The Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda promotes research, teaching, and public dialogue on issues related to ecological security, long-term sustainability, energy and environmental policy, global governance, and transnational society. Located within the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, the Harrison Program hosts international visitors, sponsors doctoral students as Harrison Dissertation Fellows, conducts conferences and workshops, sponsors an occasional speaker series, and conducts a vigorous program of research and publication on core program themes. 

Horace Harrison 
The Harrison Program is named in honor of University of Maryland Professor 
Emeritus Horace Harrison, a longtime member of the Department of Government 
and Politics and a pioneer in university teaching about global issues. Dr. Harrison 
bequeathed an endowment to the University to support a center and professorship
for the study of global environmental problems and related global issues. 
 

Events
Throughout the year, the Harrison Program sponsors formal and informal presentations
by guest speakers from government agencies, international organizations, civil society
groups, research institutions, and universities.

For additional information, please contact Ken Conca at (301) 405-4125 or e-mail kconca@gvpt.umd.edu 
 

Affiliated faculty:
	Ken Conca (Harrison Program Director; Professor of Government and Politics) His teaching and research focus on global environmental politics, peace and conflict studies, transnationalism, political economy, social movements in world politics, and the politics of water. Professor Conca is the author/editor of several books on global environmental politics, technology, and international political economy, including: Governing Wather (MIT Press, 2006) Environmental Peacemaking (Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002); Confronting Consumption (The MIT Press, 2002); Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg (Westview Press, 2004); Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil's Military-Industrial Complex (Lynne Rienner, 1997); and The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (Columbia University Press, 1993). Dr. Conca received the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a visiting professor at Nankai University (People's Republic of China ) and Mount Holyoke College (USA).
	Virginia Haufler (associate professor of Government and Politics) A political scientist by training, she specializes in international political economy, particularly the role of the private sector in world politics. Her current research examines why the foreign policy community now seeks to incorporate multinational corporations into conflict prevention initiatives in the developing world. From 1999-2000, Professor Haufler was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she created the project on the Role of the Private Sector in International Affairs. She has taught at Cornell University, UCLA, Nankai University (China) and Budapest University of Economics. She has authored and edited a number of books, in addition to articles in professional and popular journals, chapters in edited volumes, and interviews in print and on radio. She is a consultant to industry, non-profits, and international organizations, and serves on the Executive Board of Women in International Security, a non-profit, non-partisan organization for women in international affairs. Professor Haufler is also an associate of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
	Margaret Pearson (professor of Government and Politics) She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1987. She taught at Dartmouth College from 1987 to 1995, and was promoted with tenure in 1994. Her publications include the books Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China (Princeton Press, 1991) and China's New Business Elite: The Political Results of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1997), as well as articles in The China Journal, Modern China, China Business Review, and other journals. Her current research interests include the evolution of China's regulatory state, and China's participation in the WTO. She teaches courses on Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, on East Asian politics, and on comparative politics.  She held a Fulbright Research Fellowship at Beijing University for the Fall of 2002, at which time she conducted research on these issues.
	Karol Soltan (professor of Government and Politics) Karol Soltan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics. His main interest is in issues connecting constitutionalism and development broadly understood. His research has ranged from theoretical accounts of power and legitimacy and reformulations of the notion of constitutionalism to practical questions about policy and reform interventions to promote long term development in fragile states. At the University of Maryland he teaches in the Department of Government and Politics and as part of the program of the Committee for Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy. He also taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Warsaw and in the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw. Recently he was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Law in the University of Toulouse. Among his recent publications is a series of books he coedited and contributed to, including A New Constitutionalism, The Constitution of Good Societies, Institutions and Social Order and Politics from Anarchy to Democracy. He was co-founder of the Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law and of the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society. In 2000 he served as Deputy Director of the Office of Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, and for 2 months he was also Acting Cabinet Member for Political Affairs in the Transitional Government of East Timor. From 2003 to 2004 he directed the Recovered States Task Force as part of the IRIS Project on Fragile States for USAID. Finally, during the summer of 2005 he spent a month in Iraq as a consultant to the Kurdistan government in the negotiations on the Iraqi constitution.
	Lois Vietri (Tenured Instructor of Government and Politics) Dr. Vietri has specialized on Southeast Asia , Leadership Development, Comparative Public Administration, and Women and International Development in her 23 years as Instructor at the University of Maryland . She has been awarding the Lily Teaching Fellow, Maryland 's Top 100 Women, BSOS Teaching and Teaching Mentorship Awards, along with several Curriculum Development Grants. She spent three years as a Lecturer in the US Business-Government Relationship at several universities in Vietnam . Other experience abroad includes several Winterterm trips with the University of Maryland to Europe and Asia . She currently devotes fifty percent of her time to Asian-related topics.
Visitors and Program Associates :
	Jacob Park is an assistant professor of business management at Green Mountain College. Prior to joining the Green mountain faculty, Jacob was a Harrison Program research scholar specializing in energy, environmental, and business-society issues. He is also a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program and a socially responsible investment research consultant for a London-based fund management company. He is the co-editor of Ecology of the New Economy (Greenleaf Publishing) and Financing Global Sustainability (UN University Press).
Harrison Fellows: Each year the Harrison Program supports two GVPT doctoral students as Harrison Fellows. Fellows participate in program research and activities and conduct dissertation research on Harrison-related topics. The Harrison Fellows for 2005-2006:
	Helima DeVines : Helma G. E. de Vries is writing her dissertation on global social movements, party politics, and democracy in Europe and North America . She is analyzing the structural and cultural variations that have led political systems to respond so differently to the global anti-war movement. She has previously conducted surveys of anti-war and anti-globalization demonstrators at protests in Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Scotland , and the United States . Her research interests and activities also include the history of the anti-globalization movement, theories and mechanisms of contentious politics, and activism in Muslim social movement organizations since September 11. de Vries has been an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University since 2004. Her teaching interests include Comparative Politics, West European Politics; Scope and Methods of Political Science; Party Politics, Social Movements, and Democracy; and the Media, the Internet, and Politics
	June Swinski : Her research interests center conceptually on how ideas become institutionalized, the politics of changing ideas, and in turn, institutions. Her current research focuses on non-state actors and conservative movements in the international arena. June's teaching interests include International Relations theory and Political Philosophy.

 

Contact us: 
Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda
Department of Government and Politics 
University of Maryland 
3140 Tydings Hall 
College Park MD 20742 USA 
ph: 301-405-7490
fax: 301-314-9690