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Expert scholars, dynamic research institutes and a commitment to creating and sharing 

knowledge combine to make the Elliott School a leading institution for the analysis of 

important global issues. Drawing on individual and collaborative research, our faculty 

develops innovative analyses that sharpen international affairs debates. Our research 

institutes facilitate this work, bringing together leading thinkers from academic and policy 

communities. These intellectual centers contribute vital knowledge on issues ranging from 

the dynamics of major world regions to international economic policy and international 

security problems. Complex questions demand smart answers. Our scholars provide them.

conDucting reseArch 

on gloBAl issues 

research creaTes KnoWledGe 

In 2006-2007, our faculty members published 

hundreds of books, scholarly articles and policy 

essays related to international affairs. hossein 

askari published Middle East Oil Exporters: What 

Happened to Economic Development? (Edward 

Elgar). Jennifer Brinkerhoff co-edited Converting 

Migration Drains into Gains: Harnessing the Resources 

of Overseas Professionals (Asian Development 

Bank). amitai etzioni published Security First: For a 

Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy (Yale). James lebovic 

published Deterring International Terrorism and 

Rogue States: U.S. National Security Policy After 9/11 

(Routledge). steven livingston co-authored When 

the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media 

from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago). Kristin lord published 

The Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why 

the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security, 

Democracy, or Peace (SUNY). Walter reich coauthored 

State of the Struggle: Report on the Battle 

against Global Terrorism (Council on Global Terrorism 

and Brookings Institution). 

12 AnnuAl report 2006-2007 

Faculty members received numerous honors in 

2006-2007. James Goldgeier held the Henry 

Kissinger chair at the U.S. Library of Congress and 

then resided as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson 

Center. henry hale won the American Political 

Science Association’s 2007 Leon Epstein Prize. 

dina Khoury received a Guggenheim award for 

her research on Iraq. George moose received a 

fellowship from Harvard’s Institute of Politics. holger 

schmidt was awarded a grant by the Sweden-based 

Folke Bernadotte Academy for a project on United 

Nations conflict management. ronald spector was a 

Fulbright visiting professor at the National University 

of Singapore. emmanuel Teitelbaum won the 2007 

American Political Science Association’s Gabriel A. 

Almond Award for the best doctoral dissertation in 

the field of comparative politics. 

With support from GW’s board of trustees, the Elliott 

School created a new research and policy program on 

diaspora communities; hosted major conferences on 

topics such as microfinance, deterring rogue states, 

and Islamic political movements; and launched an 

event series on the future of democracy. 

michael moore dina Khoury James Goldgeier amb. david shinn

analYsis informs PolicY 

Our faculty’s policy analyses inform policymaking 

and decision making. nathan Brown published 

“Living with Palestinian Democracy” in Carnegie 

Policy Brief and “Palestine: Hamas in Power” in Arab 

Reform Bulletin. cynthia mcclintock and James 

lebovic published an article on democracy in Latin 

American Politics and Society. amb. John miller 

published “Does ‘Freedom’ Mean Freedom from 

Slavery?” in the National Review. michael moore 

published an analysis of U.S. anti-dumping decisions 

in the European Journal of Political Economy. marie 

Price and Lisa Benton-Short co-authored “Counting 

Immigrants in Cities across the Globe” in Migration 

Information Source. 

Elliott School faculty exchanged insights and 

expertise through conferences, seminars and 

workshops. harry harding served on a Council 

on Foreign Relations task force that produced the 

report “U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, 

A Responsible Course.” John logsdon spoke about 

miriam Bates, who received an MA in European and Eurasian studies in 

2007, won the Elliott School’s John henry cowles Prize, which recognizes 

the student with the best overall scholastic achievement and leadership 

potential. Bates now works at the Department of Defense, where she focuses 

on European affairs. 

international cooperation in space exploration at 

the International Astronautical Congress in Valencia, 

Spain. Jerrold Post gave presentations at the National 

Defense University. amb. david shinn testified before 

the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs. 

our research looKs forWard 

The Elliott School will continue to promote 

international affairs research by: 

Launching two new research centers, the Institute 

for International Economic Policy and the Institute 

for Middle East Studies, in fall 2007 

Preparing to launch a new Institute for Security 

and Conflict Studies in 2008-2009 

Seeking named endowments for our 

research institutes 

Pursuing funding to expand support for 

faculty research, scholarly collaboration 

and visiting scholars 

James lebovic cynthia mcclintock ronald spector henry hale 

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center for internAtionAl science 

AnD technology policy 

The Center for International Science and Technology 

Policy (CISTP) examines the impact of science and 

technology on international affairs. CISTP conducts 

research and policy analysis on comparative science 

and technology policies; technology and industry; 

the role of information technology in international 

politics; national research and development 

programs; and space policy. 

science and TechnoloGY shaPe 

our fuTure 

Research by CISTP faculty examined key issues 

involving science and technology policy. henry 

farrell published “Regulating Information Flows: 

States, Private Actors and E-Commerce” in the 

Annual Review of Political Science, and wrote blog 

posts on the impact of communication technologies 

on politics. david Grier published a monthly 

column in Computer magazine and served as 

editor-in-chief of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical 

and Electronics Engineers) Annals of the History of 

Computing. henry hertzfeld published “The Case 

John logsdon, director of the space Policy institute, received 

the Barry m. Goldwater space educator award of the American 

Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 

Professor logsdon (center) served as a member of the NASA 

Advisory Council, the space agency’s top advisory group, and is 

featured with fellow NASA Advisory Council members Apollo 11 

astronaut neil armstrong (right) and Apollo 17 astronaut and 

former senator harrison (Jack) schmitt. 


for Multinational Private Sector Cooperation in 

Developing New Launch Vehicle Technology” in 

Space Policy. CISTP Director nicholas Vonortas 

co-edited Knowledge Flows in European Industry 

(Routledge). ray Williamson published “The Moon 

is a Land without Sovereignty: Will it be a Business- 

Friendly Environment?” in the U.S. Air Force’s High 

Frontier Journal. Space Policy Institute Director 

John logsdon co-edited Collective Security in Space: 

European Perspectives (Space Policy Institute, 2007). 

The space Policy institute also convened the first 

multilateral conference in the Asia-Pacific region 

on “collective security in space” and will publish 

conference papers in a forthcoming book. 

CISTP encouraged the professional development 

of the next generation of science and technology 

policy leaders. In March 2007, the seventh annual 

Graduate student conference, which CISTP hosted 

with George Mason University, Virginia Tech and 

Arizona State University, welcomed 90 students from 

around the world to exchange ideas.

cisTP analYsis shaPes PolicY 

CISTP faculty evaluated the research and 

development programs of government agencies 

in the United States and abroad. Clients included 

Greece’s ministry of development, nasa, the 

national institutes of standards and Technology 

and the u.s. department of energy and programs 

in the european union, Japan and Korea. nicholas 

Vonortas also co-authored a report for the European 

Union on entrepreneurship, innovation and the 

information society. 

Elliott School students produced incisive policy 

analyses of their own. A report on the opportunities 

and challenges of “Near Earth Objects” was used 

by a blue-ribbon group drafting an international 

agreement for the United Nations Committee on the 

Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. 

Space policy students had 

the opportunity to meet 

with NASA Administrator 

michael Griffin, the American 

Museum of Natural History’s 

Hayden Planetarium Director 

neil deGrasse Tyson, 

Apollo 9 astronaut rusty 

schweikardt, National 

Security Council Director for 

Space Policy Phil ritcheson 

and others. 

CISTP MA student audrey schaffer (MA’07, second from 

right), a Boeing award winner, with colleagues at NASA. 

cisTP encouraGes dialoGue amonG 

scholars and The PuBlic 

CISTP advanced understanding of science and 

technology policy among experts and the general 

public. CISTP hosted workshops for the Korea 

science and engineering foundation and Korean 

institute for science and Technology evaluation 

and Planning. 

CISTP launched a seminar series on the Politics and 

Policy of information and continued to host the 

Technology and innovation seminar. Other seminar 

topics included “Do Visas Kill? The Development 

Effects of Skilled-Worker Emigration from Africa” 

and “The Puzzling Politics of Entrepreneurial State 

Economic Development Policy.” 

Visiting scholars from Brazil, china, hungary, Korea, 

mexico, norway, sweden and the united Kingdom 

and officers from the U.S. Department of State and 

U.S. Air Force worked at the center. 

The space Policy institute has been a leading voice in the international space community since 

1987. The Boeing Company has supported the institute since its earliest days. Boeing’s support has 

funded a range of activities, such as research, dinner discussions for the Washington space policy 

community, workshops and conferences. Over the past two years, Boeing has donated $40,000 for 

student scholarships. audrey schaffer, a Boeing fellow who earned her MA in international science and 

technology policy this spring, interned at NASA’s Exploration Systems Missions Directorate, and upon 

graduation was accepted as a Presidential Management Fellow. 

“We’re happy to have played a role in supporting training for exceptional students 

interested in pursuing careers in space policy and management. We know 

that the Space Policy Institute provides a unique educational experience.” 

— roger Krone, president of Boeing Network and Space Systems 

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Numerous organizations 

funded CISTP’s research, 

including: the Greek 

ministry of development, 

u.s. office of naval 

research, the macarthur 

foundation, nasa, 

the national oceanic 

and atmospheric 

administration and the 

rockefeller foundation. 

The Space Policy Institute 

received support for its 

activities from Boeing, 

lockheed martin, The 

aerospace corporation 

and the united space 

alliance.

James millar and the millar family fund 

institute for europeAn, 

russiAn AnD eurAsiAn stuDies 

The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian 

Studies (IERES) sponsors innovative undergraduate 

and graduate teaching programs, research and collaboration 

with the global academic and policy communities. 

Twenty full-time faculty members, visiting 

scholars, student fellows and research assistants 

study the history, politics, economies, societies and 

cultures of this diverse, dynamic region. 

scholars analYZe a reGion 

in TransiTion 

IERES faculty members published research that 

advanced understanding of Europe, Eurasia and 

Russia. henry hale contributed a chapter on the 

political, economic and social dynamics of postcommunist 

transition in Patrons, Clients, and Policies 

(Cambridge). elliot Posner published “Sources of 

Institutional Change: The Supranational Origins 

of Europe’s New Stock Markets” in World Politics. 

James millar published a chapter on “Putin and the 

Economy” in Putin’s Russia (Rowman and Littlefield). 

The Millar Family Fund was established in April 2007 to honor professor 

James Millar and his two children Leo Schaeg Millar and Mira Millar 

Brownfield. Mira graduated from GW’s School of Education and Human 

Development in 1998. Tragically, Leo was killed in an automobile accident 

the day before his graduation from Oberlin College in 1988. The fund will 

support research by faculty and students associated with IERES. 

“The Millar family chose to create a program that would honor 

Jim Millar’s commitment to academic research. We hope that 

the Millar Family Fund will continue Jim’s important legacy 

of encouraging research by faculty and students.” 

— Gera millar and mira millar Brownfield 

James millar (center) with dean Brown and hope harrison 


sharon Wolchik co-wrote “Favorable Conditions and 

Electoral Revolutions” in the Journal of Democracy. 

IERES also supported student research. IERES and 

The George Washington Cold War group (GWCW) 

hosted the annual international Graduate student 

conference on the cold War. Nineteen Ph.D. 

students, selected from a pool of 75 applicants, 

presented papers. The conference received generous 

support from the henry luce foundation. 

Our faculty earned recognition from numerous 

organizations. daina eglitis won a Fulbright grant 

to lecture on comparative sociology at Riga Stradins 

University in Latvia. henry hale won a Fulbright grant 

to conduct research on Russia’s presidential election in 

Moscow. James hershberg continued to serve on the 

editorial board of the Cold War International History 

Project Bulletin and to edit the Cold War International 

History Project Book Series. James millar won the 

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic 

Studies’ Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies 

Award in 2006 for his lifelong dedication to the study 

of Soviet and Russian economics.

ieres faculTY eValuaTes PolicY 

ToWard euroPe, russia and eurasia 

IERES faculty members contributed to current 

policy debates. James Goldgeier co-authored 

“Global NATO” in Foreign Affairs with Ivo Daalder. 

Taras Kuzio published op-eds on Ukraine in The 

Washington Post, The Washington Times, UPI, The 

Ukraine Observer and the Kyiv Post. Kristine offerdal 

published opinion essays in Images of Russia: New 

Op-ed Articles on Neighbors in the North (Fridtjof 

Nansen Institute, Norway). 

IERES experts provided informed and intelligent 

commentary. National Public Radio, Radio Sweden 

and Vatican Radio interviewed harvey feigenbaum 

on U.S.-French relations and the French elections. 

James Goldgeier was interviewed by BBC, Fox News, 

Al-Jazeera English and Reuters on Russian politics. 

hope harrison, director of IERES, appeared on CNN’s 

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to discuss 

Russia’s growing power as an energy provider. James 

millar discussed Russia on CNN International. 

Joanna Brucker, an IERES student fellow, won the hart award for George 

Washington University’s best undergraduate thesis in anthropology. Brucker’s 

research drew from her experience living in Athens and interning at a local 

refugee rights NGO. She is featured here on a trip to Ireland’s Ring of Kerry. 

ieres adVances KnoWledGe 

and eXPands deBaTe 

IERES hosted more than 60 events and 

conferences including a new lecture series on EU 

Challenges Ahead, with John Bruton, European 

Union ambassador to the United States, and a 

conference co-hosted with the state department 

on “Transforming the Cold War: The United States 

and China, 1969-80,” at which IERES released 

an electronic briefing book of newly declassified 

documents. 

The William and helen Petrach endowment 

provided support for the study of Ukraine and 

IERES residency for Yuriy fedun and Khrystyna 

Pavlyk, both from Ivan Franko National University. 

The norway-america association supported the 

annual amb. robert d. stuart fellowship for 

a visiting scholor from Norway. eva Kvelland, a 

student at University of Oslo, studied at the Elliott 

School and interned on Capitol Hill. 

a. michael hoffman, a member of the Elliott School’s International Council and the son of a former 

IERES fellow, funded two $7,500 dissertation fellowships, which were awarded to Ph.D. students 

nancy meyers (political science) and Varad mehta (history). He also generously supports faculty 

and student research. 

“While not a graduate of GW, I am committed to supporting IERES, which is making great strides 

toward becoming one of the leading centers for the study of international affairs in the U.S.” 

— a. michael hoffman 


IERES won a $50,000, twoyear 

grant from the andrew 

mellon foundation to fund its 

fifth annual summer institute 

on conducting archival 

research (SICAR). The fiveday 

course for Ph.D. students 

received 99 applications for 

20 spots and offered advanced 

research training.

institute for gloBAl AnD 

internAtionAl stuDies 

The Institute for Global and International Studies 

(IGIS) promotes intellectual exchange and 

collaborative research across academic disciplines. 

In particular, IGIS supports research that addresses 

contemporary world challenges such as global 

governance, international law and organizations, 

trade regimes, international development and 

international security. 

iGis scholarshiP confronTs 

GloBal challenGes 

IGIS faculty members published their research 

in numerous books and journals. deborah avant 

published a chapter on “Political Institutions 

and Military Effectiveness: Contemporary United 

States and United Kingdom” in Creating Military 

Power (Stanford). martha finnemore published 

a chapter in International Law and International 

Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice (Routledge). 

henry nau published a chapter on “The Political 


Reasons for Global Economic Imbalances” in 

Sharing the Economic Burden of World Order (Stiftung 

Wissenschaft und Politik). susan sell published 

an article on intellectual property rights and access 

to medicine in the Liverpool Law Journal and 

“Intellectual Property and the Doha Development 

Agenda” in Global Social Policy. 

Building on an IGIS workshop, faculty members 

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, stephen smith and 

hildy Teegen co-edited NGOs and the Millennium 

Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty 

(Palgrave Macmillan). martha finnemore contributed 

a chapter on “The Politics of Global Partnership.” 

iGis enGaGes leadinG scholars 

IGIS hosted 12 research seminars featuring leading 

experts on a diverse range of topics including 

international organizations, counterinsurgency 

strategies, global diaspora communities, Iraqi police 

Jennifer Brinkerhoff susan sell stephen smith Gina lambright

training and welfare policy in developing countries. 

IGIS co-hosted a book launch for Governance in 

Post-Conflict Societies: Rebuilding Fragile States 

(Routledge) by GW professor derick Brinkerhoff. 

As part of the future of democracy initiative, IGIS 

hosted two conferences—one on corruption and 

democracy, and another on hybrid regimes that 

combine democratic and authoritarian elements. 

Both conferences highlighted the expertise of Elliott 

School faculty members such as deborah avant, 

nathan Brown, henry hale, Gina lambright and 

cynthia mcclintock, who shared their expertise with 

scholars from Georgetown, Harvard, University of 

British Colombia and Yale. 

In 2006-2007, IGIS also hosted visiting scholars 

from Boston, Copenhagen and Madrid. 

research and PolicY ProGrams 

robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson professor at Columbia University, 

gave the keynote speech at an IGIS conference titled “Deterring 

Rogue States: Do the Old Rules Apply?” 

iGis shares iTs eXPerTise 

IGIS faculty members discussed their research with 

national and global audiences. Jennifer Brinkerhoff 

and liesl riddle participated in a UN expert meeting 

on the role of diasporas in strengthening business 

and entrepreneurship in developing countries. henry 

farrell served as an affiliated researcher at the Max 

Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. 

henry nau lectured on “Sharing the Economic 

Burden of World Order” at the German Marshall Fund 

of the United States. Walter reich was reappointed 

as a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. 

susan sell presented her work on intellectual 

property protection and access to medicine at a 

University of California Law School colloquium on 

globalization and law. stephen smith presented 

“The Millennium Development Goals and the Struggle 

Against Poverty Traps” at a United Nations Economic 

and Social Council meeting on eradicating poverty 

and hunger. 

IGIS is home to two research and policy programs. culture in Global affairs (ciGa), founded in 2003, promotes scholarly 

research and sponsors policy dialogues. In 2006-2007, CIGA faculty served as expert consultants for the World Bank, USAID, and 

other organizations; published 10 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters; and delivered many presentations at national and 

international conferences. The ciGa seminar series sponsored six public talks: “Must Boys Be Boys? Ending Sexual Exploitation 

and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions”; “What Would Gandhi Say? Gandhian Thought and Practice in Development”; “Can 

Foreign Aid End World Poverty?”; “Heritage Preservation in Law and Policy: Handling the Double-Edged Sword of Development”; 

“Indigenous Approaches to Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in Africa”; and a panel event on cultural 

anthropology knowledge and the U.S. military and the intelligence community. The panel presentations are being developed 

into a book co-edited by CIGA Director Barbara miller and robert albro. CIGA also hosted the Margaret Mead Film Festival. 

In 2007, the Elliott School launched GW diaspora Program, a research and policy program focusing on diaspora communities 

worldwide—in particular, diasporas in conflict and post-conflict societies; diasporas in politics, policy and advocacy; the role 

of diasporas in remittances, philanthropy and development; business investment and development; and diasporas and global 

security risks. Director Jennifer Brinkerhoff chaired a session as part of Civil Society Day, a Brussels-based event sponsored by 

the King Baudouin Foundation. The event was part of the first Global Forum on Migration and Development, which included 155 

participating country governments. 

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sigur center for 

AsiAn stuDies 

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies promotes deeper 

understanding of Asia and improved links between 

Asians and the rest of the world through education, 

research and public programs. It is home to both 

undergraduate and graduate teaching programs on 

Asian studies and more than 50 full-time faculty 

members. The Sigur Center is the only program in 

the Washington, DC area that offers the nationally 

competitive Foreign Language and Area Studies 

(FLAS) Fellowships for students of East Asian affairs. 

research on asia informs 

scholarshiP and PolicY 

Young-Key Kim-renaud published P’ung’yohan 

pujae [Plentiful Absence] II, in Honor of Jin-Heung 

Kim (Life and Dream Book Publishing). mike 

mochizuki published Japan in International Politics: 

The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State (Lynne 

Rienner) and david shambaugh edited China 

Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and 

the United States (Routledge). 

Sigur Center scholars mike mochizuki (at 

the podium), Kirk larsen, david shambaugh 

and amb. Karl inderfurth (L-R) consider 

North Korea from its neighbors’ perspectives 

at “Dealing with North Korea: Views from 

Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo,” in October 2006. 


In addition to these books, Sigur faculty authored 

numerous articles and book chapters. harry harding 

published “Think Again: China” in Foreign Policy. Kirk 

larsen contributed a chapter to Six-Party Stall: Are 

South Korea and China Part of the Problem or Part of the 

Solution? (Woodrow Wilson Center). mike mochizuki 

published “Paradigms Lost: Japan’s Nationalist Drift” 

in The American Interest and “How America Views 

[the Yasukuni Shrine]” in Ronza. deepa ollapally 

co-authored “Regional Security Implications of 

Iranian Nuclear Weapons” at the National Bureau of 

Asian Research. david shambaugh and amb. Karl 

inderfurth published “China and the U.S.: To Hedge 

or Engage” in Yale Global. 

Awards and grants supported the research of Sigur 

Center faculty. Gregg Brazinsky received a Smith 

Richardson grant to research America’s Cold War 

nation-building efforts in Asia. Young-Key Kimrenaud 

received the Republic of Korea Jade Order of 

Culture Merit. edward mccord won a Distinguished 

Alumni Award from Marian College, his alma mater.

shawn mchale edward mccord Young-Key Kim-renaud Gregg Brazinsky 

Sigur Center Director shawn mchale received a 

Fulbright-Hays award for his research on Vietnam. 

During 2006-2007, the Sigur Center received 

many gifts and grants to support its work. The 

George Washington University named it a center 

for academic excellence and provided funding 

to support scholarly research and travel, student 

scholarships and research, and study abroad for both 

graduate and undergraduate students. The Sigur 

Center also received flas awards from the u.s. 

department of education to underwrite graduate 

study of Asian languages. Funding from the Korean 

steel company Posco supported a major conference 

on the impact of Korean NGOs. The henry 

luce foundation supported a conference, co-hosted 

with the Woodrow Wilson Center, on “Globalization, 

Migration and the State: East Asia’s Evolving 

Landscape of Labor.” The Memory and Reconciliation 

in the Asian-Pacific Program, co-directed by mike 

The siGur cenTer’s research and PolicY ProGrams 

The china Policy Program (cPP), directed by 

david shambaugh, co-hosted three international 

conferences on China. With the German Council 

on Foreign Relations and the Chinese Academy of 

Social Sciences, CPP convened a conference on 

China and Europe. Fifteen of the papers presented 

at the conference will be published in a book. 

With funding from the German marshall fund, 

CPP co-sponsored a dialogue on U.S.-Europe- 

China with the Asia Centre at Elliott School 

partner Sciences Po, Paris. CPP also sponsored 

a delegation of Elliott School faculty members 

martha finnemore, amb. Karl inderfurth, cynthia 

mcclintock, amb. david shinn and david 

shambaugh to Beijing for a dialogue with the Chinese 

Foreign Ministry’s think tank. Elliott School 

alumnus christopher fussner (BA’79) has been a 

generous supporter of the China Policy Program. 

mochizuki and daqing Yang, received support from 

the Japan-u.s. friendship commission for a project 

on “The Tokyo Trial: Legacy and Reassessment 

at Sixty.” A grant from the Taipei economic and 

cultural representative office funded a conference 

on East Asian security and Taiwan, and a roundtable 

on transnational collaboration and Taiwan’s challenges. 

amb. James lilley (MA’69), former U.S. ambassador 

to China and Korea and director of the American 

Institute in Taiwan, addressed the conference. 

siGur faculTY PromoTe dialoGue 

on asia 

The Sigur Center hosted more than 70 events during 

the past academic year to promote understanding of 

this rapidly changing region. The center introduced 

two new lecture series—Transnational asia and 

subnational asia—and a new india initiative. 

The Taiwan education and research Program 

(TerP) works with the Taiwan resource center 

at GW’s Gelman Library to provide a comprehensive 

and specialized collection of materials for advanced 

study and research on Taiwan’s resources 

for those seeking to understand Taiwan’s history, 

politics, economy and international relations. In 

2007, TERP Director edward mccord established 

the Taiwan forum, which brings together visiting 

scholars, academics, journalists, students and 

members of the policy community for discussions 

about Taiwan’s current affairs. The forum hosted 

seven presentations by Taiwan experts as part of 

a Taiwan Democracy and Security Seminar Series, 

with support from the Taiwan foundation for 

democracy. Topics included “The U.S.-Taiwan 

Two-Step: Democracy and National interest” and 

“U.S.-China Relations and Taiwan’s Role.” 


The u.s.-Japan legislative exchange Program, 

led by henry nau, conducted two legislative 

exchange programs last year, one between the 

U.S. Congress and Japanese Diet and another 

that included South Korean National Assembly 

members. The exchange program brings high-level 

leaders together to foster better understanding. 

The Japan-united states friendship commission 

has funded the program since 1989. The Korea 

foundation in Seoul also provided additional 

funding for the trilateral exchange program 

in 2006-07. The participants cultivate strong 

professional and social ties, enabling them to 

debate controversial political issues. There are no 

lectures or written presentations. Members lead 

and sustain the conversations on their own.

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