The IGCC community is a far-flung cohort of scholars,
students, staff, and interested parties both within and outside of the University
of California, brought together by their common interest in studying international
conflict and cooperation. Director Susan Shirk, the central office staff,
the state-wide steering committee, and program directors on the individual
campuses
are
responsible for keeping this community informed about new developments, opportunities,
and potential collaborations.
Use the links below to find more information on
IGCC faculty, staff, steering committee members, and campus program directors. |
Director
 Susan Shirk
IGCC Director
Background: Susan Shirk is director of the
University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Relations
in the School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. Professor
Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there
ever since.
From 1997 to 2000, Prof. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility
for the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia.
Prof. Shirk founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation
Dialogue (NEACD), a “track two,” or unofficial, forum for
discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials
and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea,
and North Korea.
Prof. Shirk’s publications include her books How China Opened
Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment
Reforms; The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China; and Competitive
Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Her most recent
book, China: Fragile Superpower, was published by Oxford University
Press in 2007.
Prof. Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board
of Governors for the East–West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees
of the U.S.–Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the
National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen
Strategy Group. As senior advisor to the Albright Group, Prof. Shirk
advises private-sector clients on China and East Asia. She received her
B.A.
in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College, her M.A. in Asian Studies
from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Political
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prof.
Shirk's home page
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Research Directors
 Henry D. I. Abarbanel
Research Director for Science and Security
Background: Henry D. I. Abarbanel received his B.S. in physics from Caltech and his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He has served on the faculties at Princeton, Stanford, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and, since 1982, at UC San Diego. He also holds an appointment as a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He presently has appointments as professor of physics at UC San Diego and research physicist at the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research interests have ranged from elementary particle physics to the nonlinear dynamics of biological and physical systems. In that regard he was the founding director of UC San Diego’s Institute for Nonlinear Science and served from 1986 through 2007. In 2000–01 he served as a member of the University of California’s Academic Council, the governing body of UC’s faculty senate. Since 1974, Abarbanel has been a member of JASON, a consulting group to the U.S. Government on technical matters. In 1992 he became a member of the City Council of Del Mar, California, serving as mayor in 1995–96. In that role he has served on numerous regional bodies concerned with energy, wastewater, infrastructure, and quality of life in the San Diego region.
Prof. Abarbanel's home page
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Prof. Abarbanel's publications
 Eli Berman
Research Director for International Security Studies
Background: Eli Berman is an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include economic development and conflict, the economics of religion, labor economics, technological change, economic demography, and applied econometrics. Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (2002 and 2005) have enabled him to look closely at relationships between religion and fertility from an economic standpoint. His latest publications are "Religion, Terrorism, and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model" (with David Laitin) in the Journal of Public Economics (2008), and "The Economics of Religion," in the New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics (with Laurence Iannaccone). Berman received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His book Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism is forthcoming in Fall 2009 from the MIT Press.
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home page
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 Josh Graff Zivin
Research Director for International Environmental and Health Policy
Background: Josh Graff Zivin is associate professor of international relations and Pacific studies at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2004–2005, he served as senior economist for health and the environment on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 2008, he was an associate professor of economics in the Mailman School of Public Health and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he served as the director of the Ph.D. program in sustainable development. Graff Zivin has published numerous articles on a wide range of topics in top economic, policy, and medical journals. His research spans three fields of economics—health, the environment, and international development—and focuses on how uncertainty and heterogeneity affect both individual and societal decision-making. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley.
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 Herbert York (1921–2009)
Founding Director
Background: Herbert York, the founding director
of IGCC, began his career working on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee,
during World
War II. York was the first director of the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory,
which is managed by the University of California. He was appointed
director of Defense Research and Engineering by Presidents Eisenhower
and Kennedy.
From 1961–1964 and 1970–1972, York was chancellor of
UC San Diego. From 1979–1981 he served as U.S. ambassador to
the Comprehensive Test Ban
negotiations in
Geneva. He founded IGCC in 1983. In 2000, York received the prestigious
Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board for his leadership
in the arms
control movement and his work on nuclear energy.
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