Deadlines Extended! Apply now for IGCC summer boot camps: The 2008 intensive summer programs in Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) and Public Policy and Biological Threats (PPBT) are now accepting applications. Graduate students may be eligible for a full or partial grant to cover costs.

This year, the PPBT boot camp will be condensed into ten days, from July 26 to August 3. More, including the application. Deadline for application has been extended to May 9, 2008.

The PPNT boot camp will benefit from the expertise of Linton Brooks, former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, as scholar in residence. More, including the application. Deadline for application has been extended to May 23, 2008.

Iraqi TV journalists hone their skills: A two-week workshop sponsored by the Erbil Provisional Reconstruction Team (PRT) brought media expert Robert Hooper (UC San Diego) to Kurdistan to teach local reporters, editors, and camera operators. More.

An alarming increase in expected Chinese CO₂ output: The growth in China's carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions is far outpacing previous estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, according to a new analysis by economists at UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. Based on their findings, co-authors Maximillian Auffhammer (UC Berkeley) and Richard Carson (UC San Diego) find current global warming forecasts are "overly optimistic," and state that action is urgently needed to curb greenhouse gas production in China and other rapidly industrializing countries. The study was funded in part by IGCC. More.

Contemporary China Confronts the International Arena: Much discussion and controversy surrounds the current international position and behavior of China, the world's new rising superpower. The UC Irvine Center for Asian Studies will examine China’s role in the world today at a one-day conference April 26. Speakers will include graduate students and faculty from UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and Columbia University. The conference is free and open to the public. More.

Envisioning a Multilateral Security Mechanism for Northeast Asia: As part of a broad multi-year effort to explore the contours of Asian institution building, the Stanley Foundation, in collaboration with IGCC, convened a workshop on February 12, 2008, to explore the way forward for a future multilateral security and peace mechanism in Northeast Asia and the near-, medium- and long-term implications for the United States. This workshop built on an earlier IGCC-Stanley Foundation meeting on envisioning the future security and peace mechanism for Northeast Asia held in November 2007 in Moscow. A new policy memo, drafted following the San Diego workshop, provides a brief overview of the issue and factors at play for U.S. policymakers. More.