Asia expert to open new Foley Institute Lecture series
Internationally acclaimed Harvard University professor Susan Pharr will speak on the rise of civil society in Japan and other Asian nations at Washington State University on Sept 20. She will be the inaugural speaker for a new lecture series sponsored by the Thomas Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service and the
One of the world’s foremost experts on Japanese politics and the social basis for democracy in East Asia,
Currently serving as Harvard’s Edwin O. Reischauer professor of Japanese Politics, and as director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations,
She will be the premiere lecturer for the Thomas S. Foley Institute’s Peace and Security Lecture Series, a new bi-annual series aimed at exploring the many dimensions of peace and security in the 21st Century. The title of her talk is “The Rise of Civil Society in
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A member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations,
Among her many works are Political Women in