Fall 2009 Early Warning Military Fellows Welcomed (L-R) Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Kuntzelman, USAF, Lieutenant Colonel William (Butch) Graham, USA, and Lieutenant Colonel John Walker, USMC. The Security Studies Program is pleased to welcome three new military fellows for the Academic year. LTC William (Butch) Graham, is an Army Engineer who most recently completed his third tour in Iraq as the Division Engineer for the 1 st Armored Division and Multi National Division-North. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas. He served as a Combat Engineer platoon leader during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and as an Engineer battalion operations officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom 1. LTC Graham commanded the 40 th Engineer Battalion from July 2005 to June 2007 where he deployed the battalion to Kuwait, Ramadi and Baghdad in support of OIF 05-07. LtCol Kurt W. Kuntzelman has more than 19 years experience with the United States Air Force. His research interests are in space and cyber technologies relating to national security. His core experience is in space operations (satellites). Prior assignments include: operations group deputy commander for GPS and commun- ications satellite systems, squad- ron commander for the Global Positioning System, HQ USAF Staff, operations officer, Chief of Group Standardization and Evaluations, GPS crew commander and satellite operator; HQ United States Space Command and NORAD/J4 staff officer, and logistics officer for B-1, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft. LtCol John E Walker Jr., USMC, received his commission in the United States Marine Corps in 1991 following his graduation from Weber State University. A career intelligence officer with a background in Signals Intelligence, LtCol Walker has served from the tactical to the national level completing multiple deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom , Operation Iraqi Freedom and the 11 th Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable. His personal decorations include: Defense Meritorious Service Med- al, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars; Joint Service Commendation Medal with gold star and the Navy Achievement Medal.
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Fall 2009
Ear ly Warning
Military Fellows Welcomed
(L-R) Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Kuntzelman, USAF, Lieutenant Colonel William (Butch) Graham, USA, and Lieutenant Colonel John Walker, USMC.
The Security Studies Program is pleased to welcome three new military fellows for the Academic year.
LTC William (Butch) Graham, is an Army Engineer who most recently completed his third tour in Iraq as the Division Engineer for the 1st Armored Div ision and Multi National Division-North. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas. He served as a Combat Engineer platoon leader during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and as an Engineer battalion operations officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom 1. LTC Graham commanded the 40th Engineer Battalion from July 2005 to June 2007 where he deployed the battalion to Kuwait, Ramadi and Baghdad in support of OIF 05-07.
LtCol Kurt W. Kuntzelman has more than 19 years experience with the United States Air Force. His research int erests are in space and cyber technologies relating to national security. His core experience is in space operations (satellites). Prior assignments include: operations group dep uty
commander for GPS and commun-ications satellite systems, squad -ron commander for the Global Positioning System, HQ USAF Staff, operations officer, Chief of Group Standardization and Evaluations, GPS crew commander and satellite operator; HQ United States Space Command and NORAD/J4 staff officer, and logistics officer for B-1, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft.
LtCol John E Walker Jr., USMC, received his commission in the United States Marine Corps in 1991 following his graduation
from Weber State University. A career intelligence officer with a background in Signals Intelligence, LtCol Walker has served from the tactical to the national level completing multiple deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom , Operation Iraqi Freedom and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable. His personal decorations include: Defense Merit orious Serv ice Med-al, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars; Joint Service Commendation Medal with gold star and the Navy Achievement Medal.
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What we wrote...Fotini Christia, faculty“Sartorial Stumping,” Op-Ed, The New York Times, August 18 (with Thalia Chantziara).
“Co-opt the Commanders,” in “Is It Time to Negotiate With the Taliban? Room for Debate, A Running Commentary on the News,” The New York Times, September 1, (with Michael Semple).
“Flipping the Taliban: How to Win in Afghanistan,” Foreign Affairs,
July/August 2009. (With Michael Semple).
Taylor Fravel, facultyQuoted in an article titled “China and India Dispute Enclave on Edge of Tibet,” New York Times, September 4.
Quoted in an article titled “ANALYSIS-Booming China-India ties strained by border tension,” Reuters, September 18.
Quoted in an article titled “Rio Tinto Sales Executive Found Success in China’s Changes,” Wall Street Journal, July 25.
Quoted in an article titled “China adds special riot squad to arsenal,” Financial Times, July 19.
Gregory Koblentz, alum“Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).
Paloma Badet is a cadet at the Saint Cyr French national military academy at Coëtquidan, France. She will spend the fall semester with us studying American foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically during the Bush Administration.
Paloma, 21, will graduate next July and will be a Lieutenant from the Signals corps in the French Army. She is currently studying international relations. She also has completed Paratrooper training, Winter Mountain training in the Alps, and jungle commando training in French Guyana. She speaks French, English, and Spanish and is learning Arabic.
SSP welcomescadet Badet
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Response,” International Security, vol. 34, no. 2 (fall 2009).
The Rise of Russia, Sino-Russian Relations, and U.S. Security Policy, Institute for Strategy, Royal Danish Defense College, June 2009.
Richard Samuels, facultyQuoted in a Jerusalem Post article titled “US Professors: support for Israel eroded,” June 29, 2009.
“Change Comes to Japan: How the LDP hung on so long,” Newsweek, August 31.
Harvey Sapolsky (Emeritus), Benjamin Friedman, Eugene Gholz and Daryl Press, alums“The Strategy of Restraint: Reclaiming Our Strategic Depth,” World Affairs, Fall 2009.
Harvey Sapolsky, faculty“Recognizing Our Advantages,” in Beyond Bullets: Strategies for Countering Violent Extremism, Center for a New American Security, Solarium Strategy Series, June 2009.
“Rethinking Republican Foreign Policy,” E-IR, June 8, 2009.
Bjoern Seibert, affiliate“The case against the A400M,” Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Briefing Note, June 2009.
Joseph Torigian, grad student, “Taiwan is not an American Geopolitical Chess Piece” Oriental Morning Post/Dongfang Zaobao, June 24.
Peter Krause, grad student and Steve Van Evera, faculty “Public Diplomacy: Ideas for the War of Ideas,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall 2009).
Alan Kuperman, alum“Wishful Thinking Will Not Stop Genocide: Suggestions for a More Realistic Strategy,” Genocide Studies and Prevention, 4, 2 (August 2009), pp. 191-199.
Sameer Lalwani, grad studentPakistani Capabilities for a Counterinsurgency Campaign: A Net Assessment, a report for the the New American Foundation, September 17.
Jennifer Lind (et al.), alumRoundtable about her book “Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics” (Cornell 2008) in the Journal of East Asian Studies (Sept. – Dec. 2009).
Tara Maller, grad student“The Dangers of Diplomatic Dis-engagement in Counterterrorism” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 32:6, (June 2009) pp.511 — 536.
Daryl Press, alum“The Nukes We Need: Preserving the American Deterrent,” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec.
Robert Ross, affiliate“China’s Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects and America’s
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“The Xinjiang Incident in the Eyes of an American”, Chinese Reuters (online only), August 31.
Jim Walsh, faculty“Sanctions Can’t Be the Centerpiece,” in “Can Sanctions Work?” Room for Debate, The New York Times, September 25.
“Re-conceptualizing Security Assurances: An Exploration Using the Case of Iran,” Paper for Naval Postgraduate School, August.
Cindy Williams, faculty Quoted in James Fallows, “Civilize Homeland Security,” The Atlantic, July/August 2009.
What we wrote...(cont’d)
SSP in new office spaceThe last boxes have been unpacked and the final files have been re-filed. The Security Studies Program has moved into its new space in the newly consolidated Center for International Studies. The grand opening for the new space was held Friday, September 11 at which time the new Lucian Pye Conference room was also inaugurated.
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Where we spoke...Early Warning
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Fotini Christia, facultyCommentator, on the new Mc-Crystal Strategy in Afghanistan, “The Takeaway” (co-production of WNYC Radio and Public Radio International), September 1.
Commentator, on Symbolizing Afghanistan’s candidates NPR and BBC’s “The World,” August 20.
Owen Cote, facultyParticipant, three-day workshop on The Future of US Nuclear Weapons Policy, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, August 29 – September 1.
Taylor Fravel, facultyParticipant, Conference on Strategic Implications of Military Activities in the EEZ, Naval War College, Newport, RI, July.
Presenter, Browne Center Workshop on the Political Economy of National Security and East Asia, University of Pennsylvania, July. Paper: Economic Interests and the Evolution of China’s Military Strategy.”
Kelly Greico, grad studentPresenter, “Windows of Power: North Vietnamese Military Doctrine and Asymmetric Warfare,” American Political Science Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Discussant, “Future of Warfare,” American Political Science
Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Presenter, “Military Strategy of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, 1963-1973,” Harvard-Yale-MIT Civil Conflict Conference, May 15.
Gregory Koblentz, alumInterview. ABC Brisbane radio and This Week in Defense News, regarding his new book “Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security,” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).
Participant, Biodefense Policy Workforce Development, hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, August 11.
Barry Posen, facultySpeaker, Rethinking Seminar Series, Rethinking “US Grand Strategy,” Johns Hopkins University, Arling-ton, VA, September 8.
Interview, NPR’s “On Point,” July 28, 2009. Topic: “Can the U.S. deter a nuclear Iran?”
Speaker, panel discussion on “Iran’s Nuclear Program,” at the Conference on “Iran’s Quest for Regional Preeminence: Implications for Middle East Security,” at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, July 14-15.
Instructor, Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations
and Strategy (SWAMOS), Ithaca, NY, July 5-7.
Speaker, Military Theory in the Post-Cold War Era: a Critical Examination, Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, Oslo, Norway, June 24-25.
Speaker, Transatlantic Security Symposium, 2009, US-Europe-Russia Relations: Towards a New Compact? Instituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy, June 22.
Robert Ross, affiliateParticipant, Military Activities in the EEZ: Strategic Implications of US and Chinese Perspectives, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College, Newport RI, July.
Chair and Discussant, “New Trends in Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations,” annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada.
Participant, The Political Economy of National Security in East Asia, Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania, July 8-9.
Richard Samuels, facultySpeaker, State Department Briefing for Ambassador John Roos, Washington DC (prior to his taking up his post as Ambassador to Japan).
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Where we spoke (cont’d)
Paul Staniland, grad studentPresenter, “Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Fragmentation: Trajectories of Militancy in Kashmir and Pakistan” at APSA in Toronto on September 4. He gave the same talk at the Duke, UNC Triangle Institute for Security Studies, “New Faces in Security Studies” conference on September 12, Yale University’s Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence on September 30. The United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, October 4-6, and the Lehigh University Department of International Relations on October 13.
Stephen Van Evera, facultyInterview, Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midday” June 30, 2009. Topic:” Deadline for US troops out of Iraq cities.”
Jim Walsh, facultyInstructor, “Iran and WMD,” Senior Manager Course in National Security, Department of Defense’s National Security Studies Program (NSSP), George Washington University, August 26.
Participant, “Iran, Nuclear Weapons, and Security Assurances,” Workshop on Security Assurances and Nonproliferation, sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School, US Air Force Academy and DTRA, August 13.
Interviews numerous times in the press recently regarding North
Korea and Iran. He’s also appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR.
Cindy Williams, facultyLecturer, “U.S. Budgets and Resource Allocation Processes for National Security and International Affairs,” Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, (SWAMOS) Columbia University for young scholars in international relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 9.
Presenter, “U.S. Budgets for National Security,” Executive Course, National Security Studies Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, DC, August 20.
Discussion with staff of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, about establishing incentive for federal national security civilians to take up cross-agency rotations, August 19.
Interview, on volunteerism in the United States and the state of the all-volunteer force, Kansas City Star, August 28.
Simulations (with Owen Cote), “Complex Crisis in Mexico,” developed and conducted an interagency simulation for the Executive Course of the National Security Studies Program. The simulation was held at the Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington DC, August 28-30.
Presenter, “Science and Technology in the Department of Homeland Security,” the Chair’s report on the National Academy of Public Administration student of S&T arrangements in DHS, to the National Academy of Science Panel on Performance measurement in DHS S&T at the Keck Building, Washington, DC, September 1.
Keynote Speaker, “Filling the Ranks: An Update for Today’s Realities,” U.S. Army Accessions Research Sympos ium, Hampton, VA, September 3.
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Notes from all overBarry Posen is on Sabbatical this academic year. He is spending the fall semester in Washington DC as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Cindy Williams is on leave from SSP. For the fall 2009 semester, she is the Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Grad student Paul Staniland has been awarded a 2009/10 Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded a 2009/10 US Institute of Peace Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship.
SSP grad student Peter Krause was in Jordan for three months doing field research and has moved to Israel this fall to do more research.
Jennifer Lind, SSP alum, was selected as one of five Fellows on “Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia,” a fellowship awarded by the East Asia Institute in Seoul. As part of this program she will give talk in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai and will be conducting interviews for a new project about energy competition and the rise of China.
In July, SSP alum Timothy Wolters was awarded the Eller
Prize for the best article on naval history for “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” in The Journal of Military History 72 (July 2008), 755-783.
SSP alum Vann H. Van Diepen, has been named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. He resumes his 23-year career at the State Department after a 3 year stint as National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation in the Directorate of National Intelligence.
SSP alum David Burbach has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Naval War College.
SSP alum Alan J. Kuperman is a Fellow this fall at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is currently finishing his book on the moral hazard of human intervention.
Mary Whisenhunt, Lt Col USAF, Ret., the 2002-2003 Air Force Fellow, now works Strategic Communication for United States Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany.
Michael Thumm, SSP Marine Fellow, 1998-1999, changed jobs at the beginning of August. He is now the Development Programs lead
in the Tomahawk weapons System Program Office.
Former Air Force Fellow Roftiel Constantine was promoted to Colonel on August 1. He is now working in Holland.
Former Navy Fellow Leah Bolger (Johnson) retired from the Navy in 2000 and became a full-time peace activist. She is currently the national vice-president of Veterans for Peace.
Greg Koblentz’s new book
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Wednesday,Sept. 16
SEBASTIAN ROSATO, Notre DameTopic: Unite or Die: Balance of Power Politics and the Construction of the European Community
Wednesday,Sept. 23
KELLY GREENHILL , Tufts UniversityTopic: Fear Factor: Understanding the Origins and Consequences of Beliefs about National Security and the Threats We Face
Wednesday,Sept. 30
MICHAEL KREPON, Stimson CenterTopic: Better Safe than Sorry, the Ironies of Living with the Bomb
Wednesday,Oct. 7
DAVID MAKOVSKY, Washington Institute for Near East PolicyTopic: Neo-Conservatism vs. Realism: Applying Grand Theories to the Middle East
Wednesday,Oct. 14
PAUL WALKER, Global Green ( USA Security and Sustainability Program)Topic: Nonproliferation and Chemical Weapons: Challenges in Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention
Wednesday,Oct. 21
DAVID J. KARL, School of International Relations, University of Southern CaliforniaTopic: India’s Emergence as a Great Power: Implications for U.S. Policy in Asia
Wednesday,Oct. 28
MATTHEW BURROWS, National Intelligence CouncilTopic: Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World
Wednesday,Nov. 4
AUDREY KURTH CRONIN , U.S. National War CollegeTopic: How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Wednesday,Nov. 18
COLONEL KEVIN WOODS, Institute for Defense AnalysisTopic: A View from the Other Side of the Hill—The Records of Saddam Hussein
Wednesday,Dec. 2
GARY BASS, Princeton University Topic: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
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