Calendar of Upcoming Events

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Webcast for Students on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, FPRI will present a 45-minute webcast on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Secondary schools/classes may sign up to view the webcast live online and participate in the Q&A periods.

Lawrence Husick, co-director of FPRI’s Wachman Center Program on the History of Innovation will present a fast-paced webcast that traces these modern systems' roots from from an early form of telegraph, through Napoleon's France, to Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, “Ma” Bell, Bell Labs, and then finally to BitNet, ARPANet, the Internet and World Wide Web.

For complete information, see www.fpri.org/education/innovationwebcast.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Think Tanks, Civil Society and Policy Advice in China: The Promise and the Political Reality

Speakers

Xufeng Zhu Associate professor at Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China, and a Harvard Yenching Scholar visiting at Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University

James G. McGann Assistant director, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania and Director of Think Tanks and Civil Society Program

This program is being co-sponsored by Penn's International Relations Program, Political Science Department and FPRI’s Think Tanks and Civil Society Program.

Decades of remarkable economic growth have brought dramatic transformations to China. These changes also put the PRC amid a series of unprecedented and complex challenges on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. The role of think tanks in China's policy process has generated great interest within and outside the country. China faces many challenges moving forward in various issue areas, such as the environment, energy resources, the burden of communal ownership of land, housing demand, and government relaxation of the restrained appreciation of the Yuan. These issues create a demand for sound and innovative policy initiatives As a result Chinese think tanks are now rapidly rising in status.

Two of the leading scholars on think tanks in China will explore the growing influence and political limitations of Chinese think tanks, the similarities and differences between these Chinese institutions and their counterparts in Asia, Europe and the US, and the role they play in responding to China´s social stability problems and the multi-faceted integration with the outside world. The dynamic interactions between the Chinese leadership and the country´s prominent think tanks can offer insightful information on China´s future trajectory.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

FPRI Roundtable Discussion

The U.S. Elections and America’s Role in East Asia: Views from the Region

Speakers

Da Wei Associate Research Professor and Washington representative
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Keiko Iizuka Deputy Political Editor and former chief correspondent covering Japan’s prime minister’s office and foreign ministry, Yomiuri Shimbun and
Visiting fellow, Brookings Institution

Chong-pin Lin Professor of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University and
former Deputy Minister of National Defense and Senior Advisor to the National Security Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Moderator:

Jacques deLisle Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania and
Director of FPRI's Asia Program

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

Where is Egypt Headed?

Hon. Daniel C. Kurtzer S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

FPRI’s Study Group on America and the West

Expeditionary Operations and Their Impact on British Domestic Politics and Grand Strategy

David Betz Senior Fellow, FPRI

David Betz, FPRI Senior Fellow, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he heads the Insurgency Research Group and is Academic Director of the on-line master’s degree, War in the Modern World. He has written widely on issues of the conduct of contemporary warfare, insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare and the Revolution in Military Affairs, most recently in the Journal of Strategic Studies and the Journal of Contemporary Security Policy.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East

Harvey Sicherman President, FPRI