BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT RICHARD C. MARSTON

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1982
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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Richard C. Marston
Professor Marston is an Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Research
Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
He received an A.B. degree from Yale University in 1966, a B. Phil. degree
from Oxford University (Balliol College) in 1968, and Ph.D. degree in
Economics from MIT in 1972. His principal professional interests center
on international monetary economics - exchange rate arrangements,
national economic policies and international coordination. He has been
a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
the U.S. Treasury Department, and several private corporations, and has
served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economics
and the Journal of International Money and Finance. He has received
fellowships from the German Marshall Fund, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the IBM Corporation, the National Science Foundation, and the
Rhodes Trustees, and has held visiting appointments at the London Business
School and the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales
in Paris.
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BIOGRAPHIC RESUME
Dr. Riordan Roett is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin
American Studies Program at SAIS, as well as Director of the Center of
Brazilian Studies. He received his B.A., M.I.A. Certificate in Latin
American Studies, and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Dr. Roett has
done considerable research in Latin America and has received a number of
fellowships that have enabled him to do field research on the political
development of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. These fellowships
include: Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, National Defense Education, Post-
doctoral Fellowship from the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Vanderbilt University, research grants, Collabora-
tive Research Training Fellowship (Foreign Area Program) and a Post-doctoral
Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council.
Dr. Roett began teaching in 1967 as an Assistant Professor of Political
Science at Vanderbilt University where he served as Associate Director and
Acting Director of the University's Center for Latin American Studies until
1973. At Vanderbilt, he received two awards for excellence in teaching. He
is the author of The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Brazilian Northeast
(1972); Brazil in the Sixties (editor and co-author) 1972;
Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society, 1973, 1976; and Brazil in the
Seventies, editor, published in the United States in 1976 and in Brazil in
1978. Other publications include: "Brazilian Foreign Policy: Options for
the 1980s," in T. C. Bruneau and Philippe Faucher, eds., Authoritarian
Capitalism: The Contemporary Economic and Political Development of Brazil
(1981); "Brazil and. the Inter-American System," in Tom J. Farer, ed., The
Future of the Inter-American System (1979); "Authoritarian Paraguay: The
Personalist Tradition," (with Amparo Menedez-Carrion), in H.J. Wiarda and
H.F. Kline, eds., Latin American Politics and Development (1979); "The
Political Future of Brazil," in W. Overholt, ed., The Future of Brazil
(1979); and "Brazil Ascendant: International Relations and Geopolitics in
the Late 20th Century", Journal of International Affairs, (1975).
Dr. Roett served as 1978 President of the Latin American Studies Association
(LASA). Other professional activities include Vice President, Board of
Trustees, LASPAU (Latin American Scholarship Program of American Uni-
versities); Chairman, National Targets Panel for Latin America, National
Council on Foreign Language and International Studies, Member, Commission on
United States-Brazil Relations; Member, The Doherty Foundation's Dis-
sertation Fellowship Selection Committee, Princeton, New Jersey; and
Chairman, Emergency Committee to Aid Latin American Scholars (ECALAS) of the
Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Roett is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, Inc.
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INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES * UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Robert A. Scalapino
Robert A. Scalapino was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his
B.A. degree from Santa Barbara College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from
Harvard University. Since 1949 he has taught in the Political Science
Department of the University of California at Berkeley, and served as its
chairman for a regular term during 1962-65. He is currently Robson Research
Professor of Government, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, and
editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication.
Professor Scalapino has been the recipient of a number of research grants
under such auspices as the Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research
Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, Luce Foundation and numerous
others. He has written over 200 articles and more than 14 books or monographs
on Asian politics and U.S. Asian policy. His most recent works include Asia and
the Major Powers (1972), American-Japanese Relations in a Changing Era (1972),
Elites in the People's Republic of China (editor and contributor, 1972),
Communism in Korea (two volumes, with Chong-Sik Lee, 1972, for which they
received the Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in 1973 on
government, politics or international affairs), Asia and the Road Ahead (1975),
The Forein Policy of Modern Japan (editor and contributor, 1977), The United
States and Korea--Looking Ahead (1979), "Asia" in The United States in the 1980s
(1980), and "China and Northeast Asia" in The China Factor (1981).
He has traveled extensively in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, having
made over forty trips in all, the most recent in the summer of 1981. He has
made four trips to the People's Republic of China--on the last trip as a
visiting lecturer at Peking University in the spring of 1981. He has visited
the Soviet Union on six occasions, the latest as head of the American delegation
to the Fourth American-Soviet Conference on Asia at Tashkent in September 1981.
Professor Scalapino is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and has served as a consultant to many civic groups, foundations and
government agencies. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations (of which he was the founder and first
chairman). He is Chairman of the East Asia National Targets Panel for the
National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies, and of the
American Advisory Committee for the Translation Service Center (sponsored by the
Asia Foundation) in Tokyo.
He recently served on the Board of Directors of the Asia Society's China
Council, and on the International Research Council of the Georgetown University
Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the
National Fellows Board of the Hoover Institution, the Nominating Committee of
the Council on Foreign Relations, the Research Advisory Council of Pacific Forum
(Honolulu), and numerous other editorial boards and committees for education and
government.
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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
of
Harold K. Jacobson
Dr. Jacobson is Professor of Political Science and Program Director
in the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social
Research at the University of Michigan. Jacobson received his A. B.
degree from the University of Michigan and his Ph. D. from Yale
University. He has been a member of the faculty at Michigan since
1957, and he was chairman of the Department of Political Science at
Michigan from 1972-1977. His principal areas of interest are inter-
national organization and politics and United States foreign and
military policy. His most recent book is Networks of Interdependence:
International Organizations and the International Political System
(1979). He is also author, co-author or editor of five other books
and many articles in professional journals. He is President-elect of
the International Studies Association and a member of the Council of
the American Political Science Association. Jacobson is also a member
of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association of the
United States of America and a member of the U.S. National Commission
for UNESCO. He is a member of the editorial boards of International
Organization, the International Studies Quarterly, and the American
Journal of International Law.
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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
OF
Leon D. Epstein
Dr. Epstein is Hilldale Professor of Political Science at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison in 1940 and his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1948 after
military service in World War II. His research has chiefly concerned the
comparative study of parties and politics in Western democratic nations, most
specifically the United States, Britain, Australia, and Canada. Work in this
field has included time in Britain and Australia. He has also written about
British foreign policymaking processes and about British responses to American
policies. Apart from books and articles in the comparative politics field,
Dr. Epstein is the author of a book on the external and internal governmental
relations of a state university. It was partly a product of administrative
experiences as a department chairperson and as the Dean of the College of
Letters and Science (U.W.-Madison), 1965-69. Dr. Epstein is a past president
of the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science
Association, and the British Politics Group. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the Social Science Research Council and he is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Research fellowships have included
awards from Guggenheim, Wilson Center, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, S.S.R.C., Fulbright, 'Rockefeller Foundation, Australian National
University, and the Wisconsin-Helsinki Exchange. Dr. Epstein received an
honorary D. Litt. from the University of Warwick (England), 1980.
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Allen H. Kassof is Executive Director of IREX, the International
Research and Exchanges Board. IREX is the principal U.S. non-
governmental organization supervising exchanges and communication
in the social sciences and humanities with Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union, and plays a leading role in the training and
preparation of U.S. specialists on the area.
Dr. Kassof graduated from Rutgers University in 1952, and received
the PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 1960. He also
studied in the Harvard Soviet Program, and participated in the
Russian Research Center's Refugee Interview Project. He was a
professor and dean at Princeton University before coming to IREX,
and in recent years served as a member of the President's
Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, as well
as the first director (while on part-time leave from IREX) of
the National Council on Foreign Language and International
Studies. While at the Council he organized the Task Force on
National Manpower Targets for Advanced Research on Foreign Areas.
Dr. Kassof is the author of a number of books and articles on
Soviet society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and
was appointed by the Secretary of State as a U.S. delegate to the
Hamburg Scientific forum preparatory to the Madrid Helsinki meet-
ing. He is a trustee of the National Council for Soviet and East
European Research, of the Center for Applied Linguistics, and is
a member of the academic council of the Kennan Institute for
Advanced Russian Studies.
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Cyril E. Black
Cyril E. Black is Professor of European History and Director
of the Center of International Studies at Princeton University.
He has also been associated with the Department of State, the
National War College, and the Ford Foundation. His teaching and
research interests include Russia and Eastern Europe, modernization
studies, and comparative history. His recent publications include,
as editor and coauthor, The Transformation of Russian Society:
Aspects of Social Change since 1861 (1960); The Dynamics of
Modernization: A Study in Comparative History (1966); and, as
coeditor and coauthor, The Future of the International Legal Order
(4 volumes, 1969-1972); and coauthor, The Modernization of Japan and
Russia (1975), and The Modernization of China (1981).
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