BCSIA Annual Report, 1981-1982: Related Professional Activities

BCSIA: 1981-1982 ANNUAL REPORT
6. Related Professional Activities

Related Professional Activities

The research staff was involved in a wide spectrum of professional activities related to their
work at the Center. Courses taught, lectures given, visits made, consulting done, and conferences
attended by CSIA personnel are listed below.

Jeffrey Boutwell was teaching fellow for "Technology, War and Peace" (SS-15g). He worked

with Paul Doty on the CSIA TNF project, reviewing draft chapters and handling correspondence.
He gave a presentation on TNF to the United Nations Disarmament Fellows; was guest lecturer
on TNF for the graduate course, "The Technology and Politics of Nuclear Weapons," taught by
Professors Rathjens and Ruina at MIT; gave a research seminar on the West German politics of
TNF at CSIA; and presented a report on his research trip to West Germany at a CSIA staff
luncheon. He was a panelist at a conference on strategic and theater nuclear force issues in
Racine, Wisconsin and attended the Ford Foundation Dual Expertise fellowship conference in
New York City. In addition, he worked at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on
various arms control and security projects.

Harvey Brooks taught "Science, Technology, and Public Policy" with Professor I.B. Cohen and

Dr. D. Zinberg (S-482a,b), "Case Studies in Research and Development Decision Making" (S
488), and "Technological Assessment" (NS-134). He was a member of the Appointments
Committee, KSG; the Committee on Higher Degrees, Division of Applied Sciences; the Faculty
Council, Harvard Institute for International Development and the Center for Earth and Planetary
Physics, DAS. He chaired and summarized a session on Space Communications at the Aspen
Institute Conference with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, "Global
Implications of Space Activities"; and presented testimony to the Subcommittee on Science,
Research and Technology, Hearings on the Human Factor in Innovation and Productivity, U.S.
House of Representatives. At the Symposium II of the 1982 World''s Fair International Energy
Symposia Series he lectured on "The Role of Nuclear Power, Increasing World Energy
Production and Productivity" and was Chairman/Integrator of the work session "The Role of
Nuclear Energy." He gave a seminar on U.S. Science Policy at the Chinese Academy of Science,
Beijing; and was a speaker on High Pressure Physics at a Centenary Symposium ("Reflections
on P.W. Bridgman") at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He spoke on "Technology
Related Catastrophes: Myth and Reality" at Argonne National Laboratory; on "Technology
Policies in the East and West: Lessons for Developing Countries" at the World Bank Seminar on
Science and Technology in the People''s Republic of China; and presented a talk to the American
Physical Society, Dallas, Texas, in memory of Professor John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. He chaired
a Conference on World Energy Models in Palo Alto, Calif.; participated as a member of the
faculty for American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee Course
"Environmental Law"; and was a member of the Panel of Audubon/Brandeis Environmental
Forum on issues of modeling and planning for the future, at Brandeis University. He served the
National Academy of Sciences'' Panel on High Technology Competition among advanced
industrialized countries and the Committee on National Urban Policy, Assembly of Behavioral
and Social Sciences. As trustee and member he served on the Executive Committee, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution; the Academic Affairs Committee, Tufts University; and the
Committee on University Plans, Case Western Reserve University. He was Chairman of the
Senior Advisory Panel, Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University; co-chairman of the
Steering Committee, American Academy Study on Social Problems and Business Opportunities;
member of the steering committee for European Security Study at the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences; and member of the steering committee, Global Implications of Space
Activities at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aspen Institute. In addition, he was
Consultant on Science, Technology, and Society in the 1980''s to OECD and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Energy. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the

Environmental Law Institute and the Council on Library Resources. He also served as a member
of the governing Board and Executive Committee, International Centre for Insect Physiology and
Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya; the Board of Overseers, Franklin Pierce Law Center; and the Council
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Albert Carnesale taught "Technology, War and Peace" with Michael Nacht (SS-159); "Research

Seminar in International Affairs and Security" with D. Johnston (S-210); and "Current Issues in
American Foreign Policy" with Joseph Nye (S-247). He was Academic Dean of the Kennedy
School and Chairman of the Faculty Appointments Committee. He lectured on "Nuclear
Proliferation and Western Pacific Security," Freedom Council, Republic of China; "Ballistic
Missile Defense," National Defense University; "Preventing Nuclear War," Cambridge Forum;
and "Rethinking the Role of Ballistic Missile Defense," Sparkman Symposium, University of
Alabama. At Harvard Medical School he spoke on "The Threat of Nuclear War"; at the Foreign
Service Institute he spoke on "Soviet-American Strategic Competition"; and at Arthur D. Little
he spoke on "Governance of Nuclear Power." He also lectured on "Nuclear Arms Control" for
the Lawyers'' Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control; on "The Future of Nuclear Weapons" at Duke
University; and on "Strategic Vulnerability" at the American Institute for Aeronautics and
Astronautics. He was a consultant of the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was co-editor of the CSIA journal, InternationalSecurity; a member of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management, National Academy of

Sciences; and testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign
Affairs Committee on nonproliferation implicatons of the Israeli raid on the Iraqi nuclear facility.
Among the conferences he attended were: "Conference on Western Pacific Security," Freedom
Council, Republic of China; IISS Annual Conference, Williamsburg, Va.; "Rethinking Strategic
Defenses," Sparkman Symposium, University of Alabama; and "National Security Issues for the
1980s," Duke University. He chaired the JFK Library conference on "The Search for National
Security in the Nuclear Age"; and co-chaired the Kennedy School''s conference on "Nuclear
Power and Energy Availability."

E. William Colglazier lectured on "Nuclear Terrorism" to the Short Course on Nuclear

Emergencies'' Harvard School of Public Health; and presented "The Politics of Low-Level
Radioactive Waste" as invited testimony to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Low
Level Waste. He organized the Aspen Institute Conference on "Global Implications of Space
Activities" in Aspen, Colo.; the Keystone Conference on "Industrial Fuel Use Decision-Making"
in Keystone, Colo.; and the Harvard/SIPI Conference on the "Defense Industrial Base" in
Cambridge, Mass. In addition, he attended the Gas Research Institute Advisory Committee
Conference on Research and Development and the Harvard Conference on "Energy and
Security." As consultant he served the Harvard and MIT Energy and Security Projects; the
Keystone Center in Colorado; the Scientists'' Institute for Public Information; and the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. He also reviewed energy books for the Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management and was a member of the Subcommittee on National Scientific

Affairs, American Physical Society.

David Deese developed and taught four courses in the Department of Political Science at Boston

College: "Strategy, Grand Strategy, and Arms Control," "Politics of International Economic
Relations," "Comparative Foreign Policy," and a year-long "Fundamental Concepts of Political
Science." In addition he taught "Introduction to International Relations" and "Topics in
American Foreign Policy" in the Harvard Extension School. He also conducted searches for
faculty appointments at Boston College in international politics. Professor Deese lectured on
energy and security, and grand strategy and arms control at research institutes and universities in
the United States and other countries. As consultant he worked on a study entitled "California,
Energy, and Security" at the Energy Laboratory, MIT. Ile wrote a monthly syndicated column for
the Hearst Newspapers, involving foreign policy, international politics, and arms control; was a member of the editorial board of Orbis; and of the Boston Council on Foreign Relations. He was
an articles peer reviewer for International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the National

Science Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He also wrote book reviews each quarter for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Among the conferences he attended were:

The Seventh Annual International Symposium on Arms Control; the annual convention of the
International Studies Association; a workshop on "Teaching National Security"; and a large
simulation of upheaval in the Persian Gulf and Western responses held at the Rand Corporation.

Paul Doty lectured on "Military Aspects of Nuclear Arms Control" at a Wellesley teach-in on

preventing nuclear war, Wellesley, Mass.; presented a dinner speech on "Arms Control and the
Threat of Nuclear War" at a Business Professionals for Peace Meeting in Waltham, Mass.; and
gave an arms control dinner presentation at the Harvard Alumni Club in New York City. He
gave a presentation at the Science in a World of Crises International Symposium organized by
the European Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Aspen Institute, in Berlin;
and led a session on "Factors in Development of Strategic Nuclear Policy" at the National
Security Issues Symposium cosponsored by the Electronic Systems Division, USAF, Hanscom
Air Force Base, Mass. and the MITRE Corporation. He led a luncheon discussion at the U.S.
Television News Seminar presented by the French-American Foundation, Harvard Faculty Club;
led a discussion on the "Alliance Implications of the Peace Movements" at the Meeting of the
European Study Commission in Bonn, West Germany; and presented a luncheon
lecture/discussion on "Recent U.S. Arms Control Initiatives and Issues" for the International
Communication Agency at America House in Berlin. He attended the following Aspen Institute
Conferences: Arms Control and International Security Workshop, Aspen, Colo.; Hazen
Biomedical Workshop, Aspen, Colo.; Global Implications of Space Activities, Aspen, Colo.;
Conference on Jobs in the 1980s and 1990s— an International Overview, Berlin, West Germany;
and Conference on the Nordic Countries: Past, Present and Future, Saltsjobaden, Sweden.
Among the other conferences he attended were: International Institute for Strategic Studies
Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Va.; MITRE National Security Issues Symposium in
Bedford, Mass.; Dartmouth Conference XIII in Moscow; Meeting of Delegations of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control and the
USSR Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; Ford-Funded Centers of International Security
and Arms Control Conference in Santa Monica, Calif.; National Academy of Sciences Annual
Meeting in Washington, D.C.; Meeting of the European Study Commission, sponsored by the
Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik and the International
Institute for Strategic Studies in Bonn, West Germany; and Science in a World of Crises, an
International Symposium organized by the European Committee of the Weizmann Institute of
Science and the Aspen Institute Berlin in Berlin, West Germany.

William Durch was head teaching fellow for "Technology, War and Peace" (SS-159). He also

participated in the ballistic missile defense working group. He lectured on "Strategic Arms
Control and the Nuclear Freeze Movement" in Easton, Westborough, and Newton, Mass.; was
the lead speaker at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. for Ground Zero Week; and was a
member of the Civil Defense Panel, Harvard School of Public Health, Veterans Day Program.
He attended a workshop on "US-Soviet Cooperation in Restraining Strategic Arms," sponsored
by the Brown University Center for Foreign Policy Development; a Conference on the
International Security Dimensions of Space at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy;
presented a paper on ICBM Defense to the panel on "New Perspectives on Strategic Defense" at
the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in Cincinnati, Ohio; and gave a research seminar at CSIA on ballistic missile defense. He reviewed manuscripts for International
Security, and researched and recommended an upgraded word processing system for CSIA.

James Kendrick Feldman devoted his time to research and analysis of the U.S. strategic aircraft

force. He will join the faculty of the Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of
Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

Charles G1aser was teaching assistant for "Introduction to Probability and

Statistics"/"Econometrics" (P-130) and "Current Issues in American Foreign Policy" (S-247). He
gave a research seminar at CSIA on strategic defenses and defense-dominance. He attended the
Conference on International Security Dimensions Space at the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy and the Defense Industrial Base Conference at the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.

Fen Hampson was resident tutor in Government, Assistant Senior Tutor, and Fellowships

Adviser at Lowell House, Harvard. He presented a paper "A Risk-Averse Model of Mexican
Petroleum Policy," at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in New
York City; gave a seminar on "Mexico''s Oil Policies" at the CFIA/Committee on Latin American
Studies Seminar; gave a CSIA Research Seminar, "Fraught with Risk: The Political Economy of
Canadian and Mexican Petroleum Policies"; and gave seminar presentations at Brown University
and Dartmouth College. Among the conferences he attended were: Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association; Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies
Association; and the Conference on the Defense Industrial Base at the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. In addition he was an outside reviewer of manuscripts for the CSIA journal, International Security.

Mahnaz Ispahani presented a research seminar at CSIA on "Old and New— The Politics of

Routes." She spent most her time researching and writing her dissertation.

Lennart Johansson gave seminars and lectures on political risk assessment at Harvard Business

School, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business Administration, SRI International,
and the Stockholm School of Economics. He also presented seminars on "Energy and Security"
at the National Defense Research Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Morris McCain gave a CSIA research seminar on "Soviet Incentives to Engage in Arms

Control"; and lectured on "Soviet Attitudes Toward BMD" at MIT. He reviewed research
proposals and manuscripts for the National Science Foundation and the CSIA journal, International Security. He attended the Conference on the Defense Industrial Base at the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the Conference on Fellowships in Arms Control
and International Security at the Ford Foundation. In addition, he attended the Harvard Arms
Control Seminar; the CSIA Research and Visitors Seminars; and the Russian Research Center''s
Seminar on Soviet Science and Technology, Eyewitness Accounts.

Stephen Mayer taught courses in "Military Forces in the Management of Foreign Policy" and

"Modelling Laboratory for Defense and Arms Control Analysis" at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He contributed a chapter to the forthcoming CSIA book on theater nuclear forces,
and continued primary-source research into Soviet defense decision-making, under the
sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Steven Miller was Assistant Director, CSIA, and Managing Editor of the Center''s journal,
International Security. He lectured on ''U.S. Foreign Policy: Living With Success" and

"Weighing the Balance: Myth and Misperception in U.S.-Soviet Relations" at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, New Mexico; on "An Overview of the Nuclear Arms Race" for the
Conference on Nuclear Armament/Nuclear Disarmament at the JFK Library, Boston, Mass.; and
on "The Freeze, Defense Policy, and Soviet-American Relations" at the League of Women
Voters in Duluth, Minnesota. He spoke on "The U.S.-Soviet Arms Race" at Concord-Carlisle
High School in Lexington, Mass.; lectured on nuclear arms control for the "Nuclear Weapons
and Disarmament Panel" at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, Mass.; and presented a critique of Jonathan Schell''s The Fate of the Earth at a CSIA Research Seminar. In addition, he

gave a presentation on "How to Live Safely in a World of Nuclear Weapons" to the Cambridge
Forum Disarmament Group, and appeared as a guest of Christopher Lydon on "The Ten O''Clock
News," WGBH-TV, Boston, to discuss the Reagan Administation''s arms control policy. He
presented a paper, "Cold War in the Cold: Soviet-American Naval Rivalry in NATO''s Northern
Flank," to the Conference of Ford Foundation Centers on International Security and Arms
Control at the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. Other conferences he attended were: the
Aspen Conference on U.S. Strategic Posture, Aspen, Colo.; Conference on "The Search for
National Security in the Nuclear Age" at the JFK Library, Boston, Mass.; Conference on
"Terrorism: The Challenge to the State," at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; Annual
Conference of the International Studies Association, Cincinnati, Ohio; Conference on "The
Theory and Practice of American National Security, 1945-1960~" at the U.S. Military Academy,
West Point, N.Y.; and the Conference on the Defense Industrial Base at the Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He also attended Orientation Briefings of the Air Force Systems Command at
Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Mass.; two meetings of the Aspen Arms Control Consortium
Study-group on the U.S. Strategic Posture at the Carnegie Foundation in Washington, D.C.; and
participated in the U.S. Air Force Civic Leaders Tour of Eglin, Patrick, and Cape Canaveral Air
Force Bases, Florida.

Mike Mochizuki lectured on "Patterns of Interest Aggregation in Contemporary Japan,"

"Constitutional and Legal Constraints on Japanese Defense Policy," and "Contemporary
Japanese Schools of Strategic Thought" as guest lecturer in three Harvard government courses.
He also served as Director of the Japan Forum, Japan Institute of Harvard. At the New England
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting he delivered a paper on "How the Conservatives
Manage the Opposition in Japan," and at their annual meeting in Chicago he delivered a paper on
"Japan''s Small and Medium Enterprise Policies in the 1970s." He also attended the Japan Society
Seminar on "Changing Perceptions of National Security in Japan and the UPS." in New York
City; and the Conference on the Defense Industrial Base at the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.

Michael Nacht taught "Technology, War and Peace" (SS-159) with Albert Carnesale and, with

Robert Reich and James Sebenius, "Public Management" (P-160). He lectured in the Executive
Program for National and International Security. He served as Vice Chairman of the Kennedy
School''s Second Year Public Policy Committee and was a member of the KSG Library
Committee and the Faculty Steering Committee for the Executive Program in National and
International Security. He also directed the security project of Harvard''s Program on U.S.-Japan
Relations. He led the CSIA Working Group on Political Instability and served as co-editor of International Security. He testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East

Asian and Pacific Affairs on Japanese defense posture. Invited papers were delivered by
Professor Nacht at the Aspen Consortium''s Conference on U.S. Strategic Force Posture in
Aspen, Colorado on the future of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and at the Friedrich-Ebert
Stiftung in New York on Political Instability in Developing Countries. He visited Seoul, Korea
with members of Harvard''s Mason Fellows Program and served as a consultant to the Ford
Foundation.

Joseph Nye taught "Current Issues in American Foreign Policy" with Albert Carnesale and

Graham Allison (S-247) and "American Foreign Policy" (Gov 90t). He lectured on "Government
Policy and Energy Security" at a UCLA Energy Conference; on "The Multinational Corporation
in the 1980s" at a Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues; on "How Can We Live
With Nuclear Weapons" at the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass.; and on "Energy and the
U.S.-Japan Relationship" at the Japan Society Shimoda Conference. In addition, he lectured at
Mohawk Valley Community College, Mohawk, N.Y.; and Oxford University, Oxford, England.
He participated in the Aspen Institute Study Group on U.S. Strategic Posture, and attended the
following conferences: CEFRI Energy Conference in Paris; Tulane University Conference on
Strategies for Managing Nuclear Proliferation; National Security Symposium, MITRE
Corporation; University of Texas, LBJ School, Nuclear Arms Control Conference; National
Defense University''s National Security Conference; Conference of the International Institute for
Strategic Studies in Williamsburg, Va.; the Aspen Institute Conference on "U.S. Policy Toward
the USSR" in Racine, Wisc.; and the National Security Symposium at Hanscom AFB, Bedford,
Mass.

Reinhardt Rummel gave a CSIA research seminar on "The European-American Difference in the

Middle East." He spoke at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress in
Washington on "Recent Developments in Western Europe''s Middle East Policy"; at the Institute
of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley on "Western Coordination of Soviet
and Middle East Policy"; and at the East-West Center in Honolulu on "The Oil Glut and Energy
Security Con$iderations." He presented a paper on "Energy Security: The European Experience"
at the conference on "Energy and ASEAN''s Security: Regional and Extraregional Dimensions" at
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and presented a paper on "European-American Relations
and the Middle East" at the 23rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Aspociation in
Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition, he participated in a panel discussion on "The Roots of West
German Foreign Policy" at the Wilson Center in Washington. He attended the 10th Annual
Convention of the National Association of Arab Americans on "The Search for Peace: U.S.
Middle East Policy After Camp David" in Boston, Mass.; and the Conference on "The Middle
East Since the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty" in Baltimore, Md. As consultant he served the
Rockefeller Foundation, International Relations Division.

Gregory Treverton taught "Political Analysis and Management" with Steve Kelman (M-441). He

participated in a panel on nuclear arms control at the LBJ School at the University of Texas;
presented a paper at a conference on Europe and the World Crises sponsored by the Consejo
Argentino de Relaciones Internacionales in Buenos Aires; and gave a number of lectures in
Argentina and Brazil. He attended an IISS conference on "Theater Nuclear Forces" in London;
presented a paper at an ICS-sponsored conference on "European Issues" in Brussels; and
attended German-American conferences in Washington and Bonn.

Stephen Walt was teaching fellow for "Technology, War and Peace" (SS-159) at Harvard and for

"War and War Prevention" (196WW) at Tufts. He gave a CSIA research seminar on "Alliance
Formation in the Middle East"; lectured at Pilgrim Church, Sherborn, Mass. on "The Strategic
Arms Race and the Reagan Proposals"; at Marblehead High School on "Strategic Weapons and
Arms Control"; and at Quincy House, Harvard on "Arms Control." He participated in a
discussion of the AWACS sale for a TV talk show "Five-All-Night Live" in Boston, Mass. In
addition, he served as a consultant to the Center for Naval Analyses.

Dean Wilkening gave a CSIA research seminar on "Laser Weapons." In addition he attended the

International Security Dimensions of Space Conference at Fletcher and the Conference on the
Defense Industrial Base at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dorothy Zinberg spoke on "The Future of Electric Power" at the MITRE Corporation; on "A

Sociologist''s View of Public Attitudes Toward Nuclear Power" at the Atomic Industrial Forum,
Annual Meeting; and on "International Mobility of Scientists and Engineers" at a NATO
Workshop in Portugal. She was also the invited speaker at the U.S.-German International
Research Exchange Conference in Wingspread, Wisconsin; and at the First National Conference
on Energy Education, National Science Teachers Association in Detroit, Michigan. In addition,
she organized the Energy and Social Adaptation Workshop at the Kennedy School of
Government, and was a discussant at the National Science Foundation Conference on U.S.
Scientific Cooperation with Industrialized Countries. She served the Council on International
Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Commission); the National Academy of Sciences'' Commission
on International Relations and Committee on International Human Resources; and as
Chairperson served the Sub-Committee on Academic Programs and Policy Analysis for the
Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. She was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Special Advisor to the
Aspen Institute. She was elected to the Council of the Federation of American Scientists and the
International Council for Science Policy Studies. As consultant she served the Social Science
Research Council and was a judge on the Rockefeller Foundation''s panel for International
Fellowships.

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