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Asian Economic Outlook
November 12
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Kauffman Foundation
4801 Rockhill Road, KCMO
Join the International Relations Council, in partnership with the UMKC Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, for "Asian Economic Outlook" with Dr. Norihito Tanaka, Visiting Professor of Economics at UMKC. Dr. Tanaka will discuss current economic perspectives and the business environment, including the growth of the Chinese economy, the Japanese economic situation and governmental power shift, and emerging markets and economies in Asia.
Tanaka is a professor of International Business and Economics at Kanagawa University in Japan. He has also taught in Thailand, the Phillipines, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Tanaka has published several books, including Japan's Postwar Economy and Technological Competitive Power of U.S. and Japan.
For more information, call 816-235-5439 or visit www.umkc.edu/executive.
2009 Eliot S. Berkley Lecture
"One Nation Under Contract"
December 4
Noon
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 W. 12th St., KCMO 64105
3 hours free self-parking available in garage
Join the International Relations Council for the 2009 Berkley Lecture, delivered by Allison Stanger, Russell Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College.
Stanger's new book, One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, will be released in October. In this timely new book, Stanger provides a definitive and disturbing look at one of the most important trends in politics: the privatization of American foreign policy and its consequences. Stanger shows how private contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways.
The Eliot S. Berkley Award for International Achievement winner will also be announced at this event.
$40 members/$45 non-members
Register now!
Financing Terrorism
February 15
Jean-Louis Bruguière, international judge and High Representative of the European Union to the United States, will speak on the issue of terrorism financing. Bruguière is an expert at the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European Union and the United Nations (UNODOC). This program is sponsored in conjunction with Alliance Francaise.
More details to become available as the date approaches.
Governance & Emerging Markets in Fragile States
Co-sponsored by WACA and Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
In partnership with the Kauffman Foundation and the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the UMKC Bloch School
March 3
7:00 p.m.
Kauffman Foundation
4801 Rockhill Rd., KCMO
For several years, American foreign and defense policy has focused on a nexus of critical, interconnected issues: good governance, anti-corruption, rule of law, and strengthening civil society. Dr. John D. Sullivan, Executive Director of CIPE, will discuss how these issues are related, how they are being addressed (or not), what works, and what doesn't. Focusing on the context of fragile states, Dr. Sullivan will address the role of private enterprise in promoting a strong, well-functioning society and the challenges that fragile states in particular confront in developing and leveraging the market toward that end.
The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) works to strengthen democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. CIPE is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy and a non-profit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. For 25 years, CIPE has worked with business leaders, policymakers, and journalists to build the civic institutions vital to a democratic society.
This program is free, thanks to a grant from the Kauffman Foundation, but please RSVP.
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