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.
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of information and communication technology on various economic
and social outcomes. This article focuses specifically on the potential influence that mobile phones will exert on corruption in Africa. Two distinct empirical analyses test the hypothesis that mobile phones will reduce corruption in Africa, as a result of decentralizing information and communication and thereby diminishing the opportunities available to engage in corruption as well as increasing the potential of detection and punishment. The results of a fixed effects regression of panel data at the country level reveal a significant negative correlation between a country's degree of mobile phone penetration and that country's level of perceived corruption. In addition to this, a multivariate regression of survey data reveals that the degree of mobile phone signal coverage across 13 Namibian provinces is significantly associated with reduced perceptions of corruption at the individual level.
Catie Snow Bailard received her doctorate in political science from UCLA, before joining the faculty of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University in 2009. She graduated with concentrations in American Politics, Formal and Quantitative Methods, and International Relations. Throughout Catie's academic career, her research agenda has primarily focused on the intersection of telecommunications and politics. This fascination with the effect of mass media on political outcomes began in college as a major in UCLA's Communication Studies Department, a top-ranked undergraduate department. It was this experience that inspired Catie's decision to pursue a doctoral degree in political science at UCLA.
Studying under esteemed scholars in the field of political media studies at UCLA provided Catie with a broad substantive understanding of political communication as well as rigorous training in methodology. While the majority of early political communication research focused on television's impact on electoral outcomes in America, Catie's research agenda seeks to broaden this field. By focusing on political outcomes beyond elections, beyond the American borders, as well as media technologies beyond television, Catie hopes to contribute to the evolution of political communication research to accommodate and effectively study the complex and rapidly-changing landscape of new media. Catie's preferred approach to research is multi-methodological, with a particular preference for merging cutting edge quantitative analyses with randomized field experiments.
Wallenberg Theater
Catie Snow Bailard
Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs
Speaker
George Washington University
The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) will host China 2.0 in Beijing on October 18-19, 2010 at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Beijing's central business district. (This event builds on the successful inaugural China 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley at Stanford University on May 24-25
China 2.0 will focus on the leaders driving China's continued ascendance as a "digital superpower" and analyze the strategies they are adopting for success.
China 2.0 is the preeminent new media forum about the dynamic PRC digital landscape that combines the right mix of strategic thinking, practical application and networking. Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
The agenda is available here. Please note this event will utilize simultaneous Chinese-English interpretation for the convenience of all participants.
China 2.0 Beijing will feature Internet & e-commerce CEOs and senior executives from China and the US, including members of Stanford's alumni network.
The conference will open with a special session reuniting the two scientists who established the first connection between China and the Internet in 1993: Xu Rongsheng, Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing and Les Cottrell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
Keynote addresses will be given by:
James Ding, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute
The China 2.0 event was bang up-to-date with content and stimulating debate from key players in the Chinese market. The organization was very professional bringing together China players and interested parties from the Bay Area. --Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto and CTO, Naspers
Format
China 2.0 is a highly engaging and interactive forum, featuring extensive video material, dynamic panel presentations and Q&A. We also have developed a China 2.0 application which is available now at the Apple Application store, for both iPad and iPhone/iTouch devices.
Welcome Remarks from China 2.0 Co-Chairs Short video of China 2.0 themes, with highlights from inaugural (May 2010) event at Stanford University Marguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) Duncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
9:15 - 9:45
Special Feature: How the Internet Came to China—and China to the Internet Short video and reunion (via Cisco TelePresence) of the two scientists who established the first connect between China & the Internet in 1993.
Les Cottrell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University Xu Rongsheng, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing Moderated byMarguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, SPRIE
9:45 - 10:25
Keynote Speech: Victor Koo, CEO, Youku (Stanford MBA '94)
10:25 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 12:00
Mobile 2.0: Apps & Ads Bin Shen, Vice President for Product Development-Asia, Motorola Ye Xin, CEO, CASEE Bertrand Schmitt, CEO, AppAnnie Justin Mallen, CEO, Silk Road Technologies Moderated byDuncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
12:00 - 12:40
Keynote Speech: James Ding, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
12:40 - 1:45
Hosted Lunch: CBD International Restaurant(lobby level of Grand Millennium Hotel)
1:45 - 2:25
Keynote Speech: Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute
2:25 - 3:45
Shopping 2.0: Consumer e-Commerce in China Short Video Introduction Brandon Lin, Partner, SAIF Partners (Stanford BA '91) Chen Yu, Co-Founder, Yeepay Alan Hellawell, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank (Stanford MA '97 MBA '97) Moderated byLoretta Chao, Technology Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Asia (Beijing)
3:45 - 4:05
Break
4:05 - 4:35
Global Media Industry Outlook: Joel Budd, Media Editor, The Economist (London)
4:35 - 5:55
Games Market Outlook Short Video Introduction Andy Tian, Head of China Studio, Zynga Andy Lee, Managing Director–Asia, Watercooler Jay Chang, CFO, Kongzhong Moderated byBill Bishop, Start-up Investor/Advisor & Co-Founder CBS MarketWatch
5:55 - 6:00
Wrap and Day 2 Outline by China 2.0 Co-chairs, Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:05
Welcome Remarks by China 2.0 Co-Chairs, Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
9:05 - 9:45
Keynote Speech: John Liu, Vice President, Google
9:45 - 10:45
The Outlook for Trans-Pacific Entrepreneurship and Innovation—Indigenous & International? William Weinstein, Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy Beijing Alex Lee, VP, Collaboration and UC, Greater China Region, Cisco Systems (China) John Chiang, President & Managing Director, US Information Technology Office (USITO) Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus China Moderated by Duncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
10:45 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:00
Marketing 2.0 Angel Chen, General Manager, OgilvyOne Beijing Silvia Goh, Managing Director, LiquidThread China, Starcom MediaVest Scarlett Li, CEO & Founder, Ourebo Moderated byThomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Director, 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
12:00 - 12:40
Keynote Speech: Brian Wong, Head of Global Sales, Alibaba
12:40 - 1:45
Hosted Lunch: CBD International Restaurant(lobby level of Grand Millennium Hotel)
1:45 - 3:00
Social Networking David Liu, Founder, Jiepang Dan Brody, former VP of Tudou, first employee of Google China Frank Yu, Chief Product Officer, Bokan; Advisor, TEDx Beijing Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes Moderated byJeremy Goldkorn, Founder, Danwei
TV 2.0: The Future of TV & Three Network Convergence in China Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy, Intel David Wolf, President & CEO, Wolf Group Asia Shan Phillips, VP Greater China Practice, The Nielsen Company Moderated byJonathan Landreth, Senior China Correspondent, The Hollywood Reporter (Beijing)
5:00 -6:15
Fueling China 2.0 Hurst Lin, General Partner, Doll Capital Management, Co-Founder of Sina (Stanford MBA '93) Daniel Quon, Managing Director, SVB Global, Asia, SVB Financial Group Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital Hans Tung, Partner, Qiming Ventures (Stanford BS '93) Moderated byKathrin Hille, Technology Correspondent, Financial Times Beijing
6:15
Apple iPad Lucky Draw & Close by China 2.0 Co-Chairs Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
The first China 2.0 provided a great selection of topics and speakers who knew their specialties and made focused presentations--with very little overlap and repetition among panels, always a challenge at such conferences. Well-organized, well-moderated, with a smart audience that asked good questions. -Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes Magazine
Sponsors
The China 2.0 Beijing conference is made possible by its generous sponsors:
China 2.0 achieved the balance of giving a clear overview to the China newcomers but still bringing insights to market participants about other sectors. Great conference and surely the start of a successful series. --Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures
Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had
more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell
victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and
detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the
important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s
were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was
behind them.
Norman Naimark, one of our most respected
authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that
Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations
defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of
their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping
book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He
looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's
systematic destruction of his own populace--the liquidation and
repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of
nationalities, and the Great Terror--and examines them in light of
other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's
crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all,
Adolf Hitler.
Stalin's Genocides is available for purchase through Princeton University Press. Translations have been published in German and Ukranian and are in press in Japanese and Russian.
The Program on Global Justice will begin its series of Linda Randall Meier Research Workshops on October 1, 2010. This series examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. Some of the guest speakers will be Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institiute, Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School and Ruth Grant, Duke University.The workshops bring together faculty and graduate students from across the university to investigate the complexities of these questions and to discuss possible answers. Cosponsored by the Program on Global Justice and the Stanford Humanities Center. Please see the events calendar for time and location:
The Program on Global Justice will begin its series of Linda Randall Meier Research Workshops on October 1, 2010. This series examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. Some of the guest speakers will be Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institiute, Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School and Ruth Grant, Duke University.The workshops bring together faculty and graduate students from across the university to investigate the complexities of these questions and to discuss possible answers. Cosponsored by the Program on Global Justice and the Stanford Humanities Center. Please see the events calendar for time and location:
Michael Armacost recently gave a talk, examining the “rise” of China, at a gathering of international affairs experts. “How should we think of China,” asked Armacost, saying, “Some portray Beijing as a looming military threat; some regard it as our most promising global partner; some expect it to compete fiercely with us for global economic leadership.” Armacost looked at China’s military, trade, economics, and education in relation to the United States and shared thoughts for preparing the United States to become more competitive for the future.
All too frequently, students of democracy and democratization
view the politics they analyze exclusively through the prism of constitutions,
elections, and political actors. In the case of the Middle East, this involves worn out questions of
religious fundamentalism, neo-colonialism, entrenched autocracy, the politics
of oil and Israel, etc. While all of these are indeed relevant to understanding the
perseverance of authoritarian political structures, it is equally crucial to
understand the dynamics of culture, and the ways in which forms of cultural
expression are developing, and are channeled and managed. In
his recent
analysis
of the region, Hicham Ben Abdallah points out that, while legal and political
authorities certainly define the contours of what is permissible or not, it is
the shared system of collective beliefs which in turn shapes the law and
politics, and it is in the realm of culture that these shared beliefs are
produced and consumed. The wearing of veil, for example, is not mandated
by any legislation outside of Saudi Arabia and Iran, and yet it a growing
practice throughout the region, part of an increasingly powerful salafist ideological
norm that is at least as powerful as any law.
Contrary to the hastily-borrowed western-paradigm of an
inexorable development of secularism leading to an inevitable development of
democracy, Ben
Abdallah
demonstrates the proliferation of cultural practices in which result societies,
and individuals, learn to live in a complex mix of parallel and conflicting
ideological tendencies -- with the increasing Islamicization of everyday
ideology developing alongside the proliferation of de-facto secular forms of
cultural production, even as both negotiate for breathing room under the aegis
of an authoritarian state.
He finds any prospects for democratization complicated by parallel
tacit alliances. On the one hand, a modus vivendi between the state and
fundamentalists, in which the latter is permitted to Islamicize society, and is
sometimes allowed a carefully-delimited participation in state structures,
under the condition they restrain from attempting radically to reform the
state. On the other hand intellectuals and artists refrain from frontal
assaults on autocratic state structures, subtly limiting their militancy to
non-controversial causes, while seeking the state's protection from extremism;
their aim is to maintain some protected space of quasi-secular liberalism in
the present, which they hope portends the promise of democracy to come.
For its part, the state is learning how to manage and take
advantage of a segmented cultural scene by posing as the restraining force
against extreme enforcement of the salafist norm, and by channeling forms of
modernist cultural expression into established systems of institutional
and patronage rewards (for "high" culture) and into a commercialized
process of "festivalization" (for popular culture) that ends up as a
celebration of an abstract, de politicized "Arab" identity.
Ben Abdallah refers us to the deep history of Islam, which protected
and developed divergent cultural and intellectual influences as the patrimony
of mankind. He suggests a new paradigm of cultural and intellectual
discourse, inspired by this history while also understanding the necessity for
political democratization and cultural
modernism. We must, he argues, be unafraid to face the challenges in the
tension between the growing influence of a salafist norm and the widespread
embrace of new, implicitly secular, cultural practices throughout the Arab
world.
SAMUEL BOWLES, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He taught economics at Harvard from 1965 to 1973 and at the University of Massachusetts, where he is now emeritus professor. His recent studies on cultural and genetic evolution have challenged the conventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self-interest. These have included the mathematical modeling and agent-based computer simulations of the evolution of altruistic behaviors and behavioral experiments in 15 hunter-gather and other small-scale societies. Recent papers have also explored how organizations, communities and nations could be better governed in light of the fact that altruistic and ethical motives are common in most populations. Bowles' current research also includes theoretical and empirical studies of political hierarchy and wealth inequality and their evolution over the very long run.
His scholarly papers have appeared in Science, Nature, American Economic Review,Theoretical Population Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of PoliticalEconomy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Behavioral and Brain Science, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Journal of Public Economics, Theoretical Primatology, Proceedings of the National Academy (USA), Harvard Business Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Economic Journal.
His recent books include Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution(Princeton University Press, 2004), Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005), Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success (Princeton 2004), Poverty Traps (Princeton 2006), Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability (Princeton 2005), Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution (Princeton, 2006), Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence in 15 Small-scale Societies. (Oxford UniversityPress. 2004) and Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command and Change (Oxford2004).
He has also served as an economic advisor to the governments of Cuba, South Africaand Greece, to presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy and Jesse Jackson, to the Congress of South African Trade Unions and to South African President Nelson Mandela.
His next major work, A Cooperative Species: Human reciprocity and its evolution,co-authored with Herbert Gintis, will be published in 2011. Drawing on their recentresearch on cultural and genetic evolution and his empirical studies of behavior in smallscale societies, this work will explain why humans, unlike other animals, engage incooperation among large numbers of people beyond the immediate family. His CastleLectures at Yale University, Machiavelli's Mistake: Why good laws are no substitute forgood citizens, will be published in 2011 by Yale University press.
Over the past two decades, Indonesia's coal
industry has transformed itself from being an unknown, minor player in Asia's
coal markets to the world's largest exporter of steam coal. In what is likely
the most detailed analysis of the Indonesian coal industry ever released, Dr.
Bart Lucarelli tells the story of how Indonesia created this world-scale
industry over two decades despite challenges created by widespread government
corruption, a weak legal system, the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, and the
fall of the Soeharto government in 1998.
The paper argues that key physical and
technical factors, along with regulatory and political factors, have acted as
the primary drivers of the industry's phenomenal growth over the past two
decades and will be the most important factors for consideration over the next
two decades. It also discusses current
estimates of Indonesia's coal resources and reserves, the role played by
location and geological factors in the development of its coal resources, the
future impacts of the passage of Indonesia's Mining Law of 2009 and its related
implementing regulations, and how these issues might affect the coal industry's
structure and performance before 2020.
Kieran Oberman is a post-doctoral fellow in the Program on Global Justice and the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford Univeristy. He completed his PhD at Oxford University in 2009. His thesis, "Immigration and Freedom of Movement," argued that people have a human right to freedom of movement that entails a right to cross international borders. Before coming to Stanford he held a short post-doctorate position at the University of Louvain in Belgium. While at Stanford he has continued his work on the ethical issues surrounding international migration. His article, "Immigration, Global Poverty and the Right to Stay", which argues against using migration as a means to address global poverty, is forthcoming in Political Studies.
FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of 
Hakan Eriksson speaks on infrastructure at China 2.0
