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International Development

FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.

They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.

FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.

FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.

United States-Vietnam Relations: From MIAs to Full Dialogue

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Dennis Harter is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a Foreign Service Officer (since 1966) specializing in Asian Affairs. From 1968-1970, he served as a district senior advisor in the Mekong Delta, then as deputy director for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Affairs in the late 1970s. He has served as director of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam Affairs during the period of normalization of relations with Vietnam, and as deputy chief of Mission (Deputy Ambassador) from August 1997 to the present. He also served in Hong Kong twice; in Taiwan and Indonesia, and was Consul General in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China from 1989-1993.

Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, East Wing, Third Floor

Dennis Harter Deputy Chief of Mission (Deputy Ambassador) Vietnam
Seminars
Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)

Engineer's Dreams: Successes and Failures in Applying Science to Maintain Peace and Help The Poor

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Speaker's Biography: Freeman Dyson, one of the world's preeminent physicists, has consistently championed the uses of science and challenged the ethical uses of science and challenged humankind to reconcile technology and social justice. He is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Kresge Auditorium

Freeman Dyson Professor of Physics Speaker Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Lectures
Drell Lecture

The Effect of Precision and Non-Lethal Weapons on the Use of Discrminate Force

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Lieutenant General Paul J. Kern is the senior military adviser to the Army Acquisition Executive and the Army Chief of Starr on all research, development and acquisition programs and related issues. He supervises the Program Executive Officer system, and serves as the Director, Army Acquistion Corps.

Reuben W. Hills Conference Room

Lt. Gen. Paul Kern Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology Speaker US Army
Seminars
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