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A Carolina economics professor is among a dozen leading researchers at American
universities to make the first class of Carnegie Scholars.
Steven Rosefielde and the other scholars were chosen for their innovative
scholarship and policy-focused research in areas of interest to the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, which will award each scholar up to $100,000 over the
next two years to pursue research in education, international development,
democracy, and international peace and security.
"For more than 90 years, Carnegie Corporation has identified and promoted ideas
that have shaped positive social change," said Vartan Gregorian, the
corporation's president who inaugurated the scholars program in 1999 and
resumed the corporation's support for individual scholarship for the first
time since 1969. "We believe individual scholarship is an important asset in
our democratic process where new policy solutions must be supported by credible
research and analysis. At Carnegie we are interested in theory, practice and
outcomes."
The 12 Carnegie Scholars of 2000 represent some of America's most well-known
research and teaching institutions, including Harvard and Yale universities.
Both established and young scholars are among the dozen.
"Because we understand that successful innovation may come from either reliable
sources or yet-untapped talent, we wanted our scholars search process to
identify both established and emerging experts in the relevant fields,"
Gregorian said.
In his project, "Forgotten Superpower: The Economic Case for Arms Control in
the Russian Federation," Rosefielde will develop the case for deterring a new
Russian arms spiral in three steps: identify Russia's military-economic
potential; bolster the Kremlin's confidence in the feasibility of moving to the
West's military-economic structure; and sensitize Moscow to the magnitude of
the security challenge posed by the changing configuration of global wealth and
power.
Marshaling economic theory and empirical evidence, Rosefielde plans to
illuminate why rearmament along Soviet lines in the future's economically
driven security environment will prove counterproductive to Russia and
threatening to world peace.
The goal is to persuade the Russian security establishment that modernizing its
defense programs along Western lines and down-sizing provide the best strategy
for domestic security and long-term prosperity.
Rosefielde has been a Carolina faculty member since 1970. Named to the Russian
Academy of Natural Sciences in 1997, he has for many years been working with
members of the Russian defense establishment to discover the principles
governing Russia's new economic system, its application to the military
industrial sector and ways of applying this knowledge to promoting disarmament.
At the end of their research, the Carnegie Corporation scholars will submit
written reports to the corporation, which may then help disseminate those
results deemed to have great national or international significance.
Nominated scholars and their research projects were evaluated by committees
including both Carnegie Corporation program leaders and external advisers.
From an initial group of 89 nominees, 40 were invited to provide complete
project descriptions. The 12 finalists were approved by the corporation's Board
of Trustees.
The corporation was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the
advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." As a grant-making
foundation, the corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of
philanthropy, which he said should aim "to do real and permanent good in the
world."
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