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Obama Trade Advisor, IR/PS Dean Peter Cowhey Takes Short Leave in San Diego for Graduation, Book Talk

06/16/2009
Barry Jagoda, UCSD News

School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) Dean Peter Cowhey took several days away from his Washington assignment for the Obama Administration to participate in IR/PS graduation ceremonies and to present an academic talk based on his recently published MIT Press book on the global information and communications market. He also shared some insight into the work in which he has been engrossed as Senior Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative.

Speaking Thursday afternoon at the IR/PS campus, Cowhey was joined by co-author, Jonathan Aronson, professor of communications at the University of Southern California, for remarks that addressed four main themes of the book, Transforming Global Information and Communications Markets.

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