The Mongol Empire
This unit introduces students to the various societies, individuals, and dynamics that constituted the Mongol Empire.
FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.
The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.
Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.
Bureaucratic Autonomy and Dysfunctions of the American State
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Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He comes to Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States.
Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He served as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.
Dr. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), and Kansai University (Japan). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, member of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and member of the advisory boards for the Journal of Democracy, the Inter-American Dialogue, and The New America Foundation. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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Francis Fukuyama
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Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy
Research Affiliate at The Europe Center
Professor by Courtesy, Department of Political Science
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His book In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir will be published in fall 2026.
Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. He is editor-in-chief of American Purpose, an online journal.
Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland). He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House, and the Board of the Volcker Alliance. He is a fellow of the National Academy for Public Administration, a member of the American Political Science Association, and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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In an effort to democratize its educational offerings, Stanford University is offering free courses this year through online interactive learning platforms. In April, CDDRL Director Larry Diamond will be teaching a free 10 –week online course on comparative democratic development. The course will provide a broad and introductory survey of the political, social, cultural, economic, institutional, and international factors that foster or obstruct the development and consolidation of democracy.
A course traditionally offered to upper division undergraduates, Diamond's Democratic Development online course is designed for a global audience covering the foundations of democratic theory, ideas, and lessons to help build and improve democracy around the world. The class is offered through Coursera, an online education platform founded by Stanford professors.
"I am thrilled to be able to offer this course on a global platform to reach thousands of aspiring students of democratic development around the world," said Diamond. " It is my hope that this course will benefit those living in societies where democracy is undeveloped or at risk and could empower many with the tools to advance democratic change."
An upwards of 5,000 globally have currently enrolled in the course. The class is intended for individuals in college or beyond, with some academic background or preparation in political science or the social sciences. The course will consist of weekly lecture videos that are followed by an online quiz. Students can become active participants and engage in further discussions facilitated through online chat sessions. After successfully completing the course, participants will have the opportunity to earn a certificate of completion.
For more information about the course and to register please click here.
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Pak Kyong-ni, My Mother
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Kim Young Joo will discuss the literary works of Pak Kyong-ni (1926-2008), a prominent South Korean novelist and her mother, who was best known for her 21-volume novel, Toji (The Land), set in the turn of the 20th century. It took 25 years (1969-1994) for Pak to complete the epic novel.
Kim Young Joo is currently the chairperson of the Toji Cultural Foundation which was established by Pak Kyong Ni for the purpose of fostering creative thinking and lifestyles. The Foundation aims to facilitate a forum for international writers, artists and scholars to discuss contempoarary issues such as environment and future concerns. Kim's publications on Korean art includes Korean Art History (1997). She received a BA and an MA in sociology from Yonsei University, and was a lecturer at Yonsei and Sogang Universities.
Kim Young Joo is married to Kim Jiha, a South Korean poet. (http://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/korea/events/gan_tae_hap_duk__mountains_and_waters/)
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Shui Yung Chang
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Shui Yung Chang (張水庸) is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Mr. Chang is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has served in various capacities in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America. His overseas posts for the Foreign Service include Vice Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa; First Secretary in New Delhi, India; and Director in Miami, Florida, United States. In Taipei he held the positions of Desk Officer of African Affairs; Section Chief of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs (formerly known as Foreign Service Institute); Secretary of the Coordination Council of North American Affairs; Director of the Public Diplomacy Coordination Council on home assignment and served as the External Affairs Officer and translator to the Premier Office of Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
Mr. Chang graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1991. He continued his education on History of Art at University of Pretoria, South Africa 1996-1997, and obtained Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from Australian National University, Australia in 2005. He also received his certificate on diplomacy from Oxford University, United Kingdom in 1995.
Mr. Chang speaks fluent Taiwanese, Mandarin and English. His research interests include Asia studies, International Affairs, Taiwan Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, Democracy and Development. In his career he also actively involved in the promotion of culture, academy and humanitarian work for Taiwan. Over the years, Mr. Chang has travelled widely across countries and continents on his official trips and personal tours with family. He is married to Ms Maya Chen and has two children, Sonia and Sophia Chang. They currently reside in Taiwan.
Dynamics of the Korean American Experience
More than one million Korean Americans currently reside in every corner of the United States, forming one of the largest Asian American communities in the United States. This unit presents a thematic overview of the diverse Korean American experience in order to expand students’ understanding of a community that constitutes an increasingly important part of contemporary U.S. society. A CD-ROM of projections and handouts accompany the unit, as well as a variety of class, group, and individual activities.
Rustin Crandall
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Knight Management Center
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
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Stanford, CA 94305-7298 USA
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Rustin Crandall joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a full-time Administrative Associate in February 2013. Prior to coming to Stanford, he worked as an IT Coordinator for the Peace Corps in Guyana, a Program Coordinator for an international education and technology non-profit in New York, and a Product Manager for an Internet firm in the Philippines. Rustin will be supporting the Silicon Valley and China 2.0 projects through his communications, organization, and IT expertise.
Rustin holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from George Mason University.
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Partitions: Towards Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism
Please note that only Day 1 is open to the public.
Day 2 is open only to Stanford University faculty and students.
Day 1: "Partitions in/and Literature"
Thursday, April 18th
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Free and open to the public
Chair and commentator: Vered K. Shemtov (Stanford University)
Speaker: Hannan Hever (Hebrew University)
"Zionist Literature: The impossibility of the Rhetoric of Partition"
Day 2: "Partitions in History: Genealogy and Implementations of a Political Idea"
Friday, April 19th
10:00am - 6:00pm
Open to Stanford University faculty and students only
PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR PANEL TITLES AND PARTICIPANTS
Sponsored by:
The Europe Center, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, Hebrew Literature and Culture Project, Stanford Department of History (Kratter Fund), The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for East Asian Studies and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
April 18th: Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center (Open to the public)
April 19th: The Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center (Open to Stanford faculty and students only)
Hannan Hever
Keynote Speaker
Hebrew University
Vared K. Shemtov
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Stanford University
Edith Sheffer
Department of History 200-120
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Former Assistant Professor of Modern European History
Former Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Edith Sheffer joined the History Department faculty in 2010, having come to Stanford as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities in 2008. Her first book, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford University Press, 2011), challenges the moral myth of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War’s central symbol. It reveals how the barrier between East and West did not simply arise overnight from communism in Berlin in 1961, but that a longer, lethal 1,393 kilometer fence had been developing haphazardly between the two Germanys since 1945.
Her current book, Soulless Children of the Reich: Hans Asperger and the Nazi Origins of Autism, investigates Hans Asperger’s creation of the autism diagnosis in Nazi Vienna, examining Nazi psychiatry's emphasis on social spirit and Asperger's involvement in the euthanasia program that murdered disabled children. A related project through Stanford's Spatial History Lab, "Forming Selves: The Creation of Child Psychiatry from Red Vienna to the Third Reich and Abroad," maps the transnational development of child psychiatry as a discipline, tracing linkages among its pioneers in Vienna in the 1930s through their emigration from the Third Reich and establishment of different practices in the 1940s in England and the United States. Sheffer's next book project, Hidden Front: Switzerland and World War Two, tells an in-depth history of a nation whose pivotal role remains unexposed--yet was decisive in the course of the Second World War.
Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center
Reece Jones
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University of Hawaii, Manoa
Lucy Chester
Panelist
University of Colorado, Boulder
Priya Satia
Commentator
Arie M. Dubnov
450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 200
Stanford, CA 94305
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Arie Dubnov is an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s Department of History. Dubnov holds a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a past George L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history, with a subsidiary interest in nationalism studies. He is the author, most recently, of Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). In addition, Dubnov has published essays in journals such as Nations & Nationalism, Modern Intellectual History, History of European Ideas, The Journal of Israeli History and is the editor of the collection [in Hebrew] Zionism – A View from the Outside (The Bialik Institute, 2010), seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory. At Stanford Dubnov teaches courses in European intellectual history alongside Jewish and Israeli history.
Motti Golani
Panelist
University of Haifa
Gershon Shafir
Commentator
UC San Diego
Adi Gordon
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University of Cincinnati / Amherst College
Joel Beinin
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Stanford University
Robert Crews
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Stanford University
Faisal Devji
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St. Anthony's, Oxford
Leena Dellashah
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Columbia University
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