News
Update: April 2012
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures welcomes Secretary Madeleine Albright
We recently had the opportunity to welcome Madeline Albright, the 64th United States Secretary of State, to the Pardee Center for a demonstration of IFs capabilities and discussion about our current work. The Former Secretary was interested especially in forecasts of demographic transitions and material power distribution in the international system. She visited with Korbel students and also gave a presentation for the public at the Cable Center. The Josef Korbel School of International Studies is named after the Former Secretary’s late father.
Below: Dr. Barry B. Hughes—Director of the Pardee Center and John Evans Professor at the University of Denver—in discussion with Secretary Madeline Albright
Work of Frederick S. Pardee Center presented to delegation from Kosovo
A high-level delegation of representatives from Kosovo—including the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Minister of European Integration—visited the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and was introduced to the work of the Pardee Center. The group was keen to explore demographic trends in the Western Balkans and to explore a data-gathering strategy so that Kosovo might be separately represented in the International Futures model. An outcome of this meeting was an invitation to Pardee Center researchers to participate in the framing of Kosovo’s first foreign policy strategy document.
From Left to Right: Philip S. Goldberg (U.S. Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research and Former US Ambassador), Enver Hoxhaj (Foreign Minister of Kosovo), Christopher Hill (Dean of the Korbel School and Former US Ambassador), Jonathan D. Moyer (Dissertation Fellow at the Pardee Center), Hashim Thaci (Prime Minister of Kosovo), and Vlora Citaku (Minister of European Integration of Kosovo)
Mohammod Irfan and Eli Margolese-Malin publish Study on Southern African education futures
As a part of the Southern African Regional Universities Association Leadership Dialogue Series, Dr. Irfan and Mr. Margolese-Malin analyzed Southern African tertiary education trends to 2050. Their work concludes that achieving 30% enrollment in tertiary education—the current global average—in Southern Africa even by 2050 would require aggressive policy interventions. However, modeling with the IFs integrated system suggests such an investment in education would begin to off-set costs by 2030 by increasing economic output.