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Participants
Symposium Organizers
James Der Derian is a Watson Institute
research professor of international relations and professor of political
science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At the Watson
Institute, he serves as principal investigator of the Information,
Technology, War, and Peace (ITWP) Project. Professor Der Derian's
most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment
Network (2001). He has also authored On Diplomacy: A Genealogy
of Western Estrangement (1987) and Antidiplomacy: Spies,
Terror, Speed, and War (1992), and edited International Theory:
Critical Investigations (1994) and The Virilio Reader
(1998). His articles on information technology and the revolution
in military affairs have appeared in the New York Times, Washington
Quarterly, Nation, and Wired.
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Zero ]
Annick T. R. Wibben is a Watson Institute
visiting fellow and a co-investigator with the ITWP Project. Ms.
Wibben is currently completing her doctorate in international politics
at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, writing on "Subjects
of Security: A Feminist Examination of Security in International
Relations," which combines international political theory, security
studies, and feminist theory. During this past academic year, she
was engaged in an interdisciplinary research seminar on "Technology
and Representation" at Brown's Pembroke Center for Teaching and
Research on Women. Her Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and
Feminist Scholars Revis(it)ed was published in 1998. [
Panel: Technologies of Change ]
Symposium Participants
Thomas J. Biersteker is the director
of the Watson Institute for International Studies and Brown University's
Henry R. Luce Professor. He is the author/editor of six books, including
State Sovereignty as Social Construct (1996) and Argument
Without End: Searching for Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (1999,
with Robert S. McNamara, James G. Blight, et al.). Professor Biersteker
chairs the Social Science Research Council's Global Security and
Cooperation Committee, and is currently conducting research on targeting
financial sanctions and freezing terrorist finances.
Martin Burcharth, the U.S. correspondent
for the Danish national daily Information, has written extensively
about the aftermath of 9.11.2001 during the past nine months. Before
his U.S. assignment, Mr. Burcharth was a correspondent in Rome and
Poland. He has contributed articles to many European publications,
including Der Spiegel, Le Nouvel Observateur, Die
Tagezeitung, and Il Manifesto. Mr. Burcharth has written
two books -- one on organized crime and the other on the rise of television-mogul
Silvio Berlusconi to political power. [ Panel:
War of Networks ]
David Campbell is a professor of
international politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
U.K. In 1998, he published National Deconstruction: Violence,
Identity, and Justice in Bosnia, which was named International
Forum Bosnia's Book of the Year 1999. Professor Campbell's most
recent research project is working towards a trilogy of books (War
Visions, Humanitarian Visions, and Iconic Visions),
which explores issues of imaging international politics. [
Panel: War of Networks ]
Brahma Chellaney, a strategic-affairs
expert, is professor of security studies at the Center for Policy
Research in New Delhi, India. Professor Chellaney has held appointments
at the Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard
University. He is the author of Nonproliferation: The United
States-Indian Conflict (1993). He recently contributed an article,
"Fighting Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Lessons of History" to
International Security (Winter 2001/2002).
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Jarat Chopra is an assistant professor
(research) at the Watson Institute. Professor Chopra is the author
of The Politics of Peace-Maintenance (1998) and Peace-Maintenance:
The Evolution of International Political Authority (1999). Two
years ago, he was head of District Administration for the United
Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). Most
recently, Professor Chopra has been a consultant to the British
government on peace operations in the Palestinian Territories.
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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is an assistant
professor in Brown's Modern Culture and Media Department. She has
studied both systems design engineering and English literature,
which she combines in her work on digital media. She is currently
finishing two books: a monograph entitled Sexuality in the Age
of Fiber Optics, which explores the crisis of disciplinary and
regulatory power brought about by high-speed telecommunications
networks; and an edited collection entitled The Archaeology of
Multi-Media. [ Panel: Infowar,
Cyberwar ]
Carol Cohn is a senior researcher in
Wellesley College's Political Science Department. She has held research
positions at the Defense and Arms Control Program at MIT's Center
for International Studies and at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohn's
research is on gender and international security, with extensive
work in the area of weapons of mass destruction, including most
recently, "A Feminist Ethical Perspective on Weapons of Mass Destruction,"
co-authored with Sara Ruddick. Her current research examines gender
mainstreaming in international security institutions.
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Carl Conetta is the codirector of
the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) at the Commonwealth Institute
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the editor of the PDA Internet
pages, Chinese Military Power, and RMA Debate Page.
Dr. Conetta has been the principal author of 30 reports on military
restructuring and defense reform issues, threat assessment, and
peacekeeping. His articles appear in such publications as the Defense
News, Security Dialogue, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
Nonoffensive Defense and Conversion, and Hawk Journal.
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Revolution ]
Neta C. Crawford, an associate professor
(research) at the Watson Institute, is an expert on international
relations and security, economic sanctions, humanitarian intervention,
global ethics, and international organization. In 1998 / 1999, she
was a peace fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. Cambridge University
Press is publishing her latest work Argument and Change in World
Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention.
She also co-edited How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa
(1999, with Audie Klotz). [ Panel: Technologies
of Change ]
Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing
editor at Harper's magazine and is on the faculty of New
York University's Dalton School and the Draper Graduate Program.
He has published widely in such works as Harper's, as well
as in Cultural Anthropology, The Nation, and Shout.
Recently, he published "World World; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Blob" (Harper's, July 2000), "Guys with Gear"
(Shout, November 2001), and "The Numbing of the American
Mind" (Harper's, April 2002).
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Networks ]
Ronald J. Deibert is an associate
professor of politics and director of the Citizen Lab at the University
of Toronto. He has been named the 2002�2003 Ford Foundation Research
Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies. Professor
Deibert authored Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications
in World Order Transformation (1997) and published articles
in numerous international studies journals on such topics as internet
politics, civil society and global politics, earth remote sensing
and space policy, and postmodernism.
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Revolution ]
Dorothy E. Denning is the Patricia
and Patrick Callahan Family Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown
University and director of the Georgetown Institute for Information
Assurance. She researches issues relating to cyber crime and cyber
terrorism, information warfare and security, and cryptography. Professor
Denning is the author of Information Warfare and Security
(1998) along with three other books and 120 articles. She has testified
before Congress on encryption policy and cyber terrorism. [
Panel: Infowar, Cyberwar ]
Daniel Deudney is an assistant professor
of international relations and political theory at Johns Hopkins
University. An expert on the new politics of the environment, state
sovereignty as a social construct, and geopolitics as historical
security materialism, Professor Deudney is the co-author of Renewable
Energy (1983) and co-editor of Contested Grounds: Security
and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (with Richard
Matthews, 1999). [ Panel: Ground
Zero ]
Tom Ehrhard is an active
duty colonel in the United States Air Force and a professor of strategy
and policy at the Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.
Col. Ehrhard teaches courses on contemporary defense policy and
military technology and innovation. Most recently, he served as
the strategy division chief in the Air Operations Center at Prince
Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, during the first several months
of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He has also worked
in the Pentagon and in various headquarters and unit assignments
as a space and missile operator. [ Panel: Technological
Revolution ]
Yaron Ezrahi is a professor of political
science at Hebrew University and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy
Institute. Professor Ezrahi writes extensively on the impact of
modern science and technology on democratic governments and the
conduct of public affairs. His publications include The Descent
of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy
(1990) and Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel
(1998). Professor Ezrahi has consulted with the White House Public
Goals Research Staff, Carnegie Commission on Science and Government,
Israeli Parliament, and National Academic of Science. [
Panel: Everyday Terror ]
Larry N. George is a professor of political
science at California State University at Long Beach. Professor
George's primary research areas concern the antiglobalization movement,
theories of political action, and international relations theory.
His publications include "Seguid vuestro jefe: The Polemic Supplement
and the Pharmacotic Presidency" in Theory & Event (2, no.
3, 1998), and The Constitution and the Conduct of U.S. Foreign
Policy (1996, co-edited with David Gray Adler).
[ Panel: Technologies
of Change ]
Abbott Gleason is the Watson Institute's
director for University Relations and Special Projects and Brown's
Keeney Professor of History. Professor Gleason is an expert on national
identity in Russia/Soviet Union and United States from 1830�1930,
and the history of the Cold War. He is the former director of the
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center
in Washington, D.C. Professor Gleason recently co-edited Nikita
Khrushchev (2000, with Sergei Khrushchev and William Taubman).
Lene Hansen is an associate professor
of international relations at the University of Copenhagen. Prior
to this, she was a research fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research
Institute (COPRI). Her articles have appeared in such journals and
edited volumes as Alternatives, Cooperation and Conflict,
Journal of Peace Research, and Millennium. She recently
co-edited European Integration and National Identity: The Challenge
of the Nordic States (2001, with Ole Waever).
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Mary Kaldor, an international expert
on the political economy of security, directs the Programme on Global
Civil Society at the London School of Economics' Centre for the
Study of Global Governance. A prolific author, her recent publications
include New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era
(1999) and The Global Civil Society Yearbook 2001 (2001,
coauthor and coeditor). She was a founding member of European Nuclear
Disarmament (END) and cochair of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly.
She was also a member of the International Independent Commission,
which was established by the Swedish prime minister, to investigate
the Kosovo crisis.
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Thomas Keenan directs the Human Rights
Project at Bard College and is an associate professor of comparative
literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Professor
Keenan researches issues on human rights and humanitarianism, literary
and political theory, old and new media, contemporary culture, post-Cold
War conflicts, and ethics and international justice. He is the author
of Fables of Responsibility (1997) and is at work on Live
Feed, a study of the interactions between postmodern war, humanitarianism,
and the media.
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Michael Klare is the Five
College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS) and
directs the PAWSS Five College Program in Amherst. He also is the
former director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at
the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. An expert on
U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs,
Professor Klare recently authored or co-edited Resource Wars:
The New Landscape of Global Conflict (2001), Light Weapons
and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence (1999),
and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (1995). He currently
serves as the defense correspondent for The Nation.
[ Panel: Technological
Revolution ]
Dauod Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist
from Jerusalem and the director of the Institute of Modern Media
at Al-Quds University. One of the Institute's most vital initiatives
is Al-Quds Educational Television, which offers public service programming
and is the University's communication link to Palestinian society
(largely destroyed in April 2002). His opinion pieces have been
published in the New York Times, Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and
elsewhere. In May 2001, Mr. Kuttab received the International Press
Institute's award as one of 50 press freedom heroes in the last
50 years. [ Panel: Everyday
Terror ]
Catherine Lutz is a professor of anthropology
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has done
ethnographic fieldwork in Micronesia and in Fayetteville, North
Carolina, adjacent to Fort Bragg. Her book on the latter subject
is entitled Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th
Century (2001). Professor Lutz has also written numerous scholarly
articles and newspaper pieces on militarization and its wider social
implications. [ Panel: Technological
Revolution ]
John R. (Rick) MacArthur is an award-winning
reporter and author, and the publisher of Harper's Magazine,
a position he has held since 1983. Mr. MacArthur is the author of
two books, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf
War (1993, with Ben Haig Bagdikian), and most recently, The
Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of
American Democracy (2000). His columns and articles appear in
the Toronto Globe and Mail, New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times,
The Nation, and many other newspapers and magazines. [
Panel: Ground Zero ]
William C. Martel is a professor of
national security affairs and the Alan Shepherd Chair of Space Technology
and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College. Professor Martel worked
at the RAND Corporation in Washington, D.C., where he directed studies
on the problem of proliferation and the U.S. government's process
for managing proliferation. Most recently, he published The Technological
Arsenal (2001). His other books include Strategic Nuclear
War (1986) and How to Stop a War (1987).
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Sari Nusseibeh is a professor of
philosophy and the director of Al-Quds University. The descendant
of an old Jerusalem family, he is also a public intellectual deeply
involved in and concerned about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian
coexistence. In October 2001, he became the Palestine Liberation
Organization's chief representative in Jerusalem. [
Panel: Everyday Terror ]
Scott Ritter was a U.N. weapons inspector
to Iraq. Mr. Ritter's Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once
and For All (1999) chronicles his experiences investigating
weapons of mass destruction. A ballistic missile technology expert
and former major in the U.S. Marines, he served in military intelligence
in the U.S. armed services. In 1991, he joined UNSCOM, the UN weapons
inspections team, and worked on some 30 plus inspection missions,
nearly half as mission chief. During the symposium, Mr. Ritter will
preview his new film In Shifting Sands, which examines the
continued sanctions against Iraq, the humanitarian costs of those
sanctions, and its effectiveness on U.S. foreign relations.
John Phillip Santos is a program officer
for the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts, and Culture Program. Mr.
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 (1999). [ Panel: War
of Networks ]
Robert D. Steele is the founder and
CEO of OSS.NET. A 25-year veteran of the U.S. national security
community, and one of the first clandestine case officers to be
assigned terrorism as a full-time target, Mr. Steele has served
on the national-level information handling and advanced information
processing and analysis steering committees and was the senior civilian
responsible for creating our nation's newest all-source intelligence
analysis center, the Marine Corps Intelligence Command. Mr. Steele's
recently publications include On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy
in an Open World (2000 and 2001) and The New Craft of Intelligence:
Personal, Public, and Political (2002). [
Panel: Ground Zero ]
Bruce Sterling, an internationally
recognized author, first hit the science fiction literary scene
in 1976. During the past 20 years, he has contributed to the genre's
canon with such notables as Schismatriax, Islands in the
Net, Heavy Weather, and Holy Fire. In 1992, he
wrote his first nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and
Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, an investigative report
on computer crime and civil liberties. Since then, he has contributed
frequently to the discourse on electronic media and user rights.
His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday,
Whole Earth Review, Details, Mondo 2000, bOING
bOING, and Wired.
Lon Troyer is a doctoral candidate
in political science at the University of California at Berkeley.
His dissertation is on "The Location of Terrorism: Counterterrorism,
American Politics, and the Docile Citizen." His research has appeared
in Vocations of Political Theory (2000, edited by Jason Frank
and John Tambornino), and on the online journal Theory & Event.
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of Change ]
Michele Zanini is a consultant with
McKinsey & Company. Dr. Zanini wrote extensively about information-age
terrorism while at the RAND Corporation. He co-authored Countering
the New Terrorism (1999, with Ian O. Lesser, Bruce Hoffman,
et al.), as well as contributed to the recently released Networks
and Netwars (2001, co-edited by John Arquilla and David F. Ronfeldt).
Dr. Zanini's RAND research projects included subjects on NATO strategy
in the Balkans and Mediterranean, terrorism, ethnic conflict, and
European defense planning. [ Panel: War
of Networks ]
Maja Zehfuss is a lecturer in international
relations at the University of Warwick. Her current research concentrates
on war and memory in Germany. She also writes on the "politics of
reality" in relation to constructivist international relations theory
and its limitations and the implications of poststructuralist thought.
Her writings have appeared in such journals as the Zeitschrift
f�r Internationale Beziehungen and European Journal of International
Relations. Her forthcoming work is entitled Constructivism
in International Relations: The Politics of Reality. [
Panel: Technologies of Change ]
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