The John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies has named the recipients of the 1997-98 Olin Fellowships in National Security.

The Institute was created in 1989 in order to expand and institutionalize the national security studies program of the Center for International Affairs.

The central purposes of the Institute are to illuminate the security problems confronting the United States and its allies and to educate and prepare scholars in strategy and national security for positions in colleges and universities, research institutes, and government. To this end, the Institute funds research by individual scholars, supports teaching in national security affairs at Harvard, undertakes research projects on important topics, sponsors conferences and seminars, and awards John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security.

The fellows, their home institutions, and their projects are as follows:

Thomas Christensen, Cornell University, "Worse Than a Monolith: Leninism, Nationalism, and Problems of Deterrence in Cold War East Asia"; Kathleen M. Conley, United States Air Force, "Post-Cold War Employment of American Military Forces"; Evan Feigenbaum, Stanford University, "The Military Transforms China: The Politics of Strategic Technology from the Nuclear to the Information Age"; Francis Gavin, University of Pennsylvania, "Defending Europe and the Dollar: Security, Political Economy, and the Politics of the U.S. Balance of Payments, 1958-1968"; and

Eugene Gholz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

"The Political Economy of Defense During the Cold War"; Colin Kahl, Columbia University, "States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World"; Masahiro Matsumura, St. Andrew's University (Japan), "Coordinating East Asian Theater Missile Defense Policies Under the United States: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan"; Daryl Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

"The Roots of Credibility: How Decision Makers Predict Their Adversaries' Actions During Military Crises"; and

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Yale University, "Ideologies of Empire and Russia's Far East, 1895-1904"; James Stein, United States Navy, "The Influence of Globalism and Multinational Capitalism on National Security"; Arthur Waldron, Naval War College, "Contemporary Asian Security Issues and International Relations."