Peter Andreas , a Brown University assistant professor of political science and international studies, is the principal investigator for three projects in the Watson Institute’s Global Security Program: Clandestine Political Economy of War, Policing Transnational Crime, and North American Border Controls after September 11. His most recent book is The Rebordering of North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context (co-editor, Thomas J. Biersteker). Andreas is the co-author or co-editor of several other works, including Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide. He has also written for publications, such as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Transnational Organized Crime, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Nation.
Deborah Avant is associate professor of political science and director of the Institute for Global and International Studies at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs. Her research has focused on civil-military relations, military change, and the politics of controlling violence. She is the author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons from Peripheral Wars and The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security along with many articles in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Armed Forces and Society, Review of International Studies, and Foreign Policy.
Thomas J. Biersteker is director of the Watson Institute and Brown University’s Henry R. Luce Professor. An expert on international relations theory and international political economy , he is author, editor, co-editor, or co-author of seven books, includingThe Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (co-editor),Argument Without End: Searching for Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (co-author James G. Blight et al.), and The Re-Bordering of North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context (co-editor Peter Andreas). Biersteker is also the principal co-investigator of two Global Security Program projects: Targeted Sanctions and Targeting Terrorist Finances. His recent activities involve work on targeting sanctions with the UN Secretariat and the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany, and membership on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Independent Taskforce on Terrorist Financing.
James G. Blight , a Watson Institute professor of international relations (research) and principal co-investigator of the Critical Oral History Projects, is the co-author of Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis and Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st Century (with Robert S. McNamara, two editions). He and janet M. Lang developed the critical oral history method in which former decisionmakers, scholars, and declassified documents converge simultaneously in conference settings. This method has resulted in Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse (co-author, two editions) and Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (with McNamara et al.). Several of their works provided the intellectual basis for Errol Morris’ Academy Award®-winning documentary The Fog of War.
Arthur Cebrowski was appointed by the Secretary of Defense in October 2001 as director of Force Transformation, where he served until January 2005. In that role, he supported President Bush’s broad mandate to transform U.S. military capabilities to ensure a continuing competitive advantage. Cebrowski came to the Office of the Secretary of Defense following a 37-year career in the Navy. His last military assignment was as president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. He has had five commands at sea, including the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Midway, and served as the director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (J6) for the Joint Staff. He also has combat experience in Vietnam and during Operation Desert Storm. Cebrowski has been a Strategic Studies Fellow at the Naval War College and a Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research continues to focus on national security policy and defense transformation issues. The Cebrowski Institute for Information Innovation and Superiority in Monterey, California, was named in his honor.
Alberto R. Coll , a Watson Institute visiting professor (research), is an expert on strategy, U.S. relations with Cuba and Latin America, and American foreign policy and grand strategy. Most recently, he has served as dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, and is a senior fellow at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center. From 1990 to 1993, Coll was a principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict. He has also been a consultant for numerous organizations, including the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace, and Center for Strategic and International Studies. Coll is the author of The Wisdom of Statecraft and The Western Heritage and American Values.
Stephen Del Rosso is chair of the International Peace and Security Program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He was a program director for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations for three years and the manager of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Global Security Program for almost six years. A former career diplomat, Del Rosso served nearly ten years in the State Department with overseas assignments in Central America and the Caribbean. His Washington assignments included tours in the Operations Center and on the staff of Secretary of State George Shultz, program coordinator of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, arms control legislative management officer, and director of the Office of Legislative Management.
James Der Derian is professor of international studies (research) at the Watson Institute, where he directs the Global Security Program and the InfoTechWarPeace Project. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, MIT, Harvard University, Oxford University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is the producer of two documentaries, VirtualY2K and After 9/11, and his articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in the New York Times, Global Agenda, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and Wired. His most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.
Daniel Deudney is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of research are in general international relations theory, international relations and political theory, and contemporary global issues (nuclear, environment and outer space). His most recent book, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village is forthcoming. His articles have appeared in journals such as Security Studies and International Organization.
Michael Dillon is a professor of politics at the University of Lancaster. He co-edits The Journal for Cultural Research and is international editor of Taking on the Political, a political theory series. His books include Dependence and Deterrence, Defence Policy Making: A Comparative Analysis, The Falklands Politics and War, The Political Subject of Violence, and Politics of Security. Generally, his research involves the intersection of global politics with changing problematizations of security, peace, and war. Specifically, he focuses on the operation of bio-power, global governance, and the transformation of security and war in response to the information and molecular revolutions.
Peter J. Dombrowski is a professor in the Strategic Research Department and editor of the Naval War College Press at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. Dombrowski is the author of more than 30 journal articles, book chapters, and government reports on international relations, national security, and foreign economic policy. He is the author of Policy Responses to the Globalization of American Banks, and recently completed an edited volume, Guns and Butter: the Political Economy of the New International Security Environment, and co-authored Buying Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry (forthcoming).
Matthew Evangelista is professor of government and director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. Evangelista is the author of three books: Innovation and the Arms Race, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War, and The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? He is the editor of Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations after Iraq (co-editor), and New Wars, New Laws? Applying the Laws of War in 21 st Century Conflicts (co-editor). His articles have appeared in scholarly journals and magazines such as The Nation and Harper’s. His current research interests include international humanitarian law, separatist movements, and gender and conflict.
Abbott Gleason , a Watson Institute senior fellow and Brown’s Keeney Professor of History (emeritus), served as the Institute’s director for university relations and special projects from 2000 to 2003. He is the former chair of Brown’s History Department and a former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. Gleason is an internationally-recognized expert on national identity in Russia/Soviet Union and the U.S. from 1830 to 1930 and the history of the Cold War. He is best known for Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War and is the co-editor of the recent works Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell and Our Future and Nikita Khrushchev.
Hugh Gusterson is associate professor of anthropology and science studies at MIT. He writes on the nuclear weapons labs, the political culture of the cold war, militarism and the media, international relations theory, and science and technology studies. His books include Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex. He also has two co-edited volumes: Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong and Cultures of Insecurity. Gusterson’s articles have appeared in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Tikkun, New Scientist, Technology Review, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Social Research, Alternatives, Interventions, and Science, Technology and Human Values.
Eva Horn is an associate professor of German at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on literature and war in the twentieth century. She has recently finished a manuscript titled The Secret War: Espionage, Treason and Modern Literature (in German). She is the author of “Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence” ( Grey Room). Her previous appointments have been in the Department of Literature at the University of Constance, Department of Cultural Analysis at the University of Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, and German Department at New York University.
Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker. After training at Princeton as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film in 1992, and his first short film, Season of the Litterbees,premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festivalbefore winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival. Jarecki’s most recent film, Why We Fight,won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The Trials of Henry Kissinger was released in 2002 to critical acclaim in 130 U.S. cities, winning that year’s Amnesty International Award and being nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Since then, it has been broadcast in over 30 countries. Trials was also selected to launch the Sundance Channel’s DOCday venture as well BBC’s prestigious digital channel BBC4. In 2001, Jarecki wrote and directed the dramatic feature The Opponent, which was distributed by Lions Gate Films. His first documentary, Quest of the Carib Canoe, premiered to critical acclaim on the BBC before being distributed in over 15 countries.
Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS) in Amherst, Massachusetts. Klare has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs. His books include Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict , and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws. Klare is also the defense correspondent for The Nation. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association and the Human Rights Watch’s Arms Division.
Rey Koslowski is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University ( Newark) and director of the Border Control and Homeland Security Research Program at Rutgers’ Center for Global Change and Governance. Koslowski’s books include Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (author), Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor), and International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (editor). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including International Organization, International Studies Quarterly,The Journal of European Public Policy, and The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. He is about to begin a new research project titled “International Migration and Border Control in the Information Age: European, Transatlantic and Global Dimensions. ”
janet M. Lang is a Watson Institute adjunct associate professor (research) and principal co-investigator of the Critical Oral History Projects. She and James G. Blight developed the critical oral history method in which former decision makers, scholars, and declassified documents converge simultaneously in conference settings. She has been the project director for nearly two dozen international conferences on the Cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Vietnam war, and the collapse of U.S.-Soviet détente during the Carter administration. Lang is the author or co-author of numerous works related to this method, including A Quiet Revolution, a history of her project’s research on the missile crisis. She served with Blight as the principal substantive advisors for The Fog of War.
Peter H. Liotta is professor of humanities and executive director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Prior to this, he was the Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College. Liotta served for two decades in the U.S. Air Force. He is the author of 16 books and numerous articles in diverse fields ranging from poetry to international security and foreign policy analysis. Recent works include Dismembering the State: The Death of Yugoslavia and Why It Matters ; The Uncertain Certainty: Human Security, Environmental Change, and the Future Euro-Mediterranean; Mapping Macedonia: Idea and Identity (co-author); and Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict (co-editor). Liotta is the editor-in chief of the Politics and Environment Series for Praeger Books.
Catherine Lutz is a Watson Institute professor (research) and holds a joint appointment with Brown’s Department of Anthropology. Lutz was formerly professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and previously taught at Harvard and the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her most recent book is Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century. Her areas of interest include military, war, and society; race and gender; democracy; subjectivity and power; photography and cultural history; critical theory; anthropological methods; sociocultural contexts of science; U.S. twentieth-century history and ethnography; and the Pacific Rim.
Andrew Mack is the director of the Human Security Centre within the Liu Institute for the Study of Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In addition to his academic appointments, Mack spent two and a half years as the director of strategic planning in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has written and edited some 11 monographs and books, and his more than 50 scholarly articles have appeared in journals, such World Politics, The Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Politics, Security Dialogue, Arms Control, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs , and Pacific Review .
Taylor Owen is a D.Phil. candidate at Oxford University’s Jesus College, a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholar, and a research associate at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute for Global Issues. He was a postgraduate fellow at Yale University’s Genocide Studies Program. Owen has done internships for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs’ Young Leaders for a Sustainable Future Program and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). His work focuses on various dimensions of human security, ranging from theoretical and definitional issues, to measurement, the use Geographic Information Systems, statistical modeling and policy operationalization.
Nikos Passas is a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University. He specializes in the study of terrorism, white-collar crime, corruption, organized crime, and international crimes. Passas has published more than 70 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 11 languages. He is the author of such works as the Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Informal Value Transfer Systems and Criminal Organizations: A Study into So-called Underground Banking Networks, and is the editor of International Crimes and Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime. He serves as editor-in-chief of the international journal Crime, Law and Social Change. He is currently preparing a book on “Hawala: Terrorist Tool or Immigrant’s Savior?” and another on the “Financing Global Terrorism.” His current research projects include one on the social organization and finance of terrorism as well as informal value transfer systems.
Simone Pulver is an assistant professor (research) at Brown, holding a joint appointment at the Watson Institute and the Center for Environmental Studies. She is a co-investigator for the Climate Change Project with the Watson’s Global Environment Program. Her research focuses on the interactions between transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy networks in the UN climate negotiations. She is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Power in the Public Sphere: Conflict and Cooperation between Oil Companies and Environmental Groups in the UN Climate Change Negotiations, 1991–2003.” She recently published “Organizing Business: Industry NGOs in the Climate Debates” in the edited volume The Business of Climate Change .
John Phillip Santos is a former program officer for the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts, and Culture Program. Santos is a filmmaker, producer, journalist, and writer whose work examines the intersecting issues of media, religion, and identity. He was the producer of From the Airwaves to the Internet, a former executive producer and director of new program development for Thirteen/WNET, and a producer of broadcasts on culture and religion for CBS News. He is the author of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.
Kim Taipale is the founder and executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, nonpartisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology, and national security policy. He is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where he serves as director of the Global Information Society Project and the Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age (PLENSIA). Taipale is also an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School.
Nina Tannenwald is the director of Brown University’s International Relations Program and is the Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor (Research) of International Relations. Her teaching and research interests lie in the area of international institutions and norms in the security area. Tannenwald’s articles have appeared in journals, including International Organization, International Studies Review, Yale Journal of International Law, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ethics and International Affairs, and a special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies on the role of ideas and the end of the Cold War, which she co-edited. Her book The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons since 1945 is forthcoming. She is the principal investigator for the International Norms and Weapons Stigmatization Project in the Global Security Program.
Eugene Thacker is assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Biomedia and The Global Genome as well as multiple articles including “Living Dead Networks” (Fibreculture ) and “Nomos, Nosos, and Bios in the Body Politic” (Culture Machine). His research interests include cyberculture, media studies, science studies, biomedicine and biotechnology, and science fiction and horror.
John Tirman is the executive director of MIT’s Center for International Studies. Among his previous appointments are program director of the Social Science Research Council’s Washington D.C., office and executive director of the Winston Foundation for World Peace. Tirman’s books include The Fallacy of Star Wars and Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America’s Arms Trade, and he is currently working on a volume on multilateralism. As a former Fulbright scholar in Cyprus, he produced an educational website devoted to the Cyprus conflict. He serves as a trustee of several nongovernmental organizations and is a recipient of the UN Association’s Human Rights Award.
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where is also an academic dean. He was previously on the faculties of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as deputy dean of social sciences. He is the author of The Origins of Alliances, which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award, and Revolution and War. His recent publications include “An Unnecessary War?” (Foreign Policy), “Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy” (International Security), and “The Enduring Relevance of the Realist Tradition” (Political Science: State of the Discipline , an edited volume).
Annick T. R. Wibben is a Watson fellow and a co-investigator with the Global Security Program’s InfoTechWarPeace Project. In the fall of 2003, Wibben was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow for Human Security with the National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she began a research project on human security practices. Wibben is currently working on a book manuscript titled Narrating Security. During this past semester, she taught at Wellesley College.