Resident Members and

Affiliates
 


Autessere
Bartoli

Betts
Burde

Civico
Cooley
Farnham
Fazal
Fortna


Fox
Henkin
Jervis
Levy
Liberman
Licklider
Long
Margalit
Marten
Mitchell

Neuman

Pinto
Putnam
Roberts
Rose
Sestanovich
Snyder
Schilling
Urpelainen
Wagner
Waltz

Visiting Scholars

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Séverine Autesserre
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
(Ph.D., Political Science, New York University, June 2006) s

http://www.columbia.edu/~sa435


Recent Publications:
“Hobbes and the Congo – Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention in the
Congo,” International Organization, Forthcoming 2009

Current Research:
Research on civil and international wars, international interventions, and African politics, and disseminate research findings through seminars, conferences, and scientific articles


Andrea Bartoli
Senior Research Scholar Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution
(Ph.D, University of Milan, 1990)

Bartoli is the founding director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution and has been at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs since 1994. Between 1992 and 1999 he was also the Associate Di¬rector of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia. Before coming to Columbia, Bartoli was a lecturer at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata (1987¬1992) and the Director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs (1986-1992). He is the co-editor of
Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of International Media in Wars and International Crisis (Italian
Academy for Advanced Studies, 1995).


Recent Publications:
“Christianity and Peacebuilding.” In H. Coward and G. Smith, editors, Religion and Peacebuilding. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Current Research:
The emergence of peace and its sustainability, through both preventive and systemic approaches.

 


Richard K. Betts
Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
(Ph.D, Harvard University, 1975)

Betts has been the Director of the Institute since 1997 and the Director of the International Security Policy Concentration at SIPA since 1992. He joined the Columbia faculty as a Professor of Politi¬cal Science in 1990 and was the Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies from 1998-2002. Betts has also taught at Harvard and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins. He was the Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Rela¬tions (1996-2000) and Senior Fellow at the Brook¬ings Institution (1981-1990).

He served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as a consultant to the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. In 1980, he re¬ceived the Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association for The Irony of Vietnam (Brookings Institution, 1979), which he co-authored with Leslie H. Gelb. His other major publications include Soldiers Statesmen, and Cold War Crises, 2nd Edition (Columbia University Press, 1991), Surprise Attack (Brookings Institution, 1982), Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance (Brookings Institution, 1987), Military Readiness (Brookings Institu¬tion, 1995), and numerous edited vol¬umes and journal articles.

Recent Publications:
"The New Politics of Intelligence." Foreign Affairs 83, no. 3 (May/June 2004).
(Co-edited with Thomas G. Mahnken) Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel. London: Frank Cass, 2003.
"Striking First: A History of Thankfully Lost Opportuni¬ties." Ethics & International Affairs 17, no. 1 (2003).
“Suicide from Fear of Death?” Foreign Affairs 82, no. 1 (January/February 2003).

Current Research:
Intelligence reform, counter terrorism, and U.S. military policy.



Dana Burde

Associate Research Scholar
(Ph.D, Columbia University)



Burde is an Associate Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Program on Forced Migration and Health. Her research and teaching focus on education in emergencies, NGOs, and social movements, and on education as a tool for social reconstruction in failed states and post-conflict regions. To carry out this research, in 2005 she was awarded a Spencer Foundation Small Grant and a grant from the US Institute of Peace. At Teachers College, Burde co-founded the on-line journal, Current Issues in Comparative Education. Beyond the university, her work as an educational consultant includes assessment and evaluation of post-conflict programs in the Balkans; civil society building in the Caucasus; and research on parent and community participation in community schools in Central America and Mali. Burde received her Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy/International Education from Harvard University; and BA from Oberlin College.

Recent Publications:

Education in Crisis Situations: Mapping the Field. (Forthcoming 2005). Washington DC: Basic Education Support Project/USAID.
Save the Children’s Afghan Refugee Education Program in Balochistan, Pakistan 1995-2005. (Forthcoming 2005). Westport, CT: Save the Children.
“Weak State, Strong Community: Promoting Community Participation in Post-Conflict Countries.” (Spring 2004). Current Issues in Comparative Education. 6(2).

Current Research:
“Protecting Children from War and Ensuring their Prospects for the Future: Educating in the Context of Crisis and Transition.” See project description.


Barbara Rearden Farnham

Senior Associate
(Ph.D, Columbia University, 1991)

Farnham has been a Senior Associate with the Institute since 1994 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University from 1992 to 1993. She has also lectured at Princeton (1991) and Hunter College (1989-1991).

In 2001 she was awarded the Erik H. Erikson Award for Early Career Research Achievement by the International Society of Political Psychology. Her publications in¬clude Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: a Study in Political Decision-making (Princeton University Press, 1997) and Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict (University of Michigan Press, 1994), which she edited.

Recent Publications:
"The Impact of the Political Context on Foreign Policy." Political Psychology 24, no. 3 (June 2004).
"The Theory of Democratic Peace and Threat Percep¬tion." International Studies Quarterly 47, no. 3 (September 2003).
"Perceiving the End of Threat: Ronald Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution." In Stanley Renshon and Deb¬orah Larson, editors, Good Judgment and Foreign Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Current Research:
Threat perception and the impact of domestic politics on foreign policy.



Tanisha Fazal

Assistant Professor of Political Science
(Ph.D, Stanford University, 2001)

Fazal was a fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University (2001-2002) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stan¬ford University (1999-2000) before joining the faculty of the Political Science Department at Columbia in 2002. That same year, she was presented with the Helen Dwight Reid Award by the American Political Science Association. Fazal has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (1995), the Ford Foundation (1995), and the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress (1994-1995).

Recent Publications:
“State Death in the International System.” International Organization 58, no. 2 (Spring 2004).

Current Research:
One project examines the conditions under which states “die,” or exit the international system. Her work fo¬cuses on strategic incentives for con¬quest, as well as the role of sover¬eignty norms in conditioning the behavior of conquering states. A second project, titled “The Informalization of War,” asks why states have stopped issuing formal declarations of war and stopped using formal peace treaties to conclude interstate hostilities. She has also joined fellow Institute members Page Fortna and Kimberley Marten in working on “The New U.S. Imperialism: In¬tervention and Self-Determination.”



V. Page Fortna
Assistant Professor of Political Science
(Ph.D, Harvard University, 1998)

Fortna was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Inter¬national Security and Cooperation at Stamford Univer¬sity (1998-1999) before joining the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University in 1999. Fortna was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002-2003.

Recent Publications:
"Interstate Peacekeeping: Causal Mechanisms and Em¬pirical
Effects." World Politics 56, no. 4 (July 2004).
"Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Inter¬vention and the Duration of Peace after Civil War." International Studies Quarterly 48, no. 2 (June 2004).
Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
"Inside and Out: Peacekeeping and the Duration of Peace after Civil and Interstate Wars." In Suzanne Werner, David Davis, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,
editors, Dissolving Boundaries: the Nexus between Comparative Politics and International Relations. Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Also published in International Studies Review 5, no. 4 (Special Issue; December 2003).

Current Research:
During the 2004-05 academic year, Fortna is a Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship Program) at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where she will study the effects and causal mechanisms of peacekeep¬ing on the durability of peace after civil war, and histori¬cal changes in war termination, such as the decline of decisive victories in both interstate and civil war. She is continuing her collaborative efforts with fellow Institute members Kimberly Marten and Tanisha Fazal on “The New U.S. Imperialism: Intervention and Self-Determination.”



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