Moderators
Professor Abraham Newman
Innovative Development
Innovative Development
Professor Abraham Newman is an Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown, is a senior editor at International Studies Quarterly, and chairs the European Studies Association. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on how economic interdependence and globalization has changed international politics. Some of his works are Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Finance, and Power with Elliot Posner and Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy.
Kelsey Hamilton
China
China
Kelsey Hamilton is a first-year master's student in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service's Asian Studies program. She concentrates in the Politics and Security of Asia with a focus on China. She is currently the managing editor of the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs.
Professor Pamela Sodhy
Cooperation & Competition in Asia
Cooperation & Competition in Asia
Pamela Sodhy is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor in Georgetown’s Asian Studies Program, School of Foreign Service. Before relocating to the United States, she taught for many years at the National University of Malaysia, where she was an Associate Professor in the History Department. She is the recipient of an American Field Service Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright-Hays Grant. Her publications include The US-Malaysian Nexus: Themes in Superpower-Small State Relations (Institute of Strategic and International Studies, ISIS, Malaysia, 1991) and many articles on US-Southeast Asia relations. Her degrees in History are from the University of Malaya (BA Hons.), Louisiana State University (MA), and Cornell University (MA, Ph.D).
Dr. Stanley Kober
Security & Strategy
Security & Strategy
Stanley Kober is a former Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His areas of expertise include the relationship between democracy and peace, with a focus on control over the war power, and American grand strategy. He has lectured in the United States and abroad, and his work has appeared in Foreign Policy, International Affairs (London), the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Kober previously worked on Soviet and defense issues at SRI International (where he was managing editor of the journal, Comparative Strategy), the Center for Naval Analyses, and the Hudson Institute.