Faculty in Public Policy - Archive

2007

Jorge A. Bustamante addressed the UN General Assembly in October as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.

Michael Coppedge gave invited testimony, “Keeping Democracy on Track: Hotspots in Latin America,” before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee on September 28, 2005. Also in Washington, he served as discussant when “The Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Results of a Cross-National Quantitative Study,” a report prepared for USAID by Steven Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Mitchell Seligson and Dinorah Azpuru, was presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also presented “[Venezuelan] Domestic Politics Defined” at the conference “Hugo Chávez’s Prospects at Home and Abroad,” sponsored by the Office of External Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State.

Georges Enderle lectured on “Corporate Responsibility in the CSR Debate” for the seminar “La responsibilidad social corporativa: entre la ética y la strategia,” organized by the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He also participated in the keynote session “Business Ethicists Between All Frontiers” at the European Business Ethics Network conference in Bonn, ­Germany.

Richard A. Jensen participated in a panel discussion at “The 25th Anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act,” at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Kwan S. Kim presented the keynote “Global Poverty Gap” at the Foreign Policy Lecture Series organized by the World Affairs Council in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and also spoke on “Safeguarding Against Crisis: East Asian Financial Cooperation” at the joint session of the Western Economic Association and the North American Economic and Finance Association.

Miriam Kornblith participated in the panel “The Influence of Political Reforms on Democratic Governability” and presented the paper “The Recall in Venezuela: Context, Content and Assessment” at the conference “Governability and Political Reform: New Challenges for Democracy,” held in Guatemala City and attended by members of political parties and NGOs involved in political affairs in Guatemala. The conference was sponsored by the Program on Democratic Values and Political Management of the OAS office
in Guatemala and by the office of the Vice-
Presidency of Guatemala.

George Lopez, with David Cortright, ­provided expert testimony to the UN Security Council Sanctions Working Group on “Innovations of the 1990s in UN Sanctions.” He was also interviewed about the UN’s Oil-for-Food program by Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview and NPR’s Marketplace.

Guillermo O'Donnell has been appointed member of the International Committee of the International Forum for Peace and Civilization. The Forum is institutionally located in the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.