Belfer Center Names International, Interdisciplinary Fellows

Among the Belfer Center's new pre- and postdoctoral fellows this year are a physicist, a pediatrician, a geographer, a psychologist, a geologist, and a molecular biologist, as well as lawyers, historians, political scientists, and engineers.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Government's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy. The Center's mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect.

The international and interdisciplinary fellows join the Center for a year to work with senior researchers and faculty in the Center's four complementary research programs:

The Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) is the locus of Harvard's interdisciplinary research on resource and environmental problems and policy responses. The 1998-99 fellows for ENRP are: Ita Falk, Long Term Time Preferences. and, Public Discounting of Global Resources (Stratospheric Ozone). Karen Filipovich, Climate Change. Charles Foster, Forestry (Domestic), Water Policy, New England's Natural Resources. William Haney, International Forestry, Sustainable Development. Shashi Verma, Competition in Electricity Markets.

The Global Environmental Assessment Project, an ENRP project, is hosting: Frank Biermann, International Environmental Policy between North and South. David Cash, Science and Environmental Policy. Aarti Gupta, Regulating Risks Associated with Biotechnology. Wolfgang Jung, Science-Policy Interactions in International Environmental Affairs. David Levy, Corporate Responses to the Climate Change Negotiations. Susanne Moser, Global Climate Change, Assessments, Coastal Hazards, Communication. Anthony Patt, The Impacts of Climate Change. Sandra Rothenberg, Industry Response to Environmental Regulation.

The International Security Program (ISP) addresses the most pressing threats to U.S. national interests and national security. This year's ISP fellows are: Samina Ahmed, (1/99) Proliferation in South Asia. Clifford Bob, International Human Rights. Colin Elman, The Diffusion of Military Practices; The Appraisal of International Relations Theory; and The Relationship Between Political Science and History. Miriam Elman, Democracy and International Peace; Democratization. Francis Gavin, Intra-NATO Relations and the Interaction Between Economic and Security Concerns in Postwar American Foreign Policy. Peter Grose, Cold War Intelligence. Elizabeth Kier, Domestic Consequences of War. Christopher Kukk, Interstate Cooperation and Conflict over Shared Fresh Water Resources. Aaron Lobel, Failure of American Intelligence and Academia to Anticipate the End of the Cold War and Collapse of the Soviet Union. Ariel Merari, Terrorism. Mary Sarotte, The Impact of Detente on the East German Dictatorship. Tom Sauer, Nuclear Arms Control and Nuclear Proliferation, and European Defense and Security. Taylor Seybolt, Humanitarian Intervention; Human Rights Implementation.

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) analyzes ways in which science and technology policy influence international security, resources, environment, and development, and such cross-cutting issues as technological innovation and information infrastructure. STPP's new fellows are:

Arthur Daemmrich, Comparative Risk Mediation. Clarisa Long, Intellectual Property; Genetic Research Policy. Clark Miller, Global Change and The Politics of Science.

Energy R&D Policy for a Greenhouse-Gas Constrained World is a research project of STPP carried out in concert with ENRP. This year's fellows are: Paul de Sa, Energy-R&D Policies and Climate Change. Ambuj Sagar, Energy R&D and Climate Change Issues in Developing Countries.

The following fellows are affiliated with the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, a project of the STPP program: Yi-Tzuu Chien, Frameworks for Managing Networked Research And Innovation. Carolyn Gideon, Regulation and Competition in Network Industries. Thomas Kiessling, Telecommunications and Media Economics/Policy. Eli Turk, The Role and Effectiveness of Advisory Bodies in the Formulation of Public Policy in the Information Age.

Managing the Atom Project is a joint program of the ENRP, ISP and STPP, but finds its home at the STTP project. This year's fellows are: Evan Feigenbaum, Nuclear Issues and High Technology Programs in China. Allison Macfarlane, Nuclear Waste Disposal and Fissile Material Disposition. Katherine O'Neill, (joint STPP/ISP fellow), International Problems Of Nuclear Waste Management. John S. Park, The International Atomic Energy Agency's Safeguards Regime. Stacy VanDeveer, (joint STPP/ISP fellow), International Assistance Programs for the Management of Radioactive Materials in Former Communist Countries. Jim Walsh (Joint Fellow for ISP and STPP), Nuclear Proliferation: Why Countries Abandon Their Nuclear Ambitions

The Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (SDI) catalyzes support for three great transformations in Russia, Ukraine, and the other republics of the former Soviet Union -- to sustainable democracies, free market economies, and cooperative international relations. The SDI Project is hosting:

Vladimir Boxer, Democratization and Elections in the Russian Federation.

BCSIA was founded in 1973 as the Program for Science and International Affairs. Its original goal was to revive serious analysis of nuclear dangers and arms control. In 1978 a major grant from the Ford Foundation made possible the establishment of the Center for Science and International Affairs as the first permanent research center at the newly emerging Kennedy School of Government. In 1997 the Center was re-endowed, refurbished, and renamed the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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