International Relations

FSI researchers strive to understand how countries relate to one another, and what policies are needed to achieve global stability and prosperity. International relations experts focus on the challenging U.S.-Russian relationship, the alliance between the U.S. and Japan and the limitations of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

Foreign aid is also examined by scholars trying to understand whether money earmarked for health improvements reaches those who need it most. And FSI’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has published on the need for strong South Korean leadership in dealing with its northern neighbor.

FSI researchers also look at the citizens who drive international relations, studying the effects of migration and how borders shape people’s lives. Meanwhile FSI students are very much involved in this area, working with the United Nations in Ethiopia to rethink refugee communities.

Trade is also a key component of international relations, with FSI approaching the topic from a slew of angles and states. The economy of trade is rife for study, with an APARC event on the implications of more open trade policies in Japan, and FSI researchers making sense of who would benefit from a free trade zone between the European Union and the United States.

Innovation Talent Roundtable

Friday, June 28, 2013 | 8:45 AM -Friday, June 28, 2013 | 4:30 PM

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From executive boardrooms to national capitols, leaders are debating the relative merits of contending models and strategies for attracting, developing, and empowering innovation talent--the people who drive economic growth and value creation through innovation.

On June 28, 2013, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) convened a circle of over 50 policymakers, executives and Stanford community members from 12 countries for an interactive roundtable on innovation talent at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Topics of discussion included:

What are key data and trends for innovation talent in Silicon Valley?
What strategies are places such as London, Taiwan and Israel employing to become hotbeds of innovation that attract innovation talent?
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How can companies successfully manage and empower their innovation talent? What best practices have been learned?
What insights and implications into innovation talent can be gathered from recent research?
How are universities innovating through programs such as Stanford's StartX and the d.school?

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8:30 – 8:45		Registration

8:45 – 9:00		Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:00 – 10:15		“The Right Talent, Essentially” Evan Wittenberg, Senior Vice President, People, Box Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates Moderator: Greg McKeown (MBA '08), CEO, THIS, Inc.

10:15 – 11:10		“The Rx for Innovation” Baba Shiv, Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business

11:10 – 11:30		Break

11:30 – 12:30		“Innovation Talent Spanning Boundaries” Chunyan Zhou, Director, International Institute of Triple Helix (IITH) Morten Petersen, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University Kung Wang, Chair Professor, China University of Technology Moderator: Henry Etzkowitz, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University

12:30 – 1:30		Lunch

1:30 – 2:10		“Accelerating the Next Generation of Innovation Talent” Cameron Teitelman (BS '10), Founder & CEO, StartX Divya Nag, Founder, StartX Med

2:10 – 2:40		“Silicon Valley Perspective” Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley

2:40 – 3:00		Break

3:00 – 4:30		“Global Policy Perspectives” Sigal Admony-Ravid, Consul for Economic Affairs to the West Coast, State Of Israel Chao-Han Liu, Vice President, Academia Sinica Priya Guha, British Consul General in San Francisco Angus Lapsley, Director European & Global Issues, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom

4:30 - 5:15		Closing Remarks & Networking Reception

For more information please contact Rustin Crandall at: rustin.crandall@gsb.stanford.edu

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Knight Management Center
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Dong Sung Kim

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Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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Dong Sung Kim, a lawyer, is a 2013 visiting scholar in the Korean Studies Program. Mr. Kim, former member of the National Assembly in South Korea, served in the national defense committee of the Assembly.

Mr. Kim was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration and Local Autonomy, Hanyang University, 2010–2011. He began his career in law as judge in the district of Incheon in 2000.

Mr. Kim holds a BA in Law from Seoul National University and an MA in Business Administration from Yonsei University, Korea.

A Chance to Defuse North Korea

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On Friday, June 7, President Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a series of talks to address major issues between the two countries. The talks offer a rare, informal opportunity to discuss heightened concerns about North Korea and a growing U.S. military presence in Northeast Asia.

Officially and unofficially, China appears to be decreasing its support for Kim Jong Un-- an encouraging sign. Gi-Wook Shin, Thomas Fingar, and David Straub recommend that Obama should stress overlapping areas of interest, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, and support for direct negotiations between Pyongyang and Seoul.

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June 5, 2013

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The New York Times

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Gi-Wook Shin

Thomas Fingar

David Straub

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/opinion/global/a-chance-to-defuse-north-korea…

U.S.-China summit in California

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Mon, 06/03/2013 - 12:00

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Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in California recently for a two-day summit -- their first since Xi took office as president. Shorenstein APARC experts weigh in on key issues surrounding the visit.

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A Chinese pavilion at Sunnylands, the estate where President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

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Innovation Talent: International Challenges & Responses

Monday, June 3, 2013 | 12:00 PM -Monday, June 3, 2013 | 1:00 PM

SPRIE's Silicon Valley Project is focused on innovation talent, and more specifically on the development and management of innovation talent, as well as the policies that affect innovation talent. This brown bag seminar will feature two perspectives about innovation talent, giving attendees an idea of the situation in Korea and Sweden.

The brown bag seminar will begin with "Innovation Talent in Korea: Challenges and Responses" by Sunyang Chung, Ph.D., Professor of Technology Management; Dean of the William F. Miller School of MOT at Konkuk University; and Visiting Scholar at SPRIE. Dr. Chung will discuss the situation of innovation talent in Korea and the responses of the Korean government and Samsung.

Dr. Anne Lidgard, Director of the VINNOVA Silicon Valley Office, will then speak on "Swedish Policy for Attracting Innovation Talent." Sweden is a country with only 9 million people at the northern edge of Europe. There is a very high risk that global flows of talent will bypass Sweden in the future. Dr. Lidgard's talk will cover some policy actions taken over the past years to facilitate the attraction of foreign talent and also look at some of the effects.

After the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A session.

Lunch will not be provided, but there will be sweet snacks for those attending.

Dr. Chung

received his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He worked at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), under Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

In 2004, on the basis of his research work, Dr. Chung was selected as the youngest lifetime fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST - Korea's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences). Since March 1, 2008, he has worked as Director of KAST's Policy Research Center.

In 2008 he established the William F. Miller School of MOT (Management of Technology) at Seoul's Konkuk University. Dr. Chung currently serves as Dean of the Miller MOT School.

Anne Lidgard, Ph.D., has a background in corporate R&D at AT&T Bell Labs and at Ericsson. She has also spent many years working with small businesses in various positions, from Director of Sales to CEO to Partner at a venture catalyst company.

She joined VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Innovation Agency in January 2006, and has been part of the management team since May 2009. As of June 2012, she is Director of VINNOVA's Silicon Valley Office and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.

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Jessie Brunner

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Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

jbrunner@stanford.edu

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Following her undergraduate studies in journalism and Spanish at U.C. Berkeley, Brunner spent six years in the professional arena, first as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and then in public relations/marketing for two nonprofit organizations. She came to Stanford University this fall to undertake her master’s degree in international policy studies, concentrating in global justice. Her professional pursuits have long been coupled with passionate activism in the arenas of human rights advocacy, conflict resolution in Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and poverty reduction. Brunner was an active participant in the winter quarter’s Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series: The International Criminal Court: The Next Decade. Brunner recently returned from a study trip to Rwanda where she delved into issues of human rights, governance, and economic development through meetings with government officials, NGOs, and the business community.

How would China remake the global order?

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Thu, 05/30/2013 - 12:00

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China’s impressive economic growth over the last three decades and increasing political influence and military capabilities have caused people around the world to wonder or worry about how China will use its new-found power. More specifically, they wonder whether, and how, China might attempt to transform the international system that has enabled it to become the world’s second largest economy and potential contender for global leadership.

Thomas Fingar, the Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, addressed these and related questions during the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s annual Oksenberg Lecture on May 22.

After describing how China has benefitted from participation in the liberal order led and maintained by the United States, Fingar argued that China has neither the will nor the ability to lead or transform the existing system, and that its continued “rise” will increase its stake in the system and make it even less willing to seek changes that could jeopardize its own success. He also suggested that other nations benefitting from the existing order would constrain China from attempting radical change even if it wanted to.

Following Fingar’s remarks, Jia Qingguo, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, said it is important to recognize that China is in the midst of a major transition. It is both a developed and a developing country, he said.

Thomas Christensen, director of Princeton University’s China and the World Program, added that due to China’s weight in the world, it will be called on more and more to collaborate on critical global issues, such as climate change and disease.

Fingar’s keynote remarks drew on “China's Vision of World Order,” a chapter published in Strategic Asia 2012–13: China's Military Challenge (National Bureau for Asian Research), as well as Shorenstein APARC’s research initiative on China’s interactions with its neighbors.

Since 2002, Shorenstein APARC has held the Oksenberg Lecture Series as a tribute to the legacy of Michel Oksenberg, a pioneer in the field of Chinese politics and an important force in shaping American attitudes toward China.

An audio podcast of the May 22 event is available on the Shorenstein APARC website.

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Shadow or Shade – The Roles of International Law in Palestinian-Israeli Peace Talks

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 12:00 PM -Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 1:30 PM

About the Speaker: Omar Dajani is one of the nation's foremost experts on the legal aspects of the conflict in the Middle East. His scholarly work explores the links between international law, legal and political history, and contract and negotiation theory. He also has considerable experience advising governments and development organizations in the Middle East and elsewhere. Professor Dajani joined the McGeorge School of Law in 2004. Previously, he was based in the Palestinian Territories, where he served first as legal advisor to the Palestinian team in peace talks with Israel and, subsequently, as an advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen. Prior to working in the Middle East, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and was a litigation associate at the Washington office of Sidley & Austin. He received his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1997 and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, and Middle Eastern and Asian History from Northwestern University.

Omar Dajani Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific Speaker

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