“Choosing Enemies and Friends
in the Middle East”
Sir Lawrence Freedman
King’s College London
Sir Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King’s College London since 1982. In 2002 he became Head of the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at King’s College London. He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His books include an Adelphi Paper on The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, an edited book on Strategic Coercion, an illustrated book on The Cold War, a collection of essays on British defense policy and Kennedy’s Wars that covers the major crises of the early 1960s over Berlin, Cuba and Vietnam. In addition a book on deterrence was published in 2004 and the Official History of the Falklands Campaign was published in the summer of 2005. Before joining King’s, he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997.
Moderated by Professor Robert Jervis
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
2:15pm – 4:00pm
Room 1512, 15th Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
420 W. 118th Street
New York City
“The Vietnam Grunt”
Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Department of History
Arizona State University
Dr. Kyle Longley received his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky in history in December of 1993. Since 1995, Longley has taught at Arizona State University as an associate professor of history where he is the Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor and director of graduate studies. Longley has been awarded the Faculty Development Grant (1995), Moody Fellowship, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation (1995), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Grant (1996), Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation travel grant (1996), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant (1997), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Award (1999), Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Grant (2001), and the A.B. Thomas Book Award for outstanding book published in 1997 on Latin American Studies by the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies.
Currently, he serves as the chair for the department of history, Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, Chair of the Department Seven-Year Review Committee, Chair of Department of History Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, and is a member of the Department of History Graduate Admissions
Thursday, October 16, 2008
12:15pm – 2:00pm
Room 1302, 13thth Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street
New York City
“Suicide Bombers:
A Path to Paradise”
Anat Berko Farhana Ali
Anat Berko is lecturer at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in Herzilya Israel, as well as a consultant to the Israeli National Security Council and for the academic year 2008-2009 is a Visiting Professor at George Washington, University. Previously Dr. Berko served in the Israeli Defense Forces for over 20 years and was a senior member of Israel’s intelligence services. She is widely recognized as an authority on radical Islam and suicide bombers, having conducted extensive personal interviews with captured terrorists over some two decades. Her most recent book, The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers, published in English in 2008 was based on her extensive interviews with terrorists and suicide bombers held in Israel, including the founder of Hamas and other key figures.
Farhana Ali has been a policy analyst with the RAND Corporation since 2005, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST) since 2007. Prior to joining RAND, she worked at the Central Intelligence Agency where she was the first American-Muslim woman to be hired into the Counter-Terrorism Department. For her unique understanding of conflicts in the Muslim world as well as Islamic doctrine and related issues she received several Meritorious Service Awards. Her research is focused on the evolution of global terrorism, political trends in key Muslim countries such as Pakistan, and Muslim female bombers. For nearly a decade, she has examined terrorist groups in Pakistan and the emerging trend of women’s role in al-Qaida and local jihadi groups. Ms. Ali has published several articles on the strategic U.S.-Pakistan alliance and presented her work to the National Defense University (Islamabad), and Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (Karachi), as well as numerous U.S. audiences. She frequently visits Pakistan in support of her ongoing research, which includes evaluating the terrorist threat in the tribal region and interviews with ex-mujahideen in Kashmir.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
12:10pm – 2:00pm
Room 1501, 15th Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
420 W. 118th Street
New York City
China Policy Issues”
Thomas Christensen
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Thomas J. Christensen’s research and teaching focus on international relations theory, the international relations of East Asia, and China’s foreign relations. He has published a book, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and SinoAmerican Conflict, 1947-1958, and many articles, including “Theater Missile Defense and Taiwan’s Security” (Orbis); “China: Getting the Questions Right,” with Richard K. Betts (The National Interest); “Posing Problems without Catching Up” (International Security); and “Deterring a Taiwan Conflict: The Contemporary Security Dilemma” (Washington Quarterly). He is currently working on projects relating to alliances in East Asia, the growth of Chinese power, and U.S. strategy toward East Asia. He consults often for the U.S. government and in 2002 was presented with a Distinguished Public Service Award by the United States Department of State. A graduate of Haverford College, Christensen earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
12:15pm – 2:00pm
Room 707, 7th Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street
New York City
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