Briefing on the Beijing Olympics
August 7, 2008
With the approach of the Beijing Olympics, significant political issues have surfaced concerning human rights in Tibet, Darfur, and elsewhere. How politics will affect the Olympics, and how the Olympics may affect international politics, was the subject of an FPRI telephone briefing featuring three distinguished panelists:
- Monroe Price is Director of The Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and editor of Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008.
- Amy E. Gadsden, an Associate Scholar of FPRI, has been involved in the study and promotion of rule of law in China for many years, most recently as Resident Country Director in Hong Kong for the International Republican Institute (2006-08) and Special Advisor on China to the US Department of State (2001-03). She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded a Bradley Foundation Fellowship.
- Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and the Stephen Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He has just returned from a trip to Shanghai and is a participant in FPRI’s ongoing series of trilateral conferences, featuring representatives of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies and the Tokyo Institute of International Affairs.
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