Reports & Papers
BCSIA: 1996-1997 ANNUAL REPORT
9. Biographies
Board of Directors
Graham T. Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Until March 1994 Dr. Allison served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans and coordinated Department of Defense strategy and policy toward Russia, Ukraine, and the other states of the former Soviet Union. He continues as Special Adviser to the Secretary of Defense. Dr. Allison built Harvard''s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and was Dean from 1977 to 1989. He has been an active adviser and consultant to agencies of government, beginning with the Department of Defense in the 1960s. He was Special Adviser to the Secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1987 and has been a member of the Secretary of Defense''s Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger, Carlucci, and Cheney. In 1989-90 he served as Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Crowe''s Planning Committee on Strategy. He is the author or coauthor of many books and journal articles, including Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Crisis and, most recently, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy. Dr. Allison was a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, a Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a member of public committees and commissions, most recently The Commission on America''s National Interests. Dr. Allison was educated at Davidson College; Harvard College (B.A. Magna Cum Laude in History); Oxford University (B.A. and M.A., First Class Honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), where he was a British Marshall Scholar; and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Political Science).
Robert D. Blackwill is a Member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. Ambassador Blackwill teaches foreign and defense policy, political and organizational analysis, and public management at the Kennedy School of Government, where he is the faculty chairman of the School''s Executive Programs for Members of the Russian State Duma and for Russian General Officers. An adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations/Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom Task Force on the Future of U.S.-Russian Arms Control, and was Director of the Council''s project on American national interests after the Cold War. He serves on the boards of the American Council on Germany and the quarterly journal International Security, is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and is on the academic advisory board of the NATO Defense College in Rome. A career diplomat from 1967, he served as Director of West European Affairs on the National Security Council staff; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; and U.S. Ambassador and Chief Negotiator at the negotiations with the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces in Europe. He was Special Assistant to President George Bush for European and Soviet Affairs. His most recent books are Damage Limitation or Crisis? Russia and the Outside World (Brassey''s, 1994); Engaging Russia (Trilateral Commission, 1995); and Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East (The MIT Press, 1997).
Harvey Brooks is Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, in the Kennedy School of Government; Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University; and emeritus member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. Dr. Brooks graduated from Yale University. He did graduate physics at Cambridge University, England, and at Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard with J. H. Van Vleck in 1940. He was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1940 to 1942, and a staff member of the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory from 1941 to 1945. He joined General Electric in 1946, where he served as Associate Head of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab. He returned to Harvard in 1950 as Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics. From 1957 to 1975 he served as Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard. Besides numerous technical articles in the three scientific fields, he has published a book, The Government of Science (The MIT Press, 1968) and numerous articles in the field of science policy. In 1957 he founded the International Journal of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids, of which he remained Editor-in-Chief until the mid-1970s. Since 1975 he has devoted most of his teaching and research effort to the field of science, technology, and public policy in the Kennedy School of Government. From 1968 to 1972 he was chairman of the university-wide faculty committee for the IBM-funded Program on Technology and Society. Brooks has served on many committees related to science policy, including the President''s Science Advisory Committee in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. Dr. Brooks is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Medicine. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Most recently, Dr. Brooks has been a member of several committees of the National Academy of Engineering dealing with issues of technology in relation to U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. He cochaired, with Dr. John Foster, the Committee on Technology Policy Options in a Global Economy of the National Academy of Engineering, whose report, "Mastering a New Role: Shaping Technology Policy for National Economic Performance," was released in March 1993. He is also involved in a research program at the Kennedy School dealing with the recasting of national technology policy. He is the author of numerous publications on global environmental policy and risk analysis. Brooks has received six honorary D.Sc. degrees from Kenyon College, Union College, Yale University, Harvard University, Brown University, and the Ohio State University. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Albert Carnesale is Provost of Harvard University, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration, and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. His research and teaching have focused on international relations and national security policy, with emphasis on issues associated with nuclear weapons and arms control. After earning B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Cooper Union and Drexel University, he earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Carnesale has held positions in industry (Martin Marietta Corporation, 1957-62) and government (U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969-72). He participated in the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1970-72) and led the U.S. delegation to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (1978-80), a 66-nation study of the relationship between civilian nuclear power and proliferation of nuclear weapons. In academia, Dr. Carnesale was professor at North Carolina State University from 1962 to 1969 and 1972 to 1974. He came to Harvard in 1974 as Associate Director of the Program in Science and International Affairs, which later became BCSIA. In addition to teaching and research, he served at the John F. Kennedy School of Government as Academic Dean from 1981 until 1991, and as Dean from 1991 until 1995. Dr. Carnesale has consulted and written extensively on international affairs, defense policy, and nuclear energy issues, and has testified often before congressional committees. He is coauthor of New Nuclear Nations: Consequences for U.S. Policy (1993); Fateful Visions: Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe (1988); Superpower Arms Control: Setting the Record Straight (1987); Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War (1985); and Living with Nuclear Weapons (1983). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and he was a founding editor of the quarterly journal International Security.
Ashton B. Carter is Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. From 1993 to 1996 he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, where he was responsible for national security policy toward the states of the former Soviet Union (including their nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction), arms control, countering proliferation worldwide, and oversight of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and missile defense programs. He was three times awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award given by the Pentagon. Before his government service, Carter was Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs in the Kennedy School and Chairman of the Editorial Board of International Security. Carter received bachelor''s degrees in medieval history and in physics from Yale University and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In addition to authoring numerous scientific publications and government studies, Dr. Carter has co-edited and coauthored Cooperative Denuclearization: From Pledges to Deeds; A New Concept of Cooperative Security; Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World; Soviet Nuclear Fission: Control of the Nuclear Arsenal in a Disintegrating Soviet Union; Managing Nuclear Operations; Ballistic Missile Defense; and Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space.
William Clark is the Sidney Harman Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development at the Kennedy School, faculty chairman at BCSIA''s Environment and Natural Resources Program, and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. He was Vice Chairman of the University Committee on Environment and served as Director of BCSIA from 1993 until 1994. Clark''s current research focuses on the sources of long-term social learning to cope with the policy issues arising from the interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs. In particular, he has studies under way on the development of better assessment frameworks for use in the management of global environmental change and on the problems of monitoring and evaluating progress toward sustainable development. Clark''s previous research has included policy analysis for resource and environmental management, work on understanding societal risk-taking behavior, evaluation of human development strategies being pursued in the Third World, and basic research and modeling studies on the stability and resilience of ecological systems. He is coauthor of Redesigning Rural Development— A Strategic Perspective (Johns Hopkins, 1982) and Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management (Wiley, 1978), editor of the Carbon Dioxide Review (Oxford, 1982), and coeditor of The Earth Transformed by Human Action (Cambridge, 1990), Sustainable Development of the Biosphere (Cambridge, 1986), and Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT, forthcoming 1997).
Paul Doty is the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Science and International Affairs and Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, and an emeritus member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. Professor Doty''s early scientific work began in the physical chemistry of high polymers but soon gravitated to proteins and nucleic acids. The discovery of the molecular resulting of DNA and its renaturation, on which much of modern recombinant DNA technology rests, is the best known work of his laboratory. He was one of the founding editors of the Journal of Polymer Science and the Journal of Molecular Biology, and he was a member of the Department of Chemistry during his first 20 years at Harvard. In 1967 he helped found the new Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, serving as it first chairman and Mallinkrodt Professor of Biochemistry. He retired from biochemistry in 1988 and has since been Professor of Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government. In keeping with his interest in national and international security affairs and arms control that had their origin in his work on the Manhattan Project, Professor Doty became a member of the President''s Science Advisory Committee under Kennedy and Johnson, chaired the first committee of the National Academy of Sciences to oversee Soviet-American exchange in science, chaired the American Pugwash Committee in its early days, as well as a Soviet-American Scientists'' group examining arms control from 1965 to 1975. In 1973, with the help of the Ford Foundation, he began the Program in Science and International Affairs at Harvard. It developed into the Center for Science and International Affairs in 1978. Professor Doty served as Director of the Center until 1981.
Richard A. Falkenrath is Executive Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs and a member of its Board of Directors. He is a coauthor of Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (The MIT Press, 1995), and the author of Shaping Europe ''s Military Order: The Origins and Consequences of the CFE Treaty (The MIT Press, 1995), as well as articles and monographs on the CFE treaty, ballistic missile defense, the U.S.-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium purchase agreement, and most recently the unconventional delivery of weapons of mass destruction. In 1996 he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations/Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom Task Force on the future of U.S.-Russian Arms Control, as well as of the Commission on America''s National Interests. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King''s College London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a graduate (summa cum laude) of Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is a member of the American Economics Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the senior common room at Eliot House.
Shai Feldman is a Senior Research Fellow at BCSIA and a member of the Board of Directors. Formerly he was a Senior Research Associate at Tel Aviv University''s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, where in 1989 he established and directed its project on Security and Arms Control in the Middle East. Dr. Feldman has written extensively on issues related to Israel''s national defense, nuclear policy, proliferation, and arms control, as well as on U.S. policies in the Middle East. He is the author of Israeli Nuclear Deterrence and a recent monograph on The Future of U.S.-Israeli Strategic Cooperation. Dr. Feldman has two books forthcoming: Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (The MIT Press); and Bridging the Gap: A New Security Arrangement for the Middle East, coauthored with Jordanian scholar Abdullah Toukan. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Holdren chaired the Panel on Reactor-Related Options for Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium in the 1994-95 NAS/CISAC plutonium study, and he chaired the 1995 PCAST study of cooperative U.S./former Soviet Union programs to improve protection, control, and accounting for fissile materials. He has previously served as the Class of 1935 Professor of Energy in the University of California, Berkeley''s interdisciplinary graduate program in Energy and Resources, and as Visiting Distinguished Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. He is also Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of President Clinton''s Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Henry Lee is the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program, within the Center for Science and International Affairs, a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Business and Government, and a Lecturer in Public Policy. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State''s Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for environmental policy. He has served on numerous state, federal, and private advisory committees on both energy and environmental issues, and has worked with private and public organizations, including the Departments of Energy and Interior, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Alaska; he is also on the board of several corporations. His research interests have focused on environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy. He is the editor of Shaping Responses to Climate Change, the report of the Harvard Global Environment Policy Program and is the author of a report on Electricity Restructuring and the Environment.
Ernest R. May is the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. He has taught at Harvard for over three decades and served as Dean of Harvard College, Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School, and Chair of the History Department. In 1988 he won the Gravemeyer Award for Ideas Contributed to World Order. Among his many books, the most recent are Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers and The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. He is also the Advisory Editor to the Bedford Books in American History series.
Matthew Stanley Meselson is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. He received Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1951 and from the California Institute of Technology in 1957. He was a research fellow and then Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at California Institute of Technology until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1960, where he conducted research primarily in the field of molecular genetics. Currently he is studying mechanisms of molecular evolution. Since 1963 Dr. Meselson has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control and has served as a consultant on this subject to various government agencies. He is codirector of the Harvard-Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation and coeditor of its quarterly journal, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin. Dr. Meselson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academie des Sciences (Paris), the Academia Sanctae Clarae (Genoa), the Royal Society (London), the Institute of Medicine, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has received the Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences, the Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and Immunology, the Alumni Medal of the University of Chicago, the Public Service Award of the Federation of American Scientists, the Legman Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Alumni Distinguished Service Award of the California Institute of Technology, the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, and the 1995 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal of the Genetics Society of America. He has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees. Dr. Meselson is presently a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program at BCSIA, and a member of its Board of Directors. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal International Security. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and taught Defense and Arms Control Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is coauthor of the recent book, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material, and of Soviet Nuclear Fission: Control of the Nuclear Arsenal in a Disintegrating Soviet Union. He is editor or coeditor of numerous books, including The Perils of Anarchy: Contemporary Realism and International Security, and Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is Dean of the Kennedy School, Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 1964, and has served as Director of the Center for International Affairs, Dillon Professor of International Affairs; and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. From 1977 to 1979 he served as Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In 1993 and 1994 he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the President. In 1994 and 1995 he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In all three agencies, he received distinguished service awards. Dr. Nye is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Diplomacy, a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, and a member of the Executive Committee on the Trilateral Commission. He has served as Director of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the American representative on the United Nations Advisory Committee on Disarmament Affairs, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of International Economics. Dr. Nye received his bachelor''s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1958. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. In addition to teaching at Harvard, Dr. Nye has also taught for brief periods in Geneva, Ottawa, and London. He has lived for extended periods in Europe, East Africa, and Central America.
Robert N. Stavins is Professor of Public Policy, and Faculty Chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, and a Member of: the Board of Directors of the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency''s (EPA) Science Advisory Board, EPA''s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Harvard University Committee on Environment, the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Editorial Council of The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Advisory Boards of Environmental Economics Abstracts and Environmental Law and Policy Abstracts, and the Editorial Board of Economic Issues. He is also a contributing editor of Environment, and the Academic Advisor for Environmental Programs of the Foundation for American Communications. Professor Stavins'' research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of: policy instrument choice under uncertainty; competitiveness effects of regulation; design and implementation of market-based policy instruments; diffusion of pollution-control technologies; and depletion of forested wetlands. His current research includes analyses of: technology innovation; environmental benefit valuation; political economy of policy instrument choice; and econometric estimation of carbon sequestration costs. Professor Stavins continues to work closely with public officials on matters of national and international environmental policy. He has been a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the President''s Council on Sustainable Development, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, and Interior, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Members of Congress, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, state and national governments, and private foundations and firms. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.
International Security Program
Karen Ballentine is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. She was a Research Assistant at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and also worked in its Cooperative Security Program. While at BCSIA Ballentine continued research and writing on her doctoral dissertation, examining the impact of different types of federal systems on the prospects for international and ethnic conflict.
Michael E. Brown is Associate Director of the International Security Program, Managing Editor of International Security, and Director of the Project on Internal Conflict at BCSIA. Before taking up his current position in January 1994, he was Senior Fellow in U.S. Security Policy and Editor of Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He is editor of Ethnic Conflict and International Security (Princeton University Press, 1993), and author of Flying Blind: The Policies of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program (Cornell University Press, 1992), which won the Edgar Furniss National Security Book Award.
Marie Isabelle Chevrier is a Senior Research Fellow and directs the Harvard-Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Warfare Armament and Arms Limitation at BCSIA. Dr. Chevrier is on leave from the University of Texas at Dallas where she is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy. She earned her Ph.D. in 1991 and her MPP in 1986 from the Kennedy School and was a pre-doctoral fellow at BCSIA. She has written extensively on the problem of biological weapons and the Biological Weapons Convention. She is a member of the Federation of American Scientists'' Working Group on Biological Weapons Verification and the principal author of "Beyond Verex: A Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Dr. Chevrier was on the planning committee and the faculty of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on biological weapons and arms control policy in Budapest in July 1997. In 1995 she was the recipient of a grant from the United States Institute of Peace to study the role of the Neutral and Non-Aligned Group in disarmament negotiations after the Cold War.
Owen R. Coté, Jr. is the Assistant Director of the International Security Program, coeditor of International Security, and an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in U.S. defense policy and international security affairs. His dissertation analyzed the sources of innovative military doctrine, using cases that compared U.S. Navy responses to Cold War nuclear vulnerability crises. He has written on nuclear force structure issues and the politics of strategic mobility, and has participated in BCSIA''s collaborative book projects on nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union, including Soviet Nuclear Fission, and Cooperative Denuclearization. He is also a coauthor of Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy. After graduating from Harvard College and before returning to graduate school, he worked as a researcher at the Hudson Institute.
Renée de Nevers is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia in 1992. Her dissertation was titled, "The Power of Example: Understanding Change in Eastern Europe in the Late 1980s." From 1988 to 1990, and again in 1993-94, Dr. de Nevers was a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where she published two Adelphi papers. In 1994 Dr. de Nevers was a Research Fellow in Soviet and East European Studies at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. De Nevers focused on two projects while at BCSIA: the revision of her book manuscript on the sources and character of change in Eastern Europe in the context of the revolution of 1989 (this will be published by MIT Press in the BCSIA Studies in International Security series); and an assessment of the impact of "Western Efforts to Promote Democracy and Prevent Conflict in Russia," ISP discussion paper no. 96-03.
Meara E. Keegan is the Assistant to the Editors for International Security, as well as assistant to Michael Brown and intern coordinator for the International Security Program. She graduated from Goucher College, Baltimore, in 1995 with a B.A. in International Relations and European Studies. She also spent her junior year studying Politics at the University of Exeter, in Exeter, England. She first came to BCSIA as an intern for International Security in June of 1995.
Teresa J. Lawson served BCSIA until November 1996. She was Executive Editor of the BCSIA Studies in International Security book series, Deputy Editor of the quarterly journal International Security, and series editor of the BCSIA Occasional Papers (University Press of America). She holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor''s degree in History from the University of Washington. She is the author of "Writing for International Security: A Contributors'' Guide," International Security, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1991).
Sean Lynn-Jones is a Research Associate in BCSIA''s International Security Program. He is series editor of BCSIA Studies in International Security, the Center''s book series that is published by MIT Press. He is also coeditor of International Security. His research interests include international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, and why rivalries end peacefully. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, International Security, and Security Studies, as well as in many edited volumes. He has edited or coedited several anthologies of International Security articles, including East Asian Security, Debating the Democratic Peace, and The Cold War and After. Lynn-Jones and Christopher Layne are currently working on a book that debates whether the United States should promote democracy. Sean lives with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Taylor, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Douglas J. MacEachin is an Intelligence Officer in Residence and Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School, as well as a Research Associate. Before taking these positions. From March 1993 through June 1995 he served as the Central Intelligence Agency''s Deputy Director for Intelligence, overseeing the Agency''s all-source analysis of Soviet and European military forces and security policies. He was Director of the CIA Office of Soviet Analysis from 1984 until March 1989. He spent eight years engaged in full-time support to U.S. arms control efforts as a member of the U.S. delegation to the conventional arms reduction talks in Vienna, and from March 1989 through February 1993 he served as the Chief of the Intelligence Community''s Arms Control Intelligence Staff. In the early 1980s he was Director of the office that ran the CIA''s 24-hour Operations Center and prepared the daily current intelligence product for the President and other senior U.S. policy officials. MacEachin attended Miami University of Ohio on a Navy (Holloway) Scholarship. He received his B.A. in Economics in 1959, at which time he was commissioned as regular officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1962 he resigned his commission to return to graduate school at Miami, where he received his M.A. in Economics in 1964. In 1966 he received a Mershon Fellowship at Ohio State University to complete a doctorate in National Security Studies, but elected to join the CIA instead.
Diane McCree joined BCSIA as Deputy Editor of International Security in January 1997. Previously she was Production Editor at Blackwell Publishers, and a freelance editor for MIT Press, where she worked on books on International Relations and Economics. She graduated from Tufts University and holds an M.A. in International Relations from Georgetown University, with concentrations in Middle East Studies and Arabic.
Karen Motley was Assistant Managing Editor of International Security until December 1996, when she became Executive Editor of the BCSIA Studies in International Security book series. She joined the journal staff in 1992 after traveling and working in Europe for two years. She did her undergraduate study in political science and art history at the University of Massachusetts.
Robert Newman is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. He worked as a defense analyst at Science Applications International Corporation in McLean, Virginia. He was a British Marshall Scholar and received his M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1991. While at BCSIA Newman wrote a substantial paper describing and assessing efforts to improve the system of safeguards employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was also a member of the ISP group working on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and is a coauthor of the book that is resulting from that project.
Dawn Opstad is the Program Assistant for the International Security Program. She is interested in Israeli politics and has an M.A. in Hebrew literature from Brandeis University.
Elizabeth Rogers is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 1992 and her research interests include U.S. foreign policy and the use of economic sanctions. Her dissertation was titled, "The Influence of Domestic Politics on United States Foreign Economic Policy: A Theory of Societal Interests and Economic Sanctions Use." Before coming to BCSIA in 1995, Dr. Rogers was an Economics and National Security Fellow at the Olin Institute at Harvard. At BCSIA Rogers continued her work on a book-length analysis of the role and utility of economic sanctions. She completed a paper, "Using Economic Sanctions to Prevent Deadly Conflict," that appeared as ISP discussion paper no. 96-02.
Brian Taylor is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. A former British Marshall Scholar, currently he is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last year, he was a National Security Fellow at Harvard''s Olin Institute. His dissertation examines military intervention in domestic politics in Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. Taylor devoted this year to completing his doctoral dissertation on the role of the military in Russian politics.
Bradley Thayer is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he recently completed his dissertation titled, "Norms and New Orders: Why Collective Security and Concert Systems Fail." Thayer worked on his book manuscript on the potential role and utility of collective security organizations and is a coauthor of the forthcoming BCSIA study on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Richard Weitz is a Research Fellow in the International Security Program. He was most recently a Special Assistant in International Security Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1993. This year Weitz focused his efforts on projects relating to the former Soviet Union, including work on Russia''s relations with the West.
Philip Zelikow is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and a faculty associate of BCSIA. Zelikow came to Harvard in 1991 after working on the staff of the National Security Council during the first half of the Bush administration. He had previously served in Europe and in Washington as a career foreign service officer of the Department of State. Before pursuing a career in foreign affairs, Zelikow was a trial lawyer handling civil rights and criminal cases in Texas. He holds degrees from the Fletcher School of Law Diplomacy (Ph.D. and M.A.), the University of Houston (J.D.), and the University of Redlands (B.A.). He has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School and was a briefing attorney for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Zelikow''s publications include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (Harvard University Press, 1996), and American Intelligence and the World Economy (forthcoming in 1996 as part of a task force report of the Twentieth Century Fund). He and Graham Allison are also currently rewriting the book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Zelikow is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the State Bar of Texas.
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Lewis M. Branscomb retired in June 1996 as the Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, and is now Aetna Professor in Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus and Principal Investigator of a number of projects in the fields of information infrastructure policy and science and technology policy more generally. His new and forthcoming books focus on state government science and technology (with Megan Jones and Dave Guston), on Korea technology policy (with Young-Hwan Choi), and intelligent transportation systems (with James Keller). His exciting new project involves evaluating and redirecting the Clinton-Gore technology policy.
Matthew Bunn is Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. Before joining the Kennedy School in January 1997, he served for three years as an adviser to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he played a major role in U.S. policies related to the control and disposition of weapons-usable nuclear materials in the United States and the former Soviet Union. He was the staff director for the two-volume study Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, published in 1994 and 1995 by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, he served as Associate Director of the Arms Control Association and Editor of Arms Control Today, where he was the author of the Association''s book, Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security.
Guillermo Cardoza is Professor of International Economics and Technological Development at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Executive Director of the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and a Research Fellow at the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. He is also editor of the newsletters, "Ciencia en America Latina" and "Teconologia en America Latina," and a council member of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. Dr. Cardoza graduated as a chemical engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and worked for several years in local industry. He received a Ph.D. in Economics and Development from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. In 1991 he created the Centro de Informacion y Estudio de la Ciencia at ACAL, where he does research on Latin American science. During his stay at BCSIA he conducted a comparative study on the technology and industrialization policies of the Asian new industrializing countries and the more advanced countries of Latin America.
Paul de Sa is a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, working with Dr. John Holdren. He holds an M.A. from Cambridge University and a D.Phil. in theoretical physics from Oxford University. He spent last year as a John F. Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying economics and science policy. He has worked at CERN (Geneva), at the American Enterprise Institute, and on Senator John Kerry''s (D-Mass.) reelection campaign. In his spare time he enjoys jazz and classical music, novels, films, and trying to understand American politics.
David M. Hart is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and a faculty associate of the STPP Program. He teaches courses on science, technology, innovation, and public policy, and on electoral and advocacy politics at the Kennedy School. His book, Forging the Postwar Consensus: The Governance of Technological Innovation in the United States, 1921-1953, will be finished this fall and will be published by Princeton University Press next year. Hart is co-organizer of the Boston-area Workshop on American Political Development, which will be holding its second annual conference at the Kennedy School on September 28, on the subject of "The Politics of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth Century." He also serves as a member of the Task Force on Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Public Policy of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Deborah Hurley is Director of the Information Infrastructure Project within the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. She is also the Executive Director of Terra Nova, a global public interest policy center for advanced technologies. Hurley was an official (1988-96) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, with responsibility for legal, economic, and social related to information and communications technologies, biotechnology, environmental and energy technologies, technology policy, and other advanced technology fields. Ms. Hurley was responsible for the drafting, negotiation and adoption by OECD member countries of the 1992 OECD Guidelines for Security of Information Systems. Prior to joining the OECD, Hurley practiced computer and intellectual property law (1983-88) in the United States. She carried out a Fulbright study (1989-90) of intellectual property protection and technology transfer in Korea. Hurley graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received a law degree from UCLA Law School. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and Information Policy.
James H. Keller is the Associate Director of the Information Infrastructure Project in the Science and Technology Policy Program. His research interests include the commercialization of the Internet and the federal role in information infrastructure development. Keller is coeditor, of Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Nll (forthcoming MIT Press, 1996). He is coeditor of Public Access to the Internet (The MIT Press, 1995). Keller graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts, and holds a Master''s in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Organization and Management.
Allison Macfarlane is a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, and is working on high-level nuclear waste disposal issues. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, specifically on the tectonic evolution of the Himalayas in 1993, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology at MIT, applying geological methods to archaeology. Presently she is on leave from George Mason University, Department of Geography and Earth Systems Science and Women''s Studies Program, where she is an Assistant Professor. She is also a Bunting Institute Science Fellow. At BCSIA Macfarlane pursued research on U.S. policy with respect to the storage of nuclear waste, evaluating plans to put glassified waste into permanent storage at Rocky Flats, Nevada.
Carrie Miller is a second-year student in the Master''s of Public Policy program, concentrating in science and technology policy. She was born and raised in Ohio (where people say "pop") and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 with a B.S. in Political Science and a B.S. in German. She works with Brian Kahin, Nora O''Neil, and James Keller on the Information Infrastructure Project. Her hobbies include reading (anything and everything) and learning languages (she is currently acquiring her fifth.)
Nora O''Neil is Coordinator of the Information Infrastructure Project where her responsibilities include grant administration, conference organization, and publication management. Prior to joining IIP in 1996, she served as a faculty and program assistant within the Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service as a concentrator in the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program with a Certificate in Russian Studies.
Sarah Peterson is the administrative assistant to Philip Zelikow, David Hart, and the Visions of Governance project at Harvard University. Majoring in history, she graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College and spent six months in Berlin studying German-American relations and becoming proficient in German.
Lucien Randazzese is a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, where he works on a variety of issues related to science and technology policy, university-industry research relationships and the management of technology. This work is being done with Professors Wesley Cohen and Richard Florida at Carnegie Mellon University and Lewis Branscomb at Harvard. After graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. in Microelectronic Engineering, Randazzese worked at IBM''s semiconductor research and manufacturing facility in Burlington, Vermont, before entering graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, from which he received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy in 1995.
Ambuj Sagar is a Research Fellow for the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, carrying out research on national energy Research and Development policies. This is his second year at BCSIA, having spent last year here as a fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program on the Industrial Ecology Project (working with William Clark and Robert Frosch). He came to the Kennedy School after a brief hiatus in India following his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Materials Science and Technology and Policy. His interests lie in science policy and environment policy, especially in terms of how these play out and interact in the context of developing countries as well as in a broader international context. Apart from this, he enjoys listening to music (mainly blues, Caribbean and African), eating and sleeping.
C. Evan Smith is a Research Associate in the Information Infrastructure Project. His work focuses on social, management, and technical best practices in cross-organizational enterprise integration within the automotive and aerospace industries. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Organization and Management, and holds degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in industrial and management systems engineering, and in liberal arts as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate. His work has included leadership, technical and interpersonal skills training, and personal development as well as technical/work systems conceptualization, design and development, including a course on organization and process he developed and taught to undergraduates at Tufts University in the Experimental College. He worked as a manager, systems integrator, change management consultant and process facilitator for Fleet Bank in Hartford and Boston, the Dexter Corporation, and GE Aerospace.
Jennifer Weeks is Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at BCSIA. She oversees all day-to-day aspects of this multiyear, interdisciplinary research project on nuclear security and energy policy, including project design and planning; fund raising; outreach to policymakers, researchers, and the media; coordinating workshops, colloquia, and other project activities; and conducting research. Her research interests include U.S. nonproliferation policy and nuclear decision making in democratic societies. Prior to joining Harvard in 1997, Weeks directed the Union of Concerned Scientists'' (USC) Arms Control and International Security Program and served as UCS''s principal arms control lobbyist on issues including nonproliferation, deep nuclear reductions, and multilateral peacekeeping. From 1991 to 1994 she worked on Capitol Hill as legislative assistant for defense and foreign affairs to Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), a member of the House National Security Committee, and as a defense analyst for the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus. Weeks also has worked as a researcher at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington, D.C., and the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University. Weeks received a B.A. in History from Williams College in 1983 and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987. Her articles on defense and arms control issues have appeared in publications including the Harvard Political Review, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, and the New York Times. She serves on the Executive Board of Women in International Security and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Laura Wilson is the Administrative Assistant for the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in BCSIA. She assists Director John Holdren in coordinating all facets of the program and in his course work. She is also assists Professor Dorothy Zinberg. She has been with STPP since the beginning of 1996, working for the first half with Lewis Branscomb, the former Director of STPP. She earned a B.A. in Journalism from Michigan State University.
Dorothy Shore Zinberg, a founding member of BCSIA, is a lecturer in Public Policy and a faculty associate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. For ten years a biochemist at Harvard Medical School, she later received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard, since which time she continued to work in the field of the social science of science. Her research explores the role of experts in controversial issues, with a focus on nuclear weapons and nuclear power, as well as studies of "Training Foreign Scientists and Engineers," and, more recently, an examination of the "brain drain" of nuclear scientists and engineers from the former Soviet Union. She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences'' committee that is evaluating the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Kennedy School''s International Institute on Women''s Leadership. Dr. Zinberg writes a monthly column, "World View," for the (London) Times Higher Education Supplement (the column is also syndicated by the New York Times News Service). Her piece, "Revolutions Real and Virtual: Science, Cyberspace and the University," will be published by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research later this year. She is currently writing the second volume of The Changing University, which examines the impact of biotechnology and the information technologies on universities. In September 1996 Dr. Zinberg spoke at the "Science as the Endless Frontier" conference, sponsored by Columbia University. She was the keynote speaker at the "International Conference on Research at Central and East European Universities," held in Cracow, Poland in June 1997. Dr. Zinberg attended the International Institute for Strategic Studies annual conference in Dresden, Germany, in September 1996, and the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, in August 1997, in Lillehammer, Norway.
Environment And Natural Resources Program
Shardul Agrawala is a Research Fellow at BCSIA and a doctoral candidate in the Science and Technology Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He received a Master''s of Public Affairs degree in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton in June 1996. His undergraduate training was in Metallurgical Engineering in which he also holds a master''s degree. Shardul''s current research focus is on Multilateral Assessments of Climate Change.
Nancy Dickson is a Research Associate in BCSIA''s Environment and Natural Resources Program. Her research addresses strategies for the conduct and integration of global environmental change assessments that will create the most useful bridges between policymakers and scientists in the United States, focusing on the areas of climate change, ozone depletion, and acid deposition. She also coordinates two large, interdisciplinary projects: Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks and the Global Environmental Assessment Project. Other interests include examining print media analysis of the acid rain issue. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Cornell University, where she studied government and environmental planning.
Karen Fisher-Vanden is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. Her research interests include the development of economic models for developing countries to be used in integrated assessment models for climate change which incorporate growth dynamics and uncertainty. During her first two years at the Kennedy School, she was involved in projects such as an investigation of current integrated assessment activities for climate change, and a comparison of financial transfer mechanisms for the FCCC. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at the Kennedy School, Karen was a Senior Research Scientist for Battelle in Washington, D.C. While at Battelle, Karen was a member of the Second Generation Modeling team currently developing an integrated global model to assess global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities and the effects of policies to reduce these emissions. Prior to Battelle, Karen was an economist with the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Los Angeles. Her main responsibilities included conducting socioeconomic impact analyses of regional air quality regulations and assisting in the assessments of market-based approaches to environmental regulation. Karen received a B.A. degree in Economics and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of California, Davis, and a M.S. degree in Management Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Wendy Franz is a Research Fellow at BCSIA in the Global Environmental Assessments Project at the Kennedy School. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her thesis concerns the role of nongovernmental organizations in the international politics of the environment. Her other research interests include international institutions, U.S. foreign policy, and international cooperation. She has served as a teaching fellow for Harvard undergraduate courses, and is a nonresident tutor at Dunster House.
Milind Kandlikar has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. (1995) in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining BCSIA, Milind was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University working on global environmental change issues. His work focuses on integrated assessment of global environmental problems, tools and methods of uncertainty and decision analysis, and mathematical modeling of environmental systems.
Jo-Ann G. Mahoney is the Events and Publications Coordinator for the Environment and Natural Resources Program. She splits her time between BCSIA and the Center for Business and Government''s Harvard Electricity Policy Group, which is looking at the restructuring of the electric utility industry in the United States. Jo-Ann has a B.A. in English from Hostra University and is currently enrolled in a Harvard master''s program in Creative Writing. She writes fiction and has been a participant in the Ploughshares International Writing Seminar in the Netherlands.
Marybeth Long is a Fellow at BCSIA and a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a Master''s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research concerns integration of science and policy for global environmental issues, and focuses on hydrological, climatological, and social aspects of drought and desertification. Before attending graduate school, Marybeth earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut. She also worked as an environmental consultant.
Clark A. Miller returns to BCSIA as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Environmental Assessment Project. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University in 1995 and spent last year on a National Science Foundation (NSF) professional development fellowship at BCSIA and Cornell University''s Department of Science and Technology Studies. Clark''s research examines the globalization of environmental knowledge, particularly in the context of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and he is currently writing a book on the science and politics of estimating national inventories of greenhouse gas emissions. He is also a co-investigator on Cornell''s new project, Sustainable Knowledge about the Global Environment, an NSF initiative to compare the role of science in the advisory, legal, and market institutions of four major international environmental treaties.
Edward A. Parson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs. Parson''s research concerns environmental policy, with particular emphasis on its international dimensions: negotiations, policy coordination, assessment, and international institutions. He has worked and consulted for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the United Nations Environment Program, the Trilateral Commission, Environment Canada, and the Privy Council Office of the Government of Canada. His Ph.D. is in Public Policy from Harvard, his prior degrees in Physics from the University of Toronto and in Management Science from the University of British Columbia.
Jesselynn Pelletier is Assistant to the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program. She came to the Kennedy School in 1989 as Faculty Assistant at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and joined ENRP in 1994. Before joining the Kennedy School, she held the position of Secretary to the Head of the Library Department at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. Jesselynn is currently working toward a degree at the Harvard Extension School.
Rebecca Storo is the faculty assistant to William Clark and Edward Parson. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Bates College in 1994. After graduating, she was employed by a software company in Waltham, Massachusetts, as an administrative assistant. She has been working at the Kennedy School since October 1996.
Shashi Kant Verma is a research assistant with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the BCSIA and a second year student in the Master in Public Policy program. He is particularly interested in energy systems, pollution from electric utilities and regulatory economics. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School he worked on private-sector development of urban infrastructure in India. He received a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1993.
Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project
Diane Curran is a Research Assistant for the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. She graduated from Connecticut College in 1996 with a degree in International Relations and Russian and East European Studies. At Connecticut College, she completed a research fellowship covering the Russian-Ukrainian conflict over the Republic of Crimea. She has worked at Impex-Media, Ltd., in St. Petersburg, Russia, and most recently completed an internship at the University of Maryland''s Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
Sergei Grigoriev is a Senior Research Associate with the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. Grigoriev was born in Russia and graduated from Moscow State University in 1979. He worked at the Union of Soviet Associations for Friendship and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries as the secretary of the Soviet-Chinese Friendship Association (1979-84), on the North American Desk of the International Department of the CPSU''s Central Committee (1984-90), and as a spokesman on the staff of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Since 1991 Grigoriev has been a fellow at both Princeton and Harvard Universities. He received an M.A. from the Kennedy School in 1993 and a Ph.D. from Tufts University in 1996. Grigoriev has also taught at Northeastern University in Boston. He has been a frequent guest on a number of TV and radio programs, including ABC''s Nightline, the McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, CNN International Newshour, and the BBC.
Fiona Hill is the Associate Director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. She joined the Project in 1991 after undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, and Harvard''s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where she received an M.A. in Soviet studies. She has published widely on Russian foreign policy and conflicts in the Caucasus, including: "War in the Caucasus?" in the New York Times; Russia''s Tinderbox: Conflict in the North Caucasus and its Implications for the Future of the Russian Federation; and Back in the USSR Russia''s Intervention in the Internal Affairs of the Former Soviet Republics and the Implications for United States Policy toward Russia (with Pamela Jewett). She is scheduled to complete her Ph.D. in Harvard''s History Department in March 1998/
Elena (Aliona) Kostritsyna is a Staff/Research Assistant of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. She joined the Project in 1993 after completing undergraduate and graduate studies at the People''s Friendship University in Moscow. She holds B..A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Russian Language and Literature and Comparative Linguistics. From 1986 to 1993 she taught Russian and Spanish at the People''s Friendship University and Northeastern University in Boston.
Matthew Lantz is a Research Associate for the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (SDI) and coordinates the democratization strand of the SDI Project. He attended Georgetown''s School of Foreign Service and Johns Hopkins'' School of Advanced International Studies, majoring in American foreign policy and international economics. He has worked for Senator Richard Lugar and in the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. His recent publications include The SDI Political Party-Building and Campaigning Handbook, and with Sergei Grigoriev, "Lessons of the 1995 State Duma Elections" in the spring 1996 issue of Demokratizatsiya, and op-eds on the Russian elections in the Boston Globe.
Stefan Zhurek is the Assistant Director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project. He holds a Ph.D. in International Economics (1988) from Moscow State University and is a recipient of an SSRC-MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World (1993-95). He has also had fellowships at Birmingham and Heriot-Watt Universities in the United Kingdom, Harvard''s Davis Center for Russian Studies, and University of California at Berkeley, and was a Visiting Professor at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of over 25 publications on issues of the Russian economic transformation, food security, and international trade and investment, including a new book Investing in the New Europe.
Visiting Scholars
Alexei Arbatov is a Visiting Fellow at BCSIA and a member of the Russian Duma. Arbatov undertook research on the crisis in the Russian military and produced a paper, "Military Reform in Russia: Dilemmas, Obstacles, and Prospects," that will appear as ISP discussion paper no. 97.01
Gunther Bachler is a Visiting Fellow and Director of the Swiss Peace Research Institute. Bachler did research on humanitarian intervention in the Horn of Africa.
Sigve Brekke is a Visiting Fellow at BCSIA. He holds degrees in Agricultural Science and in Business and Administration. He has served as Under Secretary of Defense in the Norwegian Government from 1993 until 1996. Before that he had a comprehensive political career, culminating as the Personal Adviser for the Minister of Defense, Johan Jorgen Hoist. His present position in Norway is Adviser to the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. Brekke was preoccupied with issues relating to the evolution of the security environment in Europe, including transatlantic relations, and the emerging role of Russia.
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat is a Research Affiliate for the International Security Program at BCSIA. From 1981 to 1994, she was a Senior Research Associate at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, where she was founder and editor of The UNIDIR Newsletter. She is currently writing a book on the United Nations.
Sebastian Fries is a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow and a student at Free University of Berlin. Fries focused on his dissertation on conflict and cooperation in German-American relations after the Cold War.
Robert A. Frosch is a Senior Research Associate at BCSIA and is the former Vice President in charge of the General Motors Research and Environmental Staff. Dr. Frosch received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia in 1952, where he previously earned both his bachelor''s and master''s degrees in physics. His professional career includes twelve years with Columbia''s Hudson Laboratories as a research scientist, assistant director, and director. Frosch has also served as President of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Director for Nuclear Test Detection for the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, and Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program.
Peter Grose is a Research Fellow for the International Security Program at BCSIA. He is the former Executive Editor of Foreign Affairs (until 1993). His most recent book is Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles. Previously he was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and member of the Times Editorial Board (1972-77). During 1977-78 he served as Deputy Director of State Department Policy Planning Staff,. He is a graduate of Yale and Oxford (Pembroke College). At BCSIA Grose worked on several projects: completing a history of the Council on Foreign Relations; editing a special section of Foreign Affairs on the Marshall Plan; and working on a history of the early Cold War period.
Jae In Shin is a Research Associate for the STPP Program at the Center. A nuclear engineer by training, Dr. Shin received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from Seoul National University in 1965, an M.S. in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1975, and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1977. He has had a long and distinguished career in the South Korean nuclear industry, most recently as President of the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute and, before that, as President of the Nuclear Environment Management Center. His research interests include Korean nuclear policy in a regional context, as well as the research and development of accelerator-driven subcritical reactors.
Staff
Marie Allitto is the Director of Finance and Operations at BCSIA. She has a B.S. in Management and Economics from the University of Massachusetts. She has been with BCSIA since December 1986. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Budget Officer for the Kennedy School and also held several administrative positions in other schools within Harvard University.
Michael Barre joined the Kennedy School of Government in May of 1989 as Staff Assistant to Professor Ashton Carter, then the Associate Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs. After assisting with several transitions at the Center, he joined Dr. Carter''s staff at the Pentagon as Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, a position he held from June of 1993 through August 1996. Prior to joining BCSIA, Mike served for four years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, in Scotland and Washington, D.C., and has worked as an assistant to the President of Burlington Community College in Burlington, Vermont, and as a faculty assistant at the Harvard Business School.
Anne Cushing is the Librarian for the BSCIA Library. Before joining the Kennedy School she worked in the Government Documents Library and Botany Libraries at Harvard University. She did her undergraduate study in English Literature and Art History at the University of Massachusetts. In her spare time she enjoys releasing old-fashioned vinyl records for local bands on an independent record label.
Jessica Hobart is a full-time consultant to the Director of BCSIA, managing press outreach and coordinating the Working Group on Preventing Deadly Conflict, among other tasks. She is a graduate of the Master''s in Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School with a concentration in international security, and has a B.A. in Religion from Swarthmore College.
Harold Johnson has been at BCSIA since October 1995, serving as assistant to the Director. He is a Boston transplant, coming from Orlando, Florida in January 1994, where he received a B.A. in History from the University of Central Florida. Prior to coming to BCSIA, he worked as an Administrative Assistant to four supervisors at Polaroid, and then as Word Processor/Graphic Designer/Computer Consultant at an outplacement firm in downtown Boston.
Peggy Scannell is the Financial Assistant at the Center for Science and International Affairs. She spent seventeen years working in the Director''s Of rice of Harvard Dining Services before joining the Center in 1989. Previously, she had been quite busy raising a family.
Pawel Swiatek is the BCSIA computer consultant. Outside of BCSIA, he is a third-year chemistry student at Harvard College, residing in Quincy House. Originally from Krakow, Poland, Pawel has been studying in the United States for eight years now. At Harvard, he is the president of the Harvard Polish Society, a varsity sabre fencer, and a photographer for the Harvard Crimson.
Graceann Todaro first came to the Kennedy School in 1989, after graduating from Bay State Junior College, working with the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. She is currently Assistant to the Executive Director and the Center Coordinator for events.
Patricia Walsh is the Executive Director for Administration at BCSIA. She has been at Harvard for 14 years and has held several administrative positions. She worked in the Kennedy School Dean''s Office, ending as Special Assistant to the Dean; as Administrative Coordinator of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project; and most recently as Executive Assistant to the Provost. She has a B.S. in Elementary Education.
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