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Past ProjectsMost past Center projects can be found by checking the site of the appropriate project. Here, however, are several recent projects undertaken by CGSD as CGSD. The Northern Europe Initiative (NEI) and Baltic SecurityThanks in part to a Fulbright Fellowship and support from Rutgers University, the Center is beginning a long-term research project into the origins, nature, and possible consequences of the NEI for the post-communist Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and other states in the Baltic Sea region. The NEI is an innovative foreign policy instrument for at least two reasons: (1) it takes a more expansive approach to defining security in the region, and (2) it broadens the range of actors that contribute to the provision of that security. Accordingly it is of great interest to better understand the policy initiative, its genealogy, and its effectiveness in the eyes of different actors in the Baltic region. Budding partnerships with the Copenhagen Peace Reseach Institute (COPRI) and with the Rutgers Center for Comparative European Studies (previously the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, CRCEES) promise to enlarge and enhance the project.Security Conditions for the Engagement and Enlargement of DemocracyFinal report now available as a CGSD Working Paper at Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), an e-publishing arm of Columbia University Press. Access is limited to CIAO subscribers. The Department of Defense funded a team of researchers to conduct unclassified historical examinations of the impact of alternative security strategies and force structures on, inter alia, the maintenance of global peacetime stability and the expansion of democratic values and institutions. An article summarizing the study's major findings was published in the Naval War College Review .JCAS-Rutgers SeriesThe Center plays an integral role in facilitating a collaboration between the Japan Center for Area Studies (at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan ) and scholars of political science and history at Rutgers University . Central in this collaboration have been two conferences, held at Rutgers and sponsored by the Center. These conferences have brought together experts from both countries to share their research on nationalism and citizenship, and have generated three published collections in the JCAS Occasional Paper Series, edited by Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru.Center MonographsThe Center publishes an Occasional Paper Series through the Columbia University Press's Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) program. The series makes research papers available to scholars at an earlier stage than more formal publications, stimulating earlier and more constructive debate and criticism.Rutgers University Model United NationsThe Center participates in the lives of Rutgers undergraduates and the area high school students who have an active interest in global affairs by providing support to the Institute for Domestic and International Affairs (IDIA), an educational nonprofit started and operated by Rutgers alumni. IDIA, an important CGSD partner, hosts the highly successful Rutgers University Model UN every fall and the Rutgers Model Congress every spring. IDIA and CGSD’s Global PACT collaborate to put on the summer World Youth Leadership and Activism Conference (WYLAC) and other local trainings about global affairs.Seminar SeriesThe Center for Global Security and Democracy co-sponsors three ongoing seminar series: Emerging Trends in Political Science (founded by the current Center Director, Michael Shafer); the International Relations-History Seminar; and the International Relations Seminar. |
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