| Arnold. A Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Newsletter | Vol. 015 | March 2009 |
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Welcome to the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies' electronic newsletter. We look forward to keeping you informed of developments and issues from the Institute. | |
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Senator George Mitchell Appointed Middle East Envoy Senator George Mitchell was recently appointed as the Obama administration’s special envoy to the Middle East. Senator Mitchell is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution, an affiliate of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. In 2001, Mitchell led an international commission to investigate violence in the Middle East. Prior to that, Mitchell helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland; he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts. |
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International Studies Association Honors Professor On Monday, February 16, the International Studies Association held a panel honoring the exceptional teaching of James T. Shotwell Professor Emeritus of International Relations Warner Schilling. The event was part of a larger effort by the organization to establish a precedent for honoring not only research, but teaching and mentoring in the field of security studies. Panel participants included Tim Crawford, Patricia Weitsman, Renee de Nevers, Jay Parker, and Stacie Goddard. According to Goddard, "We all felt it was important to recognize the influence Warner has had on our teaching."
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Professor Richard Betts Published in The National Interest Professor Richard Betts published a piece entitled “The Three Faces of NATO” in the March/April 2009 issue of The National Interest. The article discusses the alliance’s “identity crisis,” arguing for serious reconsideration of NATO’s fundamental purpose in the wake of the Cold War. Click here to read the full text of Professor Betts’ article. |
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Professor Jack Snyder Published in The National Interest Professor Jack Snyder (with Suzanne Katzenstein) published a piece entitled “Expediency of the Angels” in the March/April 2009 issue of The National Interest. The article explores a recent tendency within the U.S. public to “shy away from promoting [U.S.] values abroad” and calls on the United States to develop a more effective human rights policy in the context of larger strategic goals. Click here to read more about Professor Snyder’s article. |
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Professor Alexander Cooley Featured on NPR On February 4, Professor Alexander Cooley spoke with NPR about Kyrgyzstan's plan to close its U.S. military base. According to Cooley, Kyrgyzstan's decision likely involves President Obama's decision to make Afghanistan a priority. Click here to listen to or read Professor Cooley's comments. |
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Professors Lincoln Mitchell and Alexander Cooley Published in The Washington Quarterly Professors Lincoln Mitchell and Alexander Cooley published a piece entitled “No Way to Treat Our Friends: Recasting Recent U.S.-Georgian Relations” in the January 2009 issue of the The Washington Quarterly. The piece examines America’s flawed response to the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. Click here to read the full text of the article.
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Professor Tanisha Fazal Published in Brown Journal of World Affairs Tanisha Fazal and Ryan Griffiths published an article, entitled “A State of One’s Own: The Rise of Secession Since World War II” in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of the Brown Journal of World Affairs. The piece seeks to explain changes in the number of states in the international system, in the number of new states emerging via the process of decolonization, and in the number of secessionist movements in the system. Fazal concludes that secession is a new and rising trend in state formation. Click here to read more about Professor Fazal’s article. |
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Professors Page Fortna and Tanisha Fazal Receive Carnegie Grant Professors Page Fortna and Tanisha Fazal received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop creative and informed policy recommendations for managing states at risk. They hope to reorient the study of civil wars to cast new light on the initiation, conduct, and termination of such conflicts. Their research will produce a series of publications and will inform conference presentations and policy briefings to think tanks, government offices, and non-governmental organizations. |
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Lecture by Nik Hynek On February 10, Nik Hynek delivered a lecture entitled “Modalities of Deterrence and the Third Site of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense.” Hynek spoke about the planned basing of ground-based interceptors (GBIs) and accompanying radar detection systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The lecture, based on Hynek’s research for two related papers, covered a range of issues related to the Third Site, from the reasons behind Czech and Polish agreement to house the ballistic missile defense (BMD) system and the differing motivations at play in the two countries, to the geopolitical implications of U.S. efforts to expand its BMD arsenal. Click here to read more about Mr. Hynek’s remarks. |
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Lecture by Dr. Meghan O’Sullivan On February 20, Dr. Meghan O’Sullivan, lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, delivered a lecture entitled “Iraq: Revisiting Key Decisions of the Past Six Years.” Click here to read more about Dr. O’Sullivan’s remarks. |
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Lecture by Professors Richard Betts, Jack Snyder, and Sharyn O’Halloran On February 24, Professors Richard Betts, Jack Snyder, and Sharyn O’Halloran of Columbia University were featured in panel discussion entitled “Change the World Believes In? A Panel Discussion about the Obama Administration and Foreign Policy.” Click here to read more about these remarks. |
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Lecture by Farhana Ali On March 4, Farhana Ali, Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism, delivered a lecture entitled “Dressed to Kill: Why Women Detonate in Iraq.” Click here to read more about Ali’s remarks. |
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