Upcoming Policy Briefing on China's Defense Industry: Tai Ming Cheung, associate research scientist at IGCC, will discuss China's grand ambition to become a world-class military industrial power within the next couple of decades and whether it will be able to succeed. More.
Meet the 2009 Public Policy and Biological Threats Fellows: Ten will participate in intensive summer program at UC San Diego in July, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. More.
Cooperation of China, U.S. on Emissions Seen as "Crucial": IGCC Director Susan Shirk and other experts briefed the Western Governor's Conference on climate change and cooperation between the two countries June 16. Link to article in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Memorial Scheduled for First Director of IGCC: A campus-wide memorial in honor of Herbert York will be held October 9, 2009, at UC San Diego. York, a nuclear physicist and first chancellor of UC San Diego, died May 19. He was 87.
Message from IGCC Director Susan Shirk.
Link to UCSD News article.
New Publication by PPNT Fellow Matt Kroenig: "Exporting the Bomb: Why States Provide Sensitive Nuclear Assistance" appeared in the February 2009 issue of the American Political Science Review.
A Strategic Approach to Nuclear Proliferation: Eric Gartzke (Political Science, UC San Diego) and PPNT Fellow Matt Kroenig coedited the April 2009 special issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, which also contains an article coauthored by PPNT Fellow Kyle Beardsley. Their project was supported by a grant from IGCC.
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Rebels Without Borders:
Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2009)
Idean Salehyan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and a former IGCC Dissertation Fellow. |

Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance (Cornell University Press, 2009)
Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at UC San Diego. The Networked Politics project was supported by funding from IGCC.
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