The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announced today that Strauss Senior Fellow Alan Kuperman will be a member of the Center’s 2009-2010 fellowship class. As a Woodrow Wilson fellow, Dr. Kuperman will work on a project on “Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention.”
The 24 fellows, most of whom will arrive in September 2009 to spend an academic year in residence at the Center, include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Israel, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
“We are looking forward to having this prominent group in residence this fall at the Wilson Center,” said Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center. “These men and women are distinguished in their fields of expertise and will enhance the intellectual discourse at the Center and the public policy community in Washington.”
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