GARD IV
FOURTH SEMINAR
WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
BROWN UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 7TH – 10TH, 2002

Participants Biographies

Sergei A. Afontsev
Dr. Afontsev received his Ph.D. in economics and currently works as an expert for the Russian-European Center for Economic Policy in Moscow, Russia. He is a leading research fellow at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Moscow. Dr. Afontsev also has an appointment as an assistant professor at Moscow State Institute for International Relations. His major fields of interest and expertise include: international economics, political economy of trade policy, and international political economy.

Thomas J. Biersteker
Dr. Biersteker is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations, and director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. He studies the international political economy of development and international relations theory. In addition to his responsibilities as director of Brown’s Watson Institute, he is also the principal investigator for its Freezing Terrorist Finances/Targeted Financial Sanctions Project within the Global Security Program. Dr. Biersteker publications include amongst others State Sovereignty as Social Construct, co-edited with Cynthia Weber (1996); and The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, co-edited with Rodney B. Hall (forthcoming, 2002). He has served as a consultant to the United Nations, World Bank, World Health Organization, U.S. Department of State, and a number of private sector corporations. He is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and is the chair of the Social Science Research Council’s Global Security and Cooperation Committee. Dr. Biersteker received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Der Derian
James Der Derian is professor of international relations (Research) at Brown University, where he directs the INFOtech/war/peace project (www.infopeace.org), and professor of political science at UMASS/Amherst. He received a BA degree with Joint First Class Honours in Political Science and History from McGill University, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is author of On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement (1987) and Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War (1992); editor of International Theory: Critical Investigations (1995) and The Virilio Reader (1998); and co-editor with Michael Shapiro of International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics (1989). His articles on international relations have appeared in the Review of International Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Millennium, Alternatives, Cultural Values, and Samtiden. His articles on war and technology have appeared in the New York Times, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and Wired. His most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (Perseus/Westview, 2001).

I.M. (Mac) Destler
Dr. Destler specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. His American Trade Politics (third edition, 1995), won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Other recent works include Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings Institution Press, 1999, with Steven Kull) and The New Politics of American Trade: Trade, Labor, and the Environment (Institute for International Economics, 1999, with Peter J. Balint). Dr. Destler has consulted on government organization for economic and foreign policymaking at the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State, and held senior research positions at the Institute for International Economics (IIE), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Brookings Institution. He is the recipient of the University of Maryland’s Distinguished International Service Award for 1998. Dr. Destler teaches trade policy, American foreign policymaking, political institutions, and public opinion and public policy. His current research includes work on U.S. trade policymaking at IIE, and studies of the National Security Council and governmental organization for homeland security in the aftermath of September 11th (both with Ivo H. Daalder).

Peter Dombrowski
Dr. Dombrowski is an associate professor in the Strategic Research Department of Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously, he taught at Iowa State University. He has also served as a defense policy analyst, consultant, or visiting scholar at numerous institutes, think tanks and non-profit organizations. Dr. Dombrowski has published on economic policymaking, international relations and international political economy. The University of Pittsburgh Press published his book, Policy Responses to the Globalization of American Banking (1996). Among his most recent articles are “The New Policy Challenges of Financial Services Globalization,” Policy Studies Review (2001), and “Pax Vobiscum Clausewitz: The Changing Faces of War” in Culture et Conflits (2001). Professor Dombrowski is a co-editor of the journal International Studies Quarterly. He holds a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Yuri Dzhibladze
Yuri Dzhibladze is president of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, a Moscow-based NGO working to develop mechanisms of public influence on legislative and executive government decisionmaking, and providing policy analysis in the fields of democratic institution building, human rights, and civil society development. Dr. Dzhibladze’s interests include problems of racism and racial discrimination, protection and promotion of economic and social rights, military reform and government-NGO interaction. He is an editor of a monthly newsletter “Legislative Process in the State Duma: Human Rights Analysis,” published by his Center and is the author of numerous publications on racism, human rights, and NGOs. Dzhibladze received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in cardiology from Moscow Medical Institute in the 1980s, and completed his M.A. in international affairs at Columbia University in 1998. He has served as a consultant to a number of international NGOs, including the International League for Human Rights and the Committee to Protect Journalists, as well as the State Duma and the United States Agency for International Development.

Konstantin Eggert
Konstantin Eggert is currently acting-editor-in-chief of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. He is also editor and presenter of “Radius”, the Russian Service main evening analytical program. In 1992–1998 Mr. Eggert was diplomatic correspondent and deputy foreign editor of Izvestia daily. His assignments included, among other areas, the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and the Balkans. He has written extensively on Russian foreign policy topics and security issues and contributed articles to the International Herald Tribune, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Milliyet, Helsingin Sanomaat, La Croix, and The World Today (publication of the Royal Institute of International Affairs). Mr. Eggert is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London) and member of the board of Pro Et Contra, the quarterly journal of Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center. He is fluent in fluent in English, French, and Arabic. Konstantin Eggert is an honors graduate of Moscow University Oriental Studies College (history and Arabic language). In the late 1980s he did his national service as interpreter with the Soviet military mission in Sana’a, Yemen.

Klaus Dieter Frankenberger
Klaus Dieter Frankenberger is currently foreign editor of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which editorial staff he joined in September 1986. His writings deal especially with the United States, European, transatlantic, and international politics. Prior to his positions at the Frankfurter Allgemeine, he was a congressional fellow and served as assistant to a member of Congress in 1985 and 1986, taking thereby a closer look on the political decision-making process of the United States. Frankenberger’s previous academic activities include research positions at the Center for North American Studies in Frankfurt/Main and a Marshall-Fellowship at Harvard University in 1990. He majored in American studies, economics and political science, and graduated in 1981 with a M.A. thesis on the political culture of the United Sates.

Carola Kaps
Carola Kaps has been a journalist with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for more than two decades. Kaps began her journalism career as a Washington, D.C.-based freelancer for German and Swiss newspapers, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Neue Zuercher Zeitung. She joined Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as U.S. economic correspondent, then, in 1984, became the newspaper’s West Africa correspondent based in Dakar, Senegal. In 1988, she returned to Washington, D.C., as U.S. economic correspondent. She is currently the Budapest-based economic correspondent for central and southeastern Europe for her newspaper. Kaps sits on the board of advisers of the European Institute and on the editorial board of European Affairs Magazine. She received the 2000 Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic reporting.

Catherine Kelleher
Dr. Kelleher is also professor in the Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and an adjunct professor at the Watson Institute from July 2002 through July 2003. In the Clinton Administration, she held posts as the personal representative of the secretary of defense in Europe and as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. Dr. Kelleher has had a wide range of academic involvement in the field of national security studies. She holds degrees from Mt. Holyoke College (A.B. and D.Litt) and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). She is the author of more than 60 books, monographs and articles, and serves on a number of boards and commissions in the field. She is the founder of the Women in International Security program, dedicated to developing career opportunities for women in this field. Dr. Kelleher is the recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Public Service of the Department of Defense and the Ehrenkreuz in Gold from the Bundeswehr. She is the principal investigator of the “German-American-Russian-Dialogue-Project” (GARD).

Robert Legvold
Robert Legvold is professor of political science at Columbia University, where he specializes in the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1967. He was director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from 1986 to 1992. Dr. Legvold’s areas of particular interest are the foreign policies of Russia, Ukraine, and the other new states of the former Soviet Union, U.S. relations with the post-Soviet states, and the impact of the post-Soviet region on the international politics of Asia and Europe. His most recent books are, with Sherman Garnett, Belarus at the Crossroads (The Carnegie Endowment, fall 1999), and with Alexei Arbatov and Karl Kaiser, Russian Security and the Euro-Atlantic Region (the Institute of East-West Studies, 1999). Among his most recent essays is ”Russia’s Unformed Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, September–October 2001. Legvold is a trustee of Tufts University and of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a member of various advisory boards, including those of the National Bureau of Asian and Soviet Research, Center for Defense and Disarmament Studies, Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Forum of the U.S.-Russian Business Council, Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and Foundation for International Peace and Democracy, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. He also serves on the editorial board of Cambridge Soviet Paperbacks (Cambridge University Press) and on the advisory board of Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs.

Sarah Mendelson
Dr. Sarah E. Mendelson is a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, specializing in Russian politics and foreign policy. Her current research includes survey work on how Russians think about human rights, Chechnya and the military, as well as an exploration of trafficking in women and girls and the involvement of peacekeeping operations in the Balkans. From 1999 until 2002 she taught international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. From 1997 to 2000, she directed a collaborative study, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, evaluating the impact of western democracy assistance to eastern Europe and Eurasia. She received her B.A. from Yale University and attended Columbia University and the Harriman Institute, where she received her Ph.D. in political science. In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute’s Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. From 1995 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Albany. From 1997 to 1998, she was a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also been a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center, and a member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security. Dr. Mendelson has testified before Congress and appeared on National Public Radio, the BBC World Service, and CNN. She has published in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail (Canada), Foreign Affairs, and Survival, in addition to various scholarly journals. She is the author of Changing Course: Ideas, Politics and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Princeton University Press, 1998) and co-editor of The Power and Limits of NGOs: Transnational Networks and Post-Communist Societies (Columbia University Press, 2002).

Robert Nurick
Robert Nurick is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Dr. Nurick has served at RAND. As senior political scientist, his principal research interests have been in Soviet and Russian foreign and defense policy, European security, and arms control. He has held senior research and managerial positions there, including manager of foundation programs, associate corporate research manager in the national security research division, and associate director at the RAND/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior. From 1981 to 1985, Nurick was assistant director and director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he was responsible for the institute’s research program and served as editor of its journal, Survival. Previously, he served in the U.S. government at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and at the Department of Defense as special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary of defense.

Alexandr Pikaev
Dr. Pikaev received his Ph.D. in political science in 1992 from Moscow State University’s Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Currently, he is scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and co-chair of the Center’s Non-Proliferation Program. Dr. Pikaev is also editor-in-chief of Nuclear Proliferation journal. Since 1997, he has served as advisor in the Office of Deputy Chairman, Defense Committee, State Duma. Dr. Pikaev is also director of the Section on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, IMEMO and has been since 1996 a participant of Carnegie Endowment’s annual conference on Nuclear Non-proliferation. He is the author of several books and articles, including The Chemical Weapons Convention in Questions and Answers (in Russian, Moscow, 1998), Eliminating a Deadly Legacy of the Cold War: Overcoming Obstacles To Russian Chemical Disarmament (in Russian and English, Moscow, 1998,) and Compliance to International Regime on Limiting Anti-Missile Weapons: 1993-96 (Moscow 1996).

John Reppert
John C. Reppert is executive director (Research) for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He joined the Center in October 1998 after retiring as a Brigadier General from the U.S. Army, following nearly 33 years of active service. He specializes in areas of international arms control and military affairs of the states of the former Soviet Union. General Reppert concluded his military career as the director of the On-Site Inspection Agency, the organization responsible for implementation of on-site inspection activities under treaties in which the United States is a signatory. He served three two-year tours of duty in the American Embassy in Moscow, concluding these as Defense Attaché from 1995-1997. Pentagon tours include duty on the Joint Staff and an assignment as the Military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for plans and policy and as principal director for the Office for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. He had command and staff tours in Germany, Korea, and Vietnam. Dr. Reppert received his Ph.D. from George Washington University in international affairs, a M.A. from the University of Kansas in Soviet and East European Studies, and a M.S. and B.A. in journalism from Kansas State University. He is a graduate of the Army War College, the Naval War College, and was an Army fellow at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a military member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the American Association of Slavic Studies.

Wolfram Schrettl
Wolfram Schrettl is head of International Economics at DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) and professor of economics at Free University Berlin. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and Munich University. He also held positions at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., and at the East European Institute, Munich. His publications include “Ambition, Convention, Effort, and Growth: A Theory of Cycles” (in German), in Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, vol. 142, 1984; “Transition with Insurance: German Unification Reconsidered,” in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 8, No. 1, 1992; “Do the Russians Really Save That Much?” (with P. R. Gregory and M. Mokhtari), in The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 81, No. 4, 1999;, “Recovery of Investment in Russia: Why Is It Fading Away?” in HSE Economic Journal (Ekonomicheskii Zhurnal Vysshei Shkoly Ekonomiki) (2001). His present research interests include conditions for capital accumulation and economic growth, European economic integration, and the global economic context. Mr. Schrettl received a master’s degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. He completed his graduate studies in the United States, where he received a Ph.D. in economics (with distinction) from Boston University.

Klaus Segbers
Klaus Segbers is professor of political science and East European politics and head of the Institute of East European Research at the Free University of Berlin. He served as the director of a research project on Post-Soviet Puzzles (spaces, territories, elites and interests in the FU) funded by the Körber-Foundation at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and was head of SWP’s Department for East European Politics. He is the author of several books and articles and recently edited The Globalization of Eastern Europe. Teaching International Relations Without Borders (with Kerstin Imbusch, Münster, Hamburg, London, 2000), and Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks. Volume 2: Pathways from the past to the global (Aldershot, 2001). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Bremen and completed his Habilitation with a book on Systemic Change in the Soviet Union.

Lilia Shevtsova
Dr. Shevtsova’s early work centered on American domestic and foreign policy. Later, she focused on the political developments in central and eastern Europe. Since 1991, she has been analyzing the developments in post-socialist countries with main emphasis on Russia and other former Soviet republics. She was coordinator of several international research projects dealing with study of political systems in postcommunist world, comparative analysis of Latin American, Easten Eropean, and postcommunist transformation. Dr. Shevtsova has held academic positions at various institutions: the Academy of Sciences, Moscow; University of California, Berkeley; Cornell University; and Georgetown University. She is currently a senior associate of Carnegie Endowment and divides her time between Washington and Moscow. Shevtsova is the author and co-author several book, including Socialism and Catholicism; Inside the Russian Enigma; Democratization in Russia; Yeltsin’s Russia: Myths and Reality; Political leadership: From Gorbachev to Putin. She is involved with many organizations, including Women in International Security, the Executive Council of Russian Political Association, and the Executive Council For Central and Eastern European Studies. Dr. Shevtsova received her Ph.D. in 1976 in political science at the Academy of Social Sciences, Moscow.

John Steinbruner
Dr. Steinbruner is one of the nation’s leading experts on arms control, nuclear weapons, and Russian foreign policy. He is the director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). He served for 18 years as director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, substantially expanding the scope of the program and attracted and engaged a variety of outstanding scholars. Prior to that appointment, Steinbruner held academic positions at Harvard and the Yale School of Organization. He has authored or co-authored five books, including The Cybernetic Theory of Decision, hailed a classic in the field of foreign policy decisionmaking. His latest book, Principles of Global Security, was hailed a “masterpiece” by reviewers. He has also published numerous articles in professional and scholarly journals. Steinbruner has served on major commissions and advisory committees, including the Defense Policy Board, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, and National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Angela Stent
Angela Stent is director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and professor of government at Georgetown University. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State in the Clinton and Bush administrations. An expert on Russian and Soviet politics and foreign policy, and on German foreign policy, she has published widely on Soviet relations with Europe and the United States; Russian foreign policy; West and East German foreign policy; and East-West trade and technology transfer. Her latest book is Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe (Princeton University Press). She been a consultant to the U.S. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment and has participated in various task forces of the Council on Foreign Relations, including those on U.S.-Russian relations, transatlantic relations, and on NATO enlargement. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies and World Policy Journal. She is on the Executive Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Forum and is a member of the Advisory Board of Women in International Security. She is on the Academic Advisory Board of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Dr. Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her MSc. from the London School of Economics and Political Scienc,e and her M.A. and PhD. from Harvard University.

Michael Thumann
Mr. Thumann completed his studies in history, political science, and Slavic literature at the Free University of Berlin. He has also studied Russian and European history at Columbia and New York University and journalism at the Norddeutsche Rundfunk/ARD network school of journalism. Since 2002, Michael Thumann has been the foreign editor for Die Zeit, one of Germany’s most read weekly newspapers. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Thumann was the Moscow correspondent and bureau chief for Die Zeit. Prior to that duty, he was the southeastern Europe correspondent; he has been on Die Zeit’s political board since 1992. Mr. Thumann also spent time as a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2000.

Alexei Voskressenski
Dr Alexei Voskressenski is a member of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies. He is deputy director and senior research fellow at the Russia-China Center and a member of the Academic Council, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation. His professional and other affiliations and/or memberships, include European Association for Chinese Studies; Russian Association for Chinese Studies; Woodrow Wilson Center Alumni Association; University of Maryland’s Foreign Policy Fellows Alumni Association; life member of the Fellows Association, Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences; and member of the Editorial Advisory Board Current Politics and Economics of China (Nova Science Publishers, USA). He is the author, co-author, joint author, or editor of 10 books and brochures (including two scholarly monographs), published in Russia, the U.S., and China, as well as articles in publications such as Cahiers du Monde Russe (France), Central Asian Survey (UK), Central Asian Monitor, Current Politics and Economics of Russia (USA), Issues and Studies (Taiwan), Far Eastern Economic Review (HK), Sino-Soviet Affairs (Korea), Problems of the Far East, Svobodnaya Misl, New Time (Novoye Vremia), Ekho Planety, Independent Gazette, Segodnia (Russia).

Gudrun Wacker
Dr. Wacker is currently head of the Asian research unit at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) in Berlin. She studied Sinology and linguistics at the Free University Berlin and at Shih-fan Ta-hsüeh in Taipei. She received her M.A from the University of Tübingen (1981) and finished her Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen in 1991 on “Advertising in the People’s Republic of China”). Her main fields of research are Chinese foreign and security policy, Sino-Russian, and Sino-Central Asian relations; Chinese minority policy (with special consideration of Xinjiang); security policy in the APR; and telecommunications and Internet in China. She published widely on these topics.

Oliver Wieck
Oliver Wieck is executive director of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft) and head of Department at the Federation of German Industries (BDI). His previous positions at the BDI, include deputy director of the Department of International Relations, regional director North and Latin America, and regional director Near and Middle East, South Asia, Foreign Trade Law. He has published on European American Economic Relations on the Threshold of the 21st Century (6/7/1996) and Transatlantic Economic Relations (11/1998). Mr. Wieck studied law at Bonn University and the London School of Economics (LSE) and completed his 2nd Bar Exam (2. Staatsexamen) in Düsseldorf.

Claudia Wörmann
Dr. Wörmann is director for Trade and Foreign Economic Policy at the Federation of German Industries (BDI), one of Germany’s most influential business associations. She joined the Federation in 1990 and has since then held various positions including regional director for Poland and the GDR, director of the Office of the President and Executive Management of the BDI (1995–2000). Between 1992 and 1994 she took a leave from the BDI and served as senior policy advisor to Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, former CDU party leader and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, with special emphasis on economic policy and social policy issues. Dr. Wörmann holds a Ph.D. in the social sciences. In the 1980s she worked in various positions at the Free University of Berlin, among others as program director for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies granted by the Volkswagen Foundation (1987–1989) and as an assistant professor at the Free University’s Institute for International Relations (1984–1987). During this time she was awarded a scholarship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986–1987).

Markus Ziener
Markus Ziener is an international correspondent for Handelsblatt, Germany’s largest business daily newspaper. Previously he served as foreign editor at the Financial Times Deutschland. He also worked as a correspondent in Moscow for Handelsblatt (1995-1999) and served as their eastern European correspondent. Mr. Ziener’s current focus is on the Arab world, Middle East, transatlantic relations, and eastern Europe. He holds a doctorate in politics (Thesis: The Limits of Indebtedness: Financial Crisis and Reform in Poland) and graduated in sociology and economics (Thesis: Press and Re-education in the American Sector of Germany 1945-1949).

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