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March 28th, 2012

Students learn through assignments based on real global events

Shorenstein APARC News

Stanford students in the winter quarter course U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia (IPS 244) had the opportunity to step into the challenging role of a National Security Council staff member and consider how they would advise the United States on responding to a crisis in East Asia. Read more »



February 16th, 2012

Q&A: Fingar shares insight on Chinese vice president's U.S. visit

Shorenstein APARC, CISAC, FSI Stanford, SCP in the news: Shanghai Oriental Morning Post on February 16, 2012

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping recently visited the United States to meet with top officials and tour various cities. China experts followed the trip closely because Xi is anticipated to become China’s next president. Thomas Fingar spoke with the Shanghai Oriental Morning Post about the visit, and about the Obama administration's Asia policy. Read more »



February 13th, 2012

Understanding the complexities of China's global interactions

Shorenstein APARC, SCP News

Since opening its doors to the world in 1978, China has pursued a sometimes erratic but reasonably steady course leading to increasing global economic and political interaction. Thomas Fingar is leading a new multiphase Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center initiative to explore the nuances and complexity of China’s foreign relations and domestic issues. The project kicks off with a Mar. 19-20 workshop at the new Stanford China Center at Peking University. Read more »



January 18th, 2012

Stanford's Fingar examines China's development issues

Shorenstein APARC, CISAC, FSI Stanford, SCP in the news: YaleGlobal Online on January 18, 2012

For the past two decades China has been a poster child of successful globalization. But its integration into the world economy and global trends drive and constrain Beijing's ability to manage growing social, economic and political challenges. In a YaleGlobal Online series article, Thomas Fingar looks at the global implications of China’s development challenges.




November 17th, 2011

Thomas Fingar proposes some questions for the Republican presidential debate

CISAC, FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC Announcement

GOP presidential hopefuls will discuss foreign policy and national security at a debate in Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Here are five questions China scholar Thomas Fingar would like them to answer. Read more »




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The Way China Copes With Its Economic Challenges Will Have an Impact on Us All
Thomas Fingar: "For the past two decades China has been a poster child of successful globalization, integrating with the world and in the process lifting millions of citizens out of poverty. But China’s integration into the world economy and global trends drive and constrain Beijing’s ability to manage growing social, economic and political challenges."
January 19, 2012 in Jakarta Globe

In North Africa, Power Map No Longer Drawn In Ink
"The pace of change, the magnitude of demands, is going to make for not much sleep," says Thomas Fingar, former chair of the National Intelligence Council who's now a fellow at Stanford University. For intelligence officers in Cairo, the job may have ...
March 11, 2011 in NPR

Don't overreact to WikiLeaks
"The WikiLeaks dissemination of U.S. diplomatic and other candid communications has rekindled debate over how to balance the need to protect sources and sensitive information against the need to ensure timely distribution of information to government officials who need it to protect our people ...
January 19, 2011 in Arizona Daily Sun

Overseas programs assess enrollment, effects of Beijing language waiver
... full enrollment may have been caused by the waived language requirement and the addition of Stanford faculty member Thomas Fingar MA '69 Ph.D. '77, ...
December 1, 2010 in The Stanford Daily

Five years later, a stronger intelligence community
"Commentators noting the fifth anniversary, this month, of the launch of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have largely paid more attention to shortcomings than to what has been achieved ...
April 30, 2010 in Washington Post