The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation has generously supported SAIS and the SAIS International Development Program with a five-year grant to support the IDEV program, and the work of the program's director, Prof. Francis Fukuyama. The Bernard L. Schwartz Globalization Initiative supports the following activities at SAIS: - The Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Political Economy. This chair was created in 2001; its first and current occupant is Prof. Francis Fukuyama.
- The Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism. The Forum began in 2000 with a series of lectures and now holds annual conferences. The Forum has has created a book series Forum on Constructive Capitalism at Johns Hopkins University Press, with Francis Fukuyama as the series editor. The first book in this series was Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, published byin 2005 and based on a conference held at SAIS in April 2004. A second volume, Multilateralism and US Foreign Policy in East Asia, edited by Kent Calder and Francis Fukuyama, will appear in 2008. The economist and Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf, who delivered the Schwartz Lectures in April 2006, will publish them in this series in 2008. Finally, the Forum will hold a workshop on April 23, 2007, on "Benchmarking Success and Failure in Democracy Promotion," co-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
- Leadership Skills Development. SAIS chooses its students with an eye to academic achievement, practical experience, and leadership potential. Combined with the strong curriculum at SAIS, these qualities enable our graduates to achieve distinction in their careers after leaving SAIS. One way we help prepare them for success after graduation is to give them relevant practical experience during their study at SAIS to understand the real issues they will confront during their careers. This includes practical summer work experience with development organizations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and intersession study trips that allow for the field testing of development theories.
- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowships in International Development, offered to promising masters students in the SAIS IDEV program.
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