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.
Sejong National Strategy Breakfast Forum: New Features of the Strategic Environment in Northeast Asia
At the Fourth Sejong National Strategy Breakfast
Forum on December 2, 2010, Michael Armacost offered remarks on the security
environment in Northeast Asia, sharing insights from past decades to provide
better contextual understanding of the current regional situation. Armacost provided
suggestions for dealing with a changing North Korea, and spoke to China's
increasing political and economic confidence, regional maritime disputes, the
Democratic Party of Japan's foreign policy, and the future of U.S.-Asia relations.
Korean- and English-language versions of the remarks are available for download.
Lotte Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Michael Armacost
Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow
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Shorenstein APARC, FSI, Stanford
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Why Has Africa Been Slow in Developing its Agriculture?
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Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa at IFPRI, will talk about the investment and policy strategies needed for a dynamic agricultural sector, and how conditions in Africa differ from those in Asia.
Peter Timmer, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, at Harvard University, will join the conversation as a discussant following the main presentation.
Biography
Dr. Ousmane Badiane is the Africa Director for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). In this role, he coordinates IFPRI's work program in the areas of food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications in Africa. He is also in charge of IFPRI's partnerships with African institutions dealing with the above areas.
Dr. Badiane, a national of Senegal, was Lead Specialist for Food and Agricultural Policy for the Africa Region at the World Bank from January 1998 to August 2008. He previously worked at IFPRI as Senior Research Fellow from 1989 to 1997, when he led the institute's work on market reforms and development. While at IFPRI, he taught, as adjunct professor, at Johns Hopkins' School of Advance International Studies from 1993 to 2003. Dr. Badiane received a Masters Degree and PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany.
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Ousmane Badiane
Director for Africa
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IFPRI
Peter Timmer
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Encina Hall East, E400
Stanford, CA 94305
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Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University
C. Peter Timmer was a visiting professor at Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment in 2007. He is a leading authority on agriculture and rural development who has published widely on these topics. He has served as a professor at Stanford, Cornell, three faculties at Harvard, and the University of California, San Diego, where he was also the dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. A core advisor on the World Bank's World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, Timmer also works with several Asian governments on domestic policy responses to instability in the global rice market. In 1992, he received the Bintang Jasa Utama (Highest Merit Star) from the Republic of Indonesia for his contributions to food security. He is an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on agricultural development issues.
Timmer's work focuses on three broad topics: the nature of "pro-poor growth" and its application in Indonesia and other countries in Asia; the supermarket revolution in developing countries and its impact on the poor (both producers and consumers); and the structural transformation in historical perspective as a framework for understanding the political economy of agricultural policy.
Symposiums
Shifting U.S. focus in Northeast Asia
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In an era of intense focus on China's economic strength, Michael H. Armacost, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1989 to 1993, speaks with Stanford Magazine about the U.S. preoccupation with Japan during the 1980s and 90s. He describes U.S. perceptions of and economic policy toward Japan, telling a cautionary tale about currency revaluation. Armacost also offers insight into the probability of the Six Party Talks convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.
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Max Preglau
The Europe Center
Encina Hall E103
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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Professor of Sociology at University of Innsbruck, Austria
Distinguished Austrian Visiting Chair Professor, 2011
Max Preglau is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His work focuses on Critical Social Theory and on the comparative Study of Contemporary Societies, Social Inequalities, Welfare Regimes and Social Policies (Austria and EU-Memberstates).
In 2006-07 Preglau was
a Joseph Schumpeter Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University. Until 1991 he was associate professor, until 1986 assistant
professor at the Department of Sociology at the School of Economic and Social
Sciences of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Preglau received his doctoral
degree in the Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna Business School, a
post-graduate Diploma in Sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
and his qualification for university teaching (Habilitation) of Sociology from
the University of Innsbruck.
Professor Preglau's current research projects include "Comparative Analysis of Social Structures: Austria, Europe and the USA," and "Comparative Analysis of Welfare States and Social Policies: Austria, Europe and the USA."
Courses:
SOC 252: Current Social Change: Austria, Europe and the US
Term: Winter, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
SOC 253: Rise, Current Challenges and Transformations of the Welfare State
Term: Spring, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur: 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
Improving Food Security in the 21st Century: What are the Roles for Firms and Foundations
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February 10th marked the launch of FSE's new Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium series. The opening session featured Jeff Raikes (CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Greg Page (CEO, Cargill), who presented their views on global food security and the roles of the private sector and foundation community. Stanford President John Hennessy provided the opening remarks. Click herefor a news summary of the event.
Speaker biographies
Greg Page, CEO Cargill Corporation
Greg Page serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Cargill. Cargill, a leader in agribusiness, is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, with 131,000 employees in 66 countries, and with 2010 revenues of $108 billion. He was elected chairman of the board on Sept. 11, 2007, and CEO on June 1, 2007. He continues to hold the office of president, a position to which he was elected in June 2000. He was elected to the Cargill Board of Directors in August 2000.
Page joined Cargill in 1974 as a trainee assigned to the Feed Division. Over the years, he held a number of positions in the United States and Singapore. Page worked with the start-up of a poultry processing operation in Thailand, the beef and pork processing operations of Cargill's Excel subsidiary in Wichita, Kansas, and the Financial Markets Group in Minneapolis.
Page serves as a member of Eaton Corporation's board of directors. He serves as chair of the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Page received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Dakota. He was born in Bottineau, N.D.
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Jeff Raikes, CEO Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer, leads the foundation's efforts to promote equity for all people around the world. He sets strategic priorities, monitors results, and facilitates relationships with key partners for all three of our program groups.
Before joining the foundation, Raikes was a member of Microsoft's senior leadership team, which sets overall strategy and direction for the company. Raikes was president of the Microsoft Business Division and oversaw the Information Worker, Server & Tools Business and Microsoft Business Solutions groups. He previously served as group vice president of the Worldwide Sales and Support Group, where he was responsible for providing strategic leadership for Microsoft's sales, marketing, and service initiatives. Before that, he served as senior vice president of Microsoft North America.
Raikes joined Microsoft in 1981 as a product manager and was instrumental in driving Microsoft's applications marketing strategy. Promoted to director of applications marketing in 1984, Raikes was the chief strategist behind the company's success in graphical applications for the Apple Macintosh and the Microsoft Windows operating system and the creation of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications. Before joining Microsoft, he was a software development manager at Apple Computer Inc.
Raikes, a Nebraska native, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. He and his wife, Tricia, have three children. They are founders of the Raikes Foundation and are active members of the United Way of King County, where they served as co-chairs of the 2006-2007 fundraising campaign. Raikes also serves on the board of directors for Costco Wholesale Corp. and the Microsoft Alumni Foundation, where he is chair of the board.
Adding special relevance to his participation today, Raikes is an active owner of a large farming and cattle-feeding operation in Nebraska. For the last three years, he has also been a guest lecturer in Stanford's "World Food Economy" course, and he is slated to perform in that role again tomorrow.
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Room 300, Huang Building
Greg Page
CEO
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Cargill Corporation
Jeff Raikes
CEO
Speaker
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Nuclear Tipping Point: A Teacher's Guide
This is a teacher's guide to the documentary film, "Nuclear Tipping Point," which is a conversation with four men intimately involved in American diplomacy and national security over the last four decades.