Members

Michael Allsep (J.D., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before coming to UNC, he worked as a public defender and state prosecutor and practiced law for ten years in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Allsep was awarded a fellowship to study American and military history under the direction of Richard H. Kohn. His dissertation is titled, "The Hopes and Aspirations of Their People: The Army War College and its Impact on Army Strategic Thinking, 1920-1934." Michael Allsep has given a number of public talks as a member of the TISS Speakers Bureau and is currently teaching a course on National and International Security at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jerrold Berke was a career member of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the U.N.'s major provider of technical assistance to developing nations. As the Resident Representative for UNDP and Coordinator for U.N. Systems' Field Operations, he lived and worked for fifteen years in thirteen countries in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, with responsibility for designing and implementing plans for the administration of all U.N. aid programs in his assigned countries. From the UNDP, Mr. Berke next worked at U.N. Headquarters in New York, serving as Senior Advisor to the Department for Developmental Support and Management Services. He is currently involved with the United Nations Association of the United States, serving as Vice President of its North Carolina Division, and continues to speak from his extensive personal experience on the aspirations and challenges facing developing nations and their relationships to the United States and the industrialized world. His public presentations focus on the role of the United Nations.

Jonathan Berkey (Ph.D., Princeton University) teaches the full range of Middle Eastern history since the rise of Islam. In addition, Dr. Berkey participates in Davidson’s Humanities Program. His research and writing focus on Islamic religious culture and medieval Egypt and Syria. Dr. Bereky is a prolific writer and his most recent book, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), received the top annual book prize from the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). He gives public presentations on a variety of topics dealing with Islam, Religion and Society in the Near East.

Anna Bigelow (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is Assistant Professor in Philosophy & Religion at NCSU. She specializes in South Asian Religions. She is particularly interested in Islam, inter-religious relations, shared sacred sites, conflict resolution, and religious extremism and has given public and academic lectures on all of these topics. Her current book project focuses on how shared sacred sites impact shared civic space and vice versa. She has published on Sufism, pluralism, and the inter-religious violence in Gujarat in 2002.

Frederick H. Black currently works as an independent management consultant specializing in leadership and organizational evaluations and assessments for both corporations, public and non-profit organizations. He also speaks on the subjects of leadership, education and national security to a variety of organizations and educational institutions. Prior to his retirement from the U.S. Army, Colonel Black served as an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. A 1968 Distinguished Military Graduate of Howard University with a BA in Political Science, he received his graduate training in political science and public policy and administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He has served in a variety of Infantry command and staff positions with Airborne and Light Infantry units in the continental United States, Hawaii, the Republic of South Vietnam, and the Republic of South Korea.

William Boettcher III (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science ( School of Public and International Affairs) at North Carolina State University. His recent book, entitled, “Presidential Risk Behavior in Foreign Policy: Prudence or Peril,” (Palgrave, 2005) was based on a series of case studies across the Truman and Kennedy administrations and incorporated analyses of risk behavior building on literature in political science, psychology, economics, business, and sociology. His current research interests include casualties and public opinion regarding the war in Iraq, foreign policy decision-making, U.S. national security policy, international relations theory, and Middle East regional security, as well as a focus on political psychology, behavioral decision theory and verbal probability theory. He presents on a wide variety of topics relating to international relations and U.S. foreign policy.

Joseph Caddell (Ph.D., Duke University) is Adjunct Instructor of History at North Carolina State University and Visiting Instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught classes on the History of Air Power, the History of Sea Power, U.S. Military History; the American Civil War and Reconstruction at NCSU, UNC, and Meredith College and Warning Intelligence for the Department of Defense. His primary research interests are in air power history, the history of restraints on war, and the evolution of warning intelligence. He has edited three works: Nuclear Strategy, The Superpowers, and Arms Control. He gives public presentations on a wide variety of topics relating to the study of war and peace, and national and international security.

Peter Coclanis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in economic history and the history of American business, and has published extensively on the history of agribusiness, the economic impact of the American Civil War, comparative aspects of agricultural production in the American South and Southeast Asia, as well as the economic and social history of South Carolina from the 17th century to the present. He has also published on the sociology of architecture and the role of ideas in the principal American social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. He gives public presentations on a variety of topics dealing with American and global economic history.

Michael Cotter (JD, International Law, University of Michgan, BSFS, Georgetown University) entered the Foreign Service in September 1968. He served in South Vietnam 1970-71 and 1973 (1970 with CORDS in the northern Mekong Delta, 1971 as a staff aide in Embassy Saigon, and 1973 as a vice consul with Consulate General Can Tho, assigned to the northern Mekong Delta). He was assigned as a political officer to the U.S. Embassies in La Paz, Bolivia (1971-73) and Quito, Ecuador (1976-79), with intervening assignments in the State Department’s Latin American Bureau and at Stanford University. After Turkish language training, Ambassador Cotter was assigned to Ankara as a political-military affairs officer (1980-82) and then as senior Turkish desk officer in the State Department. He served as political officer and then political counselor in Kinshasa, Zaire (1984-88). After tours in the Management Programs Office and the Political-Military Affairs Bureau in the Department (1988-90 and 90-92), the latter as Director of the Office of Defense Relations and Security Assistance during the Gulf War, he was named deputy chief of mission in Santiago, Chile (1992-95). In 1995 Michael Cotter was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan, serving until September 1998. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he did Brazil and transportation-related research at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington until moving to North Carolina in August 2001. He is currently writing and lecturing on foreign policy issues and is the Associate Publisher of American Diplomacy, an online publication devoted to foreign policy issues (http//americandiplomacy.org).

T. Frank Crigler (B.A. Harvard University) entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1961 and retired in 1990 after nearly thirty years of service. He was first assigned to the Department of State as an intelligence analyst for Latin America, and went on to serve throughout Latin America and Africa, as envoy to Rwanda and Somalia, deputy chief of mission and charge at the U.S. embassy in Bogota, as well as positions in U.S. embassies and consulates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Libreville, Gabon, and Kinshasha, Zaire. He has served as the political advisor to the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, American political Science Fellow with the U.S. Congress, Director of Mexican Affairs in State, and senior Foreign Service inspector. After retiring, he taught international affairs at Simmons College in Boston for two years. He is co-founder of American Diplomacy. His public presentations focus on a variety of topics in international relations and U.S. foreign policy, Africa, Latin America, ethnic conflict, and U.N. peacekeeping.

Cori Dauber(M.A. UNC-Chapel Hill, Ph.D. Northwestern) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her area of research specialization is the role argument strategies and public debate play in defense and military affairs, especially on public support for military operations. She has published in journals such as Armed Forces and Society, Security Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs. While she has been working on the impact the Weinberger / Powell Doctrine has had on public debate and decision-making on military intervention in the 1990s, her focus since September 11th has been on the performance of the media in its coverage of the war on terrorism.  She is currently completing a study on the challenges posed by the media and information stategies of the terrorists and insurgents, and she has spoken about her work at the US Army War College, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, and the Canadian Forces College, among other venues.

Jeffrey M. Elliot (Doctor of Arts, Claremont College) is the Chair and Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. He is an award winning scholar and a specialist in American politics and government, international relations and foreign policy, civil rights and civil liberties, and political economy and global development. He has authored over 100 books and 550 articles, reviews, and interviews. His work has appeared in over 250 publications, both in the United States and abroad, including Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Nation, the Washington Post, Jeune Afrique, World Affairs, and the New York Times Review of Books. He has interviewed over 350 nationally and internationally known figures, including former President Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Mobutu Sese Seko, Yasir Arafat, King Hussein, Kenneth Kaunda, Desmond Tutu, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, George McGovern, Ramsey Clark, Cesar Chavez, Alex Haley, Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, and Maya Angelou. His public presentations focus on international realignment in the post cold war world, revolution and ideology in the third world, and the politics of developing nations.

Peter Furia (Ph.D. Princeton) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University where his primary research interest concerns group identity and the role of the public in international relations. Professor Furia, a speaker at our Second Annual New Faces Conference and a member of the Triangle Institute Studies Speakers Bureau, has also applied his interest in opinion research to the democratic-peace phenomenon, arguing that variation in opinion among democratic publics helps to explain the paradoxically "limited" character of the liberal peace. In addition to a book manuscript on American national identity before and after 9/11, he is working on several projects utilizing cross-national public opinion research to operationalize identity and threat perception in international relations.

Christopher F. Gelpi (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. His primary research interests are the sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution. He has published works on the role of norms in crisis bargaining, alliances as instruments of control, diversionary wars, deterrence theory, and the influence of the international system on the outbreak of violence. A book, The Power of Legitimacy: The Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining , is forthcoming and he is engaged in research projects on American civil-military relations and the use of force, the influence of democracy and trade on the use of force, and the forecasting of military conflict.

David Gilmartin (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2001-2002. He teaches courses on Asian history, the modern history of India, the history of European imperialism, the history of Islam in the modern world, and twentieth century world history. He is the author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan (1988) and Beyond Turk and Hindu : Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamic South Asia , edited with Bruce B. Lawrence (2000). His most recent research focuses on the history of water control in the Indus Basin region, the heartland of the modern state of Pakistan, and on the historical relationship between local community, the state, and the environment.

David Griffiths (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests focus on 17th and 18th century Russia. The three themes that interest him the most are 1) the nature of Russian absolutism; 2) the representation of Catherine II as a female ruler; and 3) early Russian-American relations. His published works are, The Charters of Catherine II (with George Munro), 1991; "Catherine II: The Republican Empress," in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 1975; "Plans for a Middle Estate in Catherinean Russia," in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 1984; and eight articles on early Russian-American relations, leading to a major monograph on the subject. He is also interested in security issues, particularly when they relate to problems of Soviet-American relations.

Heidi H. Hobbs (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is currently the Director of the Master of International Studies Program and Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. She has previously served on the faculties of Florida International University in Miami and Illinois State University. Her books include City Hall Goes Abroad: The Foreign Policy of Local Politics  from Sage, 1994 and Pondering Postinternationalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century , from SUNY Press, 2000. She has also authored other articles, contributed book chapters to other publications and made numerous presentations. Her most recent article is entitled, "The Challenge for Women in International Studies," in the journal, International Studies Perspectives, (May 2006).  She is currently working on a textbook with Harry I. Chernotsky entitled, Introduction to International Studies:  An Orientation to the World.

Robert Jenkins (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  After receiving his doctorate in sociology he taught at Yale University and worked as a consultant with international and East European organizations in the areas of education reform.   He was also a regular contributor to the analysis of political and economic trends for the Economist Intelligence Unit of London.  He has published on the development of the nonprofit (nongovernmental) sector, social and political movements in Eastern Europe, and labor markets and careers in Hungary.  Professor Jenkins’ current research is focused on ethnic conflict, post-conflict development, and state building, with special emphasis on the role of international organizations. He is also developing a new project on political violence between state and non-state actors.

Curtis Jones (MA, George Washington University) served in the Department of State as Foreign Service Officer (1946-1975). He studied Arabic and international relations. After serving three years in the US Army during World War II, he entered the Department of State in 1946. Over the course of his career, he served as economic officer in Lebanon and Ethiopia, as a political officer in Libya, Syria, and again in Lebanon, as consul in Egypt, and as consul general in South Yemen, Muscat, and Oman. In Washington he worked as an intelligent analyst on Egypt and the Sudan, as officer of Egyptian and Syrian affairs, and finally as director of the State Department's Office of Intelligence for North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia. Since retirement he has written and lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, and terrorism. He gives public talks on conflict in the Middle East, intelligence techniques and utilization, and terrorism.

Akram Khater (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) , a native of Lebanon, is a specialist on the History of the Modern Middle East at North Carolina State University and Director of the International Studies Program. He is the author of Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921 and a Reader of Primary Sources for the History of the Middle East and a contributing author to The World and Its Peoples. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics engineering from California Polytechnic State University and is the associate editor of the History Computer Review. He is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers and was given North Carolina State University's Outstanding Faculty for Service/Extension in 2003.

Louisa Kilgroe (Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. She specializes in the history of U.S. foreign policy in China, Modern Chinese History, and traditional and modern East Asian history. She has been awarded a University Teaching Fellowship from the University of North Carolina and a Reynolds Industries Research Fellowship. She is a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She has presented papers on, "American Bankers and Revolutionary Nationalism in China and Mexico" and "What's Wrong with China: American Business Identity in Chinese Nationalism." She lectures on a variety of topics relating to U.S. Foreign Policy, China, and East Asia. In 2005-2006, she presented a paper as part of the Great Decisions program on China and India and another on the Impact of China’s Economic Development on Chinese Society and Culture.

Robin Kirk An award-winning author and human rights activist, Robin Kirk teaches at Duke University and coordinates the Duke Human Rights Initiative. She is the author of three books, including More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in Colombia (PublicAffairs) and The Monkey’s Paw: New Chronicles from Peru ( University of Massachusetts Press). Kirk won the 2005 Glamour magazine non-fiction contest with her essay on the death penalty, available in the November 2005 issue. She frequently speaks about Latin America, human rights and U.S. policy. Kirk also works as an investigator on capital cases and is finishing a novel.
Kirk authored, co-authored and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch, all available on-line. In the 1980s, Kirk reported for U.S. media from Peru, where she covered the war between the government and the Shining Path. During that time, she also prepared reports for the U.S. Committee on Refugees, including the first report ever on the plight of Peru’s internally displaced people. The Decade of Chaqwa was followed by a second report, To Build Anew, dealing with the effort of some displaced families to return to their homes. Kirk also authored the first report chronicling the plight of the forcibly displaced in Colombia, Feeding the Tiger. Kirk is a former Radcliffe Bunting Fellow and is a past winner of the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Freelance Writing .

Henry Landsberger (Ph.D., Cornell, N.Y. State School of Industrial and Labor Relations) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1926, he was able to emigrate to England on a so-called “Childrens’ Transport” in January 1939 after the November 1938 “Kristallnacht” (Pogrom Night), when his father was sent for a month to Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Dresden’s famous synagogue - of which his grandfather was senior rabbi - was burned and demolished. His parents escaped to Chile in September 1939. Later, Landsberger was taken into the home of a kindly non-Jewish widower in Lincoln, England, where he went to high school. He worked in a coal mine during the last year of World War II. Graduating with first class honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1948, Landsberger continued his education at Cornell University, earning his doctorate in 1954. He taught at Cornell until 1968, leaving to join the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina. Landsberger also has served as a visiting professor in Chile, England, Germany, Ghana and Switzerland. Since his retirement, Landsberger has been active on the advisory committee on cost containment of the State Health Planning Commission, on the North Carolina legislative committee of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and on the steering committee of the N.C. Health Care Access Coalition and other other organizations concerned with health care reform, issues on which he had conducted research in England and Germany as well as the United States. Landsberger has visited Israel frequently since 1990, studying both Israel's internal problems and the peace process. Since the early 1990’s to the present, his main interest has focused on the solution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict as well as Israel’s internal problems. He has visited the area regularly, most recently in June 2005, when he visited Ramallah, Bethlehem, East Jerusalem and Hebron under the auspices of Israeli and Palestinian peace-organizations.

Sarah K. Lischer (Ph.D., MIT) is an assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. She is the author of Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid (Cornell University Press, 2005). She has published on the topics of military intervention, humanitarian aid, and forced migration in International Security, the Christian Science Monitor, and Global Governance (forthcoming). Lischer has been awarded fellowships by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the Academic Council for the United Nations System. Lischer received a BSFS from Georgetown University, an MPP from Harvard University, and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Timothy McKeown (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a special interest in forging relationships across the disciplines and general theories of decision-making. He has published on the politics of international trade, corporate PAC formation, business-state relations in the U.S. and Japan, and Japanese foreign aid. He has also worked on war initiation, foreign policy decision-making, and the methodology of case studies. He has taught at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, and, most recently, Moscow State University for International Relations as part of UNC's Study Abroad Program. He has given public talks on topics related to U.S. foreign policy, including the politics of international terrorism and the politics of international trade.

Julius Nyang'oro (Ph.D., Miami University) is Chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a law degree from the Duke University Law School and has taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Asmara in Eritrea. He has published numerous books and articles on democracy, political economy, foreign policy, state building, and the role of international financial institutions and non-government organizations in Africa. His books include Civil Society, the State and African Development in the 1990s, Discourses on Democracy: Africa in Comparative Perspective, and The State and Capitalist Development in Africa: Declining Political Economies. His public presentations focus on democracy, development, and security issues in Africa

Carolyn Pumphrey (Ph.D., Duke University) is the Program Coordinator for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) and the Duke University Program in Asian Security Studies (TISS) and a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She has taught a wide variety of courses at college level, including "War and Society in Ancient and Medieval Times," and the "History of Restraints on War." She served as the Triangle Institute for Security Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow between 2997 and 2000. She is the editor of Transnational Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies (Strategic Studies Institute, 2000), The Rise of China: Security Implications (2002); and (with Rye Schwartz-Barcott) of Armed Conflict in Africa (Scarecrow Press, 2003). Her public talks focus on issues of war and peace in the medieval world.

Paul Quigley is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at UNC-Chapel Hill. A native of Manchester, England, he holds degrees from the Universities of Lancaster (B.A., American Studies) and North Carolina ( M.A., U.S. History). Quigley's specialties include the American South, U.S. national and regional identities, and cultural and intellectual aspects of the American Civil War. His dissertation is a history of U.S. southern nationalism, 1848-1865.

Alex Roland (Ph.D., Duke University) is a Professor of History at Duke University. He served in the United States Marine Corps between 1966 -1970. Between 1973 and 1981 he was the Historian at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and from 1988-1989 he was a Prof essor of Military History at the Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College. Dr. Roland's research and writing focus on military history and the history of technology. His current research and writing are in the fields of aviation, astronautics, computers, weapons, and the relationship between war and technology. His recent publications include Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (2002); The Military-industrial Complex (2001); (edited with Peter Galison) Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century 2001); and the introduction to the 2000 edition of Theodore Ropp's War in the Modern World. He speaks on nuclear strategy, defense spending, and America's future in space.

David H. Schanzer (B.A., Harvard College; J.D., Harvard Law School) is the Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and serves on the faculty at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He was appointed to this position in March, 2005. In 2003, Schanzer was appointed to be the Democratic Staff Director for the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the United States House of Representatives, which, two years later, became a permanent standing committee of the House. As Staff Director, Schanzer supervised 22 professional staff members who conducted oversight on the new Department of Homeland Security, and issued over a dozen reports including a review of Department of Homeland Security at its one-year anniversary, a comprehensive strategy for combating terrorism, and an extensive plan to increase border security. Schanzer is married to Elizabeth Losos, the President of the Organization of Tropical Studies, and is the father of three girls, Hannah, Danielle, and Emily.

Scott Silliman received his B.A. in Philosophy in 1965 and his J.D. in 1968 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He participated in a four year Air Force ROTC program during his undergraduate days at UNC and was called to active duty as an Air Force judge advocate in November of 1968. During his career as a military attorney, he held a variety of leadership positions, including staff judge advocate (the senior attorney) at two large installations and three major Air Force commands. In his last assignment, as the senior attorney for Tactical Air Command and later Air Combat Command, he was general counsel to the commander of the largest principal organization within the Air Force, with 185,000 military and civilian personnel at 46 primary locations throughout the world. In this capacity, he managed a command law firm of 715 active duty and reserve lawyers, paralegals and civilian support staff. During the Persian Gulf War, he supervised the deployment of all Air Force attorneys and paralegals incident to Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. On August 31, 1993, after 25 years of service, he retired from the Air Force in the grade of colonel to assume his current position at Duke. Professor Silliman's teaching and research interests focus on national security law (which he teaches at three different law schools within the state), international humanitarian law, military law, and the law of armed conflict. He is widely sought throughout the country as a guest lecturer on the Law of War, and is a frequent commentator on CNN, National Public Radio, and other national radio and television news programs on issues involving military law and national security. In his capacity as Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, he promotes teaching, research and publications in national security law, and sponsors or co-sponsors three major, nationally-recognized conferences each year. Professor Silliman is a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and the Judge Advocates Association, a national organization of active duty, reserve and retired judge advocates from all the services.

Roland F. Stephen (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at North Carolina State University and the Assistant director for research and Policy at the Institute for Emerging Issues. After graduating from Downing College, Cambridge, England, he got his doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Stephen specializes in the area of international and comparative political economy. In particular he is interested in the economic consequences of globalization for North Carolina. His applied research seeks to identify the policy responses available through economic and community development that will help North Carolina to adapt to a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive global economy. He teaches international relations, international political economy and applied political economy. His research interests focus on the political logic of economic development, public policy, and European political and economic integration. Among his publications is Vehicle of Influence: Building a European Car Market.

Michael J. Struett (Ph.D., University of California - Irvine) is an Assistant Professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. For his doctoral dissertation titled The Politics of Constructing the International Criminal Court he received a fellowship from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation which allowed him to travel to the Netherlands and interview many of the people involved in negotiating the court’s establishment. His research interests include international relations theory, international organizations, and the politics of international law. He is interested in the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in world politics and particularly their participation in meetings of international organizations. Current research examines the role of NGOs in United Nations reform. He also has particular expertise on the International Criminal Court, and the politics of war crimes trials.

John Sylvester (BS Georgetown University School of Foreign Service) enjoyed a distinguished career, much of it spent in East Asia. After graduation from Williams College, Massachusetts he enlisted in the Army and served in combat with the infantry in the last period of the Korean War. In 1955 he entered the Foreign Service and served in Japan (Economic Section of Tokyo Embassay and Consul at the American Consulate in Sapporo). Thereafter he served in the Office of Japanese Affairs, as staff assistant at the White House, and Deputy Director of the Office of Thailand Affairs. His next tour of duty was in Vietnam: he served initially in the Delta provinces of Chau Doc and Kien Giang (1968), then in Binh Long, north of Saigon on the Cambodian border, and finally (1970-1972) as Chief, Internal Political Affairs Unit, American Embassy, Saigon. From 1972-1973 he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Thereafter, he returned as Consul General in Okinawa Japan (until 1976). He then returned to the Department of State and served as Deputy Director of the Office of Research and Analysis on East Asia and then as Assistant Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and research until he retired in August, 1980. In 1981 he became the first director of the North Carolina Japan Center at North Carolina State University.

F. Peter Wagner  (Ph.D., Rutgers University), a native German, currently teaches courses in European politics and international politics in the Department of Political Science and the Master of International Studies program (School of Public and International Affairs) at North Carolina State University.  Before coming to NC State in the fall of 2005, he taught one academic year at the American University in Bulgaria.  Prior to that, he held various research positions, most prominently at the University of Giessen, Germany, where he also taught European and international politics.  He has also been a CEP and DAAD lecturer at the University of Cluj-Napoca and the University of Bucharest, Romania, and has given lectures at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey, among others.  His research interests are in the study of European integration and the European Union, Southeastern Europe (including Turkey), European foreign policy and transatlantic relations, as well as in political and social theories of modernity, post-modernity, transformation and identity.  His latest publication, “Security: Cosmopolitan and European,” is forthcoming in Chris Rumford, ed., Cosmopolitanism and Europe (Liverpool University Press).

Gerhard L. Weinberg (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Weinberg is one of the world's leading authorities on modern Germany, modern diplomatic history and World War II, achieving the high honor of being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He is the author of 10 books, including the widely acclaimed, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Weinberg also found and edited Hitler's second book, which was re-released with a new preface in 1996. He gives a variety of presentations for TISS, speaking on World War II, the prospects for Peace in the Middle East, and the future of the Armed Forces of the USA.