Though the United States determined that it did not need the UN going into Iraq, however, it appears that it has belatedly realized it might need the UN in order to get out.
Simon Chesterman is Executive Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law. Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He had previously worked for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Belgrade and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha.
He is the author of You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2001), which was awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. He is the editor, with Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur, of Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance (United Nations University Press, forthcoming) and of Civilians in War (Lynne Rienner, 2001). He regularly contributes to international law and political science journals, as well as mass media publications such as the International Herald Tribune. His has taught at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, and Columbia.
Encina Hall, east wing ground floor conference room E008
Simon Chesterman
Executive Director
Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law
Seminars
Who's Buying Now? South Korean Consumer Nationalism Before and After 1997
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Korean Luncheon Seminar - Please note the room change for this week.
Lunch provided to those who RSVP to Rakhi Patel at rpatel80@stanford.edu by noon, Tuesday, May 18.
NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Ground Floor Conference Room G006, Encina Hall, Ground Floor, East Wing
Laura Nelson
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
California State University, Hayward
Seminars
2003-2004 APARC Visiting Fellows Final Paper Presentations (part 2)
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Lunch provided to those who RSVP to Yumi Onoyama at yumio@stanford.edu by Tuesday, May 25.
12:00pm The Challenges and Opportunities to PetroChina in the Stock Market
Ruisheng Yong, PetroChina Company, Ltd.
12:20pm What Are the Conditions for Creating a Second Silicon Valley in Shizuoka Prefecture?
Ikuzo Matsushita, Shizuoka Prefectural Government
12:40pm Lessons of Entrepreneurial Education for Japan's Young Generation
Yoshinori Ueda, Kansai Electric Power Company
1:00pm Non-technology Issues Awaiting the E-paper Content Market--From Marketing & Legal Perspectives
Taizo Shiozaki, Impress Corporation
1:20pm Pension Investment and Fiduciary Duty in the United States
Fumiaki Tonoki, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
1:40pm Renewable Energy and Environmental Policies in the Power Industry
Shinichiro Goko, Electric Power Development Company
2:00pm Application of 'Web Service' to Electronic Media
Atsushi Sato, Asahi Shimbun Company
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall
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2003-2004 Visiting Fellows Final Paper Presentations (part 1)
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Breakfast provided to those who RSVP to Yumi Onoyama at yumio@stanford.edu by Monday, May 17. 9:00am ?The Changes and the Challenges of the Venture Capital Industry: The United States and Japan? Hirohisa Takata, Development Bank of Japan 9:20am ?Cosmeceuticals Market in the United States? Shojiro Matsuoka, Kommy Corporation 9:40am ?The Past, Present, and Future of the High-Tech Industry? Kenji Tashiro, Kumamoto Prefectural Government 10:00am ?Progression of the Broadband Infrastructure and Promising Contents Business? Takehiro Fujiki, Tokyo Electric Power Company 10:20am ?The Silicon Valley Model and Its Success in Japan? Takashi Shimotori, Sumitomo Corporation 10:40am ?Legislation of the CRA in Japan? Teruhisa Kurita, Ministry of Finance (Advisor: Dan Okimoto)
Oksenberg Conference Room, Encina Hall
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