Ben Stavis

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Asia Program

Ben Stavis, Senior Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University. He specializes in comparative politics, with an emphasis on China, Asia, and the third world. He has served as Director of the university’s Asian Studies Program. His books include China’s Political Reforms: An Interim Report (Praeger 1988). Dr. Stavis’ articles have appeared in such journals as Political Science Quarterly, Studies in Comparative Communism, Asian Survey, Modern China, and China Quarterly. His current research deals with the conversion of China’s industrial work units into more autonomous, market-responsive business enterprises. For workers to accept this change, China is creating new pension and health insurance systems that are separated from the work units. He is researching the development, experimentation, and implementation of these programs.

Ben Stavis
Senior Fellow
Asia Program
Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

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.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

Special Partner Event
Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report