These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the InternationalRelations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
Barnett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a focus on internationalrelations from University of California, Los Angeles in 2008.
China's national interests are not inherently antagonistic to those of its neighbors, or of the U.S. The most consistent pattern ofinternationalrelations that political science has been able to discover is that countries that are democracies virtually never go to war with one another.