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Pacific Basin Research Center Reopened
The Pacific Basin Research Center (PBRC) has reopened its doors at Soka University of America's (SUA) Aliso Viejo campus with a new research agenda. Dennis A. Rondinelli, the center's new director, stated, "SUA's philosophy of education and its objective of peaceful human development provide a unique framework for pursuing external research on international development."
PBRC was established in 1991 to study the role of policy-making in the peaceful development of the Asia-Pacific region.
For the first 10 years it operated out of the Harvard University office of its first director, John D. Montgomery. Under Professor Montgomery's leadership, the Center has awarded nearly 100 research grants and published over 50 books and articles.
In its new configuration, PBRC plans to reexamine approaches to human development in its social, economic, political and cultural dimensions. Up to the end of 2005, PBRC is sponsoring research leading to the publication of
Globalization in Transition: Forces of Adjustment in Asia and the
Pacific. The project explores the historic interplay of domestic and international political and economic forces in the region, examining the pace and characteristics of globalization.
In addition, PBRC will support an SUA "Learning Cluster," a small student-centered research seminar, on the topic of "leadership for development."
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