Speaker(s): Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Date: September 7, 2007
Length: 87 minutes
Description: On September 7, 2007, the Robert S. Strauss Center welcomed Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Professor Cohen was a faculty member at the University of Illinois from 1965 to 1998. From 1992-93 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, and from 1985-87, a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, where he dealt with South Asia. He has taught at Andhra University (India) and Keio University (Tokyo), Georgetown University, and now teaches in the South Asian program of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Cohen regularly appears on American national radio and television, and many foreign radio and television services. He has served on numerous study groups examining Asia sponsored by the Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, and the National Bureau of Asian Research; he is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control and a trustee of the Public Education Center. Dr. Cohen was the co-founder and chair of the workshop on Security, Technology and Arms Control for younger South Asian and Chinese strategists, held for the past ten years in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and China, and was a founding member of the Research Committee of the South Asian strategic organization, the Regional Centre for Security Studies, Colombo.
Dr. Cohen has written, co-authored, or edited ten books. These include The Idea of Pakistan,(September, 2004), India: Emerging Power (June 2001, with Japanese, Indian, Chinese, and Taiwanese editions), The Pakistan Army (revised edition 1998), The Indian Army (revised edition, 2000), the co-authored Brasstacks and Beyond: Perception and Management of Crisis in South Asia (1995), India: Emergent Power? and Perception, Politics, and Security in South Asia: the Compound Crisis of 1990 2003. Edited books include Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (1990) and South Asia after the Cold War (1993) and a co-authored book on the Kargil and 2002 crises is nearing completion.
In 2004 he was named as one of the five hundred most influential people in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.
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