Faculty
Seminar XXI Directors:
ROBERT J. ART, the Director of MIT's Seminar XXI Program, is Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University and a Senior Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT's Center for International Studies. He has served as a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, and is currently a faculty associate of the National Intelligence Council. Professor Art's books include The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military; Reorganizing America's Defense, with Samuel P. Huntington and Vincent Davis, eds.; U.S. Foreign Policy: The Search for a New Role with Seyom Brown, eds.; The United States and Coercive Diplomacy, with Patrick Cronin, eds.; Democracy and Counterterrorism, with Louise Richardson, eds.; A Grand Strategy for America; and America’s Grand Strategy and World Politics.
STEPHEN VAN EVERA, Seminar XXI’s Associate Director, is Professor of Political Science at MIT and also Associate Director of MIT’s Center for International Studies. He teaches international relations and security studies and writes on American foreign and defense policy. A former managing editor of the journal International Security, Professor Van Evera's books include Guide to Methods in Political Science and The Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict.
Seminar XXI Faculty (2009-2010):
RAWI ABDELAL is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His primary expertise is international political economy, and his research focuses on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia. Professor Abdelal is a faculty associate of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and serves on the executive committee of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the head of Harvard's required, first-year MBA course, Business, Government, and the International Economy. Professor Abdelal's first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, won the 2002 Shulman Prize as the outstanding book on the international relations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He recently completed his second book, Capital Rules, which explains the evolution of the social norms and legal rules of the international financial system. Abdelal has also edited or co-edited three books: The Rules of Globalization, a collection of Harvard Business School cases on international business; Measuring Identity; and Constructing the International Economy. Abdelal is currently working on The Price of Power, a book that explores the relationships among political leadership, state-building, foreign investment, and geopolitics in the Russian energy sector.
SCOTT APPLEBY is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in religious history from the University of Chicago in 1985. Appleby is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation; co-author (with Gabriel Almond and Emmanuel Sivan) of Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World; and co-editor, with Martin E. Marty, of the five-volume interdisciplinary public policy study known as The Fundamentalism Project. He is the editor of a new Oxford University Press book series on "strategic peacebuilding" and contributor to its first volume, Strategies of Peace (forthcoming, October 2009).
HENRI BARKEY is the Chair of the Department of International Relations, and holds The Bernard and Bertha Cohen Chair at Lehigh University. Between 1998 and 2000, he was a Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department. His most recent publications are: Turkey’s Kurdish Question, with Graham E. Fuller; “Cyprus: The Predictable Crisis”, The National Interest, Vol. 66, with Philip H. Gordon; and “The Middle East after the Cold War,” in Oles Smolansky (ed.), The Lost Equilibrium: International Relations in Post-Soviet Era . His articles have also appeared in the Brookings Policy Briefs, Journal of International Affairs, Middle East Policy, Middle East Journal, World Policy Journal, Journal of Democracy, Comparative Political Studies, Survival, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Armed Forces and Society.
STEVEN BURG is Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Brandeis University. He has participated in efforts to foster inter-ethnic accommodation and prevent further ethnic conflict in the Balkans through association with the Project on Ethnic Relations. He graduated from the University of Chicago and his expertise is in Comparative politics, Ethnic politics, East European politics and Conflict resolution. He is the co-author of The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Paul Shoup, which received the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association for the “best scholarly work in political science, which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.”
SARAH CHAYES lives and works in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and is the founder of the Arghand Cooperative, which produces high-end skin care products from licit local agriculture to help wean farmers away from opium crops. From 1996 to 2002, she was a reporter for National Public Radio, where she was co-recipient of the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards for her coverage of the Kosovo conflict. She regularly participates in NATO trainings for Afghanistan-bound headquarters elements, and has provided pre-deployment briefs to units of the 25th Infantry Division, the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions, the 3rd Marine Division, as well as speaking a the School for Advanced Military Studies, The Command and General Staff College, and the National Defense University. She is the author of Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, as well as numerous articles on Afghanistan in the international press.
RICHARD CLARKE is an internationally-recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cyber security, and counterterrorism. He is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of: Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs; National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism; and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. Prior to his White House years, Mr. Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and State Department. During the Reagan Administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. During the Bush (41) Administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990–1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements. As a Partner in Good Harbor, Mr. Clarke advises clients on a range of issues including: corporate security risk management; information security technology; dealing with the Federal Government on security and IT issues, and counterterrorism.
FOTINI CHRISTIA is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She recently completed her PhD in Public Policy at Harvard University, where she was a recipient of research fellowships from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research interests deal with issues of ethnicity and civil wars and her dissertation addresses the question of civil war alliances. Professor Christia has worked in the Middle East and Central Asia and has written opinion pieces on her experiences from Afghanistan, Iran, the West Bank and Gaza and Uzbekistan for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. She is the author of "Flipping the Taliban" (with Michael Semple), Foreign Affairs, "Following the Money: Muslim versus Muslim in Bosnia's Civil War," Comparative Politics, (with Andrew Beath and Ruben Enikolopov); and “An Experimental Study of Institutions and Ethnic Cooperation in the Aftermath of Civil War" (with Marc Alexander).
STEPHEN COHEN is Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a member of the National Academy of Science's committee on arms control and security. Professor Cohen's many books include India: Emerging Power; The Pakistan Army; The Indian Army, and The Idea of Pakistan. His latest publication is Four Crisis and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia, with P.R. Chari and Pervaiz I. Cheema.
JAMES DOBBINS is the Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND. His areas of expertise include: Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Europe, U.S. Foreign Relations, NATO, and trends and issues in international security. Dr. Dobbins is a veteran diplomat who has held senior White House and State Department positions under four Presidents, and most recently served as the Bush administration's special envoy for Afghanistan. His most recent publications include: After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan, The Effect of Terrorist Attacks in Spain on Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror, Stabilization and Reconstruction Civilian Management Act of 2004, The UN’s Role in Nation-Building: from the Congo to Iraq, The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building, and Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
KIMBERLY ELLIOTT is a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development. She is also a member of the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards at the National Research Council. Much of her work focuses on the uses of economic leverage in international negotiations, including both economic sanctions for foreign policy goals and trade threats and sanctions in commercial disputes, and in recent years has turned to broader globalization issues, including the backlash against globalization, the role of developing countries in the trade system, international labor standards, and the causes and consequences of transnational corruption. Her IIE publications include, Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor; Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?; Corruption and the Global Economy; Reciprocity and Retaliation in US Trade Policy; Measuring the Costs of Protection in the United States; Economic Sanctions Reconsidered; and Auction Quotas and United States Trade Policy.
VANDA FELBAB-BROWN is an expert on international and internal conflict issues and their management, including counterinsurgency. She is also the author of numerous policy and academic articles on these issues. She focuses particularly on the interaction between illicit economies and military conflict. She is a Fellow in Foreign Policy and in the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution where she focuses on South Asia, the Andean region, Mexico, and Somalia. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Prior to taking up her position at the Brookings Institution, she was Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. A frequent commentator in the media, she is the author of the forthcoming book, Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) which examines these issues in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, Burma, Northern Ireland, India, and Turkey. Her PhD dissertation, Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Economies on Military Conflict, and received the American Political Science Associations 2007 Harold D. Laswell Award for the Best Dissertation in the Field of Public Policy.
SUMIT GANGULY is a Professor of Political Science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has previously taught at James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin. His research and writing are focused on ethnic conflict, nuclear deterrence and counterinsurgency strategies with a regional focus on South Asia. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History, the Journal of Democracy and Security Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. His most recent book, co-authored with S.Paul Kapur, India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia will be published by Columbia University Press in 2010. He is also the co-editor (with Andrew Scobell and Joseph Liow) of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Security to be published in December 2009. In 2006, Professor Ganguly was awarded a Gold Medal by the Italian Chamber of Deputies for his contributions to South Asian security studies and in 2009, the Pravasi Samman Award by the Government of India for his scholarship on Indo-US relations. He is currently at work on a manuscript, India Since 1980, for Cambridge University Press.
MARY HABECK is Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her expertise is American Defense Policy; Islamic Religion, Culture and Law; Military History; Military Power and Strategy; Strategic and Security Issues; Terrorism; Weapons of Mass Destruction. Dr. Habeck held an appointment at the National Security Council, and she coordinated the Yale Russian Archive Project to facilitate access to documents in the former Soviet archives. She received her PhD from Yale in 1996 and her most recent publications are Attacking America: The Jihadist War on the United States (2008); Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror (2006); Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 (2003).
BRUCE HOFFMAN is Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University, and former Vice President of The RAND Corporation Washington, D.C. office. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he chaired the Department of International Relations. Dr. Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of Terrorism and Political Violence. His latest book is entitled Inside Terrorism, 2nd ed.
JOLYON HOWORTH is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath (UK) and a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale (2002-2010). He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Institute Français des Relations Internationales (Paris), a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (UK), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France), and Member of the Advisory Boards of the European Institute for Public Administration (Netherlands), and the Centre for the Study of Security and Diplomacy (UK). He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations. His most recent books include: Security and Defence Policy in the European Union; Defending Europe: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy, (edited with John Keeler); and European Integration and Defence: the Ultimate Challenge?
RICHARD JACKSON is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he directs the Global Aging Initiative, a research program that explores the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of the aging population in the United States and around the world. He is also an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and a senior adviser to the Concord Coalition. Dr. Jackson is the author of numerous policy studies, including The Aging of Korea: Demographics and Retirement Policy in the Land of the Morning Calm; Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods: Current Practice and How to Improve It; Building Human Capital in an Aging Mexico; The Graying of the Middle Kingdom; and, with Neil Howe, The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century.. Dr. Jackson regularly speaks on long-term demographic and economic issues, and is widely quoted in the national and international media.
TERRY KARL is Professor of Political Science, William and Gretchen Kimball University Fellow, and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. Dr. Karl was educated at Stanford University, where she received her BA, MA and Ph.D. with distinction, and where she returned to teach in 1987. Dr. Karl has published widely on comparative politics and international relations, with special emphasis on the politics of oil-exporting countries, transitions to democracy, problems of inequality, human rights and civil wars, and contemporary Latin American politics. Dr. Karl's many books include: The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States; The Limits to Competition (Co-authored with members of the Group of Lisbon of the European Commission); Oil and Conflict (with Mary Kaldor); and a monograph on ending impunity, centering on the trial of Romagoza et al versus General Garcia et al, the first successful jury trial of war criminals in the US.
CHAIM KAUFMANN is Associate Professor at Lehigh University specializing in international relations theory, security (issues of war and peace), nationalism, and ethnic conflict. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia. His recent publications include “Separating Iraqis, Saving Iraq,” Foreign Affairs 85:4 (July/August 2006); "America's Last Mission in Iraq," Boston Globe, February 11, 2007; "Why Iraq Partitioned Itself," Columbia International Affairs Online, September 4, 2007; “‘Partition Theory’ in the Marketplace of Ideas, and in Iraq, ” in Mia Bloom and Roy Licklider, eds., Living Together After Ethnic Killing: Exploring the Chaim Kaufmann Argument; and "Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas: The Selling of the Iraq War," in Trevor Thrall and Jane Cramer, eds., American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2009).
ANDREY KORTUNOV is President of the Eurasia Foundation in charge of its operations in Russia, and an expert for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Russian State Duma. He is the President of the Information Scholarship Education Center (ISE) and a member of the Educational Board of the Open Society Institute. He specializes in problems of international security, and focuses on the emergence of security arrangements and political systems in the states of the former Soviet Union. Mr. Kortunov works extensively with the global academic community and is a member of numerous editorial boards, including Sreda, Higher Education Monthly, and USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology. He has been a syndicated columnist (Novosti) and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, ITN, and CBC, as well as numerous Russian TV programs. His major recent publications include Russia and UN Reforms, and Disintegration of the Soviet Union and US Policies.
CHAPPELL LAWSON is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Lawson's major interests are Latin American politics, Mexican politics, democratization, political communication, political behavior, and U.S. foreign policy. His current research focuses on the relationship between citizens' political skills and the quality of democracy across a range of countries. Professor Lawson's recent books include Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and Media Opening in Mexico, and Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election, co-edited with Jorge Domínguez.
CHRISTOPHER LAYNE is Professor and holds the Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. His fields of interest are international relations theory, great power politics, U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic security relations, and grand strategy. Professor Layne has written two books: The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, and (with Bradley A. Thayer) American Empire: A Debate. Additionally, he has contributed extensively to the debates about international relations theory and American foreign policy in such scholarly and policy journals as International Security, International History Review, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, The Washington Quarterly, World Policy Journal and Orbis. Professor Layne has been a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, Financial Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Australian. He also is a contributing editor for The American Conservative. Professor Layne is also a NIC Associate and a member of the NIC's Strategic Reactions to American Preeminence study group.
KEIR LIEBER is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He specializes in international relations theory, international conflict and security, and U.S. foreign policy. He is author of War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology, which explores the relationship between technological change and the causes of war, and his most recent articles appear in International Security and Foreign Affairs. His current book project explores the causes and consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
MARC LYNCH is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and the Elliott School of International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Cornell University and his BA from Duke University in 1990. He works on international politics, with a specialty on the Middle East. His current research interests focus on the relationship between new media technologies and Islamist movements, public diplomacy, and Arab public opinion. He also runs the popular Middle East politics blog Abu Aardvark. He is the author of State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity, and Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he is also Co-Director of the Program on International Security Policy. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published the following books: Conventional Deterrence, which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History; The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, which won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize; and The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, with Stephen Walt. He has also written many articles that have appeared in academic journals like International Security, and popular magazines like The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of op-ed pieces for The New York Times dealing with topics like Bosnia, nuclear proliferation, American policy towards India, and the failure of Arab-Israeli peace efforts. His current work focuses on nationalism and international relations.
ANDREW MORAVCSIK is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, where he is Director of the European Union Program. Previous he held similar positions at Harvard for over a decade. His areas of research include European integration, transatlantic relations, defense-industrial policy, international political economy, international human rights, historical methods, and Asian regionalism, which he researched in Shanghai during the 2007-8 academic year. The American Historical Review called his history of the EU, The Choice for Europe, "the leading work in the field." He is Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Contributing Editor at Newsweek magazine, and Book Review Editor (Europe) at Foreign Affairs magazine. He has served in various policy positions, including as a trade negotiator for the US government in Washington, and as special assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea in Seoul.
ANDREW NATSIOS serves on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Previously, Mr. Natsios served as Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau for Humanitarian Response), and Vice President of World Vision. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has written numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies and two books: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997), and The Great North Korean Famine (U.S. Institute of Peace 2001).
KENNETH OYE is Director of the Political Economy and Technology Program at MIT. Professor Oye's research areas include international political economy, American foreign policy, and international relations theory. His books include Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange: World Political Economy in the 1930s and 1980s; Eagle in a New World: American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era; and Cooperation under Anarchy. His short pieces include chapters and articles for the Institute for International Economics, World Politics, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. He has taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Swarthmore College, has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and has served on the advisory committee to the Export-Import Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, he served as Director of Seminar XXI.
GEORGE PERKOVICH is Vice President for studies and Director of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy. He served as a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990. Dr. Perkovich is an adviser to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Policy. He is the author of the award-winning book India's Nuclear Bomb. He is coauthor of the Adelphi Paper, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, published in September 2008 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This paper is the basis of the book, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate; which includes 17 critiques by 13 eminent international commentators. Dr. Perkovich is also coauthor of a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The report offers a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and missile materials to ensure global safety and security.
DARYL PRESS is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on international security and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Press has written on crisis decision making, the sources of credibility in international politics, the effects of technological change on the future conduct of war, the effects of war on the globalized economy, and U.S. foreign policy alternatives. His recent publications include, “The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy,” with Keir Lieber, which appeared in Foreign Affairs, “The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Supremacy,” in Foreign Affairs, and Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threat, and . His current research centers on the consequences for the Middle East of Iranian nuclear weapons. He has made numerous radio and television appearances, including WBUR’s “On Point” and the BBC’s “The World”.
GERARD PRUNIER is Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique in Paris, and former Director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies in Addis-Ababa. He received his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Paris in 1981 and joined the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique in Paris in 1984. Dr. Prunier has done extensive research on Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa, publishing approximately 120 articles and five books over the past 18 years. He was a key figure in the French Ministry Defense’s crisis unit in Rwanda, which oversaw France’s intervention in Rwanda in Operation Turquoise. His latest publications are The Rwanda Crisis: History of the Genocide; From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa; and Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide.
ROBERT ROSS is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a research associate at the Fairbanks East Asian Center at Harvard University. His research focuses on Chinese foreign and defense policy, with an emphasis on Chinese use of force and deterrence strategies, China’s security policy in East Asia, and U.S.-China relations. His current research project examines deterrence dynamics in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea, and Chinese-American naval competition in East Asia. His books include U.S. China Relations, 1955-1971: A Reexamination of Cold War Conflict and Cooperation; Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power; The Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, with Andrew Nathan with Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics; and Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics.
KARIM SADJADPOUR is an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His areas of expertise are: Iranian politics and society; Iran's nuclear program; Iranian foreign policy; Iran's role in Iraq; U.S. Foreign policy toward the Middle East; Democracy, economic development, and reform in the Middle East; Security in the Middle East; Comparative politics; Terrorism. He is a regular contributor to BBC World TV and radio, CNN, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and has written for the Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and New Republic. His recent publications include: Setting the Scene: Iran’s Presidential (S)elections (Q&A, June 2, 2009); President Obama's Video Message to Iran: Q&A with Karim Sadjadpour (Web Commentary, March 20, 2009); Iranian Political and Nuclear Realities and U.S. Policy Options (Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, March 3, 2009); Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible? (Carnegie Policy Brief, October 2008); Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Carnegie Report, March 2008).
RICHARD SAMUELS is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies. He is also the Founding Director of the MIT Japan Program. In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United States. Dr. Samuels' most recent book is Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Some of his previous books are: Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, a comparative political and economic history of political leadership in Italy and Japan, which received the 2004 Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize of the American Political Science Association; Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan, winner of the 1996 John Whitney Hall Prize; The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective, and Politics of Regional Policy in Japan.
ADAM SEGAL is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an expert on Chinese domestic politics, technology development, foreign policy, and security issues. Dr. Segal currently leads the Council on Foreign Relations study group on Asian innovation and technological entrepreneurship. He previously served as Project Director for a Council Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization. Dr. Segal’s most recent book is Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China as well as articles for The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Quarterly.
JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM is the Assistant Secretary-General on Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations. He was formerly Professor in the Applied Economics Department at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He is Founder and Chair of IDEAs, or International Development Economics Associates. He served on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD). He was President of the Malaysian Social Science Association, and also served on the Pro-tem Committee of the Asian Social Science Association (1980-1984) and the Executive Committee of the International Peace Research Association. Jomo’s extensive writings have covered industrial policy, privatization, rent-seeking, cronyism, financial liberalization, macroeconomic policy impacts, economic distribution, ethnic relations, Islam and Malaysian history. His most recent books include Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits;Tigers in Trouble: Financial Governance, Liberalization and Crises in East Asia;Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and the Asian Evidence; Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery; Globalization Versus Development: Heterodox Perspectives; Southeast Asia’s Industrialization: Industrial Policy, Capabilities and Sustainability; Southeast Asia’s Paper Tigers: From Miracle To Debacle And Beyond; Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia; and After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in East Asia.
STACY VANDEVEER is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role expertise in policy making. He has received fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over fifty articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he co-edited several books, including Changing Climates in North American Politics; Comparative Environmental Politics (forthcoming); Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics; EU Enlargement and the Environment; and Saving The Seas.
ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Previously, he taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was the 2008 winner of the Guggenheim fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards. His research and teaching cover three areas: Ethnicity and Nationalism; Political Economy of Development; and South Asian Politics and Political Economy. His academic papers have appeared in World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Daedalus, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Foreign Affairs. In addition to professional journals, he also contributes guest columns to newspapers and magazines. He is the author of Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India which won the Gregory Luebbert Prize of the American Political Science Association, and Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India, which in its PhD dissertation form, won the Daniel Lerner Prize at MIT. He is currently working on a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict, and on the rising North-South economic divergence in India.He served on the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Millennium Task Force on Poverty (2002-5). He has also served as an adviser to the World Bank, UNDP and the Club of Madrid.
TAMARA WITTES directs the Project on Arab Democracy and Development at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. She has taught in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and was one of the first recipients of the Rabin-Peres Peace Award, established by President Bill Clinton in 1997. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Advancing Arab Democracy (Brookings Press). Her work has been published in Policy Review, Political Science Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Dr. Wittes holds a BA in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies from Oberlin College; her MA and PhD in Government are from Georgetown University.
