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Winifred Cox, (858) 534-3121 or IICAS was established last year to promote interdisciplinary research on international, comparative, and cross-regional topics. Building on UCSD's existing strengths in international studies, the new institute will coordinate and support faculty research in departments, area studies programs, and professional schools. The institute will also house the new undergraduate major in international studies. Kahler, the Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at the University of California, San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), has written widely on international political economy, the consequences of globalization, and the international relations of the Pacific region. "We are very pleased that Miles Kahler has agreed to direct the efforts of this important new institute," said Marsha Chandler, UCSD's Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. "The events of the last year have shown us how critical the study of international relations is to our success as a nation. International studies is an area of substantial and growing strength at UCSD. Under Professor Kahler's leadership, we hope to see an acceleration in the growth of our research and teaching programs in this area." One of IICAS' first major undertakings is a research project on globalization, territoriality, and conflict. Directed by Kahler and his IR/PS colleague Barbara Walter, the project is supported by a $260,000 grant received from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The 2-year grant will support an interdisciplinary team of scholars that will examine the effects of global economic and political integration on changing conceptions of territoriality and statehood and the likelihood of intrastate and interstate territorial conflict. "Territorial attachments and territorial conflict have remained surprisingly persistent in an era of globalization," said Kahler. "Our research project should provide explanations for this pattern as well as policy recommendations for curbing violent conflicts that have a territorial dimension." Kahler, a founding member of the IR/PS faculty, joined UCSD in 1986. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal International Organization. He recently completed a paper on the implications of the September 11 attacks for world politics, "Networks and Failed States: September 11 and the Long 20th Century." Walter is an authority on international security, with an emphasis on internal wars, conflict termination, and bargaining and cooperation. Her current research and teaching interests include bargaining failures, territorial conflict, and recurrent civil war. Most recently, she co-authored a paper on "Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence." For more information on the Institute
for International, Comparative, and Area Studies and its activities please
call (858) 822-1131 or visit the IICAS web site at: http://www.intlstudies.ucsd.edu
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International
relations scholar Miles Kahler has been appointed founding director of
the University of California, San Diego's Institute for International,
Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).