Students
Witness Dichotomies in India’s Growing
Democracy
Over winter break, a group of SPP students, accompanied by SPP Professor Desmond
Dinan, traveled to India -- the largest democracy in the world -- to study its
emergence as a major global player in the information technology field.
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Dean’s
Visit to Asia Reflects SPP’s Growing Involvement
in Region
Aware that the continuing economic development
of Asia will play a critical role in “our
global future,” SPP is working with partners
in the region to develop policy programs, according
to Dean Kingsley Haynes.
 Computer
Security Software Gets Tested by SPP
The
Critical Infrastructure Protection Project and
SPP are working with HP Labs to test the
feasibility of new software that could make computers
more secure against viruses, worms and spyware. SPP
Professor Jack High explained, “We’re
trying to look from an economic and legal point
of view to see if this approach to security will
work.”
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PUBLICATIONS
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The
Democratic Century, by Seymour Martin Lipset
and Jason Lakin
Hazel Professor Emeritus
Seymour Martin Lipset and co-author Jason Lakin examine
the origins
and reasons for successful and unsuccessful
democracies
in the 20th Century.
Paper Sheds Light on Policy and Politics
In 1995, the office of newly-elected Virginia
Gov. George Allen wanted to assess the economic
effects of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
(CIT), a nonprofit organization originally created
by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1984 to
enhance the research and development capability
of the state's major research universities. By
that time, the center was increasingly being focused
on technology and commercialization. CIT President
Bob Templin asked SPP Professor Roger Stough, the
Northern Virginia Endowed Chair who was already
engaged in research about how technology sectors
of industry develop, to do the assessment. He complied
and completed the project with the help of SPP
Professor James Riggle, a then Ph.D. student who
was assisting Stough at the time.
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Renowned
International Trade Experts Address SPP Classes
Students who sign up for SPP
Professor Stuart Malawer’s International Trade Relations (603) and Global
Trade Wars (711) classes may expect just another
course filled with lectures about theory and politics.
However, they get more than they bargain for.
Professor
Gives Governance Expertise to Sustain India’s
Economic Growth
The
Indian economy is expected to grow in the range
of 7 to 8
percent this
year, according
to a government survey. Over the past ten years,
the country’s economy has become Asia's
third largest behind Japan and China. But unless
more steps are taken to improve public governance,
the boom may turn to bust, according to Public
Policy Professor Roger Stough.
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STUDENT
PROFILES
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Alum
Receives Thai Research Award
In a ceremony on February, 2, SPP Doctoral
alum Srisombat Chokprajakchat received an award from the National
Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) for her dissertation about the
creation of the Thai FBI.
TPOL Grad Serves as Va. Transportation Planner
One
of the SPP Transportation Policy, Operations
and Logistics
Program’s (TPOL) first graduates is now
in charge of Virginia’s transportation
plans. Marsha Fiol,
who graduated in August 2002, is the Virginia
Department of Transportation (VDOT) State Transportation
Planner.
Doctoral
Student Wins Regional Paper Competition
For
the second year in a row, a SPP student has
won the Barry
M. Moriarty student paper competition from the
Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA),
an association of scientists and educators with
an interest in the application of regional science
theory. This year Ph.D. student Lei
Ding took
the prize...
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