Study of War Project Summary Conference

11-13 June 1997

Participants

 

By Field

 

Anthropology: Carol R. Ember, Melvyn Ember, R. Brian Ferguson, Lawrence Keeley

Biology: George W. Barlow, Peter H. Klopfer

Communication Studies:  Cori E. Dauber, G. Thomas Goodnight

Economics: Crauford D. W. Goodwin, Judith V. Reppy

Engineering:  Paul J. Berenson

History:  Don Higginbotham, Michael Howard, Richard H. Kohn, Henry E. Mattox, William H. McNeill, Robert L. OConnell, Peter Paret, Douglas Peifer, Alex Roland, John Votaw, Arthur N. Waldron, Gerhard L. Weinberg

Law:  Robinson O. Everett, Leslie C. Green, Hays Parks, Scott L. Silliman

Literature:  Joseph T. Cox, Samuel Hynes

Physics:           Richard L. Garwin

Political Science/Public Policy:  William M. Arkin, Peter D. Feaver, Henk E. Goemans, Ole R. Holsti, Robert Jervis, Jack S. Levy, Tim J. McKeown, Barry R. Posen, Bruce M. Russett, Glenn L. Snyder, Stephen W. Van Evera

Psychology:  Daniel J. Christie, Robert A. Hinde, Anatol Rapoport

Sociology:  James A. Davis, Lionel Tiger

 

Biographical Abstracts

 

William M. Arkin, independent scholar, researcher, and writer specializing mostly in nuclear weapons and policy, the humanitarian impact of weapons and war, and the military-environmental-human rights nexus.  Consultant to the Human Rights Watch Arms Project (1994-present), the Natural Resources Defense Council (1980-present), and the National Security Archive (1994-present);  Publications include The U.S. Military Online: a Directory For Online Access to the Department of Defense (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1997);  On Impact: Modern Warfare and the Environment.  A Case Study of the Gulf War (Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace, 1991), Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race (Cambridge MA: Ballinger, 1985), and SIOP, the Secret U.S. Plan for Nuclear War (New York: Norton, 1983); Columnist, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1985-present); Political Director, Greenpeace USA, 1989-90;  B.S., University of Maryland (1977).


George W. Barlow, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley (1993-present);  Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1970-93); Publications include Sociobiology, Beyond Nature/Nurture?: Reports, Definitions, and Debate (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1980), and Animal Behavior (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974);  Member of Editorial Boards for Animal Behavior, Ecology & Sociobiology, Cahiers dethologie applique; Editor, Ethology (1987-90); Principal organizer, resident participant, and co-editor, Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Project on Behavioral Development, Bielefeld University (1977-78);   Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (1976);  Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1965);  Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1958).

 

Paul J. Berenson, Scientific Advisor to the Commanding General, Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (1989-present);  Scientific Advisor to SACEUR, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (1986-89);  Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1981-86);  Director of Intelligence Assessment for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (1973-75);  Project Engineer, Garrett Corporation (1962-71);  Assistant Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1957-60);  DOD Distinguished Civilian Service Medal;  numerous U.S. government Senior Executive Service awards;  Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1960).

 

Daniel J. Christie, Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University (1992-present);  Visiting Professor of Psychology, ITM/MUCIA Cooperative Program in Malaysia (1986-88);  Research Associate, Mershon Center (1985-present);  Publications include articles in Journal of Psychology, Political Psychology, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Peace and Conflict:  Journal of Peace Psychology; Editorial Board Member, Peace and Conflict:  Journal of Peace Psychology (1994-98);  President, American Psychological Association’s Peace Psychology Division (1995-96);  Ph.D., Ohio University (1975).

 

Joseph T. Cox, Professor of English and Director of Advanced Composition, U.S. Military Academy (1994-present); Director of Writing, Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Studies in Leader Development Program (1992-94); Publications include The Written Wars:  American War Prose through the Civil War (North Haven:  Archon, 1996); Battalion Commander, 101st Airborne Division (1985-87); Battalion Executive Officer, 82nd Airborne Division (1980-83); Signal Officer, 35th Engineer Group, Vietnam (1971-72);  Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990).

 

Cori E. Dauber, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995-present); Acting Chair, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-present);  Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh (1988-90);  Publications include Cold War Analytical Structures and the Post-War Era (Westport CT: Praeger, 1993);  Member, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (1997-present);  Acting Executive Secretary, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (Spring 1997);  Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievement from a Young Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996); Ph.D., Northwestern University (1982).

 

James A. Davis, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Chicago (currently);  Professor of Sociology, Harvard University (1977-94);  Master, John Winthrop House, Harvard University (1979-94);  Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College (1975-77);  Publications include Social Differences in Contemporary America (San Diego CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987), Americans View the Military:  Public Opinion in 1982 (Chicago: NORC, 1983), and Elementary Survey Analysis (Englewood Cliffs NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1971); Advisory Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (1978-83, 1986-90), Social Indicators Research (1981-89), and Social Sciences Computer Review (1985-94);  American Association for Public Opinion Research Award (1992);  Ph.D., Harvard University (1955).

 

Carol R. Ember, Executive Director, Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (1996-present);    Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York (1981-96);  Publications include  Sex, Gender, and Kinship:  A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Upper Saddle River:  Prentice Hall, 1997), Anthropology:  A Brief Introduction (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall, 1991), and Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, 1973);  Member of Editorial Boards of Journal of Conflict Resolution (1989-present), Ethos (1989-present),  American Anthropologist (1985-87), and Cross-Cultural Research (1983-present);  President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research (1985-86); Ph.D., Harvard University (1971).

 

Melvin Ember, President, Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (1987-present); Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of New York (1971-1989);  Publications include  Sex, Gender, and Kinship:  A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Upper Saddle River:  Prentice Hall, 1997), Anthropology:  A Brief Introduction (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall, 1991), and Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, 1973);  Member of Editorial Boards of Cross-Cultural Research (1982-present), Behavior Science Research (1974-82);  President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research (1981-82);  Field Research in American Samoa (1955-56);  Ph.D., Yale University (1958).

 

Robinson O. Everett, Senior Judge, Court of Military Appeals (1990-present);  Founder, Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, Duke Law School (1993); Chairman, North Carolina Continuing Legal Education Board and its Standing Committee on Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (present);   Professor, Duke University Law School (1967-present);  Chief Judge, Court of Military Appeals (1980-90);  Committee to Review the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 (1991-93);  Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Evidence (1988-91);  Chair, American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Military Law (1977-79);  Publications include Military Justice in the Armed Forces of the United States (Harrisburg PA:  Military Service Publishing, 1956), numerous articles on military law, criminal procedure, evidence and other legal topics;  Associate Editor of Law and Contemporary Problems; L.L.M., Duke University Law School (1959).

 


Peter D. Feaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University (1991-present);  Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses (1985-present);  National Security Council Staff (1993-94);  Publications include Guarding the Guardians:  Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1992), Battlefield Nuclear Weapons:  Issues and Options (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1989), and Assuring Control of Nuclear Weapons (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1987);  Ph.D., Harvard University (1990).

 

R. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor, Rutgers University (1991-present);  Assistant Professor, Rutgers University (1985-91);  Publications include Yanomami Warfare:  A Political History (Santa Fe NM:  School of American Research Press, 1995), War in the Tribal Zone:  Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (Santa Fe NM:  School of American Research Press, 1992),  Warfare, Culture, and Environment (Orlando FL:  1984);  Contributing Editor, War and Society series (1990-present);  Editorial Committee, AnthroWatch (1993-present);  Ethnographic field research on “Economic Developments and Social Change in a Puerto Rican Village”(ongoing since 1980);  Ph.D., Columbia University (1988).

 

Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (1993-present); Director of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Laboratory, Director of Applied Research;  Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; Publications include Managing the Plutonium Surplus:  Applications and Technical Options (Boston:  Kluwer, 1994), Energy:  The Next Twenty Years (Cambridge MA:  Ballinger, 1979), and Nuclear Weapons and World Politics (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1977); Council of the Institute for Strategic Studies, London (1977-1985);  Presidents Science Advisory Committee (1962-65, 1969-72); joined IBM Corporation in 1952; Ph.D., University of Chicago (1949).

 

Henk E. Goemans, Assistant Professor, Duke University (1996-present);  National Security Fellow, Olin Institute, Center for International Affairs (1995-96);  Research Intern, RAND Corporation (Summer 1994);  Finalist for the Helen Dwight Read Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics for dissertation “The Causes of War Termination:  Domestic Politics and War Aims”(1995);  Ph.D., University of Chicago (1995).

 

G. Thomas Goodnight, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University;  Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University;  Director, Northwestern Debate Society;  Publications include articles in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation:  An International Journal on Reasoning, Informal Logic, and Journal of the American Forensics Association; Editor, Argumentation and Advocacy (1994-97);  Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech (1992-95);  Golden Monograph Award, Speech Communication Association (1995);  American Forensic Association Top Publication of the Year (1974, 1980, 1982);  Ph.D., University of Kansas (1977).

 

 

 

 

 


Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, James B. Duke Professor of Economics, Duke University (1974-present);  Dean, Graduate School and Vice Provost for Research, Duke University (1980-86);  Program Officer in Charge, European and International Affairs, Ford Foundation (1971-76);  Publications include Art and Markets (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Beyond Government:  Extending the Public Policy Debate in Emerging Democracies (Boulder CO:  Westview Press, 1995), and Economics and National Security: a History of their Interaction (Durham NC:  Duke University Press, 1991);  Editor, History of Political Economy (1968-present);  Editorial Board, South Atlantic Quarterly;  Consultant to the Ford Foundation on European and International Affairs (1970-71, 1976-present);  Ph.D., Duke University (1958).

 

Leslie C. Green, Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, Naval War College (1996-97);  University Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta (1992-present);  University Professor, University of Alberta (1969-91); Professor of International Law and Dean of Law School, University of Singapore (1960-65);  Publications include The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (New York:  Manchester University Press, 1993), Essays on the Modern Law of War (Dobbs Ferry NY:  Transnational Publications, 1985), and International Law Through the Cases (Dobbs Ferry NY:  Oceana, 1970);  Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1980);  Resident Consultant to JAG, Canada (1979);  Legal Advisor and Member, Canadian Delegation, Diplomatic Conference on Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict (1975-77);  British Army - Japanese translator, Deputy Military Prosecutor, General Headquarters, India (1941-46);  LL.D., University of London (1976).

 

Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988-present);  President, Society of the Historians for the Early Republic (1992-93);  President, Southern Historical Association, (1990-91); Publications include War and Society in Early America (Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, 1988), George Washington and the American Military Tradition (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1985), and The War of American Independence:  Military Attitudes, Policy, and Practice 1763-1789 (New York:  Macmillan, 1969); U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Award, 1977; National Historical Publications Award (1966);  Ph.D., Duke University (1958).

 

Robert A. Hinde CBE, Royal Society Research Professor (1963-89);  Master, St. Johns College, Cambridge (1984-89); Green Visiting Scholar, University of Texas (1983);  Hitchcock Professor, University of California (1979); Publications include Individuals, Relationships and Culture (Cambridge UK:  Cambridge University Press, 1987), Toward Understanding Relationships (London:  Academic Press, 1979), and Biological Bases of Human Social Behavior (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1974); G. Stanley Hall Medal, American Psychological Association (1993);  Frink Medal, Zoological Society of London (1992);  Huxley Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute (1990);  Commander of the British Empire (1988); Academia Europa (1990-present);  Sc.D., University of Cambridge (1958);  Ph.D., Oxford University (1950).

 

 

 

 

Michael Howard CBE, MC FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford (1989-present);  President and Co-Founder, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (1962-present); Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University (1989-93);  Regius Professor of Modern History, Chairman of the Faculty Board and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford (1980-89); Chichele Professor of History, Oxford (1977-80);  Publications include The Lessons of History (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1991),  The Causes of Wars and Other Essays (Cambridge MA:  Harvard University Press, 1983), and The Franco-Prussian War:  The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871 (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961);  NATO Atlantic Award (1989);  Paul Nitze Award, U.S. Center for Naval Analysis (1994);  D.Litt., Oxford University (1977). 

 

Ole R. Holsti, George V. Allen Professor of Political Science, Duke University (1974-present);   Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California Davis (1978-79);  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (1967-74); Publications include Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor MI:  University  of Michigan Press, 1996),  Unity and Disintegration in International Alliances:  Comparative Studies (New York:  John Wiley and Sons, 1993), and  Enemies in Politics (Chicago:  Rand McNally, 1967);  Board of Editors, American Review of Politics (1992-present), Journal of Politics (1989-present), International Interaction (1980-present), International Studies Quarterly (1985); Member of Executive Committee, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (1983-present);  Ph.D., Stanford University (1962).

 

Samuel Hynes, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University (1990-present);  Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Princeton University (1976-90);  Professor, Northwestern University (1968-76);  Publications include The Soldiers Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War (New York:  Allen Lane/Penguin, 1997), A War Imagined:  The First World War and English Culture (New York:  Atheneum, 1991), Flights of Passage:  Reflections of a World War II Aviator (Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 1988), and The Auden Generation (New York:  Viking, 1977);  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993-present);  Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1978-present); Chair, English Institute (1971);  Ph.D., Columbia University (1956).

 

Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University (1981-present);  Professor of Political Science, UCLA (1974-80); Assistant and Associate Professor of Government, Harvard (1968-74);  Publications include Systems Effects:  Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming), The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1989), and The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1984);  Grawemeyer Award (1990);  Gugenheim Fellow (1978-79), Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (1968).

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Keeley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago;  Publications include War Before Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) and Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980);  Ph.D., Oxford University (1977).

 

Peter H. Klopfer, Professor, Department of Zoology, Duke University (1967-present);  Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology, Universitt Potsdam (1992);  Visiting Professor, Institute for Veterinarian Science, Hebrew University (1987); Publications include Perspectives in Ethology, vol. 1-10 (New York:  Plenum Press, 1973-93), Aggression:  Conflict in Animals and Man (London:  Longmans, 1988), and Behavioral Aspects of Ecology (Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, 1962);  Board of Editors, International Journal of Comparative Psychology (1995-present), Journal of Experimental Zoology (1970-76);  Board of Directors, Organization for Tropical Studies (1967-82);  Director, Duke University Field Station for Animal Behavior Studies (1968-73);  Ph.D., Yale University (1957).

 

Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History and Chairman, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992-present);  Executive Secretary, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (1992-present); Chief of Air Force History, U.S.A.F. (1981-91);  Publications include The United States Military under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989 (New York:  New York University Press, 1991), Military Laws of the United States from the Civil War through the War Powers Act of 1973 (New York:  Arno Press, 1979), and Eagle and Sword:  The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802 (New York:  Free Press, 1975); Organizational Excellence, Exceptional Civilian Service Awards, Dept. of the Air Force (1990, 1991);  President, Society for Military History (1989-93);  Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1968).

 

Jack S. Levy, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University (1989-present);  Visiting Professor, Yale University (1994);  Visiting Professor, Olin Institute, Harvard University (1993);  Associate Professor, University of Minnesota (1987-89);  Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin (1977-87);  Publications include War in the Great Power System, 1495-1975 (Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 1983), numerous articles and chapters;  Member of Editorial and Advisory Boards for American Political Science Review (1993-95), International Studies Quarterly (1992-94, 1994-present), World Politics (1992-95, 1995-present);  Helen Dwight Reid for best dissertation in International Relations (1975-76);  Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry E. Mattox, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina State University, (1989-present);  Senior Lecturer (Fulbright), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (1990-91);  Foreign Service Officer, served in France, Portugal, Brazil, Nepal, Haiti, England, and Egypt (1957-80); Meritorious Honor Award, Department of State (1965); Publications include The Twilight of Amateur Diplomacy:  Americas Foreign Service and Its Senior Officers in the 1890s (Kent OH:  Kent State University Press, 1989);  Editor, American Diplomacy, an electronic internet journal of research and policy commentary (1996-present);  Post-doctoral Fellow, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (1992-94);  Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986). 

 

Timothy J. McKeown, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina (1989-present);  Visiting Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business and Department of Political Science, Duke University (1990-91);  Publications include Diplomacy, Force and Leadership:  Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George (Boulder:  Westview, 1993), Organizing Business-Trade Associations in the U.S. and Japan (Washington D.C.:  American Enterprise Institute, 1988);  Editorial board, American Journal of Political Science (1993-present), Journal of Politics (1993-present), International Organization (1990-95);  Executive Committee, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (1989-present);  Ph.D., Stanford University (1982). 

 

William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago (1987-present);  Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago (1969-87);  Professor of History, University of Chicago (1957-87);  Publications include Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), Plagues and Peoples (Garden City NY:  Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976), and The Rise of the West; a History of the Human Community (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1963);  Vice Chairman, National Council for History Education (1990-94);  National Council for History Standards (1992-94);  Ph.D., Cornell University (1947).

 

Robert L. OConnell, Senior Intelligence Analyst, National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville VA (1987-present);  U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1985-87);  U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center (1975-84);  Publications include Ride of the Second Horseman:  the Birth and Death of War (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1995), Sacred Vessels:  the Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991), and Of Arms and Men:  a History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (New York:  Oxford University Press);  Outstanding Academic Book Award, American Association of Research Libraries (1996);  Contributing Editor, MHQ:  Quarterly Journal of Military History (1988-present);  Director of Central Intelligences Exceptional Analyst Program (1979);  Ph.D., University of Virginia (1974).

 

 

 

 

Peter Paret, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ (1986-present); Senior Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1993-95);  Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (1980-81); Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University (1977-86);   Publications include Imagined Battles (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming),  Clausewitz and the State (London: Clarendon Press, 1976), and Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), co-ed. & trans.[with Michael Howard], Carl von Clausewitz, On War (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1976); Thomas Jefferson Medal of the American Philosophical Society; Samuel Eliot Morison Medal of the Society for Military History; Military service with the 6th Divisions 1st Infantry Regiment in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands during World War II; Ph.D., University of London (1960).

 

Hays Parks, Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University School of Law and the American University;  Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law, Naval War College (1984-85); Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Army (1979-);  U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year (1990);  As Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Army, provides politic-legal advice to the Army Staff on matters ranging from special operations to directed energy warfare;  served as legal advisor for the 1986 Libya air strike, and held primary responsibility for the investigation of Iraqi war crimes relating to occupation of Kuwait;  Served as infantry company commander and senior prosecuting attorney for the First Marine Division in Vietnam (1968-69); J.D., Baylor University (1966).

 

Douglas Peifer, Conference rapporteur and post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (1996-present);  Outreach Coordinator for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies; German Academic Exchange Fellowships (1991, 1995);  U.S. Sixth Fleet (1986-89);  Exchange program with the Bundesmarine (1985);  Dissertation title: Origins of the East and West German Navies:  From the Kriegsmarine to the Volksmarine and Bundesmarine.  Dissolution, Transition, and New Foundation of German Naval Forces, 1944 - 1956; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996).

 

Barry R. Posen, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-present);  Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University (1984-87);  Publications include Inadvertent Escalation:  Conventional War and Nuclear Risks (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1991), and The Sources of Military Doctrine:  France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1984);  Levitan Prize in Humanities (1991);  Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award (1985);  Edward J. Furniss Jr. Book Award (1984);  Military Affairs Consultant, Christian Science Monitor Television (1991);  Board of Editors, International Security and Security Studies (1990-present);  Consultant, RAND Corporation (1984);  Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1981).

 

 

 

 

Anatol Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Toronto (1996-present);  Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto (1984-96);  Director, Institut fr Hhere Studien, Vienna (1980-84);  Professor of Psychology and Mathematics, University of Toronto (1970-1984);  Publications include Peace, an Idea Whose Time has Come (1993);  The Origins of Violence (1989);  General System Theory (1984), and Conflict in Man-made Environment (1974), Fights, Games, and Debates (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1960);  Harold D. Lawwell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Political Psychology (1986);  Society for General Systems Research Comprehensive Achievement Award (1983);  Lenz International Peace Research Prize (1975);  Editor, General Systems;  Associate Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution;  Ph.D., University of Chicago (1941).

 

Judith V. Reppy, Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University (1996-present);   Director, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University (1991-95);  Visiting Professor, Department of Science and Technology Policy, Manchester University, UK (1989-90); Publications include Earthly Goods:  Environmental Change and Social Justice (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1996), The Relations Between Defence and Civil Technologies (Dordrecht:  Kluwer, 1988), and The Genesis of New Weapons:  Decision Making for Military R&D (New York:  Pergamon Press, 1980);  Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992-present);  Board member, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies; Ph.D., Cornell University (1972).

 

Alex Roland, Professor of History, Duke University (1987-present);  Chair, Department of History, Duke University (1996-present);  Resident Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (1994-95);  Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor of Military History, U.S. Army War College (1988-89);  Publications include Men in Arms:  A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society (New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991),  A Spacefaring People:  Perspectives on Early Spaceflight (Washington:  NASA, 1985), and Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1978);  President, Society for the History of Technology (1995-96);  Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Military History (1990-95), Air Power (1991-94), Aerospace Historian (1981-89);  Ph.D., Duke University (1974).

 

Bruce M. Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Yale University (1985-present);  Chair, Department of Political Science, Yale University (1990-96);  Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo (1996);  Visiting Professor, University of Tel Aviv (1989);  Publications include Grasping the Democratic Peace:  Principles for a Post-Cold War World (Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993), Controlling the Sword : The Democratic Governance of National Security (Cambridge MA:  Harvard University Press, 1990), and The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms Control (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1983); Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution (1972-present);  Co-Director, Independent Working Group on the Future of the UN (1993-96);  President, International Studies Association (1983-83); President, Peace Science Society (1977-79);  Ph.D., Yale University (1961).

 

Scott L. Silliman, Executive Director for the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, Duke University (1993-present);  Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke University School of Law (1993-present);  Air Force Judge Advocate with billets as Staff Judge Advocate, RAF Chicksands; Staff Judge Advocate, First Air Force; and Staff Judge Advocate Air Combat Command (1968-93);  Published in the Air Force Law Review, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, and Wake Forest Law Review; Board of Directors, Judge Advocates Association (1978-87);  Outstanding young Air Force judge advocate (1977);  J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1968).

 

Glenn H. Snyder, Professor and Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1984-present);  Associate Professor and Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo (1964-84); Chairman, Center for International Conflict Studies, SUNY at Buffalo (1967-76);    Publications include Alliance Politics (Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 1997), Conflict among Nations:  Bargaining, Decision-Making, and System Structure in International Crises (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977), Stockpiling Strategic Materials:  Politics and National Defense (San Francisco:  Chandler, 1966) and Deterrence and Defense (Princeton NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1961);  John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1990-91);  Editorial Board, Polity (1968-70);  Ph.D., Columbia University (1956). 

 

Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University (1990-present);  Associate Professor and Professor, Rutgers University (1969-1990);  Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (1963-69);  Publications include Man and Beast Revisited (Washington D.C.:  Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), The Manufacture of Evil:  Evolution, Ethics, and the Industrial System (New York:  Harper and Row, 1987), The Imperial Animal (New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971),  and Men in Groups (New York, Random House, 1969);  Editorial Board, Social Science Information, Ethology and Sociobiology;   Chairman, Working Group on Theories of Military Deterrence and Policy, Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1991-1995);  Director of Research, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation (1972-84);  Ph.D., University of London (1962).

 

Stephen W. Van Evera, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984-present);  Research Fellow, Harvard University Center for Science and International Affairs (1983-84. 1979-81);  Associate and Assistant Professor, Princeton University (1982-83) and Tufts University (1981-82);  Publications include Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), Naval Strategy and National Security (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), Soviet Military Policy (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1989), and The Star Wars Controversy (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986);  Managing Editor, International Security (1984-87);  Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (1984).

 

 

 

 

 

John Votaw, Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation (1986-present);  Director, The First Division Museum and The Colonel Robert R. McCormick Research Center (1986-present);  Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Dominican University (1991-present); Deputy Director, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks PA (1983-86); Assistant Professor of History, U.S. Military Academy (1981-82);  Publications include Blue Spaders:  The 26th Infantry Regiment, 1917-1967 (Wheaton IL:  The Cantigny First Division Foundation, 1997), A Weekend with the Great War (Wheaton IL:  The Cantigny First Division Foundation, 1997), and No Mission Too Difficult!  Old Buddies of the 1st Division Tell All About World War II (Chicago:  Contemporary Books, 1995);  commanded cavalry and armored units through the battalion level and served in Vietnam;  Ph.D., Temple University (1991).

 

Arthur N. Waldron, Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College (1991-present);  Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University (1985-91);  Publications include From War to Nationalism:  Chinas Turning Point, 1924-1925 (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Great Wall of China:  From History to Myth (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1989),  The Modernization of Inner Asia (Armonk NY:  M.E. Sharpe, 1991);  Consultant, Chief of Naval Operations Advisory Panel;  Consultant, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Editorial Board, War in History;  Ph.D., Harvard (1981).

 

Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1974-present); Visiting Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy (1990-91);  Fulbright Professor, Bonn University (1983);  Publications include Germany, Hitler, and World War II (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995), A World at Arms:  A Global History of World War II (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1994), and The Foreign Policy of Hilters Germany, 2 vols (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1970, 1980); George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association (1995);  Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History (1995);  President, German Studies Association (1996-98);  United States Army Historical Advisory Committee (1996-present);   Ph.D., University of Chicago (1951).