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REXBURG,
Idaho – Brigham Young University associate professor of political
science Eric Hyer will speak at Brigham Young
University-Idaho’s monthly forum Thursday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. in the
Taylor Chapel.
Hyer, who has spent much of his career researching
Chinese government and U.S. foreign policy, has titled his remarks “China
and the U.S. in the Post-September 11th World.” He will focus on the United
States’ relationship with China
since the September 11th terrorist attack.
Hyer received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia
University in 1990. His
research has taken him on extensive trips throughout China
to conduct field research on Chinese borders with Russia,
Vietnam, Mongolia
and Central Asia.
His
most recent trip to east Asia was in 2001. However, he left the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border Sept. 3 to return to the United
States.
Hyer has been the associate chair of the Department of
Political Science at BYU since 2002 and served as the director of graduate
studies for the David M.
Kennedy Center
for International Studies from 1996-99. He was awarded the BYU Alumni
Association’s Student Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994 and
was a Fulbright Scholar at the Foreign
Affairs College
in Beijing, China,
from 1995-1996.
The
forum will be broadcast live on KBYI FM 100 and following the broadcast
will be a question-and-answer session from 3
to 3:50 p.m.
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