Deborah Brown, Associate Scholar, is associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University. She teaches modern and contemporary Asian area studies, with special attention to East Asia. Dr. Brown has authored, edited, and co-edited nine books on East Asian affairs and contemporary religion, including Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia (M. E. Sharpe, 2006), China under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas (World Scientific, 2006), and Christianity in the Twenty-first Century (Crossroad, 2000). Her current research addresses religious organizations and democratic transition and consolidation in East Asia. She is the managing editor of the Taiwan Journal of Democracy and has authored and co-authored over sixty articles—the majority on concerns of democratization in East Asia—in international media and scholarly journals.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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