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Iraq Options Debated by UCLA Panel

A volatile overflow crowd of students, faculty, and community members jammed an auditorium in Kinsey Hall on the UCLA campus October 16 to hear a discussion of U.S. options vis-a-vis Iraq.
Posted: 10/17/2002

Iraq: Assessing the Options

The UCLA International Institute and the Burkle Center for International Relations will host a public forum at UCLA on October 16 to explore the issues involved in the emerging U.S. foreign policy about Iraq.
Posted: 10/11/2002

President Bush Silent on Potential Costs of War with Iraq

Gary Hart sharply criticized President Bush and the American military at a UCLA luncheon address on Wednesday, October 2, 2002, for not forthrightly telling the American people the possible risks in a U.S. attack on Iraq.
Posted: 10/2/2002

Balinese Gamelan Performance

On September 28, 2002, the Wilshire Ebell Theater reverberated with the rich tones of Balinese gamelan music, as a large audience enjoyed an evening of music and dance from the Çudamani ensemble of Bali.
Posted: 10/1/2002

Ambassadors Weigh U.S.-Korea Relations, Relations with North Korea

President Bush's Axis of Evil speech criticized by South Korean Ambassador, defended by U.S. Ambassador to South Korea in friendly exchange.
Posted: 9/24/2002

Mantle Hood Receives USINDO Award

Founder of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, Emeritus Professor Mantle Hood has recently been awarded the USINDO award for his significant contribution to the United States-Indonesian bilateral relationship. The award was given to him in Washington D.C on September 12, 2002 at the second annual USINDO dinner to celebrate bilateral ties. In attendance at the dinner were the Indonesian minister of foreign affairs and various U.S. congressional members.
Posted: 9/12/2002

Talking Peace

by President Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize awardee from a speech given 2001 at the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 7/16/2002

Yegor Gaidar: Russia Has Done Better than You Think

Why has the Russian economy done so badly in the transition to a market system since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991? For Yegor Gaidar, former Russian Prime Minister and a powerful figure in current Russian economic policy, this is the wrong question. For Gaidar the question should be how did Russia do as well as it has, and escape the complete economic collapse that threatened to overwhelm it at several junctures over the last decade?
Posted: 6/19/2002

Home and Abroad: A Diplomat Speaks on US Policy to Hometown L.A.

A State Department sponsored program that sends diplomats to their hometowns brings a top official and former Angeleno to speak to local groups on home turf.
Posted: 6/17/2002

World in Focus TV Program

A four-part television series produced by UCLA International Studies, The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and Adelphia Communications.
Posted: 6/16/2002

UNAM Rector Proposes New Agenda for International Collaboration

“We need to educate our students and ourselves to become better global participants, able to understand other people on their own terms while also deepening an appreciation for our own heritages. Globalization aided by the development of intercultural competence offers such a promise.”
Posted: 6/11/2002

John N. Hawkins to Head Center for International and Development Education at UCLA

Former ISOP dean will lead research on reform, change and strategy in global higher education
Posted: 5/24/2002

Kyoto Protocol Said to Harm Effort to Stop Global Warming--But There Is Something Better

Marco Verweij, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Project Group on Common Goods, Bonn, urges abandonment of the Kyoto project and its replacement with a crash program to develop cheap renewable energy technologies.
Posted: 5/23/2002

UCLA Samahang Pilipino Cultural Night, May 19, 2002

Cast of 300 enthralls audience of 2,500 at Royce Hall for 25th annual performance of Filipino music and dances. Skit probes tense relations between the Philippines and developed countries.
Posted: 5/23/2002

Roots of the Economic Crisis in Post-Democratization Korea

In the decade before the crash of 1997 South Korea witnessed unprecedented growth and an extraordinary level of popular agreement on national goals. Why, then, were the government and corporations blindsided by the impending crash? A Korean scholar suggests an answer.
Posted: 5/20/2002

Advisory for Wednesday-Thursday, May 29-30: Bioterrorism: From Foreign Policy to Local Preparedness

Experts to Discuss Political, Clinical and Practical Issues of "Bioterrorism in the New World Order"
Posted: 5/15/2002

China and Japan: Where Are They Headed?

How serious is the recession in Japan? What are China's prospects for achieving democracy? Will China and Japan form an East Asian superpower? Three prominent authorities look at the answers.
Posted: 5/7/2002

Constructive Suggestions on Kashmir Conflict Emerge at UCLA Conference

Despite a ruckus between unruly hardliners, a recent conference on the conflict in Kashmir represented a general sense of cooperation and a willingness to seek consensus.
Posted: 4/26/2002

Britain's Growing Collaboration with the European Union on a Pan-Europe Defense System

Tony Blair commits Britain to join the EU in creating a 200,000 troop military that can deploy 60,000 troops on immediate notice.
Posted: 4/22/2002

Advisory for Friday, May 3: Experts Speak on Global and National Security, Civil Rights

Experts to Meet at UCLA to Discuss Security and Civil Rights in United States, Europe, Middle East
Posted: 4/18/2002

Advisory for Thursday, April 25: Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell to Speak

Robert A. Mundell, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will speak on "Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies and Economic Development" when he delivers the 6th annual Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development.
Posted: 4/18/2002

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