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A. FELLOWSHIPS 1999-2000 IN THE UNITED STATES 1. At the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (C.F.I.A.) The Union's Institutions will send a senior permanent official with 15-20 years professional experience to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, at Harvard University, as a Fellow for the academic year August 15 to June 30.The principal objectives of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs are to encourage interdisciplinary research on major problems in the field of international affairs and to promote and pursue an interest in international affairs at Harvard University, largely through independent research, seminars, conferences, and other educational activities carried out among faculty members, fellows, research associates, students and various other groups. Each year the Center gathers a group of about twenty people involved in international affairs, mainly senior officials from various countries around the world, who spend a full academic year as Fellows of the Center, doing intensive study. Fellows hold appointments as Officers of the University and thus have access to virtually all the resources of the University. They are colleagues of the Faculty, not students. The Program is structured to maximise Fellow's opportunity to pursue their own interests in their own way. Some concentrate on research and writing, others focus on new developments in their fields, attending seminars and lectures at Harvard, MIT and other universities in the Boston area. Still others will organise a seminar or workshop on a specific subject of interest. Most do some of all of these. Each Fellow is REQUIRED to write at least one analytical paper on a self-selected topic. With varied geographical and professional backgrounds, with different ways of looking at the world and diverse analytical and decision-making experience, Fellows have much to offer and receive from their colleagues. The University environment permits a quality of uninhibited discussion seldom achieved in official contacts. The Center and other divisions of the University take broad interest in European Union policies. Areas of particular interest include the role of the European Union in the world (e.g. international relations of a strategic, political or commercial character), the evolution of Community Institutions, as well as policies in the field of new technologies. Besides participating in seminars on a wide variety of topics in international affairs organised by the Center, the EU Fellow should closely cooperate with Harvard's Center for European Studies, which houses the new EU Center at Harvard. In addition, other departments of Harvard University might request help in organising courses, seminars or study groups on some aspects of the European Union. The Commission's Washington Delegation could likewise request the Fellow to speak on certain occasions. 2. At Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Yale University would like to host an EU Fellow for the first time in 1999, in connection with a newly established endowment, "The Clifford P. and Beatrice N. Hackett Fund for Topics Relating to the European Integration". A one-semester appointment for the first Hackett EU Fellow, September to December 1999, is acceptable.The Fellow would ideally be a senior permanent official from the EU with considerable experience in Brussels, Luxembourg or Strasbourg. The Fellow would be expected to teach one upper-level undergraduate seminar on a topic pertaining to European integration that would fit within the rubric of a core discipline such as economics, history or political science. In addition, the Fellow would be expected to interact with faculty and students engaged in EU-related research and to participate in the broader intellectual life of the University. The Fellow would be appointed to the Department of History, Economics, or Political Science. The Departmental placement would determine the nature of the course to be offered. The Department will provide appropriate office space, with phone, computer access, and secretarial services etc on the basis available to other members of the Department. Each of Yale's residential colleges has Residential Fellows' Suites, and Yale would, if the Fellow wished, canvass the twelve College Masters in the hope of obtaining this kind of on-campus accommodation. 3. At the EU Center in the Center for West European Studies, University of Washington, Seattle The University of Washington in Seattle (the metropolitan centre of the State of Washington) is the largest and most respected university in the Northwest quadrant of the United States and is noted for its international programs. The EU Fellow will be hosted by the newly established EU Center, which is located in the Center for West European Studies (CWES) as part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. CWES is a federally funded National Resource Center, one of the only two for Western Europe (the other is at UC-Berkeley) on the West Coast. The Fellow would teach one or two advanced seminars during the academic year, help to organise a conference related to the EU, and give talks in courses and to the community. Each seminar would involve one or two meetings per week for ten weeks.CWES has hosted four EU Fellows in the past and for next year would be happy to host a fellow from any branch of the European Union. While the preference is for a full academic year, a one or two quarter appointment would be considered. The academic year at the UW runs from the last week of September to the first week of June, and is divided into four quarters instead of semesters. 4. At the Institute of Public Policy (TIPP), George Mason University George Mason University (25.000 students) is part of the University of Virginia system and supports northern Virginia, including Washington DC's Virginia suburbs. The university's location, close to the nation's capital, offers visiting fellows an excellent opportunity to observe and participate in Washington's busy political, intellectual and cultural life.The EU Fellow would work primarily with colleagues in the Institute of Public Policy, which has a large doctoral program in Public Policy as well as a Masters program in International Commerce and Policy (an interdisciplinary program on the global economy). TIPP has strengths in regional economic development, science and technology policy, international trade and investment, and the study of culture and public policy; among its faculty are well-known academics like Seymour Martin Lipset and Francis Fukuyama. The Master's program stresses international trade and finance. Accordingly, the Fellow's research interests should focus on regional economics and development, international trade, finance, technology, or social values. As well as teaching one graduate course related to his or her research interest, the EU Fellow should be willing to teach a general undergraduate course on European integration 5. At the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford - Massachussetts The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was established by Tufts University with the assistance of Harvard University in 1933 as America's first graduate professional school of international relations. It is a competitive, highly selective school with students from more than fifty countries, which tries in its curriculum and professoriate to combine practice and theory. Its students, averaging 27 years of age, go on to careers in international public service, including professional diplomacy, as well as in education, business, communication, humanitarian service, and other fields.The Fletcher School is very committed to teaching as well as being a graduate research institution. The EU Fellow may be invited to teach a policy-oriented course or seminar on a topic of institutional and substantive importance in the European Union with a view to sharing his/her experience of policy-making "from the inside". Instruction and advising students probably therefore will take up a considerable amount of time during the Fellowship. Due to the close administrative relationship between Fletcher and Harvard, and the proximity of other prestigious institutions such as MIT, the Fellow is likely to have possibilities of intellectual interchange within the wider Boston academic, business and political community. The academic year runs from September 1999 to June 2000. 6. At the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, International Policy Studies, University of Texas, Austin The EU Fellow at the LBJ School will be invited to contribute to the mutidisciplinary research of the school through active participation in Policy Research Projects. The Fellow will be expected to give a Masters level course or seminar on European affairs within the University of Texas to Masters and Doctoral Students from the whole system, utilise the resources of the EU Depository and Presidential Library, take a special interest in regional issues and work with other academic institutes in the region. Specific research interests currently include international trade and finance, transportation, urban affairs, technology development, and the role(s) of government.The School is characterised by a close link to the University of Texas system, the Texas State Legislature, the Johnson Presidency, and an international basis and outlook in its staff, other visiting fellows and students that belies its location. The EU Fellow will be asked to develop contacts in EU institutions for faculty and associated research staff, and support the school's EU stagiaire scheme with preselection of candidates. The EU Fellow can be expected to give talks to local political, public interest and business bodies on current issues of EU regulations and policy, affecting the working and trading relationships between the US, and specifically Texas, and the EU. There is a level of independent, current, information flow from the main EU bodies, and extensive corpora of catalogued background documents for the Fellow to build on. The academic year starts in late August 1999 through to the following May/June 1999 period. The preference is for the EU Fellow to spend the entire academic year at the University both to teach a course and to conduct research on subjects of interest to the Fellow and the university faculty. 7. At the EU Center in the Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh The newly established European Union Center at the Center for West European Studies will host a Fellow with a wide range of duties at the University of Pittsburgh, one of the premiere research universities in the United States. The University has a strong international orientation founded upon its nationally recognised programs in international affairs. The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) co-ordinates international programs across all academic disciplines and professional schools. UCIS houses five National Resources Centers funded by the Federal Government (Western Europe, Russia and Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and International Business), and the European Union Center funded by the European Union.Close to all major cities on the East Coast, and in the Midwest, Pittsburgh has reinvented itself as a growing center of high technology and medical industries. Yet Pittsburgh remains a top location for major corporate and financial headquarters. The University's 132-acre campus is located in Oakland, at the heart of this urban renaissance. Its neighbours include major museums, music and lecture halls, theatres, restaurants, and Schenley Park - one of four parks in the city with over 400 acres of greenery and trails. The Fellow would be integrated into the many activities of the European Union Center and the Center for West European Studies (CWES). Since 1984, CWES has stressed interdisciplinary collaborations among the social sciences and the professional schools (Law, Business, Information Sciences, and Public and International Affairs) in the area of European integration. The recent creation of a European Union Center has greatly increased these activities. The Fellow would not teach regular courses, but instead would be used as a resource person for graduate and undergraduate students, the faculty, and the local business/professional community. He or she might, for example, be invited to give general talks on the Union in undergraduate courses, more specialised ones to graduate students in the social sciences and professional schools, and to work at a still more specialised level with doctoral students planning to carry out research in Brussels in his/her area of expertise. If willing, he/she would be invited to address business groups in the city as well as the academic community comprised of small colleges and private universities in the surrounding region. The person of most interest to the University would have knowledge of institutional reform, environmental policy, economic and monetary issues, industrial affairs, trade and competition policy, regulatory reform, technology policy, or foreign and security policy. A person with broad policy interests rather than a narrow focus is particularly desirable given the variety of audiences who will be interested in the Fellow's expertise. Flexibility and breadth are very important. Since the Fellow will not be required to teach, stays of three/six months can be easily accommodated. If the Fellow were interested in teaching, it may be possible to arrange a course even during an abbreviated stay. For a native speaker of a language other than English, we would hope to provide opportunities for discussions with students in his/her native language. In general, we try to custom-tailor a program for the Fellow so that he/she can use his/her time at the University of Pittsburgh most productively. We would hope for extensive interaction with the Fellow as soon as possible after the selection takes place. The University will provide office space, telephone, some secretarial support and assistance in finding appropriate housing and schooling for the Fellow and his/her family. 8. At the Center for International Studies, School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Located at the eastern hub of the Pacific Rim, the University of Southern California is among the largest private universities in the United States and is one of the most global in outlook. Four thousand of its 28,000 students come from outside the United States. The USC School of International Relations (School), the second oldest school of international affairs in the United States, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary throughout 1999. The EU Fellow will be hosted in the School's Center for International Studies (CIS), which sponsors research and organises seminars and conferences on international affairs, and simultaneously serve as a visiting fellow of the European Union Center of California (EU Center), which is jointly sponsored by USC, Scripps College and the Claremont Colleges.The School, the newly established EU Center of California, and the affiliated Pacific Council on International Policy usually host about 8-10 visiting fellows each year. During the past three years these visitors included senior scholars from Oxford, St Petersburg State University, the University of Bucharest, Wesleyan, and the University of Dayton, visiting government officials from the Mexico, Canada, Australia, the UK and the U.S. State Department, and post-doctoral fellows from Stanford, Michigan, the University of Washington, the University of Chicago and the Graduate Institute on International Studies (Geneva). Like the other visiting fellows, the EU Fellow should expect to attend and participate in EU Center and CIS seminars, conduct his or her own research and write and present an analytical paper, and participate in classes offered by the School of International Relations and other academic units. Depending on the background and interests of the EU Fellow, the opportunity exists to teach a class within the School of International Relations and to participate in USC/UCLA/Claremont outreach efforts to sensitise high school and community college students and teachers to the challenges raised by globalisation. The Center for International Studies would welcome a Fellow from any of the EU institutions. Issues currently of prime concern to faculty members associated with the Center include global and regional governance; economic security and development; democratisation and economic transition; conflict resolution; issues of ethnicity and identity and comparative international migration; and international bargaining and negotiation strategies. SIR will provide office space, telephone, computer, Internet access, and assistance in finding appropriate housing. The USC academic year begins in late August and ends in early May. 9. At Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University is an independent, comprehensive coeducational research university. It is consistently ranked among the finest research and teaching universities in the United States. Together with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke has established one of the new EU Centers.Duke University has launched a major effort to further the internationalization of its programs of teaching, training and research. At the core of its internationalization efforts are its area and global studies centers and strong social science programs, both of which are committed to innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching. The European Union Fellow would be hosted by the Center for International Studies, the Center for European Studies, and a social science discipline appropriate to the individual's interests and training. The EU Fellow would serve as a guest lecturer and consultant for undergraduate and graduate classes in a wide array of disciplines at Duke and neighboring campuses. The EU Fellow would be required to interact with working groups and research clusters and serve as a resource for doctoral students writing dissertations on European topics. Currently the major research clusters include faculty working together on issues of globalization and equity; international migration; international security; gender roles; law and society; comparative world history; ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship; and transnationalism and public culture. Duke University's international programs maintain a strong working relationship with like organizations at the nearby campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The EU Fellow would also be asked to lecture and consult at UNC, and to participate in the activities of the joint UNC/Duke EU Center. Duke University is located in a region of the U.S. well known as an international center of research. Duke was one of the founders of the neighboring Research Triangle Park, a 6,850 acre campus of research and development facilities for international corporations, including IBM, Glaxo-Wellcome, Nortel, Sumitomo, and many others | |
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