PREPARING THE WORLD’S LEADERS
The 2009–10 Flet c h e r bulletin
This Bulletin contains descriptions eligible to cross-register in other study are detailed on pages 24-33. for courses offered at The Fletcher graduate schools/departments Beginning in the fall 2006 semester, School for the 2009-2010 academic of Tufts University and Harvard. It new breadth requirements for all year only; however, they are typical should be noted that students may MALD students was established. of the courses offered every year. be denied admission to another Information about this new require- Biographies are also provided for school’s course due to restrictions ment can be found on pages 36-37 our faculty, both those who have in class size or other school policy. The Fletcher School reserves the full time appointments and those Enrolled students should right to change, at any time, any with part-time appointments. These contact the Registrar of the Fletcher of the information provided in associated faculty are appointed School for policies and procedures. this Bulletin, including adding and each year to add additional breadth Prospective students should refer dripping courses. Changes will and depth to our curricular offer- to the Catalog and Application be announced and posted by the ings. In addition to the courses Bulletin for additional information. Registrar of the Fletcher School at offered at Fletcher, students are Course requirements for our field of the beginning of each semester.
Course Descriptions...... 1
Division of International Law and Organizations...... 1
Division of Diplomacy, History, and Politics...... 4
Division of Economics and International Business...... 17
Fields of Study...... 24
Certificates...... 34
Breadth requirements...... 36
Faculty Biographies...... 38
Emeritus Faculty and Research Associates...... 55
Faculty by Specialty...... 56
Academic Calendar...... 64
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DIVISION OF and international law. Also listed as recent years have included equality INTERNATIONAL LAW DHP P207. Not offered 2009-2010. and non-discrimination; democracy; AND ORGANIZATIONS Joel Trachtman and Daniel Drezner economic and social rights; inter- national criminal law; business and ILO L200: The International ILO L209: International Treaty human rights; and humanitarian Legal Order Behavior: A Perspective on intervention. Open to students who This introductory course deals with Globalization have completed ILO L210 or equivalent. structural aspects of the international This seminar examines treaty behavior Spring semester. Hurst Hannum legal system, including the jurispru- over a broad spectrum of subject dence of international law and differing areas—including security, environ- ILO L212: Seminar on Nationalism, cultural and philosophical perspectives; ment, trade and human rights. Self-Determination and the history of the international legal Approaches to international agree- Minority Rights system; customary international law; ments affect economic, security and This seminar explores the evolution treaty law; statehood and recognition; foreign policy in this interdependent of the concepts of self-determination the United Nations and international world. The seminar examines IL and and minority rights from the nineteenth organizations; and the relationship IR theories of compliance. It explores century to the present. The focus is of the international legal system to exceptionalism in treaty behavior— on changing legal norms, including domestic legal systems, using the American and other nations. The interpretation of the principle of self- United States as a primary example. seminar offers students the opportunity determination by the League of Nations Fall semester. Michael Glennon to do research in depth on one or and United Nations; protection of the more treaties, or the behavior of a rights of ethnic, religious, and linguistic ILO L201: Public International Law given nation or group of nation minorities; and the articulation of the This survey course provides an overview under several treaties. Prior law rights of indigenous peoples. The seminar of the international legal system’s courses helpful but not required. requires a substantial research paper principal sub-regimes, including Fall semester. Antonia Chayes that analyzes a contemporary situation those relating to international dispute in which these issues are significant. ILO L210: International resolution, jurisdiction and immuni- Prerequisite: ILO L200, L210, or equivalent. Human Rights Law ties, human rights, the use of force Fall semester. Hurst Hannum and terrorism, the law of war, criminal An introductory survey of international responsibility, arms control, the envi- human rights law and procedures, ILO L213: International ronment, and the relationship of these including detailed examination of Criminal Law sub-regimes to domestic legal systems, global, regional, and national institu- Word Count: This seminar will expose using the United States as a primary tions to protect human rights. The students to international criminal law example. Open to students who have course traces the development of re: genocide, crimes against humanity, completed ILO L200 or its equivalent. contemporary concepts of human war crimes, torture, and terrorism. Spring semester. Michael Glennon rights, including issues of universality, They will also study the International whether or not certain categories Criminal Court (ICC), the International ILO L207: Seminar on International of rights have priority over others, Criminal Tribunal for the former Politics and International Law and the means of creating and Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International International politics and international enforcing human rights law. The role Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), law are clearly intertwined. Policy of non-governmental organizations and the hybrid tribunals in Sierra professionals often are required to use in fact-finding and publicizing human Leone, Cambodia, Bosnia, East international legal discourse, and to rights violations is also addressed. Timor and Kosovo. The seminar establish international legal rules and Fall semester. Hurst Hannum begins with an historical overview organizations in order to achieve their since Nuremberg followed by analysis ILO L211: Seminar on Current goals. At the same time, international of the legal instruments of these Issues in Human Rights lawyers must consider political realities tribunals and their major cases. The This seminar analyzes in greater depth in crafting rules that will be respected seminar ends with domestic application a limited number of issues that are of and enforced. This seminar is suitable in selected countries emphasizing contemporary interest in the field of for students who already have some those exercising universal jurisdiction. international human rights law. While background in international politics Fall semester. Louis Aucoin specific topics vary, those addressed in The Fletcher school
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ILO L214: Transitional Justice performance and offering a vision for issues. It examines the selection This seminar deals with the choices the future. Based on feedback from of the optimal business format for facing countries attempting to the class, constituted as the ‘senior international operations, including establish accountability for past management group’ of the organization, branch, subsidiary, joint venture, abuses of human rights in the after- the report is finalized and submitted technology license and distributor- math of mass atrocities. Students will as the major assignment for the course. ship; international commercial consider the philosophical and moral Spring semester. Ian Johnstone law, including sales contract, and issues associated with this subject commercial documents; international ILO L223: Seminar on International and analyze the mechanisms available contracts and dispute resolution issues, Environmental Law for post conflict justice including including governing law, and choice This course addresses the nature, international ad hoc criminal tribunals, of forum, force majeure, currency, content and structure of international the International Criminal Court, the and treaty issues; and the United States environmental law. The course hybrid tribunals in Sierra Leone and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Fall commences with an introduction East Timor, and approaches like Truth semester. John Burgess to international environmental problems, and Reconciliation Commissions and together with basic principles of ILO L232: Seminar on mechanisms, including the gacaca international law and environmental International Investment Law process in Rwanda, which incorporate regulation. Specific topics include This seminar examines the laws, policies, local custom. Students will also study global warming, stratospheric ozone and legal institutions influencing the reconstruction of the justice system, depletion, and exports of hazardous cross-border investments, with examining non-criminal sanctions substances. Other topics may include special emphasis on emerging markets and considering the challenge of marine pollution, transboundary and developing nations. It studies the reconciliation in these contexts. pollution, trade and environment, nature of international investment and Fall semester. Louis Aucoin and development and environment. multinational investors, the interna- ILO L220: International The course evaluates the role of tional legal framework for international Organizations international and non-governmental investment with particular emphasis This course provides an introduction to organizations; the interrelationship on rapidly evolving treaty law, such the theory and practice of international between international legal process as bilateral investment treaties (BITs), organizations (IOs). Its central theme and domestic law; and the negotiation, NAFTA, and the Energy Charter Treaty, is the interaction between international conclusion, and implementation of as well as arbitration and judicial deci- law and politics, illustrated through an international environmental agree- sions applying them. It also considers in-depth examination of the United ments. Fall semester. David Wirth national regulatory frameworks for Nations and a secondary focus on foreign investment, legal mechanisms ILO L224: Seminar on selected regional organizations. After a for structuring, financing, and protecting Peace Operations number of classes on theory and cross- projects, portfolio investment in Enthusiasm for peacekeeping has fluctu- cutting institutional issues, the bulk of emerging markets, and methods for ated in recent years, from exuberance the course is devoted to the substantive settling investment disputes. in the early 1990s to disillusion in the work of IOs in three principal areas: Spring semester. Jeswald Salacuse mid-90s, back to cautious enthusiasm peace and security, human rights, and at the end of the decade, followed by ILO L233: International Financial sustainable development. It concludes an unprecedented surge in UN and and Fiscal Law by considering reform of IOs from the non-UN operations over the past This course is intended to introduce perspective of the ‘democratic deficit’. several years. Combining a thematic students to the legal and regulatory The format of the course is primarily and case study approach, the course context of international finance. It covers lectures and structured discussion. begins with several sessions on the selected domestic and international Spring Semester. Ian Johnstone legal framework, functions of peace aspects of (i) corporate law relating to ILO L221: Seminar on Actors operations and doctrine. Select con- finance, (ii) bank financing and regulation, in Global Governance temporary cases are then considered (iii) securities financing and market This seminar is designed to explore to draw out recurring themes and regulation and (iv) insolvency law. It in a comparative mode various dilemmas, such as the protection also addresses the process of innova- actors in global governance: global of civilians and peace v. justice. The tion in international financial law, with organizations, regional organizations, course concludes with a simulation coverage of emerging market debt, groupings of states, non-governmental exercise on a possible new operation. swaps and other derivatives, privatiza- organizations, private sector actors and Fall semester. Ian Johnstone tions, and securitization. These topics networks. The first part of the course is will be reviewed from the standpoint of ILO L230: International devoted to theoretical, institutional and domestic law of the United States and Business Transactions legal issues. Each student then develops other selected jurisdictions, as well as This course provides an examination of and presents to the class an outline for from the standpoint of applicable private and public law aspects of inter- a “Reform Report” on an organization international law and practice. national business transactions, includ- of their choice, taking stock of its Spring semester. John Burgess ing conflicts of law and foreign law
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ILO L234: International market development. The seminar will It first considers the nature of law, Intellectual Property Law focus on policy implications, including the nature of development, and the and Policy wide-spread efforts to effect corporate theoretical relationships of law to the This course will provide an introduction governance reforms and set standards development process. It then explores to basic principles of intellectual prop- in the wake of corporate scandals and the links between law and development erty law concepts, specifically patents, systemic risk. Also listed as EIB B239m. through case studies on land tenure, trademarks and copyrights. From there, One-half credit. Spring semester. foreign investment, the environment, the course will examine the impact of S. Donald Gonson governance, constitutionalism, corruption, various international conventions and judicial reform, and the rule of law. ILO L240: Legal and Institutional treaties on intellectual property rights. Spring semester. Jeswald Salacuse Particular attention will be paid to Aspects of International Trade the protection of intellectual property This course examines the law of inter- ILO L251: Comparative rights in selected legal regimes; and to national trade in goods and services, Legal Systems the competing interests of intellectual focusing principally on the law of the This course covers the two principal property owners in global commercial World Trade Organization and its legal traditions in the world—the transactions. The rapid development General Agreement on Tariffs and common law and the civil law traditions and widespread adoption of Digital Trade, as well as on the foreign trade with exposure to the Islamic tradition Technology and the Internet pose law of the United States. This sector of and European Union law as well. It is serious challenges to long accepted international law includes specialized intended for diplomats, international doctrines of copyright and trademark negotiation and dispute settlement civil servants, business executives, law, and these will also be addressed. processes, as well as particular types of and lawyers. Students will study the Spring semester. Thomas Holt rules, restraining national restrictions historical evolution of the traditions in and Tara Clancy on trade. These rules address tariff comparative perspective with emphasis and non-tariff barriers, discrimination, on France and Germany in the civil ILO L237m: Mergers and regionalism, anti-dumping duties, law and on the United States and the Acquisitions: An International countervailing duties and safeguards United Kingdom in the common law. Perspective measures. This course will pay particular The methodology entails study of the This module will review the structuring, attention to how this legal system underlying legal philosophies of these negotiation and implementation of manages various facets of globalization. traditions through analysis of the cross-border merger and acquisition Spring semester. Joel Trachtman sources of law, judicial process transactions, taking into account and judicial review and through learning applicable issues of international law ILO L243: Seminar on International constitutional law, contracts, and and national practice. The module will Legal Aspects of Globalization criminal and civil procedure. discuss alternative forms of transaction Globalization has economic, social, Spring semester. Louis Aucoin structure and the underlying tax and political, historical, cultural and legal legal considerations considered for dimensions. This seminar will focus ILO L252 Rule of Law in choosing particular approaches. We on legal parameters of, and mecha- Post Conflict Societies will also analyze different forms of nisms for, globalization. This course This seminar studies methodologies used acquisition agreements, review the role will examine the relationship between by international actors in promoting the and application of key transactional efforts to promote international markets rule of law post conflict. It focuses on concepts, and analyze how they are and the right to regulate, international eight aspects: constitutional development, addressed in the context of specific regulatory competition, efforts to regu- code reform, legal drafting, judicial transactions. We will also review trends late international business at a global reform, accountability for past abuses, in deal terms drawing on recent North or regional level, judicial responses to fighting corruption, democratic policing, American, European and Asian globalization, and global constitutionalism. and local custom. These are strategies transactions. One-half credit. Students will have an opportunity to for building the basic institutional Not offered 2009-2010. John Burgess engage in research on legal aspects of framework strictly necessary for the globalization and to present their work maintenance of peace and security in ILO L239m: Corporate Governance in the seminar. This course is not suit- the immediate aftermath of conflict. in International Business able as a first course in international law. The seminar will therefore deal with and Finance Not offered 2009-2010. Joel Trachtman the restoration/ reestablishment of This module seminar explores business, the justice sector and only minimally financial and legal issues affecting ILO L250: Law and Development with economic issues. It includes corporate governance and manage- This seminar examines the role of law case studies of East Timor, Kosovo, ment of risk, both in industrialized and and legal systems in the economic South Africa, Cambodia, Rwanda, developing countries. Students will and social development of developing Iraq, and Afghanistan. Not offered examine the nature of the corporation, nations, emerging markets, and coun- 2009-2010. Louis Aucoin management roles and board responsi- tries in transition. It explores how law bility, the role of regulatory authorities, may both inhibit and foster change and as well as corporate culture, corporate the ways that legal institutions may be social responsibility, and capital organized to achieve national goals.
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ILO L260: The Law Division of Diplomacy, given to understanding the challenges of the European Union History, and Politics facing public diplomacy professionals The seminar offers an overview of the doing their jobs at embassies abroad. DHP D200: Diplomacy: History, law and institutions of the European Fall semester. William A. Rugh Union with historical perspective from Theory, and Practice the Treaty of Rome of 1957 through to Diplomacy is one of the very constitutive DHP D210: The Art and Science of Statecraft. the Treaty of Lisbon currently in nego- “orders” of the international system, It is easy to develop explanations for tiation. Also, students will learn the a mainstay of civilization itself. This foreign policy; it is quite another thing substantive law relating to the famous seminar examines classical diplomacy, to act as a policymaker. What are the four freedoms: the freedom of goods, diplomatic concepts and forms that available tools of influence that an persons, services, and capital as well evolved in the West, the “integration” international actor can use to influence as selected substantive areas including of different traditions through the League other actors in the world? When competition law, trade law, and human of Nations and United Nations, the are these tools work? The goal of this rights. Study includes the primary establishment of foreign ministries and course is to offer an introduction into treaty provisions and European norms bilateral embassies, the professionalization the world of policymaking and statecraft. (regulations, directives, and decisions) of diplomatic services, the rise of Topics include using coercion and major cases. Students will consider “summit” diplomacy and use of and inducement; intervening in the the supranational and intergovernmen- special envoys, diplomatic language domestic politics of another country; tal aspects of the EU and will learn about and its nuances, official ceremony and the nature of public and private diplo- the direct effect of the law in Member protocol, media and the new public macy; and case studies of notable policy States. Spring semester. Louis Aucoin diplomacy, educational and cultural exchanges, the organization of intercul- successes and failures from the past. ILO L262: Foreign Relations tural “dialogues,” and the issue of the Fall semester. Daniel Drezner and National Security Law future of diplomacy—state as well as This seminar deals with the intersection DHP D211: The Politics non-state—in an age of globalization. of Statecraft. of international law and United States Fall semester. Alan Henrikson Foreign policy is not immune from constitutional law, focusing upon the public debate, political gridlock, or separation of powers doctrine and the DHP D202: Ethical Reasoning human frailties. Building on The Art allocation of decision-making authority, in International Politics and Science of Statecraft, this course international law as part of United Is the state an effective ethical actor in examines the political environment States law, treaties and other interna- international relations? That question in which foreign policy is crafted and tional agreements, the war power and will animate the seminar, which is implemented. Topics include the role terrorism, the appropriations power, intended to cultivate a capacity to think of public opinion, interest groups, federalism, the role of the courts, and critically about policy options involving bureaucracies, think tanks, and experts current national security issues. Open ethical choices. This is not a compre- in the formulation of policy. Case studies to students who have completed hensive “how to” course, nor one that of notable successes and failures of ILO L200 or its equivalent, or with imparts a particular code of behavior. the policy process will be discussed. permission of the instructor. Students will review classical discourses There will also be frequent in-class Enrollment limited to 18 students. drawn from different cultural traditions exercises in the various arts associated Spring semester. Michael Glennon about the role(s) of the state, consider contemporary treatises concerning with the promotion of policy. The ILO 300-399: Independent Study ethics in international relations, and Art and Science of Statecraft is a Directed reading and research for examine cases selected from disparate prerequisite for taking this class. credit, providing an opportunity for moments and places so as to appreciate Spring semester. Daniel Drezner qualified students to pursue the study the universality of difficulties faced DHP D213: Humanitarian of particular problems within the by political leaders who must reconcile Studies in the Field discipline of International Law and ethical and other interests. Spring This course, run jointly with Harvard Organizations under the personal semester. Alan Wachman and MIT, offers a practical training in guidance of a member of faculty. The the complex issues and skills needed to course may be assigned to a Field of DHP D204 United States Public Diplomacy engage in humanitarian work. Students Study according to the topic selected. This seminar will be a study in depth will gain familiarity with the concepts By consent of the professor and petition. of the theory and practice of public and standards for humanitarian work ILO 400: Reading and Research diplomacy by United States. By means and will focus on practical skills, such Noncredit directed reading and of lectures, readings and a term paper, as rapid public health assessments, research in preparation for PhD students will explore issues of current field cluster sampling and operational comprehensive examination or relevance, including: how public diplo- approaches to relations with the dissertation research and writing macy deals with foreign criticism of the military in humanitarian settings. on the subjects within this division. United States; terrorism and radicalism The course includes a separate three- By consent of the professor. issues; parallel activities by State and day intensive field simulation of a DOD; the role of the private sector; and humanitarian crisis, in late April. creative uses of modern information Early January 2010. Peter Walker technology. Special attention will be and Jennifer Leaning
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DHP D214m: Thesis Research DHP D221: Seminar on cases such was Rwanda, Somalia, and Writing Module International Mediation Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and This module provides guidance in the This seminar focuses on the roles and Iraq will be used illustratively. Not researching and writing of the thesis. functions provided by mediators in offered 2009-2010. Antonia Chayes Topics include: choosing and working the international arena. Mediation is with a thesis adviser, how to frame located within the broader family of DHP D228: Protracted Social Conflict: Dynamics, Major Issues a research question, identifying the international intervention approaches, and Possible Consequences data and methods needed to answer as practiced by individuals, international This course gives an overview of the the question, and common problems and transnational organizations, small dynamics and consequences of pro- in conceptualization and writing. The and large states, and in bilateral or tracted social conflict. It is divided into product of the course is a four-page multilateral contexts. Topics to be four sections. The first part reviews thesis proposal, which must be signed covered include: understanding the contending and complimentary frame- off by the student’s thesis adviser. perspective of a mediator as opposed to works that examine sources of social One-half credit. Pass/Fail grading. other parties in a dispute; analyzing the conflict and its societal and psychological Fall semester – Alan Wachman. strengths and weaknesses of different dynamics. The second part critically Spring semester - Karen Jacobsen kinds of international mediators; under- reviews the role of culture, religion, and standing the strategies and tactics DHP D215: Qualitative historical narratives, as well as the role that have been adopted in previous Research Methods of power asymmetries in the dynamics mediation efforts; and exploring how The class learns qualitative methods of conflict and the possible approaches mediation might be used in current by developing a case study focusing on to its resolution. The third part focuses conflicts. Fall semester. Eileen Babbitt how a particular issue (e.g., financial on the dynamics of escalation and crisis, global warming, violence, etc.) DHP D223: Conflict entrapment, models of explaining affects their own communities. Class Resolution Theory stalemate and deterrence, and factors members collaborate as an interdisci- International conflict resolution is that contribute to escalation. The plinary team and contribute their field a field of practice and of theoretical fourth part focuses on de-escalation experiences and expertise. Taught study. The primary goal of international and some ways of breaking stalemates primarily from an ethnographic conflict resolution is to use means other and on various processes of dealing perspective, the exercises lead to than violence to settle both inter-state with protracted social conflict. Fall constructing critical theories based on and intra-state disputes, and to Semester. Nadim Rouhana grounded evidence and interpretation. transform the relationships of disputing DHP D229: The Politics and Exercises include field note documen- parties such that violence is not likely Processes of Reconciliation: tation, participant observation, life in the future. The theory is drawn from Transitional Justice and histories, focus groups, and participatory many disciplines, including law and Multicultural Citizenships methods. Cross-listed with the many of the social sciences. This course This course examines the processes Friedman School of Nutrition. Spring will provide an in-depth look at the of reconciliation as distinguished from semester. Lynellyn D. Long theories of conflict and the theories of political settlements and conflict resolution. conflict resolution that address such DHP D220: Processes of It covers major issues that have been conflicts. It will also explore some of International Negotiation emerging in the context of transition the major theoretical debates in the This course explores the processes, to democratic order. These issues field. Spring semester. Eileen Babbitt rather than specific substantive issues, include transitional justice, historic of international negotiation. Using DHP D227: Law and Politics responsibility, historical narratives, exercises and simulations, it examines of International Conflict apology, recognition of past evil, and the nature of conflict in the international Management eliminating forms of discrimination. arena; the special characteristics of The course examines the legal, political The course examines the importance negotiation in the international setting; and policy issues involved in interna- of these issues in democratic and pre-negotiation and the problems of tional intervention in conflict since the multiethnic contexts and therefore inducing parties to negotiate; negotiation end of the cold war. It explores legal will focus on reconciliation and multi- dynamics; the roles of culture and doctrine, official policy and political cultural citizenship. The course reviews power; and the strategy and tactics of practice with respect to conflict mechanisms that were developed and international negotiation. International intervention, but it also covers conflict employed to deal with these issues and mediation, arbitration, special problems prevention and especially post-conflict their applicability in various contexts of multilateral negotiation, and the recovery. Introductory sessions cover and how these mechanisms contribute follow-up and implementation of legal, conceptual and historic back- to processes of reconciliation. Spring negotiated agreements are also examined. ground, but move quickly into the Semester. Nadim Rouhana Enrollment limited to 30 per class. Fall intersection of law and politics. The semester, Two sections: Brian Ganson; course offers themes that deal with the Spring semester, Two sections: Nadim continuum from war to peace, rather Rouhana and Eileen Babbitt than in-depth case studies. Specific
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DHP D230: Humanitarian Action Topics covered include gender analyses DHP D236: Global Migration in Complex Emergencies of current trends in armed conflict and and Displacement This multi-disciplinary course covers terrorism; gender analyses of the links The course explores international and a broad range of subjects, including among war economies, globalization internal migration arising from conflict, the evolution of the international and armed conflict; the manipulation climate/environmental change, eco- humanitarian system, the political of gender roles to fuel war and violence; nomic/labor migration, global criminal economy of conflicts and humanitarian sexual and gender-based violations; networks (trafficking, smuggling), aid, analytical and normative frameworks women’s rights in international natural disasters, and poverty/livelihood for humanitarian action, and a variety humanitarian and human rights law breakdown. We begin by examining of programmatic topics. By the end of during armed conflict; peacekeeping causes and patterns (scale and scope), this course you will be aware of the operations; peacebuilding; and then explore the problems that migrants historical, legal, social, political and reconstruction. Case studies are confront, including security and rights moral context of both the causes and drawn from recent and current armed violations, and the economic, social and responses to complex humanitarian conflicts worldwide. This course is security impact on host countries and emergencies and have a working cross-listed with The Friedman School communities. We then investigate policy knowledge of the principles and of Nutrition Science and Policy. Spring responses - how states, international standards for performing humanitarian semester. Dyan Mazurana organizations and local communities response to complex humanitarian have responded to these problems, emergencies. This course is cross- DHP D233: Daily Risks and implications for future migration. and Crisis Events listed with The Friedman School of Spring semester. Karen Jacobsen This course bridges classes on develop- Nutrition Science and Policy. Fall ment and those on complex emergencies. DHP D237: Nutrition in Complex semester. Daniel Maxwell Survival risks of individuals are related Emergencies: Policies, Practice DHP D231: Human Rights to household security, which in turn and Decision-making Protection of Civilians during relates to the economic, cultural This course will examine the central Situations of Armed Conflict and political backdrop to household role and importance of food and The course investigates the historical behaviors. Conditions that determine nutrition in complex emergencies. development and evolution of food and nutritional stresses persist The implications of this for nutrition protection, anti-civilian ideologies in countries undergoing economic assessment, policy development, that motive the targeting of civilians, transformation and political unrest, program design and implementation and efforts to promote pro-civilian but also in those struggling with will be examined. This will provide an behavior. The course covers the Geneva globalization, increasing poverty, and understanding of; the nutritional out- Conventions and their Additional declining public sector responsibility. comes of emergencies (malnutrition, Protocols, emphasizing the distinction International careers involve assessing morbidity and mortality); and also the among combatants and civilians, potential risks and returns of alternative causes of malnutrition and mortality in conduct of hostilities, and the Fourth intervention strategies. This course emergencies (the process and dynamics Convention; international human is cross-listed with the Friedman of an emergency). The course will also rights instruments; humanitarian School of Nutrition Science and Policy. develop a broader range of manage- impartiality and neutrality; juris- Spring semester. Patrick Webb ment skills needed for humanitarian prudence regarding crimes against response initiatives. This course is humanity and war crimes; protection DHP D235m Field Research Methods cross-listed with The Friedman School obligations and structures; protection in Humanitarian Settings of Nutrition Science and Policy. Spring models; civilians’ perceptions of This module partners with the semester. Kate Sadler and Helen Young security and protective strategies; Thesis Research and Writing module negotiating access with armed groups; (D214m), which is a pre-requisite recruitment into armed forces and unless you have taken other research groups; gendered violence; and methods courses. The Field Methods disappearance, detention, and torture. module addresses primary data collec- Spring semester. Dyan Mazurana tion in field settings, especially those characterized by conflict and forced DHP D232: Gender, Culture displacement where data collection and Conflict in Complex methods confront logistical and ethnical Humanitarian Emergencies challenges. The course is ‘hands-on’ This course examines situations of and includes a simulated field study. armed conflict and the international The objective is to prepare students and national humanitarian and military to conduct their own fieldwork, and responses to these situations from a to assess the value of other field gender perspective and highlights research. One-half credit. Spring the policy and program implications semester. Karen Jacobsen that this perspective presents.
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DHP D239m01: Introduction DHP D263: The Arabs DHP D267: The Globalization of to Forced Migration – and Their Neighbors Central Asia and the Caucasus Overview, Causes and With a particular focus on the Arab The course establishes a basis for Institutional Responses world and the Levant, this course understanding modern political and The course begins with an analysis examines the evolution of nation-states cultural changes in Central Asia and of the root causes and push factors in the Middle East from colonial rule the Caucasus. A major effort will be underlying refugee movement, internal to the present. Themes addressed made to describe how the role of displacement, trafficking, and other include the rise of nationalism and external factors in combination with forms of involuntary migration related pan-Arabism, ideologies of internal internal conditions framed the problems to persecution, development, natural unity and regional tensions, Islam new leaders had to confront when disaster, environmental change and as a political force, globalization, the Soviet Union collapsed. Special impoverishment. The course then reform and radicalism, and the search attention will be devoted to the place provides a critical overview of the for new alternatives. Fall semester. of ethnic and sectarian violence. international legal framework that Leila Fawaz and Ibrahim Warde Other topics studied are: economic has evolved in response to these forms development, transfer of modern DHP D264: Globalization of migration, including international technology and its environmental of Eurasia: the Turks refugee law and recent innovations and the Politics of Eurasia impact, ethnic politics, fundamentalism regarding trafficking and internal An historical survey of the Turks as a response to rapid change, politics displacement. The third segment designed to emphasize the geopolitical of oil and the new ‘Great Game’ in explores comparative asylum and refugee importance of the Eurasian steppe. Central Asia. Fall semester. Andrew Hess policies in different national contexts. Topics examined are: formation of Not offered 2009-2010. Karen Jacobsen DHP D270: Sino-U.S. Relations Eurasian steppe empires; the era of Since 1900 DHP D239m02: Critical Issues Turko-Mongol invasions; decline of The aim of this course is to consider in Forced Migration classical Islamic civilization; conversion conflicting cultural impulses and This module is structured as a group- of the Turks to Islam; the rise of Turko- enduring historical patterns that have based, weekly discussion seminar with Muslim empires; decline of Byzantium dominated US interactions with China most classes led by a different class and the conquests of the Ottoman since the start of the twentieth century. member, guided by the professor. empire; expansion of Russia and the Studying past interactions is intended The course is focused on current, absorption of Turko-Muslims; modern- to inform discussion of present problems critical issues in humanitarian ization movements among the Turks; and possibilities. Readings will be assistance and protection in forced the emergence of modern Turkey; drawn from diplomatic histories, migration contexts, drawing on a range Soviets and Central Asian society; journals, and primary source material. of disciplines, including human rights the collapse of the USSR and the While the focus remains Sino-US protection, nutrition and public health, emergence of modern nationalism in relations, lectures and discussions deal and security studies. Specific topics Central Asia; China and the New Great also with fundamental principles of will be decided according to class mem- Game. Spring semester. Andrew Hess international relations and diplomatic bership and interests, but the topics practice. Fall semester. Alan Wachman DHP D265: The Politics and will have in common a critique of Culture of Iran, Afghanistan, current practice and discussion of DHP D271: International Relations and Pakistan of The United States and East alternatives. Open to students who The course establishes a basis for Asia: 1945 to the Present have either completed D239m01 or understanding modern political and An examination of the international with permission of instructor. Not cultural change in Iran, Afghanistan, relations of the United States and East offered 2009-2010. Karen Jacobsen and Pakistan. A major effort will be Asia since the end of World War II, DHP D260: Southwest Asia: made to discover the causes and identify principally US interactions with China, History, Culture, and Politics the consequences of the Iranian and Japan, and Korea, and secondarily, with A survey of Southwest Asian history Afghan revolutions. The modern political Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Focus from the conquest of the Crimea (1783) culture of each of the three states of this on fundamental concepts and realities to modern times. Trade with Asia and Turko-Persian region will be examined of international politics governing Europe, Turko-Muslim empires and and compared with special attention to interactions between the U.S. and culture, Shi’ism and Persia, Great the disintegrative role of ethnic violence. East Asian nations, as well the major Power competition in Southwest Asia, Other topics studied are: modern geopolitical issues of the day. Study of colonialism, formation of modern development, fundamentalism, the role the continuing patterns of interaction states, development, fundamentalism, of Islamic law, education, the place of among the U.S. and East Asian states— the end of the Cold War, regional women in society, transfer of modern the dynamics of wars, ideologies, violence, and the role of oil are emphasized. technology, ethnic politics, regional political, economic and cultural issues. Fall semester. Andrew Hess violence, and actions of Great Powers. Spring semester. Sung-Yoon Lee Not offered 2009-2010. Andrew Hess
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DHP H200: The Foreign Relations DHP H203: The International DHP P200: International of the United States to 1917 Relations of the China Seas Relations: Theory and Practice The history of American foreign relations The region this course examines is now Traditional, behavioral, and post- from the Revolution to the First World the world’s commercial maritime center. behavioral theories of international War. The transformation of the former The course offers, within a global salt relations, and the nature of theory in colony into a “world power,” with water perspective, the opportunity international relations; the role of attention to the internal dynamics of to explore strategic, environmental, normative theory; levels of analysis, this remarkable, paradoxical development economic, or cultural problems, structure-agent relationships, and as well as to its external causes. The depending on individual student concepts of foreign policy behavior and evolution of America’s major foreign interests. Course format is lecture decision making; utopian/neo-liberal policies—Non-entanglement, the and discussion, with two short written and realist/neo-realist theory, and Monroe Doctrine, the Open Door, and exercises and an oral report leading to democratic peace theory; theories of Dollar Diplomacy—and the relationships a final paper of journal article length. power and its management; theories of these to westward expansion, post- Writing and speaking skills receive of integration, cooperation, conflict, Civil War reconstruction, and urbaniza- considerable attention. No prerequi- war, and geopolitical and ecological/ tion and industrialization. The national sites other than a lively curiosity. environmental relationships; construc- debate after the Spanish-American Fall semester. John Curtis Perry tivism; systems theory; regime analysis; War over “imperialism.” Theodore the relationship between theory and the DHP H204: Classics of Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and international system at the early 21st International Relations their contrasting ideas of American century; traditional and contemporary Most courses in international power, interests, and purpose. Fall paradigms of the international system. relations focus on “cutting edge” semester. Alan Henrikson Fall semester. Robert Pfaltzgraff research. Without a working knowledge DHP H201: The Foreign Relations of Thucydides, Kant, or Schelling, DHP P201: Comparative Politics of the United States Since 1917 citizens and policymakers are unable to The course will examine the main The history of U.S. foreign relations place new theoretical propositions into concepts and arguments in comparative from the First World War to the a historical context. This course surveys politics and cover debates over such present. American responses to the the history of international relations topics as the making of state power Bolshevik Revolution, European theory through a close reading of and the determinants of state-building fascism, and Imperial Japanese aggression. 10-15 classic works in the field. Among and social change; the balance between Franklin D. Roosevelt, the entry of the the questions that will be addressed: states, societies and economies; the United States into the Second World how far has IR theory developed since role of culture, institutions and devel- War, and the major wartime conferences. Thucydides? How closely do theories of opment in state-building; and the role The postwar “revolution” in foreign international relations mirror the era in of external actors and international policy—the Truman Doctrine, Marshall which they were written? In what ways environment in sociopolitical change. Plan, and NATO. The “long peace” of are these widely cited works simplified The course relies on a theoretical the Cold War and crises in East Asia, or misstated in the current era? Not overview but also draw on historical Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, offered 2009-2010. Daniel Drezner evidence and case studies. The course and the Caribbean region. The Vietnam will provide students with an under- DHP H270: The United States war, the diplomacy of détente, human and East Asia standing of the main ideas and debates rights, the North-South Dialogue, An examination of the American in comparative politics and also provide nuclear arms control, the opening to experience in China, Japan, and Korea, them with an analytical framework for China, conflicts in the Gulf, the “new from the centuries of sporadic encoun- examining global politics. Not offered world order,” the Yugoslav tragedy, ter between the two distinctly disparate 2009-2010. Vali Nasr the “clash of civilizations,” and the and seemingly antithetical worlds of DHP P202: Seminar on “global war on terror,” and their Euro-America and Northeast Asia to Leadership Challenges causes and consequences. Spring the aftermath of the end of the Pacific Leadership involves guiding individuals semester. Alan Henrikson War. Focus on the late nineteenth century, and organizations in the public or private DHP H202: Maritime History when mutual images begin to take sector while making decisions about A study of world history over the past form and the evolving pattern of the highly complex problems. This course 500 years from a salt-water perspective. unequal relationship during the first examines how leadership is defined, The course will examine the ocean half of the twentieth century. Topics theoretical models for evaluating as avenue, arena, source, and cultural include East Asian cultural traditions, leadership, why certain practical metaphor, analyzing major themes Christianity, imperialism, wars, and approaches to leadership succeed while such as the impact of changing tech- modernization. Emphasis on ideas, others fail, and evaluates various leaders nologies and modes of warfare, national mythologies, and images. and leadership styles. It draws on case evolving patterns of trade, and differing Fall semester. Sung-Yoon Lee studies of diverse leaders from government cultural perceptions. The format will and business, including presidents, prime be lecture, with some discussion. Fall ministers, CEOs of major corporations, and semester. John Curtis Perry mayors. It aims to develop frameworks
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for evaluating leadership styles while DHP P205: Decision Making for students who already have some thinking systematically about challenges and Public Policy background in international politics facing contemporary leaders. Not offered All organizations, including governments, and international law. Also listed as 2009-2010. William Martel require policymakers to make informed ILO L207. Not offered 2009-2010. decisions about complex problems. Joel Trachtman and Daniel Drezner P203: Analytic Frameworks This interdisciplinary course considers for Public Policy Decisions how domestic and international forces DHP P208: Seminar on Geography, Introduction to the basic tools of policy Foreign Policy, and World Order influence decisions, while developing analysis and decision making, providing Napoleon asserted that “the policy of a interpretive models for understanding students with analytic skills to make state lies in its geography.” Arguably, the theory and practice of policymaking. policy decisions in many types of world order itself—the structures of It uses case studies to evaluate govern- organizations. The course includes an any well-functioning international mental interagency processes. Students introduction to public policy objectives, system—depends on conformity with prepare several policy memoranda on decision making, and the role of geographical realities. In contrast with national security and domestic crises, analysis. Students then learn powerful the often static “control” orientation play the role of principal in simulated analytic decision-making techniques, of politics, geography can be highly meetings of the National Security including decision trees, Bayes theorem, dynamic. Specific seminar subjects Council, and discuss their recom- utility theory, prospect theory, game include: boundaries and the partitioning mendations. This course encourages theory, benefit-cost analysis, and tip- of territory; human migration and students to think analytically and ping models. Case studies are used to settlement patterns including critically about theoretical and practical learn the policy analysis tools while cities; the siting of political capitals and challenges of policymaking. Spring applying them to real world policy also selection of diplomatic venues; semester. William Martel problems. Cases come from developed “classical” theories of geographical and developing countries, and cover DHP P206: Foundations determinism and possibilism as well many different policy fields. No of Policy Analysis as contemporary geopolitical and background in economics or statistics This interdisciplinary course examines geostrategic thought; the technical is required. Fall semester. Spring the instruments of policy analysis and methods and subtle suasion of semester. Carolyn Gideon strategic planning for public and private cartography, as well as Geographic sector policymakers. It builds qualitative Information Systems and “mental maps.” DHP P204m: Qualitative Research frameworks for policy analysis, which is Spring semester. Alan Henrikson in Communities Affected by War the analytical process by which decision This course aims to enhance student makers define problems, generate and DHP P209: International NGOS: understanding of the risks, dangers, Ethics and Management Practice evaluate alternatives, and select options challenges and constraints involved The course will look at key ethical to make the best possible decisions. The in working in war and post-war frameworks for individual action course also examines how strategic plan- contexts; develop skills for formulating within international development ning permits organizations to connect resourceful, ethical, and appropriate and humanitarian agencies. This policy analysis to future directions for responses to them; and expand student course will confront students with the organization. Broadly, this course knowledge of qualitative field research ethical dilemmas and challenge them develops frameworks and tools to fundamentals. It is intended for to reflect on the moral and ethical help students think analytically and students who are thinking of either ideas underpinning today’s changing critically about policy analysis and working in war/post-war situations or world. In turning to international strategic planning in public policy. on war-related issues. It will address NGO management practice students Fall semester. William Martel technical issues and contextual concerns. are asked to develop their own NGO, Devising practical responses to difficult DHP P207: Seminar on using the skills learned. This course challenges is a core theme of the course. International Politics will introduce students to such essen- One-half credit. Not offered 2009-2010. and International Law tial skills such as strategic planning, Instructor to be announced. International politics and international advocacy, the media, human resource law are clearly intertwined. Policy management, fundraising, budgets, professionals often are required to use evaluation and reading financial international legal discourse, and to statements. Spring semester. establish international legal rules and John Hammock organizations in order to achieve their goals. At the same time, international lawyers must consider political realities in crafting rules that will be respected and enforced. This seminar is suitable
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DHP P210m: Research Design state formation as well as context- national, and international responses and Methodology specific histories of each case. It will evaluated with the aim of articulating Research design and methodology also assess the evolving model of lessons for epidemiology, global health, offers PhD candidates grounding in international post-conflict state- and human security in the twenty first several of the main methods of social building and its various critiques. century. Fall semester. Astier Almedom scientific research. The focus will be Not offered 2009-2010. Peter Uvin the identification and critical review of DHP P217: Global Political Economy each method’s assumptions, strategies DHP P213: Charismatic Leadership and International Relations What determines the direction, mag- of argumentation and presentation, The concept and the theory of charisma nitude, governance, and fluctuation of and standards of evidence, with the and charismatic authority have been international economic exchange? This aim of helping each student select formulated, elaborated, and applied in course surveys the theories and issue an approach that best suits his or her what was essentially a domestic political areas of the global political economy, research question. Each participant will setting. Do they also have specific both in the current day and in the complete a variety of practical exercises implications for diplomacy and inter- past. Different analytical models are in order to help clarify and refine his or national relations? This is an intriguing presented to explain the variations her research question, and as preparation but neglected question, which will be in economic exchange over time. for writing a formal dissertation pro- explored with reference to relevant his- The issue areas that will be examined posal. This course is for PhD students torical examples (Napoleon, De Gaulle, include: world trade, monetary orders, only, or in exceptional cases with but also Hitler and Khomeini), including global finance, and foreign investment. permission of the instructor. One-half three from Modern Greece (E. Venizelos, Current topics that will be covered credit. Fall semester. Anna Seleny C. Karamanlis, A. Papandreou). Fall include: the effects of the 2007/8 financial DHP P211: Field Seminar in semester. George Mavrogordatos crisis, the rise of the BRIC economies, Comparative Politics and the future of the dollar, and the future DHP P214: Introduction International Relations of global economic governance. Fall to Global Health In this seminar, students will analyze semester. Daniel Drezner classic and contemporary work in This course examines current and comparative politics and international emerging health issues in developing DHP P218: Religion relations from a methodological and industrialized countries. Students and Nationalism perspective. The readings will cover learn to define the nature, determinants, Nationalism has often been compared the major themes and theories that and impact of selected health problems to a ‘secular’ or ‘civil’ religion. The dominate these fields. They will also in developing countries and describe reverse side of the same coin, however, include both exemplary and less the pattern of morbidity and mortality is that religion has often provided a successful applications of both theory in poor countries and by geographic ready-made initial core of national and methods, with the goal of students region. Students are introduced to data identity, which has proved remark- learning how to better develop their sources and health service delivery. ablyresilient over the centuries. Few own research strategies. Participants Considerations at the local, national, denominations actually coincide with will be required to produce and present and regional levels, including sources of a single ‘chosen people’ or nation. In a draft dissertation proposal by the end funding, the role of culture in health and most cases, a religion or denomination of the course. Open to PhD students only disease, and the global impact of health, is common to several nations. How or with permission of the instructors. are explored. Cross-listed as MPH 243. can it become identified with any one Spring semester. Daniel Drezner Spring semester. Jeffrey Griffiths among them in particular? It is here and Anna Seleny and Janet Forrester that differences between religions in terms of authority structure and DHP P216: International DHP P212: State-formation, organization become crucial. These Humanitarian Policy Conflict, and Intervention and Public Health issues will be examined on the basis in Comparative Perspective: of several examples, both from the the cases of Afghanistan, Seminar drawing on interdisciplinary various Christian denominations and Rwanda, and Sierra Leone research evidence in health promotion, from other religions. Spring semester. This seminar will provide three disease prevention and control in George Mavrogordatos theoretically grounded, in-depth case settings of “Complex Humanitarian studies of Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Emergency” (CHE). Participants will Sierra Leone to gain a deeper under- critique systematically a wide range standing of state-building, conflict and of relevant published documents post-conflict reconstruction. It will seek with the aim of formulating research to explore conflict and intervention questions on health in CHE. Contrasting with regard to general theories of contexts of recent and/or current CHE events will be examined; and the local,
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DHP P219: Political Economy DHP P222m02: Development wish to work in international develop- of Development Aid – Tools of the Trade ment and peacebuilding who have This class offers a survey of some of the Where Development Aid, Policies taken DHP P228 or have gotten key debates and issues in the political and Challenges examines the macro instructor permission to enroll in this economy of development. Part One issues of international aid, this module course. One-half credit. Fall semester. examines alternative conceptions discusses development practices at the Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church of development and how they have field level. Students walk away from informed policies in developed and this course understanding the basic DHP P226m: Corruption, Conflict and Peacebuilding developing countries since the 1950s. tools and techniques applied by local Despite the increasing attention placed Part Two analyzes alternative develop- and international actors in aid delivery. on corruption by the international ment trajectories among nation-states The course investigates issues and methods community, the nuances of corruption with an emphasis on the role of the in project formulation, assessment, in a conflict or post-conflict environment state in promoting or retarding design and evaluation as well as have received scant attention. The goal development. Part Three examines practices related to community of this class is to look at the intersection the provision of international assis- participation, social enterprise, and of conflict, corruption and peacebuilding tance to developing countries with an local partnerships. By the end of this as a cutting-edge issue in post-conflict emphasis on poverty reduction. Fall module, students are familiar with statebuilding. The course objectives are: Semester. Katrina Burgess cutting edge trends in aid delivery achieve a solid grounding in the basics across various development sectors DHP P221: International of the corruption literature; review including education, agriculture, Political Economy current approaches to anti-corruption disaster preparedness and market- This course introduces students to measures at the policy and practice level; based solutions. One-half credit. the key issues and approaches in understand how corruption and anti- Fall semester. Kim Wilson international and comparative political corruption concepts apply to conflict economy. The first section provides DHP P224: Cultural Capital environments. The course is intended for an historical overview of the shifting and Development students wanting to work on peacebuilding balance between “states” and “markets” This multidisciplinary seminar or governance. One-half credit. Fall since the first age of globalization at the examines the role that cultural capital- semester. Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church turn of the 20th century. The second the values, beliefs, and attitudes of a section examines alternative approaches society—plays in development. Some DHP P227: Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict to explaining foreign economic policy societies are rich in cultural capital— Resolution in the areas of trade, international mon- they develop rapidly. Other societies This seminar is in-depth and cutting- etary policy, and foreign investment. are cultural capital poor-they develop edge discussion of what development The third section compares national slowly. The seminar explores factors and conflict resolution practitioners systems of political economy across that influence the evolution of cultural currently do together on the ground developed and developing countries. capital, religion prominently among in conflict situations on all continents. The final section addresses the impact them, through the views of writers like It deals with methodologies (conflict of globalization and regional integration Max Weber and Alexis de Tocqueville vulnerability assessments; conflict on domestic politics and policymaking. and guest seminar leaders like Harvard impact assessments, etc.), issue areas Not offered 2009-2010. Katrina Burgess psychologist Jerome Kagan and CNN’s (reconciliation; security sector reform; first president, Reese Schonfeld. The DHP P222m01: Development Aid, demobilization, disarmament and seminar concludes with consideration Policies and Challenges reintegration) and context (political of measures that promote cultural capital. This module gives students a political economy of peacebuilding; relations Fall semester. Lawrence Harrison economy perspective of international with the military). Open to students development aid. It explores changes DHP P225m: Advanced Seminar in who have completed D223, P222mo1 in historic aid paradigms as it weaves Project Evaluation and Learning & m02 or with permission of the in current trends and today’s hottest Evaluation concepts underpin the instructors. Spring semester. Diana debates, including aid and terrorism, majority of techniques to ascertain Chigas and Peter Uvin harmonization and alignment, the results in social change programming. UN Millennium Development Goals, Not only are agency staff currently and the Millennium Challenge expected to be conversant in evaluation; Corporation. This module pairs well increasingly evaluation skills and tools with the module Development Aid – are part of their daily responsibilities. Tools of the Trade. One-half credit. Fall At the same time, the international semester. Peter Uvin and Kim Wilson community struggles to learn in a systematic and efficient manner, with the glaring gap between evaluation and learning being one reason why. This course is for all students who
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DHP P228: Design, Monitoring and P232: Communications Policy DHP P241: Policy and Strategy Evaluation for International Analysis and Modeling in the Origins, Conduct, and Development and Peacebuilding Students will learn the important Termination of War This course will explore core political and economic characteristics This course employs case studies to components of the program cycle, of communication policy and markets, assess enduring principles of war and starting with social change theories and will practice using basic analytic their role in defending a nation’s interests that underpin program design and tools through case studies and and objectives. The works of three finish with strategies for learning at examples from different countries military strategists and four political the project, institutional and field to enhance their understanding of theorists are examined to develop an levels. The core concepts of design, communication policy issues. Students analytical framework for assessing the monitoring and evaluation (DME) will will study the general background and origins, conduct, and termination of be applied primarily to international trends in communication policy in war. This framework is employed to development and peacebuilding different parts of the world. This analyze six major historical conflicts: programming. Though a uniquely is followed by in-depth exploration of the Peloponnesian War; the Wars of practical course, this class will also several issues of telecommunications Revolutionary and Napoleonic France; engage in organizational and donor policy, media policy, and policy issues the American Civil War; World War I; government policy issues. Fall semester. of the Internet and newer technologies. World War II; the French-Indo-China Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Open to students who have completed War/US war in Vietnam. Spring either EIB E201 or EIB E211m or the semester. Richard Shultz DHP P229: Development equivalent. Not offered 2009-2010. and Human Rights DHP P242: Seminar Until recently, development and Carolyn Gideon on Proliferation- human rights practitioners lived in DHP P237: Global Media and Counterproliferation and splendid isolation from each other. International Conflict Homeland Security Issues This has now changed, and development This course considers the role of media The 21st century proliferation setting; practitioners give a more central role to in political, military and economic alternative approaches to threat human rights in their work. This course conflict around the globe. The course reduction; international negotiations analyzes the tools, the policies and begins with a survey of international and agreements including the Non- the programs, and the lessons learned media institutions. Next we review the Proliferation Treaty; the International so far. How do we re-conceptualize literatures on media bias and framing. Atomic Energy Agency, the Missile development work in terms of human The remainder of the course consists of Technology Control Regime, the rights? What do we concretely do a series of case studies on regional and Chemical Weapons Convention, differently as a result? Are there any topical issues in international affairs. the Open Skies Treaty, the Biological insights from scholarship that can Class discussions will probe the legal, Weapons Convention, and the guide us? Open to students who economic and social constraints under Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; have completed L210 or with which the media operate, and the approaches to nonproliferation and permission of the instructors. context in which the public consumes counterproliferation; issues of home- Fall semester. Robert Wilkinson media output. We will also discuss land security; coping with the effects and Peter Uvin what responsibility journalists bear of weapons of mass destruction; problems as actors in the political system. of controlling technology transfer; the DHP P231: International fissile material production problem; Communication Not offered 2009-2010. Instructor cooperative security; compliance, The course covers policy issues of to be announced. verification, and on-site inspection, international communication with DHP P240: The Role of Force missile defense, negotiating strategies, an emphasis on the implications for in International Politics styles, objectives, asymmetries, politics, democracy, security, and This core International Security Studies and techniques. Spring semester. international relations. Students course presents an examination of the Robert Pfaltzgraff also study communication industries role of force as an instrument of statecraft. and their structure, and the resulting Topics covered include: 1) military DHP P242: Seminar implications. Topics covered include power and the role of force in contem- on Proliferation- Counterproliferation and freedom of speech, global media and porary world politics; 2) the causes of Homeland Security Issues international journalism, public diplo- war and the moral/ethical constraints The 21st century proliferation setting; macy, propaganda, the role of media on armed violence; 3) instruments and alternative approaches to threat in democracies and totalitarian states, purposes of coercion force: military reduction; international negotiations media influence on foreign policy, power and strategic non-violent action; and agreements including the Non- digital divide, intellectual property, 4) national security policy formation and Proliferation Treaty; the International privacy and ownership of information, process; 5) the modes and strategies of Atomic Energy Agency, the Missile convergence, malware and security, military power (nuclear, conventional, Technology Control Regime, the media coverage of political conflict, com- internal conflict,); 6) the structure of Chemical Weapons Convention, the petition, and the role of communication the post-Cold War and post-9/11 Open Skies Treaty, the Biological in economic development. Fall international security environment. Weapons Convention, and the semester. Carolyn Gideon Fall semester. Richard Shultz
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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; DHP P246: Seminar on U.S. historically, and evaluates modern approaches to nonproliferation and Intelligence, Terrorism, technological developments in infor- counterproliferation; issues of home- and National Security mation, communications, and space, land security, especially in light of the This seminar analyzes intelligence among others. This course encourages terrorist attacks against the United States; and international terrorism. First, it students to think analytically and critically coping with the effects of weapons discusses definitions of “intelligence” about how technological innovation of mass destruction; problems of and “terrorism”. Next, major elements is altering international security. Not controlling technology transfer; the of intelligence (collection, counterintel- offered 2009-2010. William Martel fissile material production problem; ligence, analysis and estimates, covert DHP P249: Terrorism and cooperative security; compliance, action) are assessed in terms of their principles, activities, organization, Counter-Terrorism: Strategic verification, and on-site inspection, Considerations for and role in counterterrorist strategy. missile defense, negotiating the 21st Century The seminar also explores the role of strategies, styles, objectives, This course will provide an initial domestic intelligence in a democratic asymmetries, and techniques. survey of some of the most important society and the relationship between Spring semester. Robert Pfaltzgraff literature on terrorism and counter- intelligence, policymaking, and crisis terrorism, put the threat of terrorism in DHP P243: Seminar on Internal management. While the focus is on a strategic context, and evaluate current Conflicts and War the American experience, a comparative strategies for the conflict against Instability, conflict and irregular warfare element will be incorporated into Al Qaeda and other organizations. within states due to burgeoning the discussion. Open to students who The course is broken into four sections, challenges posed by armed groups have completed DHP P240, ILO L210 looking at definitions of terrorism, have proliferated in number and or ILO L262 or with permission from historical case studies of terrorism in importance since the Cold War ended. the instructor. Not offered 2009-2010. the past, changes in the objectives and With the spread of globalization, the Richard Shultz technological shrinking of the world practices of 21st century terrorism, and and interdependence of states and DHP P247: Civil-Military Relations the primary theaters of the current war on regions, these internal/transnational in Post-Conflict Environments terror (Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq). conflicts have taken new dimensions Recently, post conflict environments Spring Semester. Timothy Hoyt have entered a grey area that is neither with far-reaching consequences. This DHP P250: Elements war nor peace. Simultaneous efforts seminar examines their patterns and of International involve kinetic activity, wider peace- evolution. Topics include examination Environmental Policy keeping, peace building and state of: the global strategic environment This course is designed to provide an building. This seminar will analyze how which armed groups exploit; the causes introduction to international environ- international interveners, both civil of internal/transnational conflict; types of mental policy development beginning and military, deal with such complex armed groups, their operational patterns with the scientific identification of the environments. Approaches will include and strategies; and six case-studies. Open problem, the assessment of its economic themes, such as lack of coordination to students who have completed P240 and social impact, and the political forces and planning; negotiation at HQ and or with permission of the instructor. that shape international agreements. in the field among civilian agencies, Fall semester. Richard Shultz Following a short introduction to some NGOs and the military; attempts at of the basic scientific and economic DHP P245: Seminar on Crisis coordination. It will include case studies, factors that characterize most environ- Management and Complex particularly Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior Emergencies mental problems, the course examines to taking this course, students should Consideration of crisis management five case studies that illustrate the range have taken a course in either security in theory and practice, drawing from of international problems facing diplo- studies, negotiation or law. Spring recent crises and from earlier crises; mats and corporations. Bilateral, multi- semester. Antonia Chayes theories of crisis prevention, escalation, lateral and commons issues are studied de-escalation, termination, and post- DHP P248: Seminar on Technology using examples of air, climate,water, crisis management; decision making; and International Security fisheries, and forests/biological diversity. bargaining and negotiation; the role Technology shapes how governmental Fall semester. William Moomaw of third-parties; the National Security and private sector organizations conduct Act of 1947 and decisional approaches their business. While technology is in successive U.S. administrations. integral to all facets of human interaction, Emphasis on theoretical literature, this course examines the relationship as well as the perspective of actual between technology and security in participants in recent crises and the face of globalization and rapid utilization of case studies. The seminar technological change. It develops includes a major weekend crisis simulation frameworks for evaluating how defense exercise with outside participants from and commercial technologies influence the official policy community. international security, examines Fall semester. Robert Pfaltzgraff technologies that shaped security
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DHP P251: International tools are assessed against different in both developed and developing Environmental Negotiations criteria. The course will introduce countries. Woven into the assessment The unique nature of environmental and strengthen multidisciplinary of each technology is a determination problems has brought a new style to policy analysis skills. Fall semester. of the present policies and factors that international negotiations, which relies Kelly Sims Gallagher lock-in current technology and lock- much more heavily on scientific and out new alternatives. Types of regulatory, DHP P255: International other technical expertise. Because the market, contractual and voluntary Energy Policy scientific knowledge base is constantly policies and practices are identified Energy affects every dimension of evolving, far more flexible, process- that can facilitate the introduction human society including basic living oriented treaties are being negotiated of new, clean energy technologies. conditions, mobility, and economic to address environmental issues than The major emphasis is on electricity prosperity. Energy is at the heart of has traditionally been the case in other production, transportation and some of the most intractable environ- areas. This seminar brings together a building energy conservation. mental problems, national security scientist and a negotiation specialist Spring semester. William Moomaw challenges, and economic development to examine with students the nature and Maria Flyntzani-Stephanopolous strategies. Energy is also central to of the international environmental addressing each of these challenges. negotiation process and its evolution. DHP P260: Islam and the West This course maps how issues differ Not offered 2009-2010. William Going beyond the simplistic notion of a among countries, exploring basic Moomaw and Lawrence Susskind great civilization divide, this course puts differences between industrialized and the categories ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’ DHP P253: Sustainable developing countries. The policies of under the spotlight of historical and Development Diplomacy major energy consumers and producers comparative analysis. After providing The principle goal of the course is are compared. International energy some essential background, the course to acquaint students with a thorough policy topics such as the geopolitics of concentrates on the colonial and post- understanding of sustainable oil and gas, energy markets, climate colonial encounter between Muslim Development Diplomacy (SDD) from change, public health, and interna- and Western societies and polities with both a governance and diplomacy tional energy-technology cooperation special, but not exclusive reference to the viewpoint. By looking at foreign policy and competition are covered. Spring South Asian subcontinent. Organized through a sustainability and development semester. Kelly Sims Gallagher along historical and thematic lines, lens, students will learn of the complexity the course focuses on the overlapping of the competing claims on natural DHP P257: Corporate Management of Environmental Issues domains of culture and politics, thought resources and the role that global This objective of this course is to examine and practice, to elucidate aspects of natural resources play in national and environmental issues from the point dialogue, tension, and confrontation international security, business relations of view of large corporations. Topics between the worlds of Islam and the and trade policies. The governance and include: strategy and organization; West. Fall semester. Ayesha Jalal diplomacy lessons are drawn from a staffing for environment; health and range of real-world natural resource DHP P262: Contemporary safety; accountability for environmental policy responses, such as in the field of South Asia performance; ethics; corporate environ- forests, water, food and climate change. Organized along both historical and mental policies; pollution prevention; Fall semester. William Moomaw thematic lines, the course surveys management tools; accident response; and Hans Hoogeveen politics, economy, and society in late companies and non-governmental colonial India and offers a comparative DHP P254: Climate Change Policy organizations; response to laws and historical analysis of state structures This course examines how governments regulations; international issues; and political processes in post-colonial can and might respond to the environmental accounting; corporate South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan challenges and opportunities posed social responsibility; and voluntary and Bangladesh. Among the themes by the complex problem of global codes of conduct. Note: This course considered are the reasons for the par- climate change. We begin with a study is cross-listed as CEE/UEP 265. tition of 1947, the nature of the colonial of the latest scientific understanding of Fall semester. Ann Rappaport legacy, the origins of democracy and the problem. Then, the technological military authoritarianism, the history DHP P258: Clean Energy options, the economic dimensions, Technologies and Policy of development, the shifting balance the role of the private sector, and the This course identifies the major envi- between central and regional power, domestic and international politics ronmental, security and economic the ongoing clash between so-called related to addressing climate change issues associated with the continued secular and religiously informed are explored. The policies of the major use of traditional energy sources such ideologies and the impact on inter- emitting countries are analyzed and as fossil fuels. It then explores alterna- state relations in the subcontinent. compared. The international climate tive technologies that are capable of Not offered 2009-2010. Ayesha Jalal negotiations are analyzed. Policy providing essential energy services
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DHP P263: Islam and Politics: the Islamic world, with a special focus geo-strategic imperatives, domestic Religion and Power on political Islam, the question of oil, and political processes, culture/normative in World Affairs issues of globalization and governance. practices, and increasingly, Chinese Islamic ideas and actors play an The final part of the course will deal individuals that shape Beijing’s outlook important part in global politics today. with more practical business issues. For and behavior in the coming years. Their impact on political change, inter- MIB students this course is one of the Not offered 2009-2010. Instructor national security, and economic and regional course options. Spring—two to be announced. social trends has shaped international modular sections: P266m01 (English) DHP P274: The Politics of the relations in recent years. The rise of and P266m02 (Arabic). Each modular Islamist activism has been central to Korean Peninsula: Foreign course one-half credit. Ibrahim Warde and Inter-Korean Relations this development. This course will An examination of Korea’s modern examine the role that Islamism plays in DHP P270: Foreign Relations “evolution” as a state and society. politics in Muslim countries; trace the of the People’s Republic of China Emphasis on Korea’s modern political origins and development of its forma- Beginning with review of PRC foreign history, from the origins and theory of tive ideas; introduce the key forces that relations since 1949, this course will statecraft in traditional Korea to the represent it; and analyze its develop- focus on thematic issues arising from major geopolitical issues of the present ment and conception of politics and the PRC’s efforts to ensure its security in day. Topics include Korea’s relations international relations. The course is interactions with other states. Students with the great powers of the North interested in providing students with a will examine prominent cases that Pacific and the primacy of international firm understanding of what Islamism is illustrate the ambitions manifested by relations in the Korean world: from but how to analyze it in the context of PRC policies and the impediments that imperialism and Japanese colonialism, global politics. Fall semester. Vali Nasr the state faces as it seeks to become more prosperous, influential, and partition of the Korean peninsula DHP P264: Iran in Global Politics secure. While the focus remains the and the establishment of two separate This course provides a basis for under- foreign relations of the PRC, lectures Koreas, Cold War politics and the Korean standing the political, economic and and discussions deal also with funda- War, economic development and political security dimensions of Iran’s role in mental principles of international freedom, to inter-Korean relations. World politics. It was a frontline state relations and diplomatic practice. Fall semester. Sung-Yoon Lee during the cold war before it became Spring semester. Alan Wachman DHP P275: Seminar on North the home to a major Islamic revolution Korean State and Society that changed the face of the Muslim DHP P272: The Ties that Bind: Transpacific Relations North Korea is the world world’s last world. Iran’s role in international in the 21st Century major hermit society. Since the division politics since then has an important This course examines the complex web of the Korean peninsula in 1945, South determinant of stability in the Middle of transpacific relationships in Asia as Korea has developed into one of the East. As the only Islamic state produced an analytical vehicle for assessing Asian largest trading nations in the world with by an Islamist revolution Iran experienced politics and the future of American a vibrant democratic polity, while North a unique path to development, power. While the course will focus Korea has descended into a perpetually experimenting with political, religious primarily on U.S. security partnerships aid-dependent state that maintains and economic reforms, which is in Asia since the postwar period, other domestic control through the deification consequential for the future of the formal and informal regional arrange- of the ruling family and operation of Muslim world. This course will seek ments will also be explored. Not offered extensive political prisoner concentration to explain the making of Iran’s politics 2009-2010. Instructor to be announced. camps. What does the future hold for and provide students with the basis North Korea? Emphasis on the Kim family to analyze its role in global politics. DHP P273: Rise of China: continuum, strategy of brinkmanship, Not offered 2009-2010. Vali Nasr Implications for the Twenty-first Century human rights, nuclear politics, and the DHP P266m1-2: The Islamic World The resurgence of China will be among implications of regime preservation or This course aims to explain those the most important and prominent collapse. Spring semester. Sung-Yoon Lee aspects of the Islamic world – history, features of global politics in the 21st politics, economics, society, legal century. Indeed, Chinas’ rise will have systems, business practices - that are major implications for international necessary to conduct business or political relations as wide ranging a great power negotiations in a number of countries. politics, Asian regional stability, energy This course will focus primarily on a security, economics and finance, the number of Middle East Persian Gulf environment, and the all-encompassing countries as well as Islamic countries phenomenon of globalization. Future in other parts of the world. The course leaders must therefore become increas- discusses issues of political economy of ingly familiar with the historical context,
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DHP P276m: China’s Political students this course is one of the Ecuador, Perú, Argentina, México, y Economy regional course options. Each Centroamérica. One-half credit. Fall The course is largely taught in Chinese modular course one-half credit. semester. Katrina Burgess (普通话, putonghua). The course has Spring – two modular sections: DHP P294m1-2: Political three objectives. The first is to expose P266m01 (English) and P286m02 Economy and Business students to a range of perspectives on (French). Erwan Lagadec Context of Latin America the development of China’s economy Survey of the structural economic and and political system, especially as the DHP P290: Migration and Transnationalism business context of Latin America and latter relates to the nation’s economic in Latin America the policies that shape it. Consists of reform and performance. A second This seminar examines the implications twelve largely microeconomic topics objective is to introduce students to of international migration, migrant such as labor markets, social security the original writings of well-known remittances, and transnationalism regimes, regional free trade, taxation Chinese economists. Finally, for for development and politics in Latin and industrial policy, with the students whose Chinese is not fully America. The first section addresses controversial role of the state at issue developed, the course intends to alternative theories of migration and throughout. A high level of student enable these students to develop the reviews patterns of migration in the participation is required. Prior vocabulary and spoken and reading Americas in the context of market command of microeconomics very fluency to enable them to comfortably opening and economic integration. The helpful, but not required. This course read Chinese newspaper articles second section looks at the impact of is offered (identically) in both English and basic journal articles. For MIB international migration and remittances and Spanish sections. For MIB students students this course is one of the on economic development and social this course is one of the regional course regional course options. Spring welfare in Latin America. The third section options. Spring – two modular sec- semester. Gary Jefferson focuses on migrant transnationalism tions: P294m01 (English) and P294m02 DHP P284m: Russia in 21st Century: and its implications for citizenship, (Spanish). Each modular course Opportunities and Challenges politics, and U.S. immigration policy. one-half credit. Lawrence Krohn In this course, we will examine Not offered 2009-2010. Katrina Burgess DHP P297: African Communities economic, political, and business DHP P293: Democracy and State in Crisis: Perspectives of War development of Russia. We will Reform in Latin America and its Aftermath not only seek to understand which This seminar examines how democra- The purposes of this course are to industries and companies are likely to tization and market reform have inter- illuminate community perspectives and succeed, identify the most promising acted to reshape the state and society experiences of African wars and assess areas for business cooperation, and in Latin America. Part One reviews their implications on policy and practice. explore motivations and business the major changes that have occurred It aims to reveal how warfare and com- practices of the Russian partners, but in the region’s political regimes, with munities in Africa intersect, and how will endeavor to do that in dynamic an emphasis on Argentina, Brazil, national and international actors might context, exploring the impact of internal Mexico, Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, enhance their work. Students will be (e.g., social, demographic, political) Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Party encouraged to re-assess assumptions and external (e.g., oil prices, international Two addresses how trends in repre- and predispositions about the nature and trade) factors. For MIB students sentation, accountability, decentraliza- impact of war, and contemplate whether this course is one of the regional tion, and participation have affected new understandings can or should effect course options. One-half credit. the quality of democracy in the region. collective action. Topics to be covered Spring semester. Ari Axelrod Part Three examines the causes and include security, terror warfare, gender, DHP P286m1-2: Europe implications of the rise of the political sexual violence, education, employment, in the Economic Crisis left in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, forced migration, demography, transi- This course will examine cultural, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. tional justice, child soldiering, trauma, political, and socio-economic contexts Fall semester. Katrina Burgess resilience, exclusion, refugee camp life, that frame national and EU-wide youth, and urbanization. Not offered DHP P293m: Democracia y Reforma responses to the ongoing economic 2009-2010. Instructor to be announced. del Estado en América Latina crisis in Europe. The crisis has impacted El tema principal de este seminario DHP 300-399: Independent Study not only national economics, but also es la calidad de la democracia en Directed reading and research for the effectiveness of the EU framework América Latina. En la primera parte, credit, providing an opportunity for and the national economic models tendremos una discusión comparativa qualified students to pursue the study and social compacts underlying it (con un énfasis en los casos de Brasil of particular problems within the (social security, taxation, immigration, y Chile) sobre los derechos y la ciu- discipline of Diplomacy, History and political legitimacy). The current crisis dadanía, la rendición de cuentas, y la Politics under the personal guidance thus constitutes a litmus test for the influencia de la sociedad civil en las of a member of faculty. The course may sustainability and watershed in the políticas públicas. En la segunda parte, be assigned to a Field of Study according development of EU models. Five models nos enfocaremos en la calidad de la to the topic selected. By consent of the will be examined: France, the UK, democracia en los siguientes países y/o professor and petition. Germany Central/Eastern Europe and regiones: Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, the European Union. For MIB
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DHP 400: Reading and Research Division of Economics probit, fixed effects, two-stage least Noncredit directed reading and and International squares and weighted least squares. research in preparation for PhD Business The course also addresses potential comprehensive examination or problems associated with these EIB E201: Introduction dissertation research and writing techniques, such as omitted variables, to Economic Theory on the subjects within this division. measurement error, multicollinearity, This course provides the foundation of By consent of the professor. heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. modern economics with an emphasis on Pre-requisites include familiarity with IR CPT: Practicum in International its applications. Topics include demand 1) basic probability and statistics, and Relations and supply analysis, consumer theory, 2) basic concepts of functions and Summer study and internship for theory of the firm, welfare economics, derivatives (EIB E210m or an Fletcher MALD students who do not monopoly and antitrust, public goods, introductory calculus course). hold US work authorization and who externalities and their regulation, Spring semester. Jenny C. Aker choose to engage in off-campus work unemployment, inflation and economic or internship experiences in the United growth, national income determination, EIB E215m: Empirical Topics States. Experiential learning and appli- monetary and fiscal policy. This is an in Globalization cation of academic experiences are introductory course for non-specialists. This six-week modular course examines standard components of a two-year, Fall semester—Carsten Kowalczyk; evidence on the extent of globalization master’s level international affairs Spring semester—Lawrence Krohn and its consequences. We will look program. Requirements include suc- at whether the evidence supports the EIB E210m: Quantitative cessful completion of the Professional notion that the last few decades have, Methods Module Development Program, mandatory in fact, seen an unprecedented rise in This module presents the mathematical attendance at three lectures, the the globalization; the effects of expanding methods that are used widely in internship and a paper at the conclusion trade on economic inequality, and the economics, including logarithms, of the internship. Available only for environment, and the effects of greater exponential functions, differentiation, F-1 visa holders. Please consult with capital market liberalization on optimization, constrained optimization, Registrar’s Office for more information economic growth. A focus of the course and an introduction to dynamic about this course. is the use of data to address economic analysis. The mathematical material is questions. Open to students who have presented in the context of economic completed EIB E210m and either UNIVERSITY SEMINAR applications and examples that illus- EIB E201 or EIB E200. EIB E213 is COURSES trate the bridge between mathematics recommended, but not required and and economics. One-half credit. Fall CIS 201: Child and Youth may be taken concurrently. One-half semester. Michael Klein Development: International credit. Spring semester. Michael Klein Perspectives on Children EIB E211m: Microeconomics in Exceptionally Difficult EIB E216m: Global This half-semester course develops Circumstances Macroeconomics and applies the analytical tools that Millions of the world’s children encounter Combines the standard macroeconomics economists use to address questions developmental contexts that present curriculum with the macro side of the about price determination, individuals’ major challenges to mental and physical international economics curriculum. and firms’ choices, effects of government development: They experience life in The assumption dictating the choice of policies on market outcomes and orphanages, refugee camps, juvenile topics is that students, once employed, efficiency. The course’s focus will be detention facilities, or homeless shelters; will have a daily need to understand on: basic theory of consumer behavior; they are child soldiers, or experience global macroeconomic events, foresee production and costs; partial equilibrium trafficking or forced labor. We will the evolution of macro variables and analysis of competitive markets; general explore what the long term conse- apply this knowledge to professional equilibrium; welfare. Open to students quences of marginalized mental and (and perhaps personal) decision-making. who have completed EIB E210m. physical health and low educational Theoretical exposition is rendered One-half credit. Fall semester. attainment are, and what programs and more concrete through case studies Deborah Menegotto policies are in place to assure that these drawn from around the globe. children’s potential is maximized. Fall EIB E213: Econometrics The “data watch” component of each semester. M. Ann Easterbrooks, Christine This course provides an introduction to unit ensures students’ familiarity with D. Economos and Laurie C. Miller. the basic tools of data analysis in studying the actual global indicators encountered economic and social relationships. in the international business and The course equips students with economics media. One-half credit. the facts, intuition and experience Spring semester. Lawrence Krohn necessary for independent econometric research and for critical reading of empirical research papers. The techniques covered include ordinary least squares,
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EIB E217m: Managerial Economics and consequences of external imbalances, poverty. The course also pays particular This course is a brief introduction to international policy coordination, attention to situations that have led to management issues presented from financial crises, and the global capital economic crises, and develops models the perspective of economics. The focus market. Open to students who have of macroeconomic management and is on the strategic responses a firm can completed EIB E201 or equivalent. structural adjustment. Lectures and make regarding both its internal EIB 210m is suggested, and may be assignments presume a background organization and its external interaction taken concurrently, but is not required. in economics at the introductory level. with both consumers and other firms. Fall Semester. Michael Klein Open to students who have completed Students will learn the role of economic EIB E201 or equivalent. Fall semester. EIB E232m: Economic Growth analysis in determining organizational Spring semester. Steven Block Economic growth has been, and design and developing competitive continues to be, one of the central EIB E241: Micro Development strategies whether the organization is a concerns of economics. Long-run Economics: Poverty Reduction for-profit firm or a non-profit enterprise. economic growth is one of the best Policy Analysis for Developing One-half credit. Spring semester. ways to bring people out of poverty. Countries Daniel Richards Some formerly poor countries, like This course presents a systematic EIB E220: International Trade South Korea, have had impressive approach to analyzing the costs and and Investment growth performance and, consequently, benefits of—and brainstorming about This course investigates why nations trade, a significant increase in its citizen’s ways to improve—poverty reduction what they trade, and the distribution living standards. Other countries, and development efforts. We examine of the gains from trade. Topics include notably many in sub-Saharan Africa, policies ranging from short-run cash trade and economic growth, technology, have had much less success in advancing and food transfer programs, to infra- the product cycle, multinationals, the material welfare of their citizens. structure, agricultural technology and international labor integration, tariffs, This module presents theory and micro finance projects, to policies shaping regional economic integration, dumping, evidence on economic growth and long-run investments in education and and international competitiveness of long-run economic performance. health. Emphasis is on rigorous use firms and nations. Special attention is One-half credit. Fall semester. of economic reasoning, identification given to analyzing the effects of various Michael Klein and use of key empirical evidence, and policy instruments. Open to students the effective communicationof policy who have taken EIB E211m. Spring EIB E233m: Finance, Growth analytic results. Open to students who and Business Cycles semester. Carsten Kowalczyk have completed EIB E201 or the equiv- In this module we consider the potential alent. Fall semester. Julie Schaffner EIB E221: Advanced Seminar role played by financial markets and on International Trade and the role of financial intermediation. EIB E242: Microeconomics Investment We also study the actual structure and of Development This seminar explores current issues performance of banks, stock markets, This course teaches students how to use in trade policy reform and institutions. and bond markets across a range of microeconomic theory and econometric Topics include subsidies, agriculture, countries, and the extent of worldwide skills to analyze issues in low-income market access and reciprocity, the WTO financial integration. The ultimate countries, to develop policy interventions Doha Development Round, preferential goal is to give students the theoretical to address those issues and to measure integration, dispute settlement, World tools, the empirical background, and the impact of such interventions in Bank and IMF trade policy measures, the familiarity with experience needed a rigorous empirical manner. It then trade and income distribution, and to understand the causes and implications addresses the issues that constrain and trade and the environment. The course of the rapidly changing structure of support development, particularly in is open to students who have taken international capital markets. This sub-Saharan Africa: labor markets, E220 or have permission of instructor. module should appeal to students with including health and education; rural Fall semester. Carsten Kowalczyk interests in economic policy, financial factor markets, including land and access to credit; access to information EIB E230: International Finance and portfolio management, and and agricultural markets; social This course examines the determination international business. One-half credit. networks and risk-sharing schemes; of income, the exchange rate, and the Spring semester. Michael Klein and institutions. Open to students who trade balance in economies that trade EIB E240: Development Economics have completed EIB E211 or an inter- goods and services, as well as assets, This course provides an introduction to mediate microeconomic theory course. with the rest of the world. Theory is several central themes in development E213 is strongly recommended. developed and employed to study economics. The organizing framework Spring semester. Jenny C. Aker current events as well as historical is economic growth. By combining experience. Issues studied include economic models and case studies, exchange rate determination, monetary one can draw lessons regarding what and exchange rate policy, the causes approaches have worked to alleviate
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EIB E243: Seminar on Agriculture EIB E246: Natural Resource and the course uses basic tools of economic and Rural Development Environmental Economics analysis to analyze the conditions that in Developing Countries This course covers major issues in are shaping China’s economic perfor- This seminar examines a range of contemporary environmental economics. mance, including the changing role issues relating to agriculture and rural Includes analysis of environmental of the state, the principal sources development policy in developing degradation and resource depletion, of growth, and China’s integration countries. The course is designed to valuation of the environment, with the world economy. Not offered introduce students to the fundamental incentives to protect the environment, 2009-2010. Gary Jefferson issues and literature relating to agricul- impacts of population growth and tural and rural development. Central agricultural expansion, management EIB B200: Foundations in Financial Accounting and Corporate topics will include: famine, the role of of renewable and non-renewable Finance agriculture in poverty alleviation, the resources, pollution analysis and policy; An introductory course to corporate relationship between poverty, population energy and global climate change; finance from the perspective of the growth, and resource degradation, international trade and the environment; chief financial officer (CFO). Much of food price policy analysis, agriculture’s national and multinational environ- the course deals with valuation concepts contribution to economic growth, and mental policies. Special attention will which are at the core of investment the role of the state. Open to students be paid to policies to respond to climate decisions (capital budgeting) for new who have completed EIB E201 or its change, including carbon trading and equipment, the launch of new products, equivalent. Fall semester. Steven Block “clean development” institutions. mergers & acquisitions and LBOs... and Open to students who have completed EIB E244m: Seminar on the the funding/financing decisions to be E201 or equivalent. Spring semester. Political Economy of Reform, coordinated with those investment Jonathan Harris Growth, and Equity decisions. Special attention is given the This seminar explores the insights and EIB E250: Economic Problems cost of capital and valuing stocks, bonds, critiques of rational political economy of Latin America convertible and preferred. In the pro- in explaining the determinants of Focuses on the many reasons for cess of addressing these issues you will reform, growth, and equity in developing Latin American’s failure to realize its develop an understanding of financial countries. This approach applies tools economic potential. Emphasis placed accounting, planning and budgeting. of economic analysis to understanding on macroeconomic policies and their Fall semester. Laurent Jacque political processes. In particular, the responsibility for the region’s many EIB B205: Data Analysis seminar will apply theories of “public crises. Perspective is decidedly and Statistical Methods choice” and collective action in explaining economic, but sight is never lost of for decision-making development policy outcomes in the ways in which political institutions This course provides an overview relevant areas including: the relationship shape economic policy and national of classical statistical analysis and between political and economic well-being. Each problem is illustrated inference. The language and methods liberalization, income distribution and with cases drawn from recent history. of statistics are used throughout the growth, trade regimes, land reform, Unifying theme is that of economic Fletcher curriculum, both in the and democratization and growth. inefficiency, i.e. how poorly conceived classroom and in assigned readings. Students are encouraged to have institutions and policies lead to In addition, the language and methods completed EIB E240. One-half credit. economic waste. Prior mastery of basic of statistical analysis have permeated Spring semester. Steven Block macroeconomics is essential; microeco- much of academic and professional nomics and familiarity with the region EIB E245: Managing Economic writing as well as media reporting. are helpful, but not required. Reform in Low Income Countries The goal is to present a broad introduction Fall semester. Lawrence Krohn The international development to statistical thinking, concepts, methods, discourse has changed markedly EIB E254: The Political and vocabulary. Fall semester. Spring in tone and substance over the past Economy of China semester. Robert Nakosteen decade and a half. This course will This course provides a political attempt to evaluate the experience economy perspective on China’s of economic reform in developing economic rise and integration with countries from the point of view of the world economy, with particular the interaction between politics and emphasis on the reform period beginning economics. There will be a broad in 1980. Topics covered in the course analysis of the critical issues of reform include the reform process, the role on the macroeconomic, institution and of institutions, corporate governance governance areas along with in-depth reform, trade and foreign direct case studies of a select number of low investment, science and technology, income countries spanning different regional and income disparities, and regions. The main emphasis will be the changing role of China’s political on the practical and management system in the country’s emerging challenges that countries face. capitalist system. Where appropriate Not offered 2009-2010.
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EIB B207: Financial EIB B220: Seminar on Global the use of derivatives and asset-backed Statement Management Financial Services securities. Fall semester. Patrick Schena Accounting is an economic information The focus is on the determinants of system, and can be thought of as the competitive performance of financial EIB B226m: Large Investment and International Project Finance language of business. Accounting institutions including commercial A case study approach to employing information provides individuals with banks, insurance companies, hedge the latest techniques for structuring a starting point to understand and funds, investment banks and private transactions, including risk mitigation evaluate the key drivers of the firm, equity firms. Review of bank manage- by financial intermediaries. Course its financial position and performance. ment principles emphasizes asset stresses decision making and priori- This can then be used to enhance liabilities management, interest rate tization of tasks, policy formulation, decisions as well as help predict a firm’s risk management and Value at Risk the selection of world-class partners future cash flows. The present (V@R). Discussion of international and on-the-ground operational skills (or current) value of those cash flows commercial banking will focus necessary to ensure timely completion provides an estimate for the value on international trade financing, of construction, budget adherence and of the firm. This course will cover syndicate lending, project finance efficient start-up. Large investment the basic vocabulary, concepts, proce- and international securitization. projects across a variety of geographic dures and mechanics of financial and Open to students who have complete regions, industrial sectors, and stages managerial accounting and the role B200 or B221 or equivalent. Spring of project execution are examined, of accounting information in society. semester. Laurent Jacque including data on default and loss Fall semester. Lawrence Weiss EIB B221: International characteristics. Contrasts differences EIB B208: Financial Financial Management in risk between domestic and export Statement Analysis This course develops a conceptual sector projects, including foreign This course will provide participants framework within which the key financial exchange issues and the role of host with an understanding of the techniques decisions faced by multinational corpo- governments. One-half credit. Fall used to alter and evaluate the key rations can be analyzed. The traditional semester. Phil Uhlmann. competitive value drivers of a firm themes of corporate finance, including and assess the nature and likelihood working capital management, capital EIB B227: Islamic Banking and Finance of future cash flows. We begin by budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, The course is a comprehensive intro- reviewing the basics and remembering and funding strategies, are revisited in duction to Islamic banking and finance. the limits of accounting information. the context of volatile exchange rates, In addition to providing religious Next we deepen our examination of different regulatory environments and background, the course discusses the ratio analysis and extend our analysis segmented capital markets. Focus on political and economic context of the to build pro-forma (as if, or future) foreign exchange risk management creation and evolution of Islamic insti- financial statements. Then, we look at including the appropriate use of new tutions. The course also focuses on the certain accounting choices and their hedging instruments such as currency underlying principles of Islamic finance impact on financial statements and options, swaps, and derivatives. Case and explains how Islamic products analysis. Finally, we will study the studies emphasize how international (murabaha, mudaraba, musharaka, nature of bankruptcy and how creditors financial management should be ijara, sukuk, takaful, Islamic mutual assess this possible end game. Spring integrated with corporate strategy and funds and derivatives, etc.) work. The semester. Lawrence Weiss operating decisions. Open to students final part of the course will discuss who have completed EIB B200 or equiva- EIB B210: Governmental and Islamic finance in the context of the lent. Spring semester. Laurent Jacque Non-Profit Accounting “war on terror” and the recent global Accounting is an economic information EIB B225: Corporate Finance financial meltdown. Spring semester. system, and can be thought of as and Banking: A Comparative Ibrahim Warde the language of money. Accounting Asian Perspective information provides individuals with This seminar explores major themes in EIB B228m: Risk Management for Financial Institutions a starting point to understand and corporate finance and banking in Asia Risk management has become a field of evaluate the economic condition of an drawing on the diverse experiences major importance in finance. The major organization. This can then be used to of regional actors. Systemic issues financial risks are: liquidity risk, interest assess the ability and likelihood of an dominate the first third of the seminar, rate risk, credit risk, and market risk. organization’s future financial endea- specifically the legacy of bank-centric The innovation came originally from vours. This course will cover the basic finance, trends in financial deregulation the capital markets where risks are vocabulary, concepts, procedures and and internationalization, and crisis. traded using “derivatives”. A second mechanics of financial and managerial The balance of the seminar will examine impulse was triggered in the banking accounting and the role of accounting decisions at the firm-level on issues industry, when the management of information in society. Spring semester. such as corporate ownership, perfor- financial risks of banking institutions Lawrence Weiss mance, and governance, and capital structure management, across both became a major issue because of the public and private debt and equity and strong pressure of regulatory bodies. balance sheet management through Today, risk management in the financial
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industry has become the center of design, modes of foreign investment, EIB B235: Managing attention by all. It is a core central and global strategy. It also explores the Global Corporation function for globally reaching financial questions related to globalization and The course will touch on the major organizations, banks, funds, insurance the cross-border flow of people, goods, elements of directing the global companies, because of the stringent rules ideas, and money, and reflects on issues corporation from an overall manage- imposed worldwide. One-half credit. related to political risk, country analysis, ment perspective. Hence, while the Fall semester. Joel Bessis comparative economic organization, course will touch on financial, human and emerging markets. Fall semester. resources, marketing, manufacturing, EIB B229: Global Investment Jonathan Brookfield and other areas, the emphasis will be Management on the management decisions and The objective of this course is to EIB B232m: Technology Strategy issues, rather than on the detailed develop the analytical framework & and Innovation in Global technical aspects of each area. The practical skill sets required for managing Markets: Managing Innovation course will focus largely on interna- global portfolios and risk analysis. for Securing Global Competitive tional management issues. It will draw Topics covered include asset allocation; Advantage on examples of issues, particularly security selection; portfolio risk The course will enable students to from the technology, financial services management using derivatives; trade develop understanding of the emerging and consumer products industries. execution; portfolio monitoring & challenges from the demand/consump- Selected guest experts will also partici- rebalancing; and performance evaluation tion sides for a range of economies pate in the lectures. Fall semester. & attribution. The course examines form $500/capita to $50,000/capita, G. Richard Thoman the investment decisions faced by North & South, and East and West; institutional investors as well as private The emerging technologies (e.g. new EIB B236m: Cross Border wealth management. The course takes materials and bio technologies) which Strategic Alliances a global approach with asset class, together could offer more sustainable The course explores enterprise strategies country/currency selections/allocations solutions for future advancement of the and reasons why a firm may turn to decisions spanning instruments traded global economy and; Role of leaders in strategic alliances to achieve their in global financial markets. Pre- requi- business and government as innovators strategic alliances to achieve their sites: EIB B200 and EIB B221 or a strong and entrepreneurs have to play, as strategic objectives. It will then finance background. Fall semester. global issues on energy, ecology, water, examine how strategic alliances are Hamza Abdurezak health, and materials become more implemented—finding the right complex and intertwined. One-half partners, structuring the alliance, and EIB B230: Strategy and Policy credit. Fall semester. Partha Ghosh managing the partnership. Finally, we for Competitive Advantage will extend what has been learned, by This course introduces fundamental EIB B234: Seminar on Strategic applying it to real situations—through issues in the strategic management Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries case studies and projects. Although of firms. The aim of the course is to This course surveys the literature the course will focus extensively on provide students with basic theoretical related to privatization, considering examples from the Pacific Rim in order perspectives and practical tools for both theoretical perspectives and for students to gain a deeper under- understanding firm performance practice. It also explores current issues standing of alliance issues in this area, over time. This course considers both shaping debates about effective enter- we will also discuss cross-border business and corporate strategy, and prise privatization in a comparative and alliances more broadly. One-half credit. particular emphasis is given to industry interdisciplinary manner. The seminar Fall semester. William Reinfeld analysis, competitive rivalry, organiza- examines key concepts and policy tional structure, company growth, and EIB B237: Field Studies issues related to privatization and different types of diversification. The in Global Consulting deregulation, looks at different national course is open to all students. EIB E201 The goal of this course is to provide experiences, and explores the impact and EIB B200 or their equivalent are an introduction to consulting as it is of privatization from an industry strongly recommended (and may practiced worldwide and across sectors. perspective. Students should come be taken concurrently). Spring Students will achieve this goal by away from the seminar with a deep semester. Jonathan Brookfield undertaking a consulting engagement appreciation of the challenges for a real-world client. The first part of EIB B231: International Business confronting executives and policy the course will include an introduction Strategy and Operations makers dealing with changes to the to and practice in the essential skills This course surveys issues related to the boundary between public and private that form the core of professional internationalization of firms and the sector activity across a variety of development for consultants at top- strategic management of multinational different settings. Fall semester. level firms. Students will then put these enterprises. The aim of the course is to Jonathan Brookfield skills to the test by completing a team expose students to a variety of theoretical consulting project for a sponsoring perspectives and managerial practices company. Open to students who have related to international business. In par- completed EIB B225 or EIB B230 and/ ticular, this course considers the inter- or EIB B200 or with permission of the nationalization process, organizational instructor. Class size will be limited by
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Course Descriptions the number of projects confirmed EIB B241: Microfinance and EIB B261: Seminar on Advanced by external sponsors with a maximum Inclusive Commerce Topics in Marketing of four projects, or twenty students, Microfinance once meant small loans This seminar offers comprehensive being accepted. Input for the project delivered through groups to microen- coverage of both fundamental and grade will come primarily from the trepreneurs. Today, microfinance has emerging issues in the fields of marketing client; team self-evaluations will be become robust. It includes loans, that continue to capture marketers’ reflected in individual final grades. savings, insurance and the complex time and attention. The first three Note: Students are limited to only one and emergent ways of delivering these modules of the seminar (market orien- “field study” type of course during services. This course explores the tation; customer orientation; learning their career at the Fletcher School. development environment that inspired orientation) follow a classic marketing This also includes courses taken outside early microfinance interventions and paradigm centered on best marketing of Fletcher that are considered field concludes with the breakthroughs in practices and superior organization study courses. Spring Semester. inclusive business approaches such as performance. Issues will be examined Christopher Tunnard microfranchising. The course assumes with respect to various contexts (e.g. no financial background but requires for-profit vs. non-profit; organizational EIB B238m: Strategic Management that students master financial skills vs. individual behavior). The fourth Effective strategists can: size up the during the semester as a prerequisite module, co-designed and moderated dynamics of the external environment to understanding the issues discussed. by students, will be centered on of a firm, covering its economic, Fall Semester. Kim Wilson students’ specific interests. Not offered political and social contexts; take a 2009-2010. Bernard Simonin holistic view across all functions and EIB B242m: Microfinance configure all of a firm’s internal choices Colloquium EIB B262: Marketing Research to give it a competitive advantage; This course plumbs the depths of topics and Analysis sustain this advantage over time and discussed in B241: Microfinance and This course adopts a comprehensive, leverage it into adjacent business and Inclusive Commerce. It is designed as hands-on approach to designing and geographic opportunities; use acquisitions a true seminar where we focus on one conducting research. Students will be and alliances when these are the more topic in particular and delve into its exposed to the various stages of the effective approaches to support a background, review the current debates research process from recognizing the strategy; create the right organizational that surround the topic, and then explore need for research and defining the context to execute the chosen strategy practical interventions that are occurring problem to analyzing data and inter- efficiently; ensure the continuous right now in the industry. One-half preting results. Proper design of research renewal of the firm in anticipation credit. Fall semester. Kim Wilson methods, fieldwork, questionnaires, and surveys (e.g., online surveys) is of and adapting to its changing EIB B260: International Marketing covered. Both qualitative (e.g., focus environment. The objectives of this This course introduces students to groups, projective techniques) and short course are to master the field’s the fundamentals of marketing in quantitative approaches (e.g., cluster, core concepts and to build the skills a global environment. It addresses discriminant, and factor analysis) needed to be an effective strategist. the problems encountered by all are presented. Various analytical tech- One-half credit. August Pre-session. organizations—small and large, for- niques are introduced “hands on” via Bala Chakravarthy profit and non-profit—as they operate a series of computer exercises and in an international environment. The EIB B239m: Corporate Governance cases (using SPSS and Excel). Fall full range of marketing activities is in International Business and semester. Bernard Simonin Finance covered: marketing research, product This module seminar explores business, policy, branding, pricing, distribution, EIB B263m: Marketing Management financial and legal issues affecting advertising and promotion, customer The course addresses the managerial, corporate governance and management service, planning, organization, and organizational, ethical, societal, envi- of risk, both in industrialized and control. While internationally oriented ronmental, and global dimensions of developing countries. Students will in nature, the aim of the course is also marketing decision making. The main examine the nature of the corporation, to build a significant understanding objectives of the course are to sharpen management roles and board responsibility, of classic marketing management your skills in marketing decision- the role of regulatory authorities, as principles. Non-traditional aspects of making, problem diagnosis, and well as corporate culture, corporate international marketing (e.g., nation management skills; to understand and social responsibility, and capital branding) will also be considered for a apply some fundamental marketing market development. The seminar will variety of constituencies. Fall semester. concepts; to improve your familiarity focus on policy implications, including Bernard Simonin and understanding with institutional wide-spread efforts to effect corporate marketing knowledge, terminology, governance reforms and set standards and practice; and to provide you with a in the wake of corporate scandals and forum for formulating, presenting, and systemic risk. Also listed as EIB B239m. defending your own marketing ideas One-half credit. Spring semester. and recommendations. Note: Students S. Donald Gonson having taken or planning to take B260 are not eligible to enroll in this course. One-half credit. Spring semester. 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EIB B264: Seminar on Strategic EIB B270m: Module on Business EIB B284: Petroleum in the Global Marketing for Nonprofit Groups in Asia Economy Organizations While Asian economies are increas- This course covers the structure of the This seminar offers a comprehensive ingly important to the world, a full international petroleum industry and coverage of the fundamental issues in understanding of how such economies its role in the international economy. marketing and branding in nonprofits. are organized is difficult to achieve The first half will address the technical, The aim of this course is to arm without some consideration of business commercial, legal, economic and students with the analytical skills and groups. This seminar looks at business political basis of the industry and the knowledge necessary to make, evaluate, groups in Japan, the Republic of Korea business models for key segments, and critique marketing and branding (South Korea), the Republic of China including exploration and production, strategy decisions facing nonprofit (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Singapore, and refining, marketing and natural gas. organizations in an increasingly global the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Drawing on this knowledge base, the arena. The seminar addresses how to The goal of the seminar is to put Asian second half will consider key issues of craft a nonprofit marketing strategy; business groups in their historical, the petroleum industry, including the implement a coherent marketing plan political, and economic context, and resource base, pricing, environmental and optimize the use of marketing then to examine current conditions impacts, alternative energy sources and resources, develop brand identity in an effort to give some insight into geopolitics. Open to students who have and positioning statements; leverage future trends. One-half credit. Not basic Excel skills and have completed brand alliances and partnerships; and offered 2009-10. Jonathan Brookfield EIB E200, EIB E201, EIB B200 or equiva- perform financial brand valuations. lent. Fall semester. Bruce Everett EIB B272m: The Political Economy Spring semester. Bernard Simonin and and Business Environments of EIB B290: Leadership: Personal and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander Greater China Organizational Challenges EIB B265: Entrepreneurial This course will expose students to This course provides students with a Marketing – Building a similarities and differences in the practical and intellectually challenging Winning Business Plan business environments of Greater roadmap to their own development This course guides students through China. At the end of the course, as leaders. Lectures and readings give the development of a new product/ students should have a better under- meaning to leadership as a concept; service strategy and detailed business standing of Chinese business and the however, we will leverage students’ plan. It is an applied, project based context in which business occurs in own experience and the experiences of course, designed to weave together Hong Kong, Singapore, the Republic leaders from industry and government field research, theory, case studies, of China (Taiwan), and the People’s to explore leadership as a vocation. Two class discussions, lectures and work- Republic of China (PRC). The class themes are central: first, leadership is shops into a comprehensive approach. will be taught in English. For MIB a life-long vocation and, second, lead- Students actively engage in their own students this course is one of the ers improve through practice. The link learning as they construct the building regional course options. One-half credit. is learning how to “practice while you blocks of their business plan, working in Spring semester. Jonathan Brookfield perform.” Through readings, exercises, teams throughout the semester. The and discussions with invited guests, EIB B280: The Global Food Business objective of this course is to craft a we will all experience what it means The purpose of the course is to introduce comprehensive business plan which to practice while you perform. Spring the student to the rapidly expanding students present to a panel of investors semester. Robert J. Thomas global food business. The growing, at the end of the course. This course processing, distribution, and marketing is relevant for business students and EIB 300-399: Independent Study of food are major and necessary eco- social entrepreneurs alike. Fall semester. Directed reading and research for nomic endeavors of the world’s people. Natalie Laidler-Kylander credit, providing an opportunity for Today, the international food industry qualified students to pursue the study EIB B270: Seminar on Asian is increasing at historically high rates of of particular problems within the Business Groups growth paralleled by increasing world discipline of Economics and While Asian economies are increasingly trade in agricultural commodities, International Business under the important to the world, a full under- motivated by new multinational trade personal guidance of a member of standing of how such economies are agreements. The course focus will be faculty. The course may be assigned organized is difficult to achieve without to introduce the student to the man- to a Field of Study according to the some consideration of business groups. agement, business strategy, marketing, topic selected. By consent of the This seminar looks at business groups research, and analytical skills required professor and petition. in Japan, the Republic of Korea (South in the international food business. EIB 400: Reading and Research Korea), the Republic of China (Taiwan), Spring semester. James Tillotson Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Noncredit directed reading and People’s Republic of China (PRC). The research in preparation for PhD goal of the seminar is to put Asian comprehensive examination or business groups in their historical, dissertation research and writing political, and economic context, and on the subjects within this division. then to examine current conditions By consent of the professor. in an effort to give some insight into future trends. Not offered 2009-10. Jonathan Brookfield
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International Business Fields International Finance and Banking of Study for MIB Students The International Finance and Banking field prepares students The following four fields of study are the international business for careers such as treasurers, comptrollers, and chief financial fields for the MIB degree. Students in the MIB program must officers (CFOs) of globally reaching manufacturing and complete one of these four International Business Fields of trading corporations; investment bankers in financial services Study along with one International Affairs (MALD/PhD) Field encompassing international banking, investment and insurance; of study. The International Affairs Fields are listed on the and asset managers with institutional investors, hedge funds, subsequent pages. MIB students must complete a minimum of private equity firms, and sovereign wealth funds. It is also three course credits in a single field to fulfill the International appropriate for students looking to deepen their skills in Business Field of Study requirement. Modular courses quantitative financial analysis and knowledge of the global (1/2 credit courses) must be matched up to make a full credit. financial sector. The field deals with valuation concepts which Each field has one required course and two electives. are at the core of investment decisions, including new product An asterisk (*) denotes the required course for the field. launches, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, privatization, project finance, and private equity. Emphasis is Through petition to the Committee on Student Academic placed on funding/financing within the multi-currency setting Programs, MALD students may offer one of the MIB of global capital markets. Special attention is devoted to the International Business Fields of Study. However it should challenge of managing credit, interest rate, and exchange risk be noted that in doing so, they are ineligible to officially in the context of financial engineering and asset securitization. offer the International Business Relations Field toward their plan of study. *EIB B221 International Financial Management
Group I – Select one full credit from the following list: EIB B208 Financial Statement Analysis KEY EIB B220 Seminar on Global Financial Services * This course is required for constitution of the field. EIB B226m Large Investment and International Project Finance ++ Any one of these courses may be used as the required EIB B228m Risk Management for Financial Institutions course in the field. EIB B229 Global Investment Management + Any one of these courses may be used as the second required course in the field Group II – Select one credit from the following [ ] Bracketed courses are those not offered 2009–2010. or from Group I list: EIB B225 Corporate Finance and Banking: A Comparative Unless other wise indicated, students need three course East Asian Perspective credits to complete a field of study. Modular courses count EIB B227 Islamic Finance and Banking as one-half credit and if listed in a field, two must be taken EIB E233m Finance, Growth and Business Cycles to complete one course credit. EIB B234 Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries
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Strategic Management and Marketing International Consultancy The Marketing field investigates the fundamental approaches This field is relevant for students pursuing general management to understanding local and global markets, competitors, and careers with multinational corporations as well as management portfolios of product offerings in both developed and emerging consulting careers. The field provides students with a deep markets and through the private, public, and non-profit grounding in the basic logic of competitive advantage, sectors. It is appropriate for students interested in general premised on a careful analytical treatment of the distinct management careers, entrepreneurial management as well qualities and positions of individual firms, and an understanding as management consulting. The Marketing field helps of broader competitive dynamics. This background positions students acquire the grounding in the basic disciplines (e.g., students well for guiding strategy at both established and psychology, economics, statistics) essential to understanding emerging enterprises pursuing both domestic and international consumer and organizational buying patterns and develop strategies. Foreign market entry strategies through exporting, successful marketing strategies. licensing, franchising, acquisitions, or foreign direct investments are also emphasized. *EIB B262 Marketing Research and Global Intelligence EIB B237 Field Studies in Global Consulting *EIB B231 International Business Strategy and Operations EIB B261 Seminar on Advanced Topics in International Marketing EIB B264 Seminar on Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations Group I – Select one full credit from the following list: EIB B265 Entrepreneurial Marketing – Building a Winning EIB B232m Technology Strategy and Innovation in Global Markets Business Plan EIB B234 Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing EIB B280 The Global Food Business and Deregulating Industries EIB B235 Managing the Global Corporation EIB B236m Cross Border Strategic Alliances Public and NGO Management EIB B237 Field Studies in Global Consulting This field prepares students for administrative and general Group II – Select one credit from the following management positions with public agencies, governments, or from Group I list: and NGOs. Emphasis is placed on planning, budgeting, [ILO L237m] Mergers and Acquisitions: An International Perspective controlling, and financing in the unique context of both ILO L239m Corporate Governance in International Business the public sector and NGOs. Special attention is given and Finance to micro-finance and entrepreneurship within NGOs. EIB B220 Seminar on Global Financial Services EIB B239m Corporate Governance in International Business ++EIB B210: Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting and Finance ++DHP P209 International NGOs: Ethics and Management Practice EIB B265 Entrepreneurial Marketing—Building a Winning ILO L221 Seminar on Actors in Global Governance Business Plan DHP P225m Advanced Seminar on Evaluation and Learning EIB B270m Module on Business Groups in Asia DHP P228 Evaluation of Peacebuilding and International Development EIB B284 Petroleum in the Global Economy EIB B234 Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries EIB B237 Field Studies in Global Consulting EIB B241 Microfinance and Inclusive Commerce EIB B264 Seminar on Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
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ILO L223 Seminar on International Environmental Law KEY ILO L224 Seminar on Peace Operations * This course is required for constitution of the field. ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade ++ Any one of these courses may be used as the required ILO L260 Law of the European Union course in the field. ILO L262 Foreign Relations and National Security Law + Any one of these courses may be used as the second [DHP P207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law required course in the field [ ] Bracketed courses are those not offered 2009–2010. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Unless other wise indicated, students need three course credits to complete a field of study. Modular courses count The theory and practice of international organizations is a as one-half credit and if listed in a field, two must be taken dynamic and increasingly important dimension of world to complete one course credit. affairs. The field is at the intersection of international law and politics, and its core approach is inter-disciplinary. Students are given the opportunity to study the norms and rules that International Affairs Fields govern international relations and the institutions where those rules are formulated and implemented. In addition to survey of Study for MALD, MIB, and courses on international organizations in general, course PhD Students offerings cover substantive areas of international activity in which institutions play a central role, such as peace operations, PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW human rights, the environment and international trade. Students who specialize in the field acquire a) basic knowledge International Law has been one of the key subjects studied at of the nature and functions of international institutions – both The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy since the founding formal organizations and less formal arrangements; b) an of the School. This has never meant that economic, political understanding of the role institutions play in the development (including military), social and other aspects of international of international law and policy; and c) an ability to think affairs are neglected, but that the play of various policies in critically about the significance of international organizations the international legal order is seen as a significant part of to contemporary world affairs. Career opportunities for those international affairs. The basic course for the field is the course who specialize in the field include inter-governmental in Public International Law. Admission to that course requires organizations, government agencies and non-governmental the prior completion of the Fletcher course in the International organizations. The field is also helpful for positions in private Legal Order. To complete the field, a student may take one sector firms that interact with international organizations of a wide variety of courses or seminars focusing on the structure and related government offices. of international organizations, trade, dispute resolution, human rights, international legal history, or other aspects ILO L210 International Human Rights Law of the international legal order as they affect current affairs ILO L211 Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights ILO L213 International Criminal Law *ILO L200 The International Legal Order *ILO L220 International Organizations *ILO L201 Public International Law ILO L221 Seminar on Actors in Global Governance [ILO L207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law ILO L223 Seminar on International Environmental Law ILO L209 International Treaty Behavior: A Perspective on Globalization ILO L224 Seminar in Peace Operations ILO L210 International Human Rights Law ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade ILO L211 Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights [ILO L243] Seminar on International Legal Aspects of Globalization ILO L212 Seminar on Nationalism, Self-Determination, ILO L260 The Law of the European Union and Minority Rights DHP D200 Diplomacy: History, Theory, and Practice ILO L213 International Criminal Law DHP P203 Analytic Frameworks for Public Policy Decisions ILO L220 International Organizations DHP P209 International NGOs: Ethics and Management Practice ILO L221 Seminar on Actors in Global Governance
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ILO L213 International Criminal Law AND ECONOMIC LAW ILO L214 Transitional Justice ILO L232 Seminar on International Investment Law International business and economic law involves the public ILO L233 International Financial and Fiscal Law international law and domestic law applicable to international ILO L239m Corporate Governance in International Business business transactions between private parties, as well as the and Finance public international law applicable to trade relations between *ILO L250 Law and Development or among states. The concerns of international economic and ILO L251 Comparative Legal Systems business law relate to the international economy, and involve [ILO L252] Rule of Law in Post Conflict Societies sales of goods, intellectual property licensing and protection, EIB B239m Corporate Governance in International Business and international finance and foreign direct investment, as well as Finance the settlement of disputes relating thereto. This field is affiliated EIB E240 Development Economics with international business studies and with international economic studies, and also relates to international political economy. This field also involves international organizations UNITED STATES related to international business and economic activity, The United States field encompasses the history of the United including multilateral organizations such as the WTO or the States, its institutions, and its international relations, with IMF, regional organizations such as the European Union a particular focus on the development of American foreign or NAFTA and functional organizations such as the Basle policy and diplomatic practice. The geographical context and Committee on Bank Regulation. Students who present the cultural and economic basis, as well as the political and this field will be expected to understand the legal context constitutional-legal framework, of U.S. government and for- of international business transactions, as well as how states eign policy making also are studied—essential background for relate to one another in the international economy. students who may one day be representing, or perhaps dealing with, the United States in diplomacy or in other professions [ILO L207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law such as law, business, development and humanitarian work, *ILO L230 International Business Transactions or international journalism. The question of the uniqueness, ILO L232 Seminar on International Investment Law or “exceptionalism,” of American civilization and of the ILO L233 International Financial and Fiscal Law appropriateness of the “lessons” of American experience to ILO L234 International Intellectual Property Law and Policy other societies, in other parts of the world, is examined. So, [ILO L237m] Mergers and Acquisitions: An International Perspective too, is the issue of the definition of U.S. “national interests” ILO L239m Corporate Governance in International Business and Finance and of democratic and other American “values”—and the ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade defense and the promotion of these internationally—in a [ILO L243] Seminar on International Legal Aspects of Globalization changing global environment in which coalition efforts and ILO L250 Law and Development multilateral cooperation are increasingly necessary, and universal norms are held to prevail. ILO L251 Comparative Legal Systems
[DHP P207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law ILO L209 International Treaty Behavior: A Perspective on EIB B220 Seminar on Global Financial Services Globalization EIB B239m Corporate Governance in International Business ILO L262 Foreign Relations and National Security Law and Finance DHP D204 Seminar on U.S. Public Diplomacy DHP D270 Sino-U.S. Relations since 1900 DHP D271 International Relations of The United States and East Asia: LAW AND DEVELOPMENT 1945 to the Present The field of law and development examines the role of law, ++DHP H200 The Foreign Relations of the United States to 1917 legal institutions and legal systems, both domestic and ++DHP H201 The Foreign Relations of the United States Since 1917 international, in the processes of economic and social DHP H270 The United States and East Asia development, particularly in developing countries, emerging markets and nations in transition. It seeks to understand how law may both inhibit and foster desired change and the ways in which legal institutions may be organized to achieve national and international policy goals. This field includes a basic course on law and development, as well as more specialized courses in comparative law, international financial institutions and law, foreign investment, and intellectual property law, as well as courses from other disciplines, such as economic development.
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DHP D204 U.S. Public Diplomacy KEY ++DHP D260 Southwest Asia History, Culture, Politics * This course is required for constitution of the field. ++DHP D263 The Arabs and their Neighbors ++ Any one of these courses may be used as the required DHP D264 History of the Turks and the International Politics of Eurasia course in the field. [DHP D265] The Politics and Culture of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan + Any one of these courses may be used as the second DHP D267 The Globalization of Central Asia and the Caucasus required course in the field [DHP P201] Comparative Politics [ ] Bracketed courses are those not offered 2009–2010. DHP P260 Islam and the West Unless other wise indicated, students need three course [DHP P262] Contemporary South Asia credits to complete a field of study. Modular courses count DHP P263 Islam and Politics Religion and Power in World Affairs as one-half credit and if listed in a field, two must be taken [DHP P264] Iran in Global Politics to complete one course credit.
INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION PACIFIC ASIA International information and communication is a critical The history of relations between the United States and component of international relations and diplomacy and at the the states of Northeast Asia has been the principal focus heart of how people of different nations perceive each other. of the Asia field. Most courses in the field emphasize The study of international information and communication is diplomatic, cultural, and political history. The field deals interdisciplinary by its nature, and the curriculum at Fletcher most directly with developments in China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes the policy perspective, while also providing a from the nineteenth century to the present, relations among strong analytic, and business background. In addition to those states, and between them and the United States. learning about the role of international information and Courses are intended to offer students a foundation on communication in diplomacy and international relations, which to build an understanding of the contemporary students will learn about the industry, policy, and technology interstate problems in the region, as well as the bonds and forces that both enable and constrain different forms of tensions that currently exist in relations between the communication. These include issues of governance, regulation, U.S. and the states of the region. industry structure, equity, and technology policy. They will also become familiar with many theoretical frameworks and ++DHP D270 Sino-U.S. Relations Since 1900 analytic techniques commonly used in the study of these ++DHP D271 International Relations of The United States and East Asia: 1945 to the Present areas. The curriculum is designed to provide students with DHP H202 Maritime History a strong background to confront the new policy and business DHP H203 The International Relations of the China Seas challenges they will encounter in their careers from an informed analytic perspective. DHP H270 The United States and East Asia
DHP P270 Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China ILO L230 International Business Transactions DHP P274 The Politics of the Korean Peninsula: ILO L239m Corporate Governance in International Business Foreign and Inter-Korean Relations and Finance [DHP P272] The Ties that Bind: Transpacific Relations DHP D204 U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century DHP P203 Analytic Frameworks for Public Policy Decisions [DHP P273] Rise of China: Implications for the Twenty-first Century *DHP P231 International Communication DHP P275 Seminar on North Korean State and Society [DHP P232] Communications Policy Analysis and Modeling [DHP P237] Global Media and International Conflict SOUTHWEST ASIA AND ISLAMIC [DHP P248] Seminar on Technology and International Security CIVILIZATION EIB B239m Corporate Governance in International Business and Finance Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization provides students with conceptual skills that will assist them in interpreting cur- Students taking DHP P232 may also offer one credit rent events taking place in what was the core region of Islamic of the following courses to fulfill field requirements Civilization. Thus the regional focus on the field includes EIB E210m Quantitative Methods Module Southwest Asia (roughly South Asia to Egypt), the Eastern EIB E211m Microeconomics Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the global EIB E213 Econometrics level of analysis its courses are particularly concerned with how the history, culture, politics and economics of the states and societies of this portion of Eurasia condition the human response to an accelerating impact of global change. Lectures, reading assignments and other course requirements are spe- cifically designed to fit the curriculum of the Fletcher School and do not require a level of knowledge not relevant to the explanation of modern problems.
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Fields of Study
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION INTERNATIONAL MONETARY THEORY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND POLICY The International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution field The International Monetary Theory and Policy field focuses (INCR) examines the causes of and approaches to managing on the macroeconomic performance of countries that are and resolving violent conflict in the international context. integrated with the world economy both through trade in Toward this end, it focuses especially on the theory and goods and services and through the exchange of assets. A practice of international negotiation and mediation. The central concern is the way in which world financial markets required course for the field is Processes of International contribute to growth and development as well as serve as a Negotiation (DHP D220). To constitute the field, a student means by which economic disruptions may be transmitted must choose two additional courses from the list below. across national boundaries. Some of the issues addressed include exchange rate and financial crises like those in Asia ILO L224 Seminar in Peace Operations and Latin America in the 1990s; the appropriate exchange rate DHP D220 Processes of International Negotiation * regime, a question recently addressed in the move towards DHP D221 Seminar on International Mediation a single European currency; the causes and consequences of ✧ DHP D223 Conflict Resolution Theory large trade deficits, an issue that is currently facing the United [DHP D227] Law and Politics of International Conflict Management States; and the appropriate role of international institutions DHP D228 Protracted Social Conflict: Dynamics, Major Issues and like the IMF. Courses in this field offer both theory that Possible Consequences provides students with frameworks for understanding issues [DHP D228m01] Protracted Social Conflict: Dynamics, Major Issues and Possible Consequences and presentation of timely policy issues and recent experience [DHP D228m02] Processes and Politics of Reconciliation that provides a context for the use of economic models. DHP D229 Politics and Processes of Reconciliation: Transitional Justice Core Requirements for the Field: and Multicultural Citizenships *EiB E201 Introduction to Economic Theory DHP D232 Gender, Culture and Conflict in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies *EIB E210m Quantitative Methods Module DHP P226m Corruption, Conflict and Peacebuilding *EIB E211m Microeconomics DHP P227 Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict Resolution *EIB E213 Econometrics DHP P247 Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Environments Field Specific Required Core Course: [DHP P251] International Environmental Negotiations *EIB E230 International Finance ✧ Ph.D. students offering International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution as a field of study are Elective Courses: required to take this course. EIB E215m Empirical Topics in Globalization EIB E232m Economic Growth EIB E233m Finance, Growth and Business Cycles INTERNATIONAL TRADE EIB E250 Economic Problems of Latin America AND COMMERCIAL POLICIES Special Note: See important note at end of Fields of Study Section. This field provides the tools for analysis of trade and investment relations between nations. Among the questions considered are why and what nations trade and invest internationally, and their effects – and the effects of international labor migration – on wages and employment, technology, international competitiveness, economic development, growth, and the environment. There is emphasis on how policies affect outcomes and on how policies are determined in unilateral, regional or preferential, and multilateral settings.
Core Requirements for the Field: *EIB E201 Introduction to Economic Theory *EIB E210m Quantitative Methods Module *EIB E211m Microeconomics
Field Specific Required Core Course: *EIB E220 International Trade and Investment
Elective courses: ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade EIB E215m Empirical Topics in Globalization EIB E221 Advanced Seminar on International Trade and Investment Special Note: See important note at end of Fields of Study Section.
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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ILO L223 Seminar on International Environmental Law ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade The field of development economics is intended to ground *DHP P250 Elements of International Environmental Policy students in a variety of analytical perspectives on the development [DHP P251] International Environmental Negotiations process. The required core course, Development Economics, DHP P253 Sustainable Development Diplomacy concentrates on central themes including global poverty, DHP P254 Climate Change Policy growth, and the role of policies towards agriculture and trade. DHP P255 International Energy Policy Other courses in the field complement this broad perspective, addressing such issues as nutrition and rural development, DHP P257 Corporate Management of Environmental Issues microeconomic poverty interventions, international finance, DHP P258 Clean Energy Technologies and Policy Issues and political economy. EIB E240 Development Economics [EIB E243] Seminar on Agriculture and Rural Development in Core Requirements for the Field: Developing Countries *E201 Introduction to Economic Theory EIB E246 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics *E210m Quantitative Methods Module EIB B284 Petroleum in the Global Economy *E211m Microeconomics Or *E213 Econometrics (in lieu of E210m and E211m) POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND THEORIES The study of political systems and theories represents an Field Specific Required Core Course: essential basis for explaining, understanding, and comparing EIB E240 Development Economics the units and actors that comprise the world of the early
Electives Courses: 21st Century. As a field, Political Systems and Theories EIB E232m Economic Growth encompasses courses whose focus is alternative theoretical EIB E241 Micro Development Economics: Poverty Reduction Policy approaches for the conduct of research and analysis about Analysis for Developing Countries political systems, major forces shaping the emerging world, EIB E242 Microeconomics of Development the nature of international change and continuity, and the EIB E243 Seminar on Agriculture and Rural Development in basis for theoretical development. The Political Systems and Developing Countries Theories field offers students the opportunity to explore, EIB E244m The Political Economy of Reform, Growth, and Equity evaluate, and compare theories about such crucially important EIB E250 Economic Problems of Latin America phenomena as power, legitimacy, institutions, cooperation, Special Note: See important note at end conflict, peace, and war. Conceptually, the field is (or should of Fields of Study Section. be) integral to, and an essential prerequisite for, courses that comprise the “practice” parts of the curriculum. Students taking this field are expected to acquire basic knowledge about INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT the major theories that shape international and comparative AND RESOURCE POLICY politics. Specifically, the field includes courses on such topics as international relations theory; non-governmental The rapid growth of resource use and the acceleration of land organizations in international politics; geography as a factor conversion to feed and house an expanding population have in international politics; theories of statecraft, bureaucracy, created a new set of transboundary and global commons democratization, ethno-religious conflict, identity, sovereignty, problems. During the past 30 years, the international nationalism, and self-determination. This field should be of community has attempted to reverse the loss of fisheries, great importance to students preparing MALD theses or Ph.D. forests and species, the disruption of the atmosphere and dissertations and/or planning academic careers focused on climate, the degradation of land, air and water and the global political science. It should also be of interest to students seeking distribution of toxic substances by implementing hundreds of to understand the theories that help explain behavior and bilateral and multilateral agreements. Many of these treaties assumptions that guide policymakers. All students offering and soft law declarations impose totally new responsibilities this field of study are required to take DHP P200. Students upon national governments, and create new approaches to taking the Political Systems and Theories field for the PhD the relationships among states and with the private sector and must take DHP P200 and at least three other courses. A second non-governmental organizations. The program demonstrates required course for PhD students should be selected from a list how environment and resource issues are integral to the that includes DHP P205, DHP D210, and DHP P224. ongoing economic development process and are critical to the security of societies. The role of science in developing sound policies is emphasized, as is the role of technology choice and the policies that influence them. Clashes such as those that occur between trade and environmental treaty regimes, forest protection and sovereignty and between developed and developing countries create new challenges for international diplomacy. The program emphasizes the need to utilize multiple disciplinary tools from science, economics, politics, law and engineering in developing sustainable solutions.
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Fields of Study
ILO L212 Seminar on Nationalism, Self-Determination, and Minority Rights KEY DHP D202 Ethical Reasoning in International Politics * This course is required for constitution of the field. DHP D210 Art and Science of Statecraft ++ Any one of these courses may be used as the required DHP D211 The Politics of Statecraft course in the field. *DHP P200 International Relations: Theory and Practice + Any one of these courses may be used as the second [DHP P201] Comparative Politics required course in the field [DHP P202] Seminar on Leadership Challenges [ ] Bracketed courses are those not offered 2009–2010. [DHP H204] Classics in IR Theory Unless other wise indicated, students need three course DHP P205 Decision Making and Public Policy credits to complete a field of study. Modular courses count DHP P206 Foundations of Policy Analysis as one-half credit and if listed in a field, two must be taken DHP P209 International NGOs: Ethics and Management Practice to complete one course credit. DHP P224 Cultural Values and Development DHP P240 The Role of Force in International Politics
[DHP P248] Seminar on Technology and International Security INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES DHP P249 Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Strategic Considerations for the 21st Century The International Security Studies field consists of courses [DHP P272] The Ties that Bind: Transpacific Relations that examine the sources, conduct and termination of conflict, in the 21st Century strategy and statecraft, crisis management, regional security, intelligence, and the emerging spectrum of new and complex INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY security issues. The course offerings encompass approaches that are both theoretical and policy oriented, as well as The field of IPE analyzes the interactions between international historical and contemporary. Since the end of the Cold War, political and economic dynamics. It consists of a set of inter- the faculty has revised the course offerings to reflect a rapidly disciplinary approaches to analyze structures and processes changing international security environment. Among the of globalization and economic integration, as well as the new issues introduced into the curriculum are: the proliferation interactions between domestic and international political of weapons of mass destruction and non-proliferation/ and economic phenomena. It tries to overcome the artificial counter-proliferation policy; ethnic, sectarian, and religious separation between politics and economics, between states conflict; internal war and state failure; the management of and markets, and between domestic and international levels humanitarian emergencies by alliances and/or international of analysis. Recent empirical research has concentrated on organizations; the use of military forces in peace operations; issues such as structural adjustment, regional economic information technologies and security; and the increasing role integration, state-business relations, Third World development, of ethics in security policy. In support of its course offerings multinational corporations, and the institutions of the International Security Studies Program sponsors a senior international economic governance. level guest lecture series, a conference with one of the U.S. ++DHP P217 Global Political Economy military services or commands, a colloquium series, and a ++DHP P219 The Political Economy of Development crisis simulation exercise. MALD students taking International [DHP P221] International Political Economy Security Studies are required to take DHP P240 and at least EIB E244m Seminar on the Political Economy of Return, two other courses. PhD students taking the International Growth, and Equity Security Studies field must take DHP P240 and at least three [EIB E245] Managing Reform in Low Income Countries other courses. A second required course for PhD students EIB E250 Economic Problems of Latin America should be selected from a list that includes DHP P206, [EIB E254] The Political Economy of China DHP P241, and DHP P245. EIB B234 Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries ILO L224 Seminar in Peace Operations EIB B284 Petroleum in the Global Economy ILO L262 Foreign Relations and National Security Law DHP D267 The Globalization of Central Asia and the Caucasus Students may use one of the following courses [DHP P202] Seminar on Leadership Challenges as their third course in the field: [DHP P204m] Qualitative Research in Communities Affected by War [ILO L207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law DHP P205 Decision Making and Public Policy ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade DHP P206 Foundations of Policy Analysis DHP D210 The Art and Science of Statecraft *DHP P240 The Role of Force in International Politics DHP D211 The Politics of Statecraft DHP P241 Policy and Strategy in the Origins, Conduct, [DHP P207] Seminar on International Politics and International Law and Termination of War [EIB E200] Introduction to International Trade and Finance DHP P242 Seminar on Proliferation—Counter-proliferation EIB E220 International Trade and Investment and Homeland Security Issues EIB E230 International Finance DHP P243 Seminar on Internal Conflicts and War DHP P245 Seminar on Crisis Management and Complex Emergencies [DHP P246] Seminar on U.S. Intelligence, Terrorism and National Security DHP P247 Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Environments
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DHP D228 Protracted Social Conflict: Dynamics and Manor Issues and KEY Possible Consequences * This course is required for constitution of the field. DHP D230 Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies ++ Any one of these courses may be used as the required DHP D231 Human Rights Protection of Civilians during Situations of Armed Conflict course in the field. ++DHP D232 Gender, Culture & Conflict in Complex Humanitarian + Any one of these courses may be used as the second Emergencies required course in the field [✧DHP P201] Comparative Politics [ ] Bracketed courses are those not offered 2009–2010. [DHP P212] State-formation, Conflict, and Intervention in Comparative Perspective: the cases of Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Sierra Unless other wise indicated, students need three course State Leone credits to complete a field of study. Modular courses count DHP P216 International Humanitarian Policy and Public Health as one-half credit and if listed in a field, two must be taken DHP P222m1 Development Aid Policies and Challenges to complete one course credit. DHP P222m2 Development Aid Tools of the Trade ++DHP P227 Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict Resolution DHP P228 Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding HUMANITARIAN STUDIES and Development DHP P229 Development and Human Rights Some 240,000 people are employed in humanitarian work [DHP P297] African Communities in Crisis perspectives of war around the world today. The agencies they work for spend and its Aftermath close to $10 billion/year and they are present, on the ground EIB E240 Development Economics in all of the political, economic and environmental crisis [EIB E241] Micro Development Economics Policies for Alleviating events we are familiar with. This field of study seeks to equip Poverty in Developing Countries students with an understanding of both how these crisis ✧PhD students offering the Human Security Field are required environments evolve, how communities caught up in them to take this course. survive and what role the international aid system plays in that survival. Students will take away from the field an understanding of the natural of humanitarian crises and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RELATIONS** a critique of the humanitarian aid system. The IBR field is concerned broadly with the management of ++DHP D213 Humanitarian Studies in the Field the business enterprise in a multinational context. It encom- ++DHP D230 Humanitarian Aid in Complex Emergencies passes theoretical, technical and practical analyses of manu- DHP D236 Global Migration and Displacement facturing, trading, service and financial firms, which may be DHP D237 Nutrition in Complex Emergencies: Policies, Practice operating at different stages of their internationalization and Decisionmaking process. International management builds on a thorough [DHP D239m01] Introduction to Forced Migration understanding of the firm’s broader socio-political, socio- DHP D239m02 Critical Issues in Forced Migration economic, and industry-specific environments. Within the DHP P216 International Humanitarian Policy and Public Health firm idiosyncratic setting, international management also DHP D231 Human Rights Protection of Civilians during Situations requires an integrated understanding of accounting, finance, of Armed Conflict marketing, production and logistics, and strategic management. DHP D232 Gender, Culture and Conflict in Humanitarian The IBR field offers a comprehensive coverage of the socio- Complex Emergencies political, socio-economic, and industry-specific contextual [DHP P204m] Qualitative Research in Communities Affected by War environments while providing a rigorous training in core functional disciplines such as accounting, finance, strategic HUMAN SECURITY management and marketing. Note: MIB students are not permitted to offer International Business Relations Field The human security field brings together the concerns and of Study to satisfy one of their field requirements. practices that deal with the interconnection between freedom from fear and freedom from want. This covers a broad variety ILO L230 International Business Transactions of issues and practices, but they all share a) a desire to cross ILO L232 Seminar on International Investment Law boundaries between fields of social change until now usually ILO L233 International Financial and Fiscal Law treated separately, and b) a strong ultimate focus on the inclu- ILO L234 International Intellectual Property Law and Policy sive well-being of all human beings. [ILO L237m] Mergers and Acquisitions: An International Perspective ILO L239m Corporate Governance in International Business ILO L210 International human rights law and Finance ILO L211 Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights DHP P203 Analytic Frameworks for Public Policy Decisions ILO L214 Transitional Justice [DHP P232] Communications Policy Analysis and Modeling ILO L250 Law and Development *EIB B200 Foundations in Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance [ILO L252] Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies [EIB B201] Fundamentals of Accounting Theory and Application DHP D220 Processes of International Negotiation [EIB B202] International Accounting Theory and Application DHP D221 Seminar on International Mediation in Global Capital Markets DHP D223 Conflict Resolution Theory
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Fields of Study
[EIB B203] Nonprofit Accounting and Budgeting Special Note regarding the three for Social Responsibility Economics Fields of Study EIB B205 Data Analysis and Statistical Methods for Decision-making (International Trade and Commercial Policies, EIB B207 Financial Statement Management International Monetary Theory and Policy and EIB B208 Financial Statement Analysis Development Economics) EIB B209m Management Accounting and Performance Management All students who wish to concentrate in an economics field EIB B210 Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting need to take 3 economics credits in addition to E201 (if they EIB B220 Seminar on Global Financial Services place out of E201, they need 4 credits to complete the field). +EIB B221 International Financial Management Each of the fields has 1 or 2 credits of core requirement courses EIB B225 Corporate Finance and Banking: A Comparative East Asian Perspective (the two-module sequence of quantitative methods and EIB B226m Large Investment and International Project Finance microeconomics and/or econometrics), one core course, and 1 EIB B227 Islamic Banking and Finance elective course. Together, they constitute a minimum package EIB B228m Risk Management in Banking of economics knowledge allowing Fletcher students to use EIB B229 Global Investment Management economic tools to reason analytically in their chosen domain. EIB B230 Strategy and Policy for Competitive Advantage Students who place out of E210m can continue with the +EIB B231 International Business Strategy and Operations Microeconomics module (E211m); those students will EIB B232m Technology Strategy and Innovation in Global Markets be able to complete the economics field with 3.5 course EIB B234 Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries credits in total. EIB B235 Managing the Global Corporation EIB B236m Cross Border Strategic Alliances Some students seek to offer both of their fields of study in economics. Mostly, this simply means that they do twice what EIB B237 Field Studies in Global Consulting the students in the previous group do, with these two caveats: EIB B238m Strategic Management EIB B239m Corporate Governance in International Business and Finance • all students who offer two fields in economics must EIB B241 Microfinance and Inclusive Commerce take E213 econometrics EIB B242m Microfinance Colloquium • students offering two economics fields should finish +EIB B260 International Marketing with 7 economics courses higher than E201. As some of the core requirement courses are the same between [EIB B261] Seminar on Advanced Topics in Marketing the different economics fields, this means that they EIB B262 Marketing Research and Global Intelligence may be able (and are required) to take more elective EIB B263m Marketing Management courses in one or both of their fields. EIB B264 Seminar on Strategic Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations EIB B265 Entrepreneurial Marketing – Building a Winning Business Plan EIB B270m Asian Business Groups EIB B272m The Economic and Business Environments of Greater China EIB B280 The Global Food Business EIB B284 Petroleum in the Global Economy EIB B290 Leadership: Personal and Organizational Challenges
**Students taking the International Business field are required to complete four courses
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Certificates
certificates
Certificates complement the MALD degree by allowing Strategic Management & students to define themselves in a manner that more closely International Consultancy reflects the realities of a competitive job market and the need For students aspiring to careers in management consulting to master certain core knowledge and skills. Certificates and international management, the International Business available at Fletcher include: Program offers a rigorous sequence of courses in global • International Finance & Banking strategic management and the law of international business • Strategic Management & International Consultancy transactions, foreign private investment and international • Human Security intellectual property. This certificate program uniquely • Diplomatic Studies prepares our students for the rapidly evolving world of • International Development international business. It also requires students to intern – Political and Social Change in the private sector and to write a thesis on a related topic. – Economic Analysis, Trade and Investment – Sustainable Development Human Security The certificate in human security provides guidance in course International Finance & Banking selection for those seeking a deeper professional understanding For students aspiring to careers in the global financial services of the interactions among the main fields of social change industry, Fletcher’s international business program offers across borders: development, conflict resolution, human a rigorous sequence of courses in Accounting, Finance and rights, and humanitarian assistance. Students who graduate Banking that, coupled with International Business Transaction with the certificate in human security will possess a deep and Securities Law, uniquely prepares our graduates for the understanding of the core issues and challenges that underlie fast-paced world of international finance. This certificate all action for social change across borders, and be capable of program requires students to intern with a financial institution leading inter-disciplinary teams for policy-making, research, and to write a thesis on a related topic. field action, or advocacy. The Certificate consists of four introductory courses, which will acquaint students with each of the four fields whose concerns and methodologies need to be understood within a human security framework; two capstone courses laying out the cross-disciplinary framework; two courses allowing students to gain some degree of further specialization in one of the relevant fields; an internship and associated discussion series designed to deepen the students’ understanding of the operational challenges of interdisciplinary work; and the writing of a MALD thesis whose subject matter falls within the realm of human security.
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Certificates
Diplomatic Studies International Development The purpose of the certificate in diplomatic studies is to enable For students aspiring to careers in international development, a student to acquire, through a concentrated and interdisciplinary the International Development certificate offers a rigorous group of courses, advanced knowledge, both theoretical sequence of three core courses (chosen from four offered) in and practical, of the institutions and exercise of formal, or political and social change in developing countries, developing interstate diplomacy. Its focus, in short, is on the diplomatic economics, development theory, and law and development. achievement of international agreement. The certificate The core courses will ensure that students receive a basic encompasses the study of the historical evolution of diplomacy understanding of development and introduce them to the as well as the ways in which diplomatic concepts and methods complex and interdependent nature of the field of study. are applied today—by the U.S. government and by the The core courses are followed by specialization courses governments of other countries, large and small, bilaterally within one of three tracks: as well as in multilateral settings across the broad agenda of • Political and Social Change current international relations. The certificate is intended to • Economic Analysis, Trade and Investment serve the interest of those planning, or continuing, careers in • Sustainable Development professional diplomacy, whether within ministries of foreign affairs or in international organizations. It is designed also to serve the purposes of those having primarily a scholarly, investigative interest in the study of diplomacy, a rich and intellectually rewarding academic subject that is currently undergoing a major revival.
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Breadth Requirements
b r e a d t h requirements
All MALD degree candidates will be required to take: Division of Diplomacy, History, • two courses in the Division of Diplomacy, History, and Politics (DHP) and Politics, Each MALD student is required to take two courses from • one course in the Division of International Law the DHP Division. One of those courses must be one of and Organization, the following: • one course in the Division of Economics and International Business, DHP D210: The Art and Science of Statecraft • one course in Quantitative Reasoning. DHP D220: Processes of International Negotiation DHP H200: The Foreign Relations of the United States to 1917 Specific requirements/options for each of the three divisions DHP H201: The Foreign Relations of the United States Since 1917 as well as Quantitative Reasoning are noted below. DHP P200: International Relations: Theory and Practice DHP P201: Comparative Politics Students who have performed equivalent graduate level work DHP P219: International Political Economy of Development for courses listed below may apply for equivalence with the DHP P221: International Political Economy approval of the appropriate Fletcher instructor. Students who DHP P240: The Role of Force in International Politics receive equivalence must still meet the requirement of pursuing one or two courses in the division but may choose from any course in the division rather than just those listed below. Division of International Law and Organization (ILO) MA degree candidates can meet the breadth requirement by taking one course from each division (ILO, DHP, and EIB). Each MALD student is required to take one of the LLM degree candidates are required to take one course in both following courses: the DHP and EIB divisions. MIB degree candidates satisfy the ILO L200: The International Legal Order breath requirement by the nature of the structured curriculum. ILO L210: International Human Rights Law PhD degree candidates must complete at least two courses ILO L220: International Organizations in your choice of two of the three divisions and at least one ILO L230: International Business Transactions course from the remaining division. ILO L250: Law and Development ILO L251: Comparative Legal Systems
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Breadth Requirements
Division of Economics and International Business (EIB) Each MALD Student is required to take EIB E201: Introduction to Economic Theory. Students who pass the E201 equivalency exam must take another economics course for their breadth requirement. They can chose from the following list:
EIB E210m: Quantitative Methods and EIB E211m: Microeconomics EIB E220: International Trade and Investment EIB E230: International Finance EIB E240: Development Economics EIB E246: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
Quantitative Reasoning Each MALD student who does not pass one of the quantitative reasoning equivalency exams will be required to take one of the following courses:
EIB B205: Statistics for Decision-Making EIB E210m: Quantitative Methods EIB E213: Econometrics DHP P203: Analytic Frameworks for International Public Policy Decisions* *DHP P203 may not be used to satisfy the second required DHP course.
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Faculty Biographies
f a c u l t y biographies
Hamza Abdurezak, Adjunct Services in West and Central Africa senior management in the National Assistant Professor of Finance, also (1998-2003). Her research agenda Health Service (London). She has holds an appointment at Harvard assesses the impact of agro-food market engaged in fieldwork and research teaching Investment Management & performance on producer and con- methods training of health and Corporate Finance. He shares his time sumer welfare in sub-Saharan Africa, community development workers in between New York and Boston consulting with a specific focus on the impact of East Africa, India and Afghanistan over for Wall Street firms and Pension information technology on a variety of the past twenty years. Almedom is an Funds on investment management and development outcomes, including agri- old member of Wadham College, portfolio risk analytics. Abdurezak has cultural markets, literacy rates and farm Oxford, where she received her BA been teaching finance courses at behavior. Aker also developed rigorous (Hons) and MA in human sciences, Harvard since 1999. In the financial impact evaluation techniques to mea- and D.Phil. in biological anthropology, services industry, he has worked for a sure the effectiveness of development Oxford University. Almedom recently number of Wall Street firms such as aid, working with NGOs and other served a term as an independent Board Capital Markets Risk Advisors, development practitioners in sub- member of the Geneva-based Manhattan Family Office, Utah State Saharan Africa and Haiti. Over the past Humanitarian Accountability Pension Fund and Lasair Capital LLC. five years, she has worked as a consul- Partnership—International; is a sustaining Prior to his coming to the US in 1995, tant for a variety of international and fellow of the Society for Applied he worked for the Science and technology non-governmental organizations, Anthropology; Fellow of the Royal Commission and the Ministry of including Catholic Relief Services, CHF Anthropological Institute; and editorial Planning and Economic Development International, CARE, Helen Keller advisory board member of Waterlines; as an economist in Ethiopia. International, the World Bank and the and African Health Sciences. Abdurezak’s earned a BA degree in FAO. Aker received her Ph.D. in economics from Addis Ababa Agricultural Economics at the Louis Aucoin is an Associate University, and a Masters and PhD University of California-Berkeley Research Professor in the Institute of degrees with concentrations in finance (2008), her MALD from the Fletcher Human Security at The Fletcher School. from Harvard University and The School of Law and Diplomacy (1997) and His teaching covers a range of fields Fletcher School respectively. He has her AB from Duke University (1993). from Rule of Law and Transitional also earned Financial Risk Manager Justice to Comparative Law and (FRM) designation from the Global Astier Almedom is an applied European Union Law. He comes to Association of Risk Professional anthropologist and is a cross-school Fletcher with significant academic and (GARP®) and is a regular member member of faculty: serving as Professor field experience. He has taught for fif- of the CFA® Institute. He recently of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and teen years at Boston University School completed a major research work on Global Public Health (Fletcher School), of Law and in various law faculties in the dynamics of alpha & beta decom- and Director of the International France. In his research and writing, he position of hedge fund returns and risk Resilience Program (Institute for Global has studied the constitution-making profiling. Abdurezak’s favorite sport is Leadership) with teaching and advising process in post conflict countries and Basketball and he is loyal fan of Boston commitments also to the School of Arts has served as a foreign advisor to the Celtics both in the up season like last & Sciences (graduate and undergradu- development of the Constitutions in year’s (World Champion!) and down ate). Almedom received a Graduate Cambodia, East Timor, Rwanda and season like this one! Student Council award for Kosovo. In 2000, he served as an acting “Outstanding Contribution to Minister of Justice for East Timor while Jenny C. Aker is an Assistant Graduate Education” in the Graduate it was under UN auspices. He has also Professor in Development Economics at School of Arts & Sciences. Almedom’s served as a Rule of Law Program the Fletcher School and the Economics background includes the Henry R. Luce Officer at the United States Institute of Department. Prior to joining Tufts Professorship in Science & Peace in Wash. D.C. and was the recip- University, Aker was a Visiting Fellow at Humanitarianism (Tufts University); ient of a United States Supreme Court the Center for Global Development Lectureship in Medical Anthropology Fellowship in 2001-2002. His writing (2008-2009) and worked as the Deputy (London School of Hygiene & Tropical deals extensively with French law and Regional Director for Catholic Relief Medicine, University of London), and often aims to expose jurists in the com-
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Faculty Biographies mon law tradition with the workings of strengthen graduate programs univer- DES from University of Paris I- systems of the civil law. His recent sity wide. On the Medford/Somerville Sorbonne, an MBA from Colombia research projects have involved the use campus, he has led a thoughtful master University, Doctorate in Business from of local customary law as a strategy for planning process to preserve the sense the University of Paris IX-Dauphine the promotion of rule of law pos con- of place that makes the campus special and Group HEC and PhD in finance flict. He is an avid singer and enjoys while also identifying new space for from University of Paris IX-Dauphine. biking, jogging, and the culinary arts. teaching, research, office, student, residential and other uses. He has Steven A. Block is Associate Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of emphasized increased collaboration Professor of International Economics International Conflict Management among Tufts’ eight schools and and Director of the Program on Practice, Director of the International generated creativity and enthusiasm for International Development. Negotiation and Conflict Resolution interdisciplinarystudy. President Bacow His research focuses on food and Program and co-director of the founded The President’s Marathon agricultural policy in developing Program on Human Rights and Conflict Challenge at Tufts in 2003, bringing countries, and on the political economy Resolution at The Fletcher School. She together Tufts community members of policy reform. Much of his work is also a Faculty Associate of the to run and volunteer at the Boston concentrates on sub-Saharan Africa, Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Marathon in support of nutrition, medical and his current research focuses on Law School. Her research interests and fitness research and education. agricultural productivity there. His include identity-based conflicts; coexis- President Bacow himself has run the forthcoming publications include: tence and trust-building in the after- Boston Marathon four times. Prior to “The Political Economy of Agricultural math of civil war; and the interface coming to Tufts, Dr. Bacow was the Trade Interventions in Africa,” (with between human rights concerns and Chancellor of the Massachusetts Robert Bates), and “Up in Smoke: peacebuilding. Her practice as a facili- Institute of Technology and the Lee Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and tator and trainer has included work in and Geraldine Martin Professor of Child Malnutrition in Developing the Middle East, the Balkans, and with Environmental Studies. An interna- Countries,” (with Patrick Webb). He is the United Nations, U.S. government tionally recognized expert on also Co-Investigator on a National agencies, regional inter-governmental non-adjudicatory approaches to the Institutes of Health-funded study of organizations, and international and resolution of environmental disputes, nutrition supplementation among local NGOs. Before joining the Fletcher he has authored four books and numer- HIV+ households in rural Haiti. He faculty, Professor Babbitt was Director ous articles, and has consulted exten- teaches courses on development of Education and Training at the United sively throughout the world. President economics, agricultural policy, and States Institute of Peace in Washington, Bacow received his S.B. in economics political economy. Professor Block D.C. and Deputy Director of the from the Massachusetts Institute of earned his MPP and Ph.D. (in political Program on International Conflict Technology, his J.D. from Harvard economy) from Harvard University. Analysis and Resolution at the Law School and his M.P.P. and Weatherhead Center for International Ph.D. from Harvard’s Kennedy Affairs, Harvard University. Professor School of Government. Babbitt’s latest publications include Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Hugh-Joel Bessis, visiting in Context, co-edited with Ellen Lutz, Professor of Finance, holds a primary and Negotiating Self-Determination, appointment as professor at HEC co-edited with Hurst Hannum. School of Management, Paris. His Babbitt holds a Master’s Degree teaching focuses on areas of Corporate in Public Policy from the Kennedy Finance, Financial Markets, and Risk School of Government at Harvard Management. Bessis has more than University, and a Ph.D. from MIT. 20 years’ professional experience in business; he is in charge of risk analytics Lawrence S. Bacow became the at the risk department of CDC IXIS, twelfth President of Tufts University Investment Bank in Paris, and was on September 1, 2001. A lawyer and previously Director of Research at economist whose research focuses on Fitch, a leading global rating agency. environmental policy, he holds faculty Bessis has been a consultant to risk appointments in five departments at departments of several banking institu- Tufts, including The Fletcher School. tions in Europe, and held a seven-year Since coming to Tufts, President Bacow consultancy position in the Risk reorganized administration in Arts, Department at Banque Paribas. Bessis Sciences & Engineering to increase is the author of several books and resources for faculty and appointed the numerous articles in academic and Council on Graduate Education to business journals. Bessis received his
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Stephen W. Bosworth is the Dean the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. University of Southern California, and of The Fletcher School, a position His current research interests include a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton he assumed in February 2001. In comparative political economy, political University. She has also served as February 2009, he became the Special risk, business groups, interfirm Assistant Director of the U.S.-Mexico Representative for North Korea Policy networks, industrial districts, firm Project at the Overseas Development reporting to the Secretary of State and boundaries, and business in Asia. Council in Washington, DC the President. Prior to his appointment and Associate Director of the at The Fletcher School, he served as John Burgess, Adjunct Professor California-Mexico Project at USC the United States Ambassador to the of International Law, teaches courses in Los Angeles. Republic of Korea from November 1997 on international finance transactions, to February 2001. From 1995-1997, international business and cross-border Bala Chakravarthy, Visiting Dean Bosworth was the Executive mergers and acquisitions. Burgess Professor of International Strategy, Director of the Korean Peninsula has practiced law at Wilmer Cutler holds a primary appointment as Energy Development Organization Pickering Hale and Dorr for 33 years, Professor of Strategy and International [KEDO], an inter-governmental and during that time has chaired the Management and is the Shell Chair in organization established by the United firm’s corporate and international Sustainable Business Growth at IMD in States, the Republic of Korea, and practice groups, as well as serving on Switzerland. Chakravarthy’s research, Japan to deal with North Korea. Before its Management Committee. He has teaching and consulting interests cover joining KEDO, he served seven years represented for profit, NGO and uni- three related areas: managing the as President of the United States Japan versity clients in a range of transactions global enterprise (with a focus on Foundation. Dean Bosworth has had throughout Western Europe, Asia, and companies from BRIC countries), an extensive career in the United the Middle East. He is listed in Best strategy processes for sustainable States Foreign Service, including Lawyers in America and Massachusetts business growth, and mastering leader- service as Ambassador to Tunisia from “Super Lawyers” in areas of interna- ship dilemmas. He has published four 1979-1981 and Ambassador to the tional trade, finance, mergers and books, several case studies and numerous Philippines from 1984-1987. He has acquisitions and securities law. articles on these topics in journals. served in a number of senior positions A graduate of Yale University (BA Chakravarthy is a mechanical engineer in the Department of State, including in history) and Harvard Law School by training and worked as an executive Director of Policy Planning, Principal (JD), he is a member of the Council on at Tata Motors in his native India before Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Relations, a Fellow of Branford taking his doctorate at the Harvard Inter-American Affairs, and Deputy College at Yale University, and Business School. He has taught at the Assistant Secretary for Economic current President of the Massachusetts Wharton School, INSEAD, and Carlson Affairs. Bosworth currently serves as a Foundation for the Humanities. School of Management, University member of the Board of Directors of the of Minnesota. He has worked with a Council on Foreign Relations and the Katrina Burgess is Associate number of leading multinationals Board of Directors of the Japan Society Professor of International Political around the world and has won numerous of Boston. He is a member of the Economy. Before joining the Fletcher awards for excellence in teaching Trilateral Commission and a member faculty, she taught at Syracuse (the throughout his career. of the International Board of Advisers Maxwell School), Brown, UCLA, for the President of the Republic of the and the Autonomous Technological Antonia Chayes is Visiting Professor Philippines. Bosworth is a graduate Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She is of International Politics and Law. Prior of Dartmouth College where he was a author of Parties and Unions in the to her coming to The Fletcher School, member of the Board of Trustees from New Global Economy, which won the she taught at Harvard’s Kennedy 1992 to 2002 and served as Board Chair 2006 Outstanding Book Award for the School and Law School. She chaired from 1996 to 2000. He is married to the best publication on labor issues granted the Project on International Institutions former Christine Holmes; they have by the Section on Labor Studies and and Conflict Management at the two daughters and two sons. Class Relations of the Latin American Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Studies Association, and co-editor Law School. Her interests encompass Jonathan Brookfield, Associate with Abraham F. Lowenthal of international conflict, international law Professor of Strategic Management and The California-Mexico Connection. She and security. Her government experi- International Business, teaches classes has also published numerous book ence is extensive, having served as on strategic management, international chapters, as well as articles in World Assistant and later Under Secretary of business, privatization, Asian business Politics, South European Politics and the US Air Force, where she was groups, and the political economy and Society, Comparative Political Studies, awarded the Distinguished Service business environments greater China. Politica y gobierno, and International Medal. She has served on several He received a BS from Yale, a MPhil Studies Review. Her current project Federal Commissions, including the from the University of Cambridge, addresses the impact of migrant transn- Vice President’s White House Aviation and a PhD from the University of sationalism and remittances on local Safety and Security Commission, and Pennsylvania. Brookfield has published governance in Mexico and El Salvador. the Commission on Roles and Missions several articles looking at different Burgess received a B.A. in political sci- of the US States Armed Forces. As kinds of business networks in Asia and ence from Swarthmore College, an Board member of United Technologies sits on the editorial review board of M.A. in international relations from the Corporation for 21 years, she chaired its
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Public Issues Review Committee, and as a business manager in the industrial relations. He retired from ExxonMobil served on its Executive Committee until chemicals division and has experience in 2002 and now teaches a course on retiring in 2002. She also practiced law in mechanical and chemical manufac- the international petroleum industry in a Boston law firm, and served as turing processes. Before joining K&L at the Fletcher School during the fall mediator at JAMS/Endispute. She is Gates, she worked as an associate for a semester and at the Georgetown a member of the Council on Foreign Boston intellectual property law firm. School of Foreign Service during the Relations; serves as a consultant to Ms. Clancy has a BS from Lafayette spring semester. He has written a the Office of Compliance, Adviser, College and a JD from Suffolk University. number of op-eds and articles in Ombudsman of IFC and MIGA of the the Christian Science Monitor, the World Bank. She was elected to the Daniel W. Drezner is Professor Baltimore Sun and other newspapers, Executive Council of the American of International Politics, as well as a lectures on international oil and energy Society of International Law in 2009. senior editor at The National Interest. issues and writes a weekly blog on She is the author of a number of books He has previously taught at the energy at http://bmeverett.wordpress. and articles. Her most recent publication University of Chicago and the com/. He and his wife Kathy split their is “How American Treaty Behavior University of Colorado at Boulder. He is time between Washington, DC and Threatens National Security” in the author of All Politics is Global, U.S. Cape Cod and travel extensively, 33 International Security, 45 (2008). Trade Policy, and The Sanctions Paradox. visiting often with their daughter in Most cited book: Chayes and Chayes, He is the editor of Avoiding Trivia: The New York and son in Los Angeles. The New Sovereignty: Compliance with Future of Strategic Planning in American International Regulatory Agreement. Foreign Policy and Locating the Proper Leila Fawaz is the Issam M. Fares Authorities. Drezner has published more Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Diana Chigas is Professor of Practice than forty book chapters and journal Mediterranean Studies and founding of Conflict Resolution. Since 2003, she articles, as well as essays in the New Director of the Fares Center for has been Co-Director, Reflecting on York Times, Wall Street Journal, Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Peace Practice, CDA-Collaborative Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. Tufts University. She is a social Learning Projects. She has also works He has received fellowships from historian who specializes in the Eastern with Conflict Management Group the German Marshall Fund of the Mediterranean region, with specific where she is currently serving as Senior United States, the Council on Foreign emphasis on late Ottoman Arab Associate (2002-present). In the past Relations, and Harvard University, history. Fawaz is a Carnegie Scholar, she has been the Director of Research and has previously held positions with an Overseer at Harvard University, and Evaluation (2000-2002) as well as Civic Education Project, the RAND a member of the Council on Foreign Regional Director, Europe and former Corporation and the Treasury Relations, and a member of the Soviet Union (1993-2000). Her publica- Department. He received his B.A. Comité Scientifique of the Maison tions include “Negotiating Intractable from Williams College and his M.A. Méditerranéenne des Sciences Conflicts: the Contribution of Unofficial in economics and Ph.D. in political de l’Homme at the Université de Intermediaries,” Grasping the Nettle: science from Stanford University. Provence. Her editorial posts have Analyzing Cases of Intractability; and He is a regular commentator for included editor of a series at Columbia “Grand Visions and Small Projects: Newsweek International and NPR’s University Press, editor of the Coexistence Efforts in Southeastern Marketplace, and keeps a daily International Journal of Middle East Europe” (co-author), Imagine blog for Foreign Policy magazine. Studies (IJMES), and editorial board Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After positions with the American Historical Violent Ethnic Conflict. Chigas earned Bruce M. Everett, Adjunct Review, IJMES, the British Middle East her BA from Yale University, a MALD Associate Professor of International Studies Association Review, and others. from The Fletcher School and a JD from Business, specializes in analysis of Her publications include Transformed Harvard Law School. global oil markets and international Landscapes (co-editor); Modernity and energy and environmental policy. He Culture (co-editor), An Occasion for Tara Clancy, Adjunct Associate holds an AB from Princeton University War, State and Society in Lebanon, and Professor of International Law, is a and an MALD and PhD from the Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth partner at K&L Gates, where her law Fletcher School. After starting his career Century Beirut. Fawaz received her practice concentrates on patent, trade- in the International Affairs Office of the Ph.D. in history from Harvard mark and copy-right litigation. She has US Department of Energy and its pre- University. As Carnegie Scholar, she handled matters dealing with chemical decessor agencies between 1974 and will work next on “The Experience of compositions, nutritional supplements, 1980, he worked as an Executive for the War: Muslims in the Middle East and medical devices and procedures, trans- ExxonMobil Corporation. His energy South Asia, 1914-1920.” port systems, electrical and mechanical industry experiences include strategic devices, and packaging. Clancy’s practice planning, industry analysis and fore- includes the preparation and prosecution casting, coal mining and marketing, of patent and trademark applications, electric power management in China, licensing, and opinions. From natural gas project development in the 1985-1991, Clancy worked for Proctor Middle East, Africa and Latin America, & Gamble as a technical engineer in commercialization of advanced gas-to- the papermaking division and then liquids technology and government
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Kelly Sims Gallagher is Associate the Fletcher School Center for Human Strategic Planning Associates (now Professor of Energy and Environmental Rights and Conflict Resolution, and Mercer Management Consulting) Policy. She is a faculty associate of the as a Director of Conflict Management (1987-1989). Gideon received her BS Center for International Environment Group. He was previously Chief of from the University of Pennsylvania and Resource Policy’s (CIERP), and its Staff to the Assistant Secretary for and her MPP and PhD in public Policy Energy, Climate, and Innovation (ECI) Civil Rights in the US Department of from Harvard University. Her research research program. She is also Senior Education, and a civil rights attorney focuses on information and telecom- Research Associate at the Harvard with Texas Rural Legal Aid. He holds munications policy, especially issues Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for an MALD from The Fletcher School of industry structure and regulation as Science and International Affairs, and a JD from the Harvard Law School. well as public policy analysis. where she previously directed the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Partha Ghosh, Visiting Professor of Michael J. Glennon is Professor of (ETIP) research group. Broadly, she Strategic Management, is a renowned International Law. Prior to going into focuses on energy and climate policy management consultant and policy teaching, he was Legal Counsel to the in both the United States and China. advisor with an extensive record of Senate Foreign Relations Committee She is particularly interested in the role solving strategic, operational and (1977-1980). He has since been a of policy in spurring the development complex organizational issues in Fulbright Distinguished Professor of and deployment of cleaner and more technology-based industries. He is cur- International and Constitutional Law, efficient energy technologies, domesti- rently in an advisory role with multiple Vytautus Magnus University School cally and internationally. A Truman organizations worldwide, and runs his of Law, Kaunas, Lithuania (1998); Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in own boutique advisory firm Partha S a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson international affairs from The Fletcher Ghosh & Associates focused on policy International Center for Scholars in School at Tufts University, and an AB and strategic issues. Previously, Ghosh Washington, DC (2001-2002); Thomas from Occidental College. She speaks was a partner at McKinsey & Company. Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese. Ghosh has two advanced degrees the United States Military Academy, She is the author of China Shifts from the Massachusetts Institute of West Point (2005); Director of Studies Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Technology, where he studied from at the Hague Academy of International Development, editor of Acting in Time on 1975 to 1977. He holds Master’s Law (2006); and professeur invité at the Energy Policy, and numerous Degrees in (i) Chemical Engineering University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) academic articles and policy reports. with emphasis on New Energy Systems since 2006. Professor Glennon has & Biotechnologies, and (ii) Business served as a consultant to various con- Brian Ganson is Adjunct Assistant Administration. He earned his Bachelor gressional committees, the U.S. State Professor of International Negotiation. of Technology in Chemical Engineering Department, and the International His research focuses on corporate with honors at the Indian Institute of Atomic Energy Agency. He is a member operations in emerging and frontier Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, India, of the American Law Institute and markets. He is co-author with Roger and won the Institute medal as Number the Council on Foreign Relations and Fisher et al. of Coping With International One graduating student of his class. served on the Board of Editors of the Conflict: A Systematic Approach To American Journal of International Law Influence In International Negotiation, Carolyn Gideon is Assistant from 1986 to 1999. Professor Glennon editor of Beyond Machiavelli: Tools For Professor of International is the author of numerous articles on Coping With Conflict, and co-author Communications and Technology constitutional and international law as with Diana Chigas of Grand Visions and Policy. In the past she has been a well as several books. He has testified Small Projects: Notes from the Field in Research Affiliate at the MIT Program before the International Court of South Eastern Europe. Ganson consults on Internet and Telecoms Convergence Justice and numerous congressional to organizations operating in particularly and a Fellow, Harvard Information committees. A frequent commentator challenging environments. He has Infrastructure Project, Belfer Center for on public affairs, he has spoken widely assessed the interrelationships between Science and International Affairs and within the United States and abroad corporate operations and social conflict Center for Business and Government, and appeared on Nightline, the Today as an advisor to an energy consortium Harvard University. She has served Show, NPR’s All Things Considered in Myanmar. He has counseled a multi- as a teaching Fellow, Kennedy School and other national news programs. national pharmaceutical company on of Government, Harvard University His op-ed pieces have appeared in its relationships with academic medi- (1995-1997). She is a member of the New York Times, Washington Post, cal centers in emerging markets. He the Association for Public Policy Los Angeles Times, International Herald- has consulted to UN agencies on their Analysis and Management, American Tribune, Financial Times, and Frankfurt operations in Bosnia and Rwanda, Economic Association, and Academy Allgemeine Zeitung. and has worked with a local NGO in of Management. Prior to her beginning Northern Ireland and an international her studies toward her PhD, she was development agency in Kosovo to Assistant Vice President, Parker/Hunter develop strategies for achieving techni- Incorporated (1991-1993); Manager, cal goals in divided societies. Ganson Manville Personal Injury Settlement has acted as Senior Researcher with Trust (1990-1991) and; Consultant,
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S. Donald Gonson, Adjunct such as self-determination, Lawrence Harrison is Lecturer Professor of International Law, special- humanitarian intervention, and and Director of the Cultural Change izes in issues of international corporate conflict resolution. His scholarly work Institute. He is the author or co-editor and commercial law. In recent years, has been complemented by service of seven books on the role of cultural he has focused on matters of corporate as consultant/advisor to a number of values, beliefs, and attitudes in develop- governance and risk management at intergovernmental and nongovern- ment, among them Underdevelopment Fletcher, and has pursued the study of mental organizations, including the UN Is a State of Mind: The Latin American public policy issues of intellectual prop- High Commissioner for Human Rights Case, Culture Matters (with Samuel erty as a visiting scholar at Oxford. He and Department of Political Affairs. Huntington), and The Central Liberal was for many years a senior partner in He has been counsel in cases before Truth. His articles have appeared in the the international law firm now known European and Inter-American human Washington Post, New York Times, as WilmerHale where he specialized in rights bodies and is a member Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, cross-border matters, often for technol- of the boards of Minority Rights The National Interest, and Foreign ogy-based companies, and in corporate Group International (London) and the Policy Magazine, among others. reorganizations and restructurings. He International Service for Human Rights Between 1965 and 1981 he directed five graduated from Columbia University (Geneva). A graduate of Boalt Hall USAID missions in Latin America. and Harvard Law School, completed School of Law (University of California, the General Course Certificate at the Berkeley), he also has taught at the Alan K. Henrikson, Associate London School of Economics, and University of Hong Kong, Harvard, Professor of Diplomatic History, is was a Fulbright Scholar at the law American University, Georgia, and also Director of Diplomatic Studies. college of the University of Bombay. Virginia. Prof. Hannum is the author or He teaches courses on the history of Proving that many events take on more editor of numerous books and articles the foreign relations of the United meaning in retrospect, he did his third on international law and human rights, States, U.S.-European relations, global year law school seminar and paper including International Human Rights: political geography, and the theory and with Professor Henry Kissinger on Problems of Law, Policy, and Process; practice of diplomacy. He was Fulbright American policy in southeast Asia, and Negotiating Self-Determination; Guide Visiting Professor at the Diplomatic he chaired a panel, at an Institutional to International Human Rights Practice; Academy in Vienna, and also visiting Investor conference, to consider the and Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self- professor at the European Commission legal issues in uniform contract terms Determination: The Accommodation in Brussels, the China Foreign Affairs for the nascent swaps and deriva- of Conflicting Rights. He serves University in Beijing, and the National tives industry, drafted by the newly on editorial advisory boards of Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. founded International Swaps Dealers Human Rights Law Review and In Washington, he was Lloyd I. Miller Association (now the International Human Rights Quarterly. Visiting Professor of Diplomatic Swaps and Derivatives Association). History at the Department of State. Jonathan M. Harris, Adjunct He also has been a Fellow at the John Hammock, Associate Professor Associate Professor of Environmental Woodrow Wilson International Center of Public Policy, is also co-founder Economics, is Director of the Theory for Scholars. Recent publications of his (2007) of the Oxford Poverty and and Education Program at the Tufts include: “FDR and the ‘World-wide Human Development Initiative at University Global Development and Arena,’” in FDR’s World: War, Peace Oxford University. He is the co-author Environment Institute. He is the author and Legacies; “The Diplomacy of Small of Practical Idealism: Changing the of Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: States: The Case of Jordan,” Jordan World and Getting Paid and has been Responding to the Climate Challenge and Journal of International Affairs; “The the Executive Director of ACCION Environmental and Natural Resource Washington Diplomatic Corps,” in International and Oxfam America. Economics: A Contemporary Approach; The Diplomatic Corps at an Institution of He was the founder and first director co-author of Macroeconomics in International Society; What Can Public of the Tufts Feinstein International Context; co-editor of New Thinking in Diplomacy Achieve?; “Diplomacy’s Center focused on humanitarian aid in Macroeconomics: Social, Institutional and Possible Futures,” The Hague Journal zones of armed conflict. He serves as Environmental Perspectives; and of the of Diplomacy; and “Niche Diplomacy on the Board of several US non-profits, Frontier Issues in Economic Thought vol- in the World Public Arena: The Global including the Human Development umes A Survey of Sustainable Development, ‘Corners’ of Canada and Norway,” in and Capability Association. He was A Survey of Ecological Economics and The New Public Diplomacy. A graduate of born in Cuba and now splits his time Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. Harvard University (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) between Boston and Oxford. He serves on the board of the U.S. in History, he is also a graduate of the Society for Ecological Economics and University of Oxford (B.A., M.A.) Hurst Hannum, Professor of teaches in the Watson Institute Scholars where he studied Philosophy-Politics- International Law, has taught courses of the Environment Program at Brown and-Economics as a Rhodes Scholar on public international law, inter- University. His current research focuses at Balliol College. national human rights law, minority on the implications of large-scale rights, international organizations, environmental problems, especially and nationalism and ethnicity. His global climate change, for focus is on human rights and its role macroeconomic theory and policy. in the international legal and political order, including, in particular, issues
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Andrew C. Hess, is Professor of Trustees of the Dana-Farber Cancer Economic Life of Refugees addresses this of Diplomacy and Director of the Institute, the Dana-Farber Trustees issue. From 2000-2005, she directed the Southwest-Central Asia and Islamic Science Committee and the Board of Alchemy Project, which explored the Civilization Programs. He has a B.S. Directors of the New England Council. use of microfinance as a way to support in engineering, an MBA, and an MA Holt received his BA from Trinity the livelihoods of people in refugee and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History College, Dublin; an MA and MALD camps and other displacement settings. from Harvard University. He teaches from The Fletcher School; and a JD Her current research continues this line courses on the modern history and from Boston College. of investigation, with a focus on urban politics of the South Caucasus, Central refugees and on remittance patterns to Asia and Southwest Asia. He has a Timothy Hoyt is Adjunct Associate conflict zones. She received her BA in long history of experience in devel- Professor of Strategy. He is also Politics and English Lit from the Univ. oping and running, with student Professor of Strategy at the US Naval of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and assistance, diplomatic and ministerial war College in Newport, RI, where he her PhD in Political Science from MIT. training programs for numerous Gulf was recently named Co-Chair of the She lives in Brookline with her son and and Central Asian states. His book Indian Ocean Regional Studies Group. two dogs, and is always looking The Forgotten Frontier is translated His research interests include US for a tennis game. into Arabic and currently is being military and grand strategy, irregular translated into Turkish. The Fletcher warfare, terrorism, nuclear prolifera- Laurent L. Jacque is the Walter Forum published his recent article on tion, conflict in the developing world, B. Wriston Professor of International Central Eurasia and the Geopolitics of and maritime affairs. His regional Finance & Banking and Director of Gas. Hess has been an officer in the interests focus on South Asia and the the International Business Studies United States Marine Corps, a steel Middle East. He has briefed Congress Program. From 2004 to 2007 he was mill foreman, the Assistant Director and senior military leadership on the Academic Dean of The Fletcher of the Center for Arabic Studies at the terrorism and regional conflict in School and engineered the successful American University in Cairo, taught Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and launch of the Master of International Middle Eastern history at Temple has lectured or consulted for a wide Business Program. Since 1990 he has University, was appointed to a visiting range of U.S. government agencies. also held a secondary appointment research position at the Institute for His recent publications include chapters at the HEC School of Management Advanced Studies in Princeton, held and articles on the war on terrorism (France). He is the author of two books, a senior management post in Saudi in South Asia, security and conflict in Management and Control of Foreign Arabia with the Arabian American Oil the developing world, the limits of Exchange Risk and Management of Company (ARAMCO) and has served military force in the global war on Foreign Exchange Risk: Theory and Praxis as the Academic Dean of The Fletcher terrorism, the impact of culture on Iraqi as well as more than 25 refereed articles School. Professor Hess is renowned military performance, the evolution of on Risk Management, Insurance and for his travels in Central Eurasia where multi-generational terrorist organiza- International Finance; he is currently he acquired an interest in the use of tions, Pakistani nuclear doctrine and working on Global Derivative Debacles: Turkish re-curved bow. strategic thought, the impact of nuclear from Theory to Malpractice. He served weapons on recent crises in South Asia, as an advisor to Wharton Econometrics Thomas F. Holt, Jr., Adjunct case studies of the Irish Republican Forecasting Associates and as a director Professor of International Law, is a Army and its use of political violence, of Water Technologies Inc. A recipient partner at K&L Gates law firm main- and the role of maritime cooperation in of four teaching awards at Wharton, taining an active practice before federal US-Indian relations. In his spare time, he Carlson and HEC, Jacque received the and state courts and administrative coaches soccer and occasionally considers James L. Paddock award in 1996. He agencies. He has experience presenting going back to his original career as has taught in a number of Executive public and private companies and state a classical baritone and Irish folk singer. Development Programs and consulted and local governments in the prosecution for several multinational corporations and avoidance of complex civil litigation. Karen Jacobsen is Associate and banks. A native of France, Jacque At K&L Gates, eh represents clients Professor at the Friedman School of graduated from HEC (Paris), taught at in a wide variety of matters including Nutrition and directs the Refugees the University of Tunis before receiving business disputes, the protection of & Forced Migration Program at the the MA, MBA, and PhD degrees from intellectual property assets, and envi- Feinstein International Center. She the Wharton School at the University ronmental and land use litigation. Holt has taught and conducted research in of Pennsylvania where he taught for serves as Legal Advisor to the Fletcher the field of forced migration for twenty 11 years. He is currently involved in School’s Center for Emerging Business years, and consults on this topic to research in the area of International Enterprise’s Sovereign Wealth Fund public and private organizations. Of Financial Risk, Capital Markets and Initiative. He has also served as the particular interest in her research is the Global Strategic Management for chair of the Massachusetts Continuing ways in which refugees and other Financial Institutions. Legal Education Program entitled displaced people pursue livelihoods “How to Protect and Preserve IP and regain their dignity and financial Assets.” He is a member of the Board independence, and her book, The
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Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson 50th Anniversary Essay, and “The and teaching focus on international mac- Professor of History at Tufts University. Sources and Sustainability of China’s roeconomics. He has published three After majoring in history and political Economic Growth,” Brookings Paper books and over two dozen articles on science from Wellesley College, she on Economic Activity. topics such as exchange rate policy, obtained her doctorate in history from international capital flows, the impact the University of Cambridge. Jalal has Ian Johnstone, Professor of of trade on the US labor market, the been Fellow of Trinity College, International Law, is currently working determinants of foreign direct invest- Cambridge (1980-84), Leverhulme on a book on legal discourse in interna- ment, and the success of women ath- Fellow at the Centre of South Asian tional organizations.Prior to joining the letes in international sports Studies, Cambridge (1984-87), Fellow Fletcher School, he served for seven competition. His most recent book is of the Woodrow Wilson Center for years in the United Nations, including Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern International Scholars in Washington, five in the Office of the Secretary- Era. His research has been supported DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at General. From 2005-2007 he was the by grants from the Upjohn Institute for the Harvard Academy for International first editor of the Annual Review of Employment Research and the Bill and and Area Studies (1988-90). From Global Peace Operation, a new series on Melinda Gates Foundation. He received 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur the “state of the world’s peacekeepers.” a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia Fellow. Her publications include The Other recent publications include University and a B.A. from Brandeis Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim United States Peace Operations Policy: University. He is also the author of the League and the Demand for Pakistan; The A Double-Edged Sword? (Editor); novel Something for Nothing. He lives in State of Martial Rule: the Origins of “Law-making through the operational Belmont with his wife, Susan Cohen, Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence; activities of international organizations”, and their two sons. and Democracy and Authoritarianism in George Washington International Law South Asia: a Comparative and Historical Review; “Legislation and adjudication Carsten Kowalczyk is Associate Perspective. Jalal has co-authored in the UN Security Council: bringing Professor of International Economics. Modern South Asia: History, Culture and down the deliberative deficit”, American He has taught at Harvard University, Political Economy with Sugata Bose. Her Journal of International Law; “The Dartmouth College, and Pennsylvania study of Muslim identity in the subcon- Secretary-General as norm entrepre- State University, and is Adjunct tinent, entitled Self and Sovereignty: the neur,” in Secretary or General? The Role Professor at the School of Economics Muslim Individual and the Community of of the UN Secretary-General in World and Management at the University of Islam in South Asia since c.1850. Her Politics (2007); “The plea of necessity in Aarhus. He has consulted for the WTO most recent book is Partisans of Allah: international law: humanitarian and the World Bank. He is on the Jihad in South Asia. intervention and counter-terrorism”, Midwest International Economics Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Group Scientific Board, and the Book Gary Jefferson, Visiting Professor Johnstone, recipient of the James L. Review Editor for the Review of of International Economics, holds a Paddock Teaching Award in 2005, International Economics. He has been a primary appointment at Brandeis teaches courses in international organi- Visiting Fellow at City University of University where he has joint appoint- zations and peace operations. He is Hong Kong, and a Faculty Research ments in the Department of Economics currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Fellow at the NBER. He received the and the International Business School. Center on International Cooperation, James L. Paddock Award for Excellency His research focuses on institutions, New York University and Co-Chair of in Teaching in 1995, and an Award for technology, economic growth, and the International Organizations Outstanding Instruction from the China’s economic transformation. A Interest Group of the American Society Global Master of Arts Class of 2002. graduate of Dartmouth College (A.B.), of International Law. A citizen of He is editor of Economic Integration The Fletcher School (MALD), and Yale Canada, he holds an LL.M degree from and International Trade and The Theory University (Ph.D.), Jefferson has lived Columbia University and JD and BA of Trade Policy Reform, and author and taught at the Chinese University of degrees from the University of Toronto. of numerous articles in professional Hong Kong and at Wuhan University in journals, including in the American China and frequently travels to China Michael W. Klein is the William L. Economic Review, Economic Theory, for his research and speaking engage- Clayton Professor of International Economica, International Economic ments. Jefferson’s recent publications Economic Affairs. He is a Research Review, Journal of International include: “A Great Wall of Patents: Associate of the National Bureau of Economics, and Review of International What is Behind China’s Recent Patent Economic Research, an Associate editor Economics. He holds a Cand. Polit. Explosion?” Journal of Development of the Journal of International Economics, (Economics) from the University of Economics, “Technology Diversity and and an invited contributor to the web- Copenhagen, and an M.A. and Ph.D. Development: Evidence from China’s site RGE Monitor. He has been a visiting (Economics) from the University of Industrial Enterprises,” Journal of scholar at the International Monetary Rochester. He is on the Board of Comparative Economics, “How Has Fund, the Board of Governors of the Directors of the Scandinavian China’s Economic Emergence Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Charitable Society of Greater Boston. Contributed to the Field of Economics?” Bank of Boston, and the Federal Comparative Economic Studies, Reserve Bank of New York. His research
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Lawrence Krohn, Visiting Associate to the European Union’s Political and are “Dependence and Defiance: Professor of International Economics, Security Committee, the military Historical Dilemmas in U.S.-Korea specializes in Latin America and the US mission at the French embassy in the Relations,” in Korea Policy Review, and macroeconomy. He has returned to United States, and the U.S. missions to “The Folly of Fabled Sentimentality: academia after a 25 year career in the European Union and NATO. In South Korea’s Unorthodox Courtship financial services, during which he addition to policy papers produced for of North Korea,” The Woodrow Wilson served initially as international and US these organizations, his latest publica- International Center for Scholars economist, later (from 1992) as chief tion is the 2007 book Unconventional Special Report. His writings have been economist for Latin America at several crises, unconventional responses on the published in The LA Times, Asia Times, banks, including Lehman Brothers, management of complex emergencies. The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy UBS, DLJ, ING and most recently In addition to French and English, he Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Asia. Standard Bank. During those years, he speaks or reads German, Russian, A frequent commentator on North wrote regularly on the Latin America, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Korean affairs, Lee has appeared on made frequent research trips to the Greek. He holds a D.Phil. in Medieval BBC, NPR, PBS, CNN, NECN,CBC, etc. region and visited portfolio managers History from the Oxford University. around the globe. He graduated from Lynellyn D. Long is an Associate the Wharton School of the University of Nathalie Laidler-Kylander is an Professor at the Friedman School Pennsylvania, served in the US Peace Adjunct Assistant Professor of of Nutrition and Director for Corps (Tunisia) and earned his Ph.D. in International Business. Her current Humanitarian Studies in the Feinstein economics at Columbia University, teaching and research interests center International Center. Her research where he specialized in mathematical on nonprofit branding as well as focuses on CSR in conflict, trafficking and international economics. He taught nonprofit – private sector partnerships, and gender based violence, and labor economics at Columbia, Oberlin and multi-sector entrepreneurial migration. She has lived and worked in College and in Quebec before embarking marketing. Her publications include a Bosnia-Herzegovina, Vietnam, on his financial services career. At book on international nonprofit brands, Thailand, the Philippines, and Togo. As Fletcher, he is writing a book on those articles on nonprofit brand equity, and a senior associate with a British firm in macro- and microeconomic problems numerous case studies on nonprofit London, she designed CSR interven- that have constrained Latin well-being, branding and international marketing. tions in many different regions. She has with emphasis on the misguided Prior to Fletcher, Laidler-Kylander been a Senior Director for Amnesty’s policies underlying them. He remains taught undergraduate and graduate International Secretariat in London, passionate not only about economics, marketing courses at Boston University IOM Chief of Mission in Bosnia- but also about music of all sorts, and has held a number of executive Herzegovina, and Country movies, foreign travel, foreign marketing positions in both the private Representative for the Population languages and dogs. He continues and nonprofit sectors. She holds a BS Council in Vietnam. Her publications to be based in the New York area. in Biochemistry, an MBA from Harvard include Coming Home (edited with Business School, and a PhD from the Oxfeld); Women’s Experiences with Erwan Lagadec is lecturer in Fletcher School. Nathalie is married HIV/AIDS (edited with Ankrah) and European Studies. He also teaches and has four children. She enjoys run- Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp. She courses on European defense and ning and is training for her first triathlon. received her doctorate in SSE/ transatlantic relations at the Elliott Anthropology from Stanford University School of International Affairs at the Sung-Yoon Lee, Adjunct Assistant and masters in political economics from George Washington University, and is Professor of International Politics, the University of Toronto a Foreign Policy Institute Fellow at teaches courses on Korea and U.S.-East SAIS’ Center for Transatlantic Asia relations. Upon receiving his William C. Martel is Associate Relations. He is also an affiliate at Ph.D. from The Fletcher School, Lee Professor of International Security Harvard’s Center for European Studies, taught several courses on Korea and Studies. His research and teaching and a member of the International East Asia under a joint appointment interests are in international security Institute for Strategic Studies in between Fletcher and Tufts Department and public policy. Formerly a Professor London. Prior to this, he was an affili- of History. In 2005 he launched at the of National Security Affairs at the Naval ate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, Korea Institute, Harvard University, a War College, he also served on the and a Public Policy Scholar at the new seminar series, the “Kim Koo professional staff of the RAND Woodrow Wilson International Center Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations.” In the Corporation in Washington. Some of for Scholars. A reserve officer in the summer of 2007 he was Visiting his most recent publications include French Navy, he has been an Professor of Korean Studies at The Victory in War: Foundations of Modern external consultant at the French Center for Korean Studies, Sogang Military Policy and “A Strategy for Foreign Ministry’s Policy Planning University. In 2000 he taught Korean Victory and Implications for Policy” Staff, the Delegation for Strategic political history at Bowdoin College, the Orbis. He has been a consultant to Affairs at the French Ministry of Defense, first-ever course on Korea in the history Defense Advanced Research Projects the French military representation of the college. Lee’s recent publications Agency, Office of Secretary of Defense,
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U.S. Air Force and USAF Scientific Dan Maxwell is Associate Professor conflict for UN and NATO peacekeeping Advisory Board, and the National and Research Director at the Feinstein operations. With international Security Council. Martel is the Principal International Center, and Chair of the human rights groups, she contributed Investigator in a joint Fletcher School- Department of Food and Nutrition to materials now widely used to MIT Lincoln Laboratory study on space Policy at the Friedman School of document human rights abuses against policy, Academic Director for the Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts women and girls during conflict periods. Fletcher Summer Institute on the University. He leads a program of She worked with ICRC’s Women and Advanced Study of Nonviolent research on livelihoods and food inse- War project to engage with leaders of Conflict, serves on the Defense curity in complex emergencies, human- armed opposition groups worldwide to Department’s Threat Reduction Advisory itarian action and agency effectiveness. better understand their experiences Committee, and lectures on national He also teaches on humanitarian and motivations and help to strengthen security to government agencies action, complex emergencies and their adherence to international and Fortune 100 companies. He is a disaster management. Before joining humanitarian and human rights law. member of the International Institute the faculty at Tufts, he was the Deputy She has worked throughout sub-Saha- for Strategic Studies, and is on the Regional Director for CARE in Eastern ran Africa and in Afghanistan, the board of the World Affairs Council of and Central Africa, and prior to that, Balkans, and Nepal. New Hampshire. He received his AB the Regional Program Coordinator and from St. Anselm College, his doctorate Regional Food Security and Livelihoods Deborah Menegotto is an Adjunct from the University of Massachusetts Advisor in the same office. He has also Assistant Professor of Economics. She (Amherst), and was a Post-Doctoral worked at the International Food Policy teaches microeconomics at Fletcher, and Research Fellow at the Center for Research Institute, the Land Tenure classes in microeconomics, industrial Science and International Affairs Center and Mennonite Central organization, and quantitative game at Harvard’s Kennedy School Committee. He holds a MS from theory and information in the department of Government. Cornell (1986) and a PhD from the of economics, Tufts University. Before University of Wisconsin (1995). In 2005, joining Tufts, she taught microeconomics George Th. Mavrogordatos is a book co-authored with Chris Barrett, at Brown University. Menegotto holds Constantine Karamanlis Professor Food Aid after Fifty Years: Recasting its a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard of Hellenic and Southeastern European Role, won critical acclaim and sparked University in the fields of Microeconomic Studies. His recent teaching and critical debate within the humanitarian Theory, Game Theory and Industrial research interests include Athenian and food aid sectors. He just recently Organization, and an M.S. and a B.S. democracy, World War II, the published another book entitled in Mathematics from Pontifícia Holocaust, the American political sys- Shaping the Humanitarian World, Universidade Católica (PUC), Rio de tem, and interest groups. He has been co-authored with Peter Walker. Janeiro, Brazil. Her research has focused teaching Modern Greek History and on the economics of information acquisi- Political Sociology at the University of Dyan Mazurana is a Research tion, including the study of optimal debt Athens since 1982. He has also taught Director at the Feinstein International contracts, and the economics of product as a visiting professor at the University Center and an Associate Professor at sampling and quantity surcharges. of California, Berkeley, at the Johns the Friedman School of Nutrition Hopkins University Bologna Center, Science and Policy. Mazurana’s focus and at the University of Salzburg. He areas include women’s and children’s received his degrees in politics and human rights, gender and armed economics and in law from the conflict, war-affected civilian popula- University of Athens, his MA in political tions, armed opposition groups, grave science from Purdue University, and his violations during armed conflict, and PhD in political science from the peacekeeping. Mazurana has published University of California, Berkeley. His over 60 scholarly and policy books books include Stillborn Republic: Social and essays, including After the Taliban: Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan 1922-1936, for which he received the (co-author); Gender, Conflict, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of Peacekeeping (co-author); Where Are the the American Political Science Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Association in 1984. His other interests Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique include oysters, puppets, movies, and (co-author); and Women, Peace and music (primarily classical and jazz). Security: Study of the United Nations Secretary-General as Pursuant Security Council Resolution 1325 (co-author). She has developed training materials regarding gender, human rights, and armed
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William Moomaw is Professor of quarterly review of economic news Government awarded him an International Environmental Policy. and commentary focused on the imperial decoration, the Order of the He directs the Center for International Massachusetts state economy. Sacred Treasure, for his contributions Environment and Resource Policy at In addition to statistics, he teaches to American-Japanese relations. In Fletcher, and serves on the Boards of micro- and macroeconomics, and 2000, Fletcher students and friends several organizations that work on business forecasting. established the John Curtis Perry fel- climate change, conservation and con- lowship for a deserving Fletcher stu- sensus building. He is a chemist turned Vali R. Nasr is Professor of Inter- dent. For the past ten years or so, policy scientist with a PhD from MIT, national Politics. In February 2009, human interactions with the salt water whose research focuses on integrating Nasr, was appointed as senior advisor have dominated Perry’s interests, and science and technology into interna- to the special US envoy to Afghanistan he is now finishing a book on that sub- tional agreements. His scholarly and and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. He is ject. At various times he has been a policy research focuses on mitigation the author of Forces of Fortune: The Rise consultant to several foreign govern- and adaptation to climate change, of a New Muslim Middle Class and What ments and currently advises a maritime forestry, nitrogen pollution and energy it will Mean for Our World; Democracy in startup company. He is president of the and water policy. He has been a lead Iran; The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Institute for Global Maritime Studies, a author on four Intergovernmental within Islam will Shape the Future; The non-profit research organization. With Panel on Climate Change reports Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making his artist wife, he lives in an old house, and is currently a coordinating lead of State Power; Mawdudi and the Making which constantly battles the ravages of author of the newest report on the role of Islamic Revivalism; The Vanguard of wind, sun, and salt, on the shores of of renewable energy in addressing the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Ipswich Bay. Their five children and ten climate change. He is also a co-author Islami of Pakistan; He is editor, of Oxford grandchildren visit, especially to enjoy of reports on forest financing, The Dictionary of Islam. Nasr has briefed the the pleasures of the summer. Two dogs Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and White House, the Congress, the U.S. are year round residents. has prepared policy papers for the UN Department of State, the National Framework Convention on Climate Security Council, and the U.S. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., is the Change Secretariat. He is currently Department of Defense on Middle East Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of working on a book on forest Issues. He has written for the New York International Security Studies at The diplomacy. He is the Director of Times, Washington Post, Time, Los Fletcher School and President, Institute Faculty of the International Programme Angeles Times. Christian Science Monitor, for Foreign Policy Analysis. He has in Sustainability held annually in and the New Republic and was profiled advised government officials and The Netherlands, and serves on the on the front page of the Wall Street others on military strategy, defense Integrated Nitrogen Committee of the Journal. In 2006, he was named as a modernization,alliance relations, US Environmental Protection Agency Carnegie Scholar at the Carnegie proliferation and counterproliferation, Science Advisory Board. Corporation. In the past, he has been terrorism, homeland security, and the recipient of grants from the national security policy. He has lec- Robert Nakosteen is a Visiting John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur tured widely at government, industry, Professor of Statistics. He is also a Foundation, The Harry Frank and academic forums in the United Professor of Economics and Statistics at Guggenheim Foundation, Social States and overseas. He serves on the the Isenberg School of Management at Science Research Council, and the International Security Advisory Board the University of Massachusetts in American Institute of Pakistan Studies. (ISAB), U.S. Department of State. Amherst. His research focuses on the Nasr earned his degrees from the Pfaltzgraff has authored and contributed econometrics of labor markets, espe- Massachusetts Institute of Technology to numerous books, reports, and mono- cially the measurement of labor market (Ph.D.), the Fletcher School (MALD), graphs; some of his most recent publi- outcomes following a major life deci- and Tufts University (BA). cations include: Missile Defense, the sion (such as moving, marriage, or Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First divorce). He has published in a variety John Curtis Perry, Henry Willard Century, Report of the Independent of academic journals, including Denison Professor, attended Friends Working Group on Missile Defense Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Regional schools in Washington DC and New (co-author); Space and U.S. Security: Science, the Journal of Population York City, subsequently graduating A Net; “Counterproliferation Economics, and the Journal of Human from Yale College and receiving the Challenges,” Taking on Tehran: Resources, among others. He is a Ph.D. from Harvard. Before coming to Strategies for Confronting the Islamic frequent Visiting Researcher at Fletcher in 1980 he taught at several Republic; “The Future of the Nuclear the University of Umeå in Sweden, American liberal arts colleges and in Non-Proliferation Treaty,” The Fletcher where he works with the extensive Japan. He studies history and defines Forum of World Affairs; “Space: The socio-economic and demographic data it as one of the humanities. In his Next Frontier,” Journal of International bases available there. His other earlier career, his teaching and research Security Affairs; and Contending Theories research track is the area of national focus was American-East Asian relations, of International Relations, fifth edition and state economic performance. He is especially Japan, about which he (co-author). Pfaltzgraff holds a Ph.D. the Executive Editor MassBenchmarks, a published several books. The Japanese in Political Science, an M.A. in
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International Relations, and an M.B.A. working for MNCs, as well as govern- on International Conflict Analysis and in International Business from the ments, financial institutions, develop- Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead University of Pennsylvania. ment banks and NGOs. His professional Center for International Affairs where focus has been largely in the areas of he co-chaired the Center’s seminar on Ann Rappaport, lecturer in Urban market entry, competitive positioning, international Conflict Analysis and Environmental Policy and Planning, strategic alliances, industrial policy and Resolution from 1992-2001. He is also Tufts University, earned a B.A. in envi- technology innovation. He has pub- the Founding Director of “Mada al- ronmental studies and Asian studies lished numerous articles and reports Carmel—The Arab Center for Applied from Wellesley College, a M.S. in civil in many areas of development strategy. Social Research” in Haifa. The center engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. in His most recent publication is “The focuses on issues of identity, citizenship environmental engineering from Tufts Meaning and Importance of Leadership and democracy, and the future relationship University. She has helped develop in Strategic Alliances”, in Advances In between Palestinians and Israelis. and implement the hazardous waste Global Leadership, Volume 5. regulatory program in Massachusetts, William A. Rugh is the Edward R. and maintains an active interest in the Dan Richards is Professor of Murrow Visiting Professor of Public dynamic relationship between environ- Economics at Tufts University. He has Diplomacy at the Fletcher School. He mental laws and regulations and inno- also taught at Queen’s University and was a United States Foreign Service vations in environmental technology the Sloan School of Management and Officer 1964-1995. He held positions and corporate management of environ- served as consultant to the Federal abroad for the U.S. Information Agency mental issues. She is the author of Trade Commission. Current scholarship in Cairo, Riyadh and Jidda, and in Development and Transfer of Pollution focuses on imperfect competition.Recent Washington as Assistant Director for Prevention Technology and co-author publications include “Advertising, Near East and South Asia. He also of Corporate Responses to Environmental Spillovers And Market Concentration” held State Department assignments Challenges: Initiatives by Multinational American Journal of Agricultural Economics as the United States ambassador to Management. Her current research (2008) and “Entrepreneurial First Yemen, ambassador to the United Arab interests include enterprise-level Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, Emirates, and Deputy Chief of Mission decision making with respect to the and the Evolution of Market Structure” in Syria. He was President and CEO environment, institutional responses The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & of the educational NGO Amideast to climate change, voluntary initiatives Policy (2008), both with Lynne Pepall 1995-2003. He has recently been a related to companies and the environ- and George Norman. He is also a consultant to the Undersecretary of ment, and contemporary issues in co-author of Industrial Organization: State for Public Diplomacy and Public corporate social responsibility. She Contemporary Theory and Practice, now Affairs. He holds a PhD in international co-directs the Tufts Climate Initiative, in its fourth edition. relations from Columbia University and the university commitment to meet or an MA from the Johns Hopkins School beat the emission reductions associated Nadim Rouhana is Professor of of Advanced International Studies. with the Kyoto Protocol. International Negotiation and Conflict He taught U.S. Middle East Policy and Studies. His current research includes Public Diplomacy at Fletcher 1984-86 William Reinfeld, Adjunct work on the dynamics of protracted and he taught Public Diplomacy there Professor of Strategic Management, social conflict, collective identity and in 2008. He is the author of “American began teaching after having retired in democratic citizenship in multiethnic Encounters with Arabs: the Soft Power 2002 from a career of 35 years in inter- states, the questions of reconciliation of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle national management consulting. In and multicultural citizenship, East” and other books and articles addition to teaching at The Fletcher transitional justice, and international on public diplomacy. He has also School, he is teaching executive and negotiations. His research and writing published books, articles and op-eds graduate courses on international is focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict on Arab media and US-Arab relations. business strategy at China Europe and on Israeli and Palestinian societies. He is a board member at the Public International Business School (CEIBS) His publications include Palestinian Diplomacy Council and the American and Fudan University, in Shanghai, and Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: University in Cairo, and a member of the National Chengchi University in Identities in Conflict (Yale University Arab Media and Society Editorial Board, Taiwan. In 1967, after completing his Press, 1997) and numerous academic and the Public Diplomacy Magazine PhD at Yale University, he joined the articles. He is currently completing a International Advisory Board. consulting firm of Arthur D. Little book on a new paradigm in conflict res- (ADL), where he became Vice olution. Prior to joining the Fletcher President, International. He later joined School he was the Henry Hart Rice Accenture where he was responsible Professor of conflict analysis and resolu- for establishing and leading the tion at George Mason University. He Strategy Practice for Greater China. He has held various academic positions has been living in Taipei and Shanghai in Palestinian, Israeli, and American since 1986, when he moved to Taiwan universities including at Harvard to open ADL’s office for Greater China. University, The Fletcher School of Most of his 300+ consulting engagements Law and Diplomacy, and MI. He have involved developing countries, was a co-founder of the Program
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Kate Sadler is Assistant Professor at for International Exchange of Scholars, Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church the Friedman School of Nutrition and and the founding President of the is Lecturer in Human Security. Senior Researcher for nutrition in emer- Association of Professional Schools Scharbatke-Church has been involved gencies at the Feinstein International of International Affairs (APSIA). A in peacebuilding research and practice Center. She is a public nutritionist with consultant to multinational companies, around the world with specific geo- over 10 years experience in the design, government agencies, international graphic expertise in West Africa, the management and evaluation of organizations, universities, foundations Balkans and Northern Ireland. She is nutrition interventions in sub Saharan and foreign governments, he is a currently the West Africa Liaison for Africa. She completed an M.Sc. in member of the Council on Foreign the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) Public Nutrition at the London School Relations, the American Law Institute, project of Collaborative for of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1997 and the executive committee and Development Action (CDA), which and went on to work for an Irish INGO faculty of the Program on Negotiation seeks to improve the effectiveness of as a nutrition field officer in several at Harvard Law School. He is also lead peace practice. In this role Scharbatke- countries in Africa. Prior to joining independent director of several mutual Church has been an advisor to the Tufts she worked as a technical funds, chairman of the India Fund and United Nations Mission in Liberia and and research advisor with Valid Asia Tigers Fund, and president and the Peacebuilding Fund in Liberia. In International, an organization that aims member of international arbitration addition, she works as an independent to optimize the impact of humanitarian tribunals of the World Bank’s consultant predominately on evalua- intervention through advocacy, International Centre for Settlement of tions ‘in’ and ‘on’ conflict issues for a research and development. With Investment Disputes. His recent books wide range of organizations such as Valid she had a strong research focus, include Seven Secrets for Negotiating with the International Committee of the specifically with the aim of improving Government; Leading Leaders; The Global Red Cross, CARE International and approaches for the identification and Negotiator and; The Wise Advisor. the United Nations. She has published management of children and adults on evaluation and peacebuilding, suffering from acute malnutrition Julie Schaffner is Visiting Associate corruption in humanitarian agencies, using new ready-to-use therapeutic Professor of International Economics. single identity work and policy impact foods. With this work she completed Her teaching focuses on skills required on conflict issues. Her recent publica- her doctorate in 2008 with the Institute for analytical, evidence-based involve- tions include Designing for Results, a of Child Health, University College ment in poverty reduction and devel- practitioner focused manual on design, London. Other research interests include opment work. She is currently writing monitoring and evaluation for peacebuilding community-based programming, the a textbook on economic development co-authored with Mark M. Rogers; nutritional support of people living for Wiley-Blackwell, which emphasizes NGOS at the Table: Strategies for with HIV, delivery science and the practical ways in which economic Influencing Policy in Areas of Conflict institutional capacity building. theory, empirical research and policy which she co-edited with Mari Fitzduff analytic thinking contribute to the and Mind the Gap – Policy Development Jeswald W. Salacuse, Henry J. effective design and comprehensive and Research on Conflict Issues. She was Braker Professor of Law, served as the evaluation of development programs also a contributor to the Reflecting on Fletcher School Dean for nine years and and strategies. She is also involved Peace Practice study, What difference was previously Dean of the Southern in the early stages of a microfinance has peacebuilding made in Kosovo? Methodist University Law School. His impact evaluation project. Her research teaching and research interests include often involves econometric analysis of Patrick J. Schena is adjunct international negotiation, law and survey data for answering such questions assistant professor of international development, and international as “What keeps children out of primary business relations, with a teaching focus investment law. With a J.D. from school in rural Ethiopia?” or “Why in corporate finance. Simultaneous he Harvard University, Salacuse has are job turnover rates so high in urban is principal, investment management been a lecturer in law at Ahmadu Colombia?” In 2008 she received the services, at Headstrong LLC, a Bello University, Nigeria, a Wall James L. Paddock teaching award. global consultancy. Prior to joining Street lawyer, professor and research Before coming to Fletcher, she was a Headstrong, Schena held leadership director at the National School of member of the Economics Department positions in a number of firms that pro- Administration, Congo, the Ford at Stanford University, where she vide financial, technology, and business Foundation’s Middle East advisor also served as Deputy Director of the consultancy services to the global finan- on law and development based in Center for Research on Economic cial services community. Most recently Lebanon, and later the Foundation’s Development and Policy Reform. She he was a founding partner and CEO of representative in the Sudan. He has has consulted for the World Bank and iX Partners, Ltd, a technology and been a visiting professor in the United UNESCO. She received her Ph.D. in investment operations servicing firm. Kingdom, France, and Spain and held economics from Yale University. Schena’s research interests span both the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in corporate finance and private equity Comparative Law in Italy. Salacuse and include a strong area focus in Asia. has served as the Chairman of the He is an associate in research at the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chairman of the Board of the Council Harvard University. He holds BA and
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MA degrees from Boston College and a of War-fighting Strategy, U.S. Marine ing and sponsorship, market orienta- MALD and PhD from The Fletcher Corps. Since the mid-1980s he has tion, customer satisfaction and services, School, where his dissertation exam- served as a security consultant to vari- nonprofit branding, strategic alliances, ined the impact of banking relation- ous U.S. government agencies con- collaborative know-how, headquarter- ships in the pricing of Japanese cerned with national security. Shultz subsidiary relations, organization corporate debt. recently began a book project titled learning and knowledge management, Adapting America’s Security Paradigm and structural equation modeling. He Anna Seleny, Professor of the to a New Era. The research is in has taught at the University of Practice of International Politics, works collaboration with three Washington- Michigan, University of Washington, in the area of comparative political based scholars. He is also researching University of Illinois, Harvard economy, with a primary focus on and writing a book on the U.S. Marine University, and Kasetsart University eastern Europe and the EU, Russia and Corps’ 2004-2007 campaign in Al in Thailand. other post-socialist states, and a sec- Anbar Province in Iraq. To do so he has ondary focus on Latin American poli- gained access to the oral history collec- G. Richard Thoman, Visiting tics. She is the author of The Political tion and other research materials Professor of International Business, is Economy of State-Society Relations in located at the History Division of the the managing partner of Corporate Hungary and Poland: From Communism U.S. Marine Corps. A new paperback Perspectives, a New York corporate to the European Union; “Tradition, edition of his last book—Insurgents, strategy advisory and investing firm. Modernity, and Democracy: The Many Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of He also teaches at Columbia University. Promises of Islam”, Perspectives on Contemporary Combat—will be pub- Thoman is a broadly experienced exec- Politics, and articles in World Politics, lished in September, 2009. Other major utive, with the distinction of being one Comparative Politics, Journal of publications include The Secret War of the few individuals to have been a Democracy, International Studies against Hanoi. Shultz’s research inter- “top five” executive for four “Fortune Quarterly and Law and Politics, among ests include U.S. national security pol- 75” U.S. corporations in three different others, as well as several book chapters. icy; regional conflict, armed groups and industries: financial, food and technol- She has co-authored work on Latin state disintegration; ethnic and reli- ogy. He was president and chief execu- America and is also interested in the gious violence; internal conflict and tive officer of the Xerox Corporation intersection of institutions, political war; contemporary; intelligence policy (1999-2000). Thoman had joined Xerox culture, and development. Before com- and international terrorism; special in 1997 as president and chief opera- ing to The Fletcher School, Seleny operations forces; covert paramilitary tions officer. Prior to joining Xerox, taught at Princeton University and operations; and the changing roles and Thoman was a senior vice president spent a year at the Institute for missions of the U.S. armed forces. and chief financial officer of IBM and Advanced Studies in Princeton. She has served as IBM’s number two executive. received a number of awards and fel- Bernard L. Simonin is Associate Prior to joining IBM, Thoman was pres- lowships including from the German Professor of Marketing and ident and chief executive officer of Marshall Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, International Business. He holds a PhD Nabisco International, and chairman MacArthur, American Council of in International Business from the and chief executive officer of American Learned Societies and Harvard University of Michigan, an MBA from Express Travel Related Services. University’s Center for European Kent State University, and a graduate Thoman serves on a number of busi- Studies. She received her Ph.D. from degree in computer sciences from a ness and educational boards. He is a MIT and MA from Johns Hopkins/ French engineering school. His past member of the Business Council SAIS. Other professional experience research interest in knowledge man- and Business Roundtable as well as a includes international banking, inter- agement and strategic alliances spans past board member of Xerox, Fuji national development work in Central the fields of strategy and management, Xerox, Daimler Chrysler, Union Asia and Latin America, and experience international business, and marketing. Bancaire Privee, Club Med, and in both non-profit and government His award-winning work is widely Bankers Trust. He received his B.A. agencies. Seleny teaches methodology cited and has been published in the from McGill University, a graduate and courses in international and EU/ Academy of Management Journal, degree from the Graduate Institute of eastern European/ Russian politics; she Strategic Management Journal, Human International Studies (Geneva, has also taught courses on Comparative Resource Management Journal, Switzerland), and three graduate and International Political Economy, International Executive, Journal of degrees (including a Ph.D.) from The Theories of Political Culture, and Latin Business Research, Global Focus, Fletcher Fletcher School. American Political Economy. Forum of World Affairs, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Richard H. Shultz, Professor of International Journal of Nonprofit and International Politics is also Director, Voluntary Sector Marketing, Journal of International Security Studies Program International Business Studies, Journal of He has held three chairs: Olin Marketing Research, International Journal Distinguished Professor of National or Research in Marketing, Journal of Security, U.S. Military Academy; Advertising, and Journal of International Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Marketing. His current research focuses Fellow, Naval War College; and on nation branding, brand alliances, Brigadier General Oppenheimer Chair brand communities, symbiotic market-
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Robert J. Thomas, John R. Galvin Facts about Agricultural Commodity In addition, Tunnard was a senior Visiting Professor of Leadership Cycles, Who’s Filling Up Your shop- member of ADL’s Professional and Organizational Management, is ping bag, Global Food Companies in Development staff, and he created and/ Executive Director of the Accenture the Developing World: Benefactors, or delivered a full range of skills courses Institute for High Performance. He Malefactors or Inevitable Change in consulting and related business writes, teaches and consults about lead- Agent, Multinational Food Companies skills. Prior to joining ADL, he directed ership and transformational change. He and Developing Nations’ Diet, world-wide strategy and technology is the author of seven books; the two Convenience Foods and The partnerships for American Express. He newest are Crucibles of Leadership: How Politicalization of Food Quality. has also run his own consulting firm; to Learn from Experience to Be a Great and has owned and operated a hotel Leader and; Driving Results Through Joel P. Trachtman is Professor barge company in southern France. He Social Networks (with Rob Cross). His of International Law. Recent books is a recognized expert on innovation 2002 book co-authored with Warren include The International Law of and technology-led change in the Bennis, entitled Geeks and Geezers: How Economic Migration: Toward the international communications, travel, Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Fourth Freedom; Ruling the World: and financial service industries, and he Leaders was a BusinessWeek best seller Constitutionalism, International Law, has successfully led board-level strat- translated into 11 languages. In his and Global Governance; Developing egy assignments for some of the role as a senior executive in Accenture, Countries in the WTO Legal System; The world’s most respected companies and Thomas has worked with top execu- Economic Structure of International Law; for many government ministries in tive groups in Fortune 100 companies and International Law and International Europe, Asia, Africa and the United to help them become more effective Politics. He has consulted for the States. Tunnard has written on the use as leadership teams. He has designed United Nations, the OECD, APEC, of the Internet and related technologies and led leader development programs the World Bank, the Organization of in the resistance to the Milosevic regime based on Crucibles of Leadership in American States, and the U.S. Agency in Serbia and the 1990s. Currently, he is organizations as diverse as a global for International Development. researching public and private social net- software developer, a national electri- Trachtman is a member of the Boards works and their impact on organizations, cal utility, a major research university, of the American Journal of International and he is developing analytical tools and a transnational media company. law, the European Journal of International based on the evolving science of social Bob also leads the Institute for High Law, the Journal of International network analysis. Performance, Accenture’s global Economic Law, the Cambridge Review of “think and act tank” with professional International Affairs, and the Singapore Phil Uhlmann, Adjunct Assistant researchers based in Boston, Beijing, Yearbook of International Law. He is Professor, has an extensive background Chicago, Delhi and London. a member of the bar of the State of in international banking, finance and New York. From 1998 to 2001, he was economics. He received his Bachelor of James Tillotson is Professor of Academic Dean of the Fletcher School, Commerce, with a specialization in Food Policy and International Business and during 2000 and 2001, he served finance, from the University of British at the Friedman School of Nutrition as Dean ad interim. In 2002, he was Columbia. Holds graduate degrees in Science. Prior to returning to the aca- Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor business and international relations, demic world, he worked in industry, of Law, and in 2004 he was Nomura respectively from the Rotman School, having held research and development Visiting Professor of International University of Toronto and the Maxwell positions in the food and chemical Financial Systems, at Harvard Law School, Syracuse University. He sectors and currently teaches courses School. He graduated in 1980 from received his PhD from The Fletcher on the global food business and food Harvard Law School, where he served School. Prior to undertaking his doc- public policy. He received his AB as editor in chief of the Harvard toral studies, Uhlmann worked for from Harvard College, MA in biology International Law Journal. His under- more than 25 years at the Canadian from Boston University, PhD from graduate education was at the Imperial Bank of Commerce, primarily Massachusetts Institute of Technology London School of Economics and in Vancouver and Toronto. He has sub- in Food Science & Technology and Columbia College. stantial international risk management MBA from the University of Delaware. expertise, particularly in the areas of He is a Contributing Editor and Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard, country risk and international banking Columnist for Nutrition Today writ- Lecturer in International Business, is an systems. His dissertation, “See How ing the Business & Nutrition column. independent management consultant They Run: Linkages Between National Some of his most recent publications and a Visiting Professor at HHL-the Elections and the Behavior of are Agriculture and the Food Industry’s Leipzig Graduate School of International Banking Flows in Role in America’s Weight Pandemic, Why Management. He has spent more than Developing Countries,” deals with how does My Food Suddenly Cost so Much, thirty years in international business banking funds flow into and out of Supermarkets in the 21st Century, Fast and management consulting. Most emerging market countries around Food through the Ages, Mega-Brands recently, he was a Director at Arthur D. national election dates. His research that Rule Our Diet, Agribusiness – the Little’s offices in Cambridge, Brussels interests include international finance, backbone of our diet for better or for worse, and London and had responsibilities economics and political business cycles, What Goes up Always comes down: The for sales and major-case leadership. especially as these areas relate to
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Faculty Biographies multinational financial services, country served in New York as the president of War on Terror, which has been trans- risk management and international China Institute in America (1995-1997) lated into French, Italian, Japanese, relations. He also has a special interest and was the American Co-Director of and Czech and was selected by Foreign in international Project / Infrastructure the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing Affairs as one of the best books of the Finance and Western Asia, including University Center for Chinese and year about economic, social, and Armenia where he taught in August American Studies in the PRC (1993- environmental issues. His other books 2004. Currently teaches International 1995). He has lived in Nanjing, Taipei include Islamic Finance in the Global Finance and International Project / and Taichung and travels regularly to Economy. He has previously taught at Infrastructure Finance at Bentley Asia. Wachman received an A.B. in the University of California, Berkeley, University, Waltham, MA. He has Fine Arts and an A.M. and a Ph.D. at MIT’s Sloan School of Management taught at Fletcher since 2003. in Government from Harvard and at other universities. He is also University, as well as an MALD a writer for Le Monde diplomatique Peter Uvin is Academic Dean and from The Fletcher School. and a consultant. He holds a B.A. Henry J. Leir Professor of International from Université Saint Joseph in Beirut, Humanitarian Studies at the The Peter Walker is the Irwin H. Lebanon, an M.B.A. from France’s Fletcher School. He has written exten- Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, sively on development, food, NGO Human Security at the Friedman and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political scaling up, and the intersection School of Nutrition and the Director or Science from the University of between human rights, development, the Feinstein International Center, a California, Berkeley. and conflict resolution. His area of research center studying on humanitar- interest is mainly Africa, and especially ian crises, human rights and livelihood Patrick Webb is Dean for Academic Burundi and Rwanda. He has been a analysis of marginalize communities. Affairs and Alexander MacFarlane frequent consultant to bilateral and His research at the center focuses on Professor of Public Policy at the multilateral agencies working in the long term consequence of global- Friedman School of Nutrition Science Africa on these very same issues. ization and climate change for humani- and Policy. He worked for six years in His 1998 book “Aiding Violence: The tarian action. Active in development the United Nations World Food Development Enterprise in Rwanda” and disaster response since 1979, he Programme (WFP), most recently as won the Herskovits Award for the has worked for a number of British- Chief of Nutrition. At WFP he had most outstanding book on Africa. In based NGOs and environmental global responsibilities for emergency 2006-2007, he received the prestigious organizations in several African nutrition interventions (including the Guggenheim Fellowship, which led to countries, as well as having been a Asian tsunami response), oversaw his latest book “Life after Violence. A university lecturer and director of a maternal and child programs in 30 People’s History of Burundi.” He also food wholesaling company. Walker developing countries, and monitored wrote a book on “Development and joined the International Federation of nutrition trends (including in North Human Rights.” Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Korea). He worked on inter-agency in Geneva in 1990 where he was coordination and policy harmonization, Alan M. Wachman, Associate Director of Disaster Policy for 10 years including service on the Hunger Task Professor of International Politics, before moving to Bangkok as Head of Force of the Millennium Project teaches and writes about issues the Federation’s regional programs for reporting to UN Secretary General Kofi arising from China’s foreign relations, Southeast Asia. He has traveled Annan. Earlier, Webb spent 9 years emphasizing links between diplomatic extensively in the Middle East, Africa, with the International Food Policy history and contemporary international Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Research Institute, stationed mostly in security. He is currently completing a Union, and has published widely on Ethiopia, Niger, and The Gambia, book about Mongolia’s national secu- subjects as diverse as the development working with national officials on food rity in the context of emerging rivalries of indigenous knowledge and famine and agriculture policy and humanitarian among great powers in Asia. His other early warning systems, to the role of relief. He has researched many aspects books include Why Taiwan: Geostrategic military forces in disaster relief. Walker of malnutrition, humanitarian practice, Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity was the founder and manager of the and household food security. His and Taiwan: National Identity and World Disasters Report and played a co-authored book on Famine in Africa, Democratization. Wachman writes for key role in initiating and developing sold out of its first edition and went policy and academic journals in the U.S. both the Code of Conduct for disaster into a second run. Other publications and abroad and is on the editorial workers and the Sphere humanitarian include 20 book chapters and 50 board of Asia Policy, China Security, and standards. He is a founding member peer-reviewed journal articles. Patrick Issues and Studies. He has been awarded of the International Humanitarian holds honorar professor status at the grants for research by the Smith Studies Association. University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Richardson Foundation, the Chiang Germany) as designated by the Ching-kuo Foundation, and the East Ibrahim Warde is Adjunct Professor Minister for Education of the State West Center, and was a Fellow in the of International Business. He is of Baden-Wuerrtemburg. Program on Peace, Governance, and Carnegie scholar working on informal Development in East Asia as a guest and underground finance in the Islamic lecturer at institutions in Beijing, Seoul, world. His most recent book is The Price and Tokyo (2008-2009). Wachman of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial
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Lawrence Weiss, Professor of a promising blend of social impact Mott Foundation, the German Marshall International Accounting, research and commercial sustainability, in its Fund of the United States, and the focuses on three themes. The first is the infancy. She started out as a volunteer, Belgian State Secretary for Energy and reorganization of financially distressed a first step that led her to professional Sustainable Development. Professor firms. He is a recognized expert on US employment as a loan officer, MFI Wirth is the author of more than five corporate bankruptcy, and has testified director, investment fund advisor for dozen books, articles, and reports before the US Congress on bankruptcy both non-profit and for-profit micro- on international environmental law reform. The second is how managers finance ventures. She also oversaw and policy for both legal and gather and use information for decision the microfinance portfolio of a large popular audiences. making. The third is the transition from international NGO. Her work in micro- country specific accounting standards finance has led her to service in other Helen Young is a Research Director (Local GAAP) to one set of global stan- sectors critical to rural development at the Feinstein International Center dards (IFRS). He has over 40 publica- such as water, agriculture, and educa- at Tufts University and a Professor tions, has been cited over 500 times and tion. She is a fellow at Fletcher’s Center at the Friedman School of Nutrition won the All Star Paper award from the for Emerging Market Enterprises and Science and Policy. She is Director of Journal of Financial Economics. He is also at the Feinstein International the FIC Darfur Program ‘Livelihoods, the co-author of Corporate Bankruptcy: Center. She graduated from Wellesley Vulnerability and Choice’, which com- Economic and Legal Perspectives (1996) College and Simmons Graduate School bines action research, capacity devel- Professor Weiss earned his BSc, a of Management. She is interested in the opment and institutional change in Diploma in public accounting and financial resilience of households and partnership with local universities, gov- MBA from McGill University and his markets at the base emerging market ernment and civil society groups and a DBA from Harvard Business School. economies. She is the 2009 recipient of wide range of international organiza- Prior teaching appointments include the James L. Paddock teaching award tions. This work has influenced human- Georgetown University, The University at The Fletcher School. itarian, recovery and peace-building of Lausanne, HEC, MIT-Sloan School policies and programs. Her professional of Management and INSEAD. David Wirth, Visiting Professor of career started in 1985 in Sudan, and International Law, holds a primary she continued to work in Africa in Robert Wilkinson is a Lecturer in appointment at Boston College Law public nutrition and food security for International Development, Human School where he is Professor of Law, Oxfam GB, UNHCR, the World Bank, Rights and Conflict Resolution. A teaching courses on environmental FAO and others in Africa. In 2002 she practitioner with 15 years of experience law, administrative, public inter- developed the new Sphere Minimum in some 12 countries in Africa, Asia and national, and foreign relations law. Standards on food security and in 2004 Latin America, he has worked for orga- Previously, he was Senior Attorney she directed a series of cross-university nizations such as the UN Department and Co-director of International field studies in Darfur and Libya, which for Peacekeeping Operations, Oxfam Programs for the Natural Resources laid the foundations for the current and the Department for International Defense Council and Attorney- Tufts Darfur livelihoods program. Development (DFID). From 2006 Advisor for Oceans and International Young is also Co-Editor of the journal to 2008, he ran the DFID Policy and Environmental and Scientific Affairs Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Research Division Cabinet in London, for the U.S. Department of State. A Policy and Management (1998-present) where he was responsible for a $1 graduate of Yale Law School, he holds and is author of a wide range of books billion budget for global develop- undergraduate and graduate degrees and publications. She holds a Ph.D. ment policy and research work. He in chemistry from Princeton and from the Council for National Academy is a member of the UK International Harvard, respectively. Wirth served as Awards, Bournemouth University, UK Advisory Board of conflict and law clerk to Judge William H. Timbers and a B.Sc. from Oxford Polytechnic. security experts for the Center of of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Security Sector Management (CSSM), Circuit. He has been the recipient of a and earned degrees from Stanford Fulbright Scholarship and a National University and the Massachusetts Science Foundation Fellowship. A life Institute of Technology. He has also member of the Council on Foreign earned professional qualifications Relations, Wirth has served on advi- from the University of Geneva (in sory boards to a number of institutions International Human Rights Law and of higher learning, domestic agen- the Law of Armed Conflict), and the cies, and international organizations, Ashridge Business School (in Senior including Vermont Law School, the Organizational Management). Environmental Protection Agency and the European Bank for Reconstruction Kim Wilson, Lecturer in Microfinance and Development. He has been a and Human Security, began her inter- consultant to the United Nations est in microfinance early in her career Development Program, the United as she as a specialist in early stage Nations Environment Program, the financing for franchiseable companies. North American Commission for She entered the microfinance field, Environmental Cooperation, the C.S.
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EMERITUS FACULTY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Eliot Kalter AND VISITING SCHOLARS Senior Fellow, Center for Allan B. Cole Emerging Market Enterprises PhD (University of Chicago), Professor LtCol Rob Bortree, USAF PhD, University of Pennsylvania Emeritus of East Asian Affairs ISSP Fellow MA, Central Michigan State University; Gregory L. Kammerer Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. MS, Naval Post Graduate School; MS, ISSP Fellow MPA (Harvard University); LLD, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies MPA, Kennedy School of Government, Ambassador and Career Minister, Retired, Harvard University Dean Emeritus LTC Dale Buckner, USA MMAS, US Army Command ISSP Fellow & Staff College John R. Galvin MSA, Central Michigan University and MA (Columbia University), Dean Emeritus MBA Touro University Dimitris Keridis Visiting Scholar in Residence H. Field Haviland, Jr. LTC Baucum Fulk, USAR PhD, The Fletcher School PhD (Harvard University), Professor ISSP Fellow Emeritus of International Politics JD, University of Arkansas School of Law Matteo B. Marini Research Professor, Alfred P. Rubin LTC Steve D. Elliott, ARNG Cultural Change Institute BA and LLB (Columbia University); Mlitt ISSP Fellow PhD in agricultural economics and policy, (University of Cambridge), Distinguished JD, University of Oklahoma University of Naples Professor Emeritus of International Law Suneta Halliburton Gerard Meehan Arpad von Lazar Diplomat in Residence, European Union Fellow PhD (University of North Carolina), U.S. Department of State MA, University of Edinburgh Professor Emeritus of International Politics MA, Middlebury College Daniel H. Tulley, USAF LTC Kenneth Hammond, USAR ISSP Fellow ISSP Fellow Master of Aeronautical Science, Embry MA, Webster University Riddle Aeronautical University
Hans P. Hoogeveen Lisa Vickers Visiting Professor of Practice in Natural U.S. State Department Fellow Resource Policy BA, University of the Pacific PhD (ABD), Wageningen University
Thomas Hout Fellow, Center for Emerging Markets and Enterprise MBA, Stanford University
LTC Todd Jacobus,ARNG ISSP Fellow MPA,Drake University
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Accounting/International Anti-Ballistic Balkan States Accounting Missile Treaty (ABM) Eileen Babbitt Lawrence Weiss Michael J. Glennon Antonia Chayes William Martel Hurst Hannum Afghanistan Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Ian Johnstone (UN, EU & NATO) Louis Aucoin Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Hurst Hannum (UN) Arab World Anna Seleny Andrew C. Hess (history and politics) Leila Fawaz Christopher Tunnard Timothy Hoyt Nadim Rouhana Ian Johnstone (peace operations) William A. Rugh Baltic States William Martel Ibrahim Warde Anna Seleny Dyan Mazurana Anna Seleny Arbitration, Banking, International International Commerce Hamza Abdurezak Africa Jeswald W. Salacuse Laurent L. Jacque Hamza Abdurezak Patrick Schena Jenny C. Aker Argentina Joel P. Trachtman Astier Almedom Lawrence Harrison Phil Uhlmann Louis Aucoin Laurent L. Jacque Ibrahim Warde (Islamic banking) Steven Block Michael W. Klein Karen Jacobsen Lawrence Krohn Bankruptcy Ian Johnstone Lawrence Weiss (African Union, peace operations) Armenia Lynellyn D. Long Andrew C. Hess Biological and Chemical (West Africa, SADC, health Phil Uhlmann Weapons and migration) Michael J. Glennon Daniel Maxwell Arms Control and Disarmament Timothy Hoyt Dyan Mazurana Michael J. Glennon Ian Johnstone Kate Sadler (Sub-Saharan) Alan K. Henrikson William Martel Jeswald W. Salacuse Timothy Hoyt William R. Moomaw (Central, North and West Africa) Ian Johnstone Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Julie Schaffner William Martel Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Boundary Disputes Peter Uvin Richard H. Shultz Astier Almedom Peter Walker Eileen Babbitt Patrick Webb Association of Southeast Asian Hurst Hannum Robert Wilkinson Nations (ASEAN) Alan K. Henrikson Helen Young Stephen W. Bosworth Andrew C. Hess Laurent L. Jacque (Thailand) (Southwest and Central Asia) Agricultural and Rural Ian Johnstone John Curtis Perry (Russia and Japan) Development Patrick Schena Jenny C. Aker Brazil Steven Block Balance of Payments Lawrence Harrison Daniel Maxwell Daniel Drezner Laurent L. Jacque Julie Schaffner Michael W. Klein Lawrence Krohn James E. Tillotson Carsten Kowalczyk Deborah Menegotto (agricultural development) Lawrence Krohn Peter Walker Patrick Webb
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Business, International China Conservation Hamza Abdurezak Kelly Sims Gallagher Astier Almedom Jonathan Brookfield Hurst Hannum (human rights) Bruce Everett Carolyn Gideon (telecommunications) Alan K. Henrikson William R. Moomaw Brian Ganson Andrew C. Hess (oil and gas) David Wirth S. Donald Gonson Gary Jefferson Andrew C. Hess (oil and gas) Sung-Yoon Lee Constitutional Development Laurent L. Jacque John Curtis Perry Louis Aucoin Michael W. Klein Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Carsten Kowalczyk Patrick Schena Constitutional Law Lawrence Krohn Anna Seleny (political economy) Louis Aucoin Nathalie Laidler-Kylander Alan M. Wachman Michael J. Glennon William R. Moomaw George Th. Mavrogordatos (industrial processes, natural Communications, International resources, energy & technology) Daniel Drezner Corporate Governance Dan Richards Carolyn Gideon John A. Burgess Jeswald W. Salacuse William A. Rugh S. Donald Gonson Patrick Schena Lynellyn D. Long Bernard Simonin Communism (extractive industries and financing) James E. Tillotson Timothy Hoyt Jeswald Salacuse (food and agribusiness) William Martel Patrick Schena Joel P. Trachtman Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Anna Seleny (transition economies) Christopher Tunnard Patrick Schena G. Richard Thoman Phil Uhlmann Anna Seleny Joel P. Trachtman Ibrahim Warde Richard H. Shultz Lawrence Weiss David Wirth Corporate Social Responsibility Nathalie Laidler-Kylander Business Strategy Complex Emergencies Jonathan Brookfield Ian Johnstone Corporate Strategy Dan Richards Erwan Lagadec Jonathan Brookfield Christopher Tunnard Daniel Maxwell Dan Richards Kate Sadler Canada Peter Walker Corruption/Anti-Corruption Lawrence Harrison Helen Young Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Alan K. Henrikson Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Conflict Analysis Country Analysis Phil Uhlmann and Management Jonathan Brookfield Lawrence Weiss Eileen Babbitt Brian Ganson Cuba Capital Controls (Capital Ian Johnstone John Hammock Account Liberalization) Nadim N. Rouhana Anna Seleny Michael Klein Robert Wilkinson Lawrence Krohn Helen Young Cultural Relations, International Capitalism Conflict Resolution Brian Ganson Jonathan Brookfield (See Negotiation Lawrence Harrison and Conflict Resolution) Alan K. Henrikson Caspian Sea Region Andrew C. Hess Andrew C. Hess Comparative Law Erwan Lagadec Vali Nasr Louis Aucoin John Curtis Perry William A. Rugh Central America Comparative Politics Jeswald W. Salacuse Katrina Burgess Katrina Burgess John Hammock Daniel Drezner Currencies and Foreign Lawrence Harrison Timothy Hoyt Exchange Anna Seleny Erwan Lagadec Laurent L. Jacque Vali Nasr Michael W. Klein Central Asia Anna Seleny Carsten Kowalczyk Andrew C. Hess Patrick Schena Vali Nasr Phil Uhlmann
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Defense and Military Issues Peter Uvin Energy John A. Burgess (conventional forces) Peter Walker Lawrence S. Bacow Michael J. Glennon Patrick Webb Bruce Everett Alan K. Henrikson Robert Wilkinson Kelly Sims Gallagher Andrew C. Hess David Wirth Jonathan Harris (Southwest and Central Asia) Helen Young Andrew C. Hess Timothy Hoyt (pastoralism, conflict, Laurent L. Jacque (financing) Ian Johnstone (organization issues) and development) Lynellyn Long (CSR) Erwan Lagadec William R. Moomaw William Martel Diplomatic History William R. Moomaw Daniel Drezner Environmental Policy, (nuclear, chemical, biological, Leila Fawaz International ecoterrorism) Alan K. Henrikson Astier Almedom Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Andrew C. Hess Lawrence S. Bacow Richard H. Shultz Sung-Yoon Lee Bruce Everett David Wirth (legal aspects) Ayesha Jalal Kelly Sims Gallagher John Curtis Perry Jonathan Harris Democratic Republic Alan M. Wachman William R. Moomaw of the Congo Ann B. Rappaport Louis Aucoin Eastern and Central Europe David Wirth Daniel Maxwell Lynellyn D. Long Helen Young Jeswald Salacuse (migration, trafficking, corporate (Environmental governance Peter Uvin governance) and conflict) Robert Wilkinson Anna Seleny Ethics of International Development, International Econometrics and Statistics Relations Jenny C. Aker Jenny C. Aker John Hammock Astier Almedom Michael W.Klein Alan Wachman Eileen Babbitt Robert Nakosteen (conflict and development) Julie A. Schaffner Ethnic Conflict John A. Burgess Astier Almedom Katrina Burgess Economic and Social Louis Aucoin Steven Block Organizations, International Eileen Babbitt S. Donald Gonson (legal issues) Daniel Drezner Diana Chigas John Hammock John Hammock John Hammock Lawrence Harrison Ian Johnstone Hurst Hannum Andrew C. Hess (oil and gas issues) Michael W. Klein Andrew C. Hess Ian Johnstone Carsten Kowalczyk (Southwest and Central Asia) (development organizations) Jeswald W. Salacuse Timothy Hoyt Carsten Kowalczyk Joel P. Trachtman Karen Jacobsen (trade and investment) Patrick Webb Lynellyn Long Lawrence Krohn George Th. Mavrogordatos Nathalie Laidler-Kylander Economic Organization, Daniel Maxwell Lynellyn D. Long Comparative Dyan Mazurana (migration, private sector, Jonathan Brookfield Vali Nasr reproductive health) Nadim N. Rouhana Daniel Maxwell Economic Relations, Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church William R. Moomaw International Richard H. Shultz (science, technology, environment, Steven Block Peter Uvin sustainable development) Daniel Drezner Patrick Webb Kate Sadler Michael W. Klein Robert Wilkinson Jeswald W. Salacuse Carsten Kowalczyk Helen Young Julie Schaffner Jeswald Salacuse Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Joel P. Trachtman Europe Richard H. Shultz Patrick Webb Louis Aucoin (military issues and revolutions) Michael J. Glennon Anna Seleny Hurst Hannum James E. Tillotson Alan K. Henrikson (food and agribusiness) Carsten Kowalczyk Joel P. Trachtman (legal issues)
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Erwan Lagadec Kelly Sims Gallagher Human Resource Management, George Th. Mavrogordatos (environmental impact) International Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Brian Ganson Bernard Simonin Jeswald Salacuse Michael W. Klein Anna Seleny Carsten Kowalczyk Human Rights Bernard Simonin Joel P. Trachtman Louis Aucoin Patrick Webb David Wirth (legal issues) Eileen Babbitt (conflict) Michael J. Glennon European Union France Hurst Hannum Louis Aucoin Louis Aucoin Ian Johnstone Eileen Babbitt Laurent L. Jacque Sung-Yoon Lee Alan K. Henrikson Erwan Lagadec Lynellyn D. Long Laurent L. Jacque Jeswald Salacuse Daniel Maxwell Ian Johnstone Bernard Simonin Dyan Mazurana Michael W. Klein Nadim N. Rouhana Carsten Kowalczyk Genocide (See War Crimes) Jeswald W. Salacuse Erwan Lagadec Peter Uvin (Development) Lynellyn D. Long Germany Patrick Webb (Humanitarian) (readmission agreements) Louis Aucoin Robert Wilkinson Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. David Wirth Jeswald W. Salacuse Anna Seleny Helen Young Anna Seleny Joel P. Trachtman Global Capital Markets Humanitarian Action David Wirth Hamza Abdurezak Astier Almedom (accountability) Michael W. Klein John Hammock Finance, International Patrick Schena Karen Jacobsen and Foreign Aid Phil Uhlmann Ian Johnstone Hamza Abdurezak Daniel Maxwell Steven Block Globalization and Global Dyan Mazurana Laurent L. Jacque Governance Kate Sadler Michael W. Klein Astier Almedom Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Carsten Kowalczyk Daniel Drezner (conflict driven) Daniel Maxwell Ian Johnstone Peter Uvin Jeswald W. Salacuse Carsten Kowalczyk Peter Walker Patrick Schena Dyan Mazurana Patrick Webb Joel P. Trachtman Joel P. Trachtman Robert Wilkinson Phil Uhlmann Peter Walker Helen Young Peter Uvin Patrick Webb Patrick Webb David Wirth Immigration, Migration, Kim Wilson Refugees Greece Astier Almedom Finance, International George Th. Mavrogordatos Eileen Babbitt (Conflict-related) Corporate and Financial Katrina Burgess Markets Gross Domestic John Hammock Hamza Abdurezak Product (GDP) Hurst Hannum John A. Burgess Michael W. Klein Lawrence Harrison Laurent L. Jacque Lawrence Krohn Karen Jacobsen Carsten Kowalczyk Carsten Kowalczyk Lynellyn D. Long Michael W. Klein Daniel Maxwell Jeswald W. Salacuse Dyan Mazurana Haiti Patrick Schena Nadim N. Rouhana Louis Aucoin G. Richard Thoman Joel P. Trachtman Lawrence Harrison Joel P. Trachtman Patrick Webb Ian Johnstone (UN) Phil Uhlmann Helen Young Patrick Webb
Financial Crime and Money India Homeland Security Laundering Timothy Hoyt Michael J. Glennon (constitutional) Ibrahim Warde Ayesha Jalal William Martel Patrick Webb Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Kim Wilson Foreign Direct Investment (military/defense) Hamza Abdurezak Richard H. Shultz (military/defense) Daniel Drezner David Wirth (legal issues)
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Faculty Specialty
Industrial Organization Alan K. Henrikson Korea Deborah Menegotto Karen Jacobsen Stephen W. Bosworth Ian Johnstone Sung-Yoon Lee Information and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander John Curtis Perry Communication Technology Daniel Maxwell (foreign policy, North and South) Daniel Drezner Jeswald W. Salacuse Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Carolyn Gideon Kate Sadler (defense issues) William Martel Robert J. Thomas Patrick Schena Christopher Tunnard Joel P. Trachtman Patrick Webb (DPRK) Peter Uvin Intelligence, Covert Action, Peter Walker Labor Migration and Trafficking National Security Patrick Webb Lynellyn D. Long Michael Glennon Robert Wilkinson William Martel Helen Young Laos Richard H. Shultz Lynellyn D. Long Investment Management (Hmong and other minorities) International Court & Hedge Funds Jeswald W. Salacuse of Justice (ICJ) Hamza Abdurezak Robert Wilkinson Louis Aucoin Michael J. Glennon Iran and Iraq Latin America and Hurst Hannum Louis Aucoin the Caribbean Ian Johnstone Michael J. Glennon Katrina Burgess Jeswald W. Salacuse Andrew C. Hess John Hammock Joel P. Trachtman Timothy Hoyt Lawrence Harrison David Wirth Ian Johnstone (UN) Alan K. Henrikson William Martel Lawrence Krohn International Courts, Tribunals, Vali Nasr Julie Schaffner and Arbitration Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Anna Seleny Louis Aucoin (security issues) Eileen F. Babbitt (conflict resolution) William A. Rugh Law, Commercial Michael J. Glennon Jeswald W. Salacuse S. Donald Gonson Hurst Hannum Jeswald W. Salacuse Ian Johnstone Islamic Civilization Joel P. Trachtman Dyan Mazurana Leila Fawaz Jeswald W. Salacuse Andrew C. Hess Law, Constitutional Joel P. Trachtman Ayesha Jalal Louis Aucoin David Wirth Vali Nasr Michael J. Glennon Nadim N. Rouhana Hurst Hannum International Jeswald W. Salacuse (legal aspects) Joel P. Trachtman Criminal Court Ibrahim Warde Michael J. Glennon Law, International Ian Johnstone Italy Brian Ganson Hurst Hannum Louis Aucoin Michael J. Glennon Dyan Mazurana Jeswald Salacuse S. Donald Gonson Hurst Hannum (public) International Japan Ian Johnstone (public) Investment Law Alan K. Henrikson (foreign policy) Jeswald W. Salacuse Jeswald Salacuse Laurent L. Jacque Joel P. Trachtman Joel Trachtman (finance and banking) Sung-Yoon Lee Leadership International Monetary Fund John Curtis Perry Robert J. Thomas (IMF) Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Daniel Drezner (defense issues) Lebanon Laurent Jacque Patrick Schena Leila Fawaz Michael W. Klein Bernard Simonin (marketing) Ibrahim Warde Jeswald Salacuse Toshi Yoshihara
International Organizations Knowledge Management Astier Almedom Daniel Maxwell Eileen Babbitt Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Daniel Drezner (as it relates to evaluation) Michael J. Glennon Bernard Simonin Hurst Hannum
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Faculty Specialty
Marketing (Agricultural) Mongolia William R. Moomaw Jenny C. Aker Alan Wachman (energy and technology) Steven Block Julie Schaffner Kim Wilson NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Non-Governmental Maritime History Katrina Burgess Organizations (NGOs) and Affairs Alan K. Henrikson Jenny C. Aker Timothy Hoyt Michael W. Klein Astier Almedom John Curtis Perry Carsten Kowalczyk Eileen Babbitt (conflict Resolution) Joel Trachtman Katrina Burgess Media and International David Wirth (environmental issues) Daniel Drezner Relations John Hammock Daniel Drezner Nation-Building Hurst Hannum (human rights) Carolyn Gideon Astier Almedom Karen Jacobsen Alan K. Henrikson Louis Aucoin (constitution-making) Nathalie Laidler-Kylander William Martel Eileen F. Babbitt George Th. Mavrogordatos William A. Rugh Antonia Chayes Daniel Maxwell Richard H. Shultz Diana Chigas Dyan Mazurana (military and the media) Andrew C. Hess William R. Moomaw Ian Johnstone Nadim N. Rouhana Mexico Vali Nasr Kate Sadler Katrina Burgess Nadim N. Rouhana Julie Schaffner Lawrence Harrison Peter Uvin Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Lawrence Krohn Peter Uvin NATO and Alliance Relations Peter Walker Microeconomics Michael J. Glennon Robert Wilkinson Deborah Menegotto Alan K. Henrikson Kim Wilson Erwan Lagadec David Wirth Microfinance and William Martel Helen Young Inclusive Business Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Jenny C. Aker Richard H. Shultz North Pacific Katrina Burgess Jonathan Brookfield (business groups) John Hammock Negotiation and Sung-Yoon Lee Karen Jacobsen Conflict Resolution John Curtis Perry Carsten Kowalczyk Astier Almedom Patrick Schena Jeswald Salacuse (land and water resource issues) Alan M. Wachman Julie Schaffner Eileen Babbitt Patrick Webb Antonia Chayes Nuclear Strategy and Missile Kim Wilson Diana Chigas Defense Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Antonia Chayes Middle East Kelly Sims Gallagher (Environment) Michael J. Glennon Eileen Babbitt Brian Ganson Timothy Hoyt Bruce Everett Hurst Hannum William Martel Leila Fawaz Alan K. Henrikson Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Hurst Hannum (legal issues) William Martel Richard H. Shultz Andrew C. Hess William R. Moomaw Toshi Yoshihara Timothy Hoyt (environmental and resource issues) Ayesha Jalal Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Nuclear Power Vali Nasr (crisis management) Bruce Everett Nadim N. Rouhana Nadim N. Rouhana William R. Moomaw William A. Rugh Jeswald W. Salacuse Jeswald W. Salacuse Peter Uvin (development) Nuclear Weapons Ibrahim Warde Robert Wilkinson Antonia Chayes David Wirth Michael J. Glennon Minorities Helen Young (natural resource conflict) Timothy Hoyt Eileen Babbitt Ian Johnstone Hurst Hannum Newly Industrialized Economies William Martel Lawrence Harrison Katrina Burgess William R. Moomaw (bio-terrorism, Dyan Mazurana Brian Ganson scientific aspects) Nadim N. Rouhana Carsten Kowalczyk Robert. L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
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Nutrition and Health Daniel Maxwell Russia and the Former Astier Almedom Dyan Mazurana Soviet Union Steven Block Dan Richards Andrew C. Hess (Central Asia) Lynellyn D. Long Anna Seleny William Martel (reproductive health, health financing) Joel P. Trachtman John Curtis Perry Daniel Maxwell Ibrahim Warde (Russia and the Russian Far East) Kate Sadler Patrick Webb Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Julie Schaffner Anna Seleny James E. Tillotson Pollution (Air, Water, etc) Richard H. Shultz Patrick Webb Astier Almedom David Wirth Helen Young Bruce Everett Kelly Sims Gallagher Rwanda Oceanic Affairs Jonathan Harris Louis Aucoin William R. Moomaw William R. Moomaw Eileen F. Babbitt John C. Perry David Wirth Daniel Maxwell David Wirth Peter Uvin Program Evaluation Robert Wilkinson Oil (See Energy) Jenny C. Aker Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Saudi Arabia OPEC (See Energy) Kim Wilson Andrew C. Hess Vali Nasr Pakistan Project Finance and Analysis, William A. Rugh Andrew C. Hess International Ibrahim Warde Timothy Hoyt Lawrence Harrison Ayesha Jalal Laurent L. Jacque Security and Defense, Vali Nasr Patrick Schena International Joel P. Trachtman Michael J. Glennon Peace-keeping Phil Uhlmann Hurst Hannum Louis Aucoin Alan K. Henrikson Eileen Babbitt Public Diplomacy Andrew C. Hess Hurst Hannum (See Media and International Timothy Hoyt Ian Johnstone Relations) Ian Johnstone Dyan Mazurana Erwan Lagadec Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Public Health and Disaster Sung-Yoon Lee Robert Wilkinson Relief William Martel Astier Almedom Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Persian Gulf Patrick Webb Richard H. Shultz Andrew C. Hess Helen Young (Public Nutrition) Alan M. Wachman (East Asia) Timothy Hoyt Toshi Yoshihara Vali Nasr Public Opinion (See Media and Jeswald W. Salacuse International Relations) Self-Determination Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Public Policy Analysis Astier Almedom William A. Rugh Daniel Drezner (colonialism vs. indigenous Richard H. Shultz Kelly Sims Gallagher historical narratives) Ibrahim Warde Carolyn Gideon Eileen Babbitt (conflict) William Martel Hurst Hannum Peru Julie Schaffner Sierra Leone Lawrence Krohn Patrick Webb Ian Johnstone (peace operations) Dyan Mazurana Philippines Religion and Politics Stephen W. Bosworth Leila Fawaz Social Capital and Health, (history and politics) Ayesha Jalal International George Th. Mavrogordatos Astier Almedom Political Economy, Vali Nasr International Ibrahim Warde South Asia Katrina Burgess Andrew C. Hess Daniel Drezner Resilience, International Timothy Hoyt Michael W. Klein Astier Almedom Ayesha Jalal Carsten Kowalczyk Vali Nasr Lawrence Krohn Ibrahim Warde Lynellyn D. Long Patrick Webb Kim Wilson
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Faculty Specialty
Southeast Asia Trade, International US Department of State Stephen W. Bosworth (Philippines) Daniel Drezner Stephen W. Bosworth Laurent L. Jacque S. Donald Gonson Michael J. Glennon (finance and banking) Laurent L. Jacque Alan K. Henrikson Vali Nasr (Islam) Michael Klein William A. Rugh Patrick Schena Carsten Kowalczyk David Wirth Bernard Simonin (marketing) William R. Moomaw (trade and environment) US Foreign Economic Policy Southeastern Europe Jeswald W. Salacuse Daniel Drezner Lynellyn Long James E. Tillotson Michael Klein George Th. Mavrogordatos (Greece) (food and agribusiness) Joel P. Trachtman Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Joel P. Trachtman Anna Seleny David Wirth US Presidency (trade and the environment) Michael J. Glennon Sudan Alan K. Henrikson Karen Jacobsen Transitional Studies Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Ian Johnstone (peace operations) Louis Aucoin David Wirth Helen Young Eileen Babbitt Venezuela Sustainable Development Treaty Compliance Bruce Everett Jenny C. Aker Antonia Chayes Lawrence Krohn Astier Almedom (Social-ecological resilience) Turkey Vietnam Steven Block Lawrence Harrison Alan K. Henrikson Bruce Everett Andrew C. Hess Laurent L. Jacque Kelly Sims Gallagher (finance and banking) Jonathan Harris United Kingdom Lynellyn D. Long Daniel Maxwell Astier Almedom (public health) (health, migration, privatization) William Moomaw Alan K. Henrikson Patrick Schena Patrick Webb Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Richard H. Shultz (Vietnam War) Kim Wilson Jeswald Salacuse Patrick Webb (current development) David Wirth Patrick Webb Helen Young War Crimes Taiwan Eileen F. Babbitt Jonathan Brookfield United Nations Michael J. Glennon Patrick Schena Astier Almedom Hurst Hannum Alan M. Wachman (IFAD/FAO, UNICEF, WHO) Ian Johnstone Toshi Yoshihara Eileen Babbitt Daniel Maxwell Michael J. Glennon Dyan Mazurana Technology Policy/Transfer Hurst Hannum Nadim N. Rouhana Daniel Drezner Alan K. Henrikson Peter Uvin (Burundi, Rwanda) Kelly Sims Gallagher Ian Johnstone David Wirth Carolyn Gideon Daniel Maxwell Andrew C. Hess Dyan Mazurana World Court William Martel William R. Moomaw Michael J. Glennon William R. Moomaw (FAO, UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, WHO) Hurst Hannum Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Jeswald W. Salacuse Ian Johnstone Bernard Simonin Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Jeswald W. Salacuse Christopher Tunnard Patrick Webb Joel P. Trachtman (IFAD, FAO, UNDP, WFP, David Wirth Terrorism WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, Michael J. Glennon UN/HQ, UN/SCN, UNU) World Trade Hurst Hannum (international law) Robert Wilkinson Organization (WTO) Andrew C. Hess (Middle East) David Wirth Daniel Drezner Timothy Hoyt Helen Young Carsten Kowalczyk William Martel William R. Moomaw William R. Moomaw (environmental) US Constitutional History (environmental issues) Vali Nasr (Middle East) Michael J. Glennon Joel P. Trachtman Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. George Th. Mavrogordatos David Wirth (homeland security) (environmental and science issues) Richard H. Shultz (guerrilla insurgency and low-intensity conflict) Ibrahim Warde (financial aspects)
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Academic Calendar
a c a d e m i c c a l e n d a r
FALL 2009 SEMESTER
AUGUST DECEMBER 31 Monday Mandatory orientation week activities begin 11 Fri Last day of classes for the Fall 2009 semester 14 Mon Reading Day SEPTEMBER 15 Tue Reading Day 4 Fri Equivalency exams administered in morning 16 Wed Final examinations begin for E201, B205 and E210m 22 Tue Final Examinations End 7 Mon Labor Day—University Holiday 8 Tue • Registration for returning students • “Shopping Day” for all seminar courses, new courses, and courses taught by new and adjunct faculty members 9 Wed • Classes Begin • First day for cross-registration for non-Fletcher students 18 Fri • On-line course enrollment ends • Convocation
•Last day for cross-registration for non-Fletcher students
OCTOBER 3 Sat First Written Language Exam 9 Fri • Last day of the drop period • Deadline for completion of all November 2009 degree requirements 12 Mon Columbus Day Observed – University Holiday— No Classes—NYC Career Trip 26 Mon 1st Half of the Term Ends 27 Tues 2nd Half of Term Begins
NOVEMBER 11 Tue Veteran’s Day Observed — University Holiday—Classes are held 13 Fri NYC Career Trip—No classes 25 Wed Thanksgiving recess begins at the end of classes 30 Mon Thanksgiving recess ends. Classes resume
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SPRING 2010 SEMESTER MAY 3 Mon Reading Day JANUARY 4 Tue Reading Day 8 Fri Deadline for completion of all February 2010 5 Wed Final Examinations Begin degree requirements 11 Tue Final Examinations End 13-15 W/Th/F Orientation for incoming January students 23 Sun Commencement 15 Fri Equivalency exams administered in the morning for E201, B205, and E210m 18 Mon Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebrated— University holiday—NO CLASSES 19 Tue “Shopping Day” for all seminar courses, new courses, and courses taught by new and adjunct faculty members 20 Wed • Classes Begin • First day for cross-registration for non- Fletcher students 29 Fri • On-line course enrollment ends • Last day for cross-registration for non- Fletcher students
FEBRUARY 15 Mon President’s Day—University Holiday— NO CLASSES 16 Tue Last day of the Drop period 19 Fri Second Written Language Examination 25 Thur Washington DC career trip—NO CLASSES 26 Friday Washington DC career trip—NO CLASSES
MARCH 9 Tue 1st Half of the Term Ends 10 Wed 2nd Half of Term Begins 19 Fri Spring break begins at the end of classes 29 Mon Spring break ends. Classes resume
APRIL 3 Sat Third and Final Written Language Examination 19 Mon Patriot’s Day—University holiday— Classes are held 23 Fri Last day for submission of Ph.D. dissertation (deposit copies) to the Director of PhD Student Services for May 2010 degrees 30 Fri • Last day of classes for the Spring 2010 term • Other than Spring 2010 grades, DEADLINE for completion of All Degree Requirements
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