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FSI's research on the origins, character and consequences of government institutions spans continents and academic disciplines. The institute’s senior fellows and their colleagues across Stanford examine the principles of public administration and implementation. Their work focuses on how maternal health care is delivered in rural China, how public action can create wealth and eliminate poverty, and why U.S. immigration reform keeps stalling. 

FSI’s work includes comparative studies of how institutions help resolve policy and societal issues. Scholars aim to clearly define and make sense of the rule of law, examining how it is invoked and applied around the world. 

FSI researchers also investigate government services – trying to understand and measure how they work, whom they serve and how good they are. They assess energy services aimed at helping the poorest people around the world and explore public opinion on torture policies. The Children in Crisis project addresses how child health interventions interact with political reform. Specific research on governance, organizations and security capitalizes on FSI's longstanding interests and looks at how governance and organizational issues affect a nation’s ability to address security and international cooperation.

From Republican Barcelona to Pre-Nazi Berlin: Nudism, Sexuality, and National Identity in Laura Brunet's 'Desnudismo Integral' (1931)

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Maite Zubiaurre is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and has taught Spanish literature at a variety of distinguished institutions including Columbia University, the University of Texas, Austin, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the University of Southern California, among others. Dr. Zubiaurre's research interests include twentieth-century Peninsular literature; European and Latin American Realism; comparative literature; gender studies; urban studies; cultural studies; Latin American women's fiction; and Latina and Chicana fiction.

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Seminars

American and European Constitutionalism - A View from the European Union

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Jiri Priban is a professor at the Cardiff Law School and Charles University in Prague. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Professor Priban has published extensively in the fields of legal philosophy, sociology of law, constitutional and European comparative law, and human rights theory. His presentation will focus on the European Union, its recent expansion, and emerging constitutionalism.

Co-sponsored by the Advanced Degree Student Association at the Stanford Law School and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

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Seminars

Workshop on the Status of Agricultural Policy Reform in the US, the EU, and the WTO

Session I: Analytical Frameworks for Studying Farm Policy Reform

Speaker: Wayne Moyer, Grinnell College

Discussant: Christophe Crombez, University of Leuven and Stanford University

Session II: The Evidence of a Hallian Paradigm Shift in Farm Policy

Speaker: Timothy Josling, Stanford University

Discussant: David Orden, Virginia Tech

Session III: Experience with Farm Policy Reform, 1990-1995

Speaker: Timothy Josling, Stanford University (GATT/WTO: UR up to Heysel, 1990)

Discussant: Stephen Tangermann, University of Gottingen; Lee Ann Patterson, UCSF

Speaker: Wayne Moyer, Grinnell College (US 1990 Farm Bill)

Discussant: David Orden, Virginia Tech

Speaker: Timothy Josling, Stanford University (Blair House, 1992-1993 and URAA, 1994)

Discussant: Wayne Moyer, Grinnell College (EU 1992 CAP Reform)

Session IV: Farm Policy Reform, 1996-2000

Speaker: Wayne Moyer, Grinnell College (US 1996 Fair Act)

Discussant: David Orden, Virginia Tech

Speaker: Wayne Moyer, Grinnell College (EU Agenda 2000)

Discussant: Stefan Tangermann, University of Gottingen; John Gillingham, University of Missouri

Session V: Future of Farm Policy Reform

Speaker; Tim Josling, Stanford University (WTO 2000 Round)

Speaker: David Orden, Virginia Tech (US Farm Policy Futures)

Speaker: Stefan Tangermann, University of Gottingen (CAP Reform Possibilities)

Discussant: All

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Workshops

Symposium on Trans-Atlantic Trade Conflicts: Understanding and Resolving the Banana Problem

Session I: The World Banana Market

Speaker: Tom Spreen, University of Florida

Discussant: Micky Paggi, Congressional Budget Office

"The World Banana Market"

Session II: Bananas and the EU

Speaker: Stephan Tangermann, University of Gottingen

Discussant: Jo Swinnen, Leuven and EU Commission

"Bananas and the EU"

Session III: Bananas and Multinationals

Speaker: Tim Taylor and Xavier Abufele, University of Florida

Discussant: Micky Paggi, Congressional Budget Office

"Bananas and Multinationals"

Session IV: Bananas and the Caribbean

Speaker: Tim Taylor, University of Florida; Patrick Antoine, RNM, Barbados

Discussant: John Stovall, NCFAP, Washington

"Bananas and the Carribbean"

Session V: Bananas and the WTO

Speaker: Timothy Josling, Stanford University

Discussant: Stephan Tangermann, University of Gottingen

"Bananas and the WTO"

Session VI: Lessons for Trade Policy

Session VII: Group discussion about the completion and publication of the book "Going Bananas"

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