GUEST SPEAKERS

Dr. Pauline Baker
President, The Fund For Peace
1701 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-223-7947
Email: pbaker@fundforpeace.org

Pauline H. Baker is President of The Fund for Peace, a Washington DC-based research and educational organization founded in 1957 that works to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war. The FFP specializes in the diagnosis and resolution of conflicts associated with weak and failing states and on foreign policy responses to such conflicts to achieve sustainable security.

Dr. Baker conceived and pioneered the FFP development of CAST (the Conflict Assessment System Tool), a methodology for the early warning and assessment of conflicts that is based on combining social science techniques with information technology. CAST is the basis for the annual Failed States Index, published by Foreign Policy magazine. A political scientist with over 40 years of experience in academic and policy environments, Dr. Baker has specialized in African affairs. She has traveled throughout all the sub-regions of Africa and taught at the University of Lagos in Nigeria during her residence there from 1964-1975, including during the 1967-1970 Biafran civil war. She served as an election monitor in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 Nigerian presidential elections. Dr. Baker also taught at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she currently is a professorial lecturer on Failed States and State-Building.

In addition, Dr. Baker served as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as staff director of the African Affairs Subcommittee. She worked as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing principally on U.S. policy toward Africa, with particular focus on US Policy toward South and Southern Africa. Following that, she was a research scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute and Deputy Director of a congressional foreign affairs educational program at the Aspen Institute.

Dr. Baker has published numerous articles, book reviews, and essays and is the author or editor of several books. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from UCLA with distinction and her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Community of Democracies and other public affairs organizations.
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Dr. Barbara Bardes
Director, Political Science Department
University of Cincinnati
Cincinatti, Ohio 45221
Phone: 513-556-3318
Email: Barbara.Bardes@uc.edu

Barbara A. Bardes earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from Kent State University. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cincinnati in 1975. While at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Bardes held the position of Director of Grants and Contracts at the Institution of Policy Research. Her first tenure track position was at Mississippi State University. In 1977, Dr. Bardes moved to Chicago as an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Her positions at the university included Associate and full Professor, Coordinator for Loyola’s North Central Accreditation 1984-85, and Dean, Mundelein College, 1988-1993. She returned to Cincinnati as dean of Raymond Walters College in 1993. After serving two terms as dean, she joined the Political Science Department of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Dr. Bardes has published several articles on public opinion and foreign policy. In addition, she has co-authored a book on the relationship between American literature and women’s political advances in the 19 th century, a public policy text, a text on public opinion, and a leading American Government textbook. She continues her research on public opinion and foreign policy. Currently she is the graduate program director for the Political Science Department at the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Bardes is married to Dale L. Bardes, an architect and owner of a local business. She has one daughter who is married and lives in Hyde Park with her two children. Barbara and Dale Bardes live in the small community of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.
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Dr. Roger Coate
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803-777-7833
Email: roger.coate@sc.edu

Professor Coate's research and teaching interests focus on multilateralism, international organization, and global governance. His specific areas of expertise include: international organization reform, the role of civil society in global governance, and U.S. multilateral foreign policy. He is currently directing a new project, the "Transforming Global Governance for the 21st Century: Creating Effective Partnerships with Civil Society Project," which is a large-scale transnational collaborative research and training program in cooperation with the Academic Council on the United Nations System and the Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to this new undertaking, he and his research associates had been awarded over half-a-million dollars in external funding for their collaborative projects. Since 1993, he has been coeditor of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations. In 1997 the Association of American Publishers selected Global Governance to be the recipient of the award "Best New Journal in the United States in 1996 in Business, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities." Also, he has been the recipient of a Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award. Among numerous professional association positions, he has served as President of the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association, as National President of Sigma Iota Rho, The International Studies Honor Society, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Governing Council of the International Studies Association, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Among other activities, he has served as: a staff member in the United Nations Centre for Human Rights; a member of the United Nations habitat ii Secretary-General's Advisory Panel on Housing Rights; a consultant to the U.S. Secretary of State's Monitoring Panel on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); an adviser to both the Bureau of International Organization Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and the Director-General of UNESCO; and a consultant to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Coate is author or coauthor of numerous books or monographs, including: The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Second Edition (Westview, 1997, with Thomas Weiss and David Forsythe); International Cooperation in Response to AIDS (Frances Pinter/Cassell, 1995, with Leon Gordenker, Christer Jönsson, and Peter Söderholm); United States Policy and the Future of the United Nations (Twentieth Century Fund, 1994); The Challenge of Relevance: The United Nations in a Changing World Environment (ACUNS, 1989, with Donald Puchala); Unilateralism, Ideology and United States Foreign Policy: The U.S. In and Out of UNESCO (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988); The Power of Human Needs in World Society (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988, with Jerel Rosati); The State of the United Nations, 1988 (ACUNS, 1988, with Donald Puchala); and Global Issue Regimes (Praeger, 1982).
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Alexandra Courtney
Conflict Specialist and Civil-Military Advisor
US Agency for International Development
DCHA/CMM-OMA, Rm. 6.07-21 RRB
1300 Pennyslvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20523
Phone: 202-712-5181
Email: alcourtney@usaid.gov

Ms. Courtney joined USAID in 2004 as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Office of Democracy and Governance, where she served on the Crisis Response Team. During her career at USAID, she has focused exclusively on addressing development challenges in failing states. She served in Afghanistan where she developed a new operating model between technical offices and the Provincial Reconstruction Teams. She regularly collaborates with senior military officers to identify internal and interagency transformation opportunities to meet the challenges in conflict and post-conflict environments. She is helping to develop coordinated interagency planning approaches for complex operations and conflict transformation. She has also manages USAID’s participations in several military exercises.

Her current portfolio in USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation includes technical assistance on conflict transformation, counter-insurgency, and vicil-military synchronization. She also is an active liaison for the Agency to the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. She has served as a USAID liaison officer to DoD’s Special Operations Low Intensity Conflict, Stability Operations Office, where she assisted with strategy development for a whole of government strategic framework for counterinsurgency.

She was educated at Yale University in sociology and international studies and received her masters in violence, conflict, and development from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has conducted research in East Africa and in the Horn. Alexandra has experience working in the United Nation’s diplomatic community as a policy associate for the United Nations Association.

She hails originally from Arlington, Texas.
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Dr. Donald Fowler
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, 29208
Phone: 803-777-3109
Email: don@fowlercommunications.com

Don Fowler is a native of Spartanburg, South Carolina. He received a BA in psychology from Wofford College and a MA and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in political science.

He began teaching at the University of South Carolina in 1964, where he continues as an adjunct professor of American Politics in the Department of Political Science. He is the Chairman of the Board of Fowler Communication, Inc., and advertising and public relations firm, and of Khare/Fowler Incorporated, a government relations firm.

Don served as Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Part for nine years from 1971-1980, as CEO of the Democratic National Convention held in Atlanta in 1988, and as Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1995 and 1996.

Mr. Fowler served for 30 years in the United States Army as an active duty officer and reservist. He retired in 1987. He is a member of the Washington Street United Methodist Church and a lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

He was married to Septima Twyford Briggs for 40 years prior to her death in 1997. Their two children are Donnie, a business and political executive in California, and Cissy, who has a Ph.D. in anthropology and teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 2005 Mr. Fowler married Carol Khare Fowler.
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Dr. Joe Hagan
Chair, Department of Political Science
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
Phone: 304-293-3811
Email: jhagan@wvu.edu

(Ph.D., Kentucky 1980), Barnette Professor in Political Science and Department Chair. He also serves as the director of the International Studies Program, an interdisciplinary major closely affiliated with the Political Science Department. Dr. Hagan teaches courses in foreign policy and international relations, including a core undergraduate class on the "The Politics of War and Peace” and undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative foreign policy analysis. His research examines the domestic political sources of foreign policy as they relate to war, peace, and change in international politics. He is the author of Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective (Lynne Rienner, 1993), co-editor of Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change (South Carolina, 1994), and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policy (Blackwell Press, 2001). His research has appeared in such journals as Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy, International Organization, International Studies Review, International Interactions, Mershon International Studies Review (ISQ supplement), as well as in several edited volumes on comparative foreign policy analysis. He has received both the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award and the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, the top teaching and research awards at the University. Dr. Hagan was a recipient of a 1993 Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University, and he served as program chair of the 1999 annual conference of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC.
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Dr. Jeffrey Hart
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Phone: 812-855-9002
Email: hartj@indiana.edu

Jeffrey Hart is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught international politics and international political economy since 1981. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973-1980. He was a professional staff member of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980-1981. Hart worked as an internal contractor at the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress 1958-1985 and helped to write their report International Competition in Services (1987). His books include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), Globalization and Governance (1999), Managing New Industry Creation (2001), The Politics of International Economic Relations 6 th edition (2002), Technology, Television, and Competition (2004), and he has published scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
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Dr. Janice Love
Candler School of Theology
Bishops Hall 202
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, 30322
Phone: 404-727-6324
Email: jlove3@emory.edu

Jan Love began her tenure as the ninth dean of the Candler School of Theology on January 1, 2007.

Most recently, Dean Love has been the chief executive officer of the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church, the administrative arm of the approximately one-million member United Methodist Women, which has a staff of 70, annual expenditures of about $30 million, and programs and property in more than 100 locations in the United States and 60 countries around the world. She was previously on the faculty at the University of South Carolina in the departments of Religious Studies and Political Science, where she directed the International Studies MA and PhD programs, as well as numerous doctoral dissertations and masters and Honors College theses.

Dean Love served as a representative of The United Methodist Church to the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1975-2006. She served on the WCC board of directors for over two decades and led the WCC delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. In 2000 during the church's General Conference, she was recognized by the United Methodist Council of Bishops for "Exceptional Leadership in Ecumenical Arenas."

A graduate of Eckerd College (B.A.) and Ohio State University (M.A., Ph.D.), her teaching interests include world Christianity, religion and world politics, conflict transformation, and international relations. She is the author of two books on international relations, Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements (Westview Press, 2005) and The U.S. Anti-Apartheid Movement: Local Activism in Global Politics (Praeger Publishers, 1985), and scores of articles and book chapters.
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Dr. Ethan Nadelmann
Drug Policy Alliance
70 West 36th Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-613-8061
Email: enadelmann@drugpolicy.org

Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Nadelmann was born in New York City and received his BA, JD, and PhD from Harvard, and a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. He then taught politics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1987 to 1994, where his speaking and writings on drug policy—in publications ranging from Science and Foreign Affairs to American Heritage and National Review—attracted international attention. He also authored the book, Cops Across Borders, the first scholarly study of the internationalization of U.S. criminal law enforcement. A new book, co-authored with Peter Andreas and entitled Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. In 1994, Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy institute created with the philanthropic support of George Soros. In 2000, the growing Center merged with another organization to form the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. Described by Rolling Stone as "“the point man”" for drug policy reform efforts, Ethan Nadelmann is widely regarded as the most prominent proponent of drug policy reform.
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Dr. Kenneth Perkins
Department Of History
University Of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803-777-2355
Email: kp@sc.edu

Kenneth Perkins received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he has served on the faculty since 1974 and teaches courses on Islamic civilization, the history of North Africa and the Middle East in the Islamic Era, and U.S. relations with the Middle East. A Frequent traveler to the Middle East and North Africa, Dr. Perkins has conducted scholarly research in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, the United Kingdom and Sudan. He is the author of Qaids, Captains, and Colons: French Military Administration in the Colonial Maghrib, 1844-1934; Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City; Tunisia: Crossroads of the Islamic and European Worlds; and A History of Modern Tunisia, as well as numerous articles, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia and other reference entries. He is currently working on a book examining the social, economic, and political impact of Western travelers in North Africa from 1870 to 1939.
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Dr. Donald Puchala
Graduate Director, Richard L. Walker Institute
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803-777-8180
Email: puchala@sc.edu Dr. Donald Puchala is a student of International Relations Theory, particularly as it addresses problems of international cooperation, organization and integration. He is also a specialist on Western European international relations and the politics and economics of the Common Market. Prior to his appointment at the University of South Carolina, Puchala taught at Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo and at Columbia University, where he also served as Associate Dean of the Columbia School of International Affairs. He has been a consultant to the State Department, the Foreign Service Institute, the United States Department of Commerce, the United Nations and various academic institutions and foundations.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System.

Puchala has executed numerous research projects in Western Europe and elsewhere under grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, the German Marshall Fund and the United States Department of Education. Among his publications are: Western European Perspectives on International Affairs, International Politics Today, Global Food Interdependence, Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities, and The Challenge of Relevance: The United Nations in a Changing World Environment.
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Dr. Sudha Ratan
Chair, Department of Political Science
Augusta State University
Augusta, GA 30904
Phone: 706-737-1710
Email: sratan@aug.edu

Dr. Ratan received her B.A in History from Stella Maris College in Madras, India, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Madras, and completed her Ph.D in International Studies from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C in 1993.

She has served at Georgia Southern University as Assistant Professor of Political Science (1990-1995), Associate Professor of Political Science (1996-2002), and Acting Chair of the Department of Political Science (1999-2001). She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Augusta State University.

Dr. Ratan teaches in the area of International Relations and Comparative Politics. At Augusta State University she teaches courses in World Politics, International Relations, and Comparative Politics. Her research interests are in the area of ethnic identity, nationalism, and the impact of these on women and she has published several articles in these areas. She is a native of India and has a special interest in studying political participation by women in the Indian subcontinent. Dr. Ratan most recent scholarly contribution examines the challenges faced by Muslim women politicians in the subcontinent as they organize and mobilize within radicalized Islamic environments.
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Dr. Greg Raymond
Director, Honors College
Frank Church Professor of International Relations
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725
http://www.boisestate.edu/honors
Email: graymon@boisestate.edu
Phone: 208-426-3607

Dr. Gregory A. Raymond is the Frank Church Professor of International Relations at Boise State University. He received his Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of South Carolina, and was a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs at Harvard University. Dr. Raymond has published 13 books on foreign policy and world politics. His most recent are After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium (Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics (Wadsworth, 2007), both co-authored with Charles W. Kegley, Jr. Selected as the Idaho Professor of the Year in 1994 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, he has lectured on international issues at universities and research institutes in 22 different countries. His areas of teaching and research expertise are American foreign policy, international security, international ethics, and theories of international relations.
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Dr. Shelley Rigger
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28035-7018
Phone: 704-894-2505
Email: shrigger@davidson.edu

Dr. Jerel Rosati
Ph.D., International Relations, American University (1982)
Email: rosati@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-2981
http://www.cla.sc.edu/POLI/faculty/rosati/index.htm (website)
http://www.cla.sc.edu/POLI/faculty/rosati/tothepoint.htm (To The Point --Rosati's Political Newsletter)
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M2b&product_isbn_issn=0155058843&discipline_number
=20&subject_code=PO08 (for third edition of newly revised textbook)

Ph.D., International Relations, American University (1982) Jerel Rosati is a Professor of political science and international studies and has been at the University of South Carolina since 1982. His area of specialization is the theory and practice of foreign policy, focusing on the United States policymaking process, decision-making theory, and the political psychological study of human cognition. He received his B.A. in political science at U.C.L.A.; his M.A. in political science at Arizona State University; and his Ph.D. in international relations at American University in Washington, D.C. He has been a Research Associate in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service, Visiting Professor at Somalia National University, and Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China. He has served as President of the International Studies Association's Foreign Policy Analysis Section and President of the Southern region of the International Studies Association. He is the author and editor of five books and over forty articles and chapters. His articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as International Journal, International Studies Review, Journal of Political & Military Sociology, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and World Politics, as well as The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Policy. His books include The Carter Administration's Quest for Global Community: Beliefs and Their Impact on Behavior, The Power of Human Needs in World Society, Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, Readings in the Politics of United States Foreign Policy, and The Politics of United States Foreign Policy (which is in its 3rd edition, used in over 300 colleges and universities throughout the U.S.–including the National War College, over 12 countries throughout the world, and has been translated into Mandarin Chinese).

His intellectual and teaching interests range from American politics and history, United States foreign policy, the Vietnam War and the sixties to the dynamics of world politics and global change, the nature of human interaction, and political psychology. He has been awarded the Outstanding Professor of the Year in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the South Carolina (Honors) College, the Outstanding Teacher in International Studies in the Department of Government & International Studies, Excellence in Teaching by the University of South Carolina Alpha Chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society, Outstanding Teacher in Political Science by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha (The National Political Science Honor Society), and has taught a course on pedagogy for Ph.D.'s in political science and international studies. He has also been awarded, and participated in, a number of instructional grants at the state and federal level (usually through the U.S. Department of State) as Academic Director, Field Director, and/or Project Director where he has taught students and scholars from all over the world, including Bulgarians, Chinese, Israelis and Palestinians, Somalis, Master’s of International Business students, and high school teachers. In 2002 he was the Program Director and Academic Director of a U.S. Department of State Fulbright American Studies Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy for 18 scholars-practitioners from all over the world, which has been renewed the subsequent two years (which was renewed in 2003 & 2004).

He has mentored numerous undergraduate and, in particular, graduate students who have gone on to excel in a variety of professional careers and throughout academia.
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Dr. Debra Sabia
Department of Political Science
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: 912-681-5725
Email: dsabia@georgiasouthern.edu

Debra Sabia received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and is a professor of Political Science at Georgia Southern University. She teaches courses on Latin American politics, Mexican cullture and politics, global development, and U. S. foreign policy. Her research interests have taken her to Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. She has published a variety of articles, book chapters, reviews, and is the author of Contradiction and Conflict: the Popular Church in Nicaragua.

Dr. Sabia has been the recipient of numerous teaching and distinguished service awards. She is the founder and former director of the Center for Latino Outreach and Research Services at Georgia Southern University. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar to Mexico. She has spent the last ten years developing international study opportunities for the University System of Georgia and most recently received a $1 million grant to develop a North American Studies program.
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Dr. Tammy Schultz
Center for a New American Security
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 403
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: 202-457-9415
Email: tschultz@cnas.org

Dr. Tammy Schultz is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Prior to joining CNAS, she served as a Research Fellow and (Acting) Director of Research and Policy at the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI). Dr. Schultz also conducts simulations at the State Department for Foreign Service Officers for the course, “Composure Under Fire,” which trains diplomats to field difficult questions, and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. Dr. Schultz studied at Regis University, where she won the National Parliamentary Debating Championship, and graduated summa cum laude in 1995. She then attended Victoria University in New Zealand on a Rotary Fellowship, receiving a M.A. degree with distinction in 1999. While attending Victoria University, Dr. Schultz worked in the U.S. Embassy’s political division in Wellington. Her thesis focused on the new terrorist threat that included al-Qaeda, which she continued to study while at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University as an Olin Foundation and Philip Merrill Fellow. Dr. Schultz was a Brookings Institution Research Fellow from 2003-2004, and received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 2005.

Dr. Peter Singer
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-797-6052
Email: author@pwsinger.com

Peter Warren Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. In 2005, CNN named him to their “New Guard” List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers.Dr. Singer is considered one of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He has written for the full range of major media and journals, including the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Current History, Survival, International Security, Parameters, Weltpolitik, and the World Policy Journal. He has been quoted in every major U.S. newspaper and news magazine and delivered talks at venues ranging from the U.S. Congress to over 35 universities around the world. He has provided commentary on military affairs for nearly every major TV and radio outlet, including ABC-Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, FOX, NPR, and the NBC Today Show. He is also a founder and organizer of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the US and the Muslim world (www.us-islamicworldforum.org).His first book Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2003) was the first to explore the new industry of private companies providing military services for hire, an issue that soon became important with the use and abuse of these companies in Iraq. The book, originally planed for a 500 copy print run, has sold over 35,000 copies, gone through 3 print runs and a paperback version, as well as being translated into Japanese, Korean, Urdu, and Italian. It was named best book of the year by the American Political Science Association, among the top five international affairs books of the year by the Gelber Prize, and a “top ten summer read” by Businessweek. It is now in the assigned texts at venues ranging from Yale Law School to the Army War College. Singer continues to serve as a resource on the private military issue to the U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, CIA, and European Union and he helped bring to light the role of private contractors in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the Halliburton contract controversies in Iraq. Singer’s work was featured in the History Channel documentary “Soldiers for Hire” and he served as a consultant on the topic for the TV drama “The West Wing.”Dr. Singer’s most recent book, Children at War (Pantheon, 2005), explored the rise of another new force in modern warfare, child soldier groups. Dr. Singer’s “fascinating” (New York Post) and “landmark” (Newsweek) work was the first book to comprehensively explore the compelling and tragic rise of child soldier groups and was recognized by the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book of the Year Award. His commentary on the issue was featured in a variety of venues ranging from NPR and Fox News to Defense News and People magazine. Dr. Singer has served as a consultant on the issue to the U.S. Marine Corps and Congress, and the recommendations in his book resulted in recent changes in the UN peacekeeping training program. An accompanying A&E/History Channel documentary of the same title is presently being filmed. Dr. Singer’s next research project will look at the implications of robotics and other new technologies for war in the 21st century.Prior to his current position, Dr. Singer was founding Director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World at the Saban Center at Brookings. He has also worked for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Balkans Task Force in the U.S. Department of Defense, the International Peace Academy, and was a policy task force coordinator for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Singer received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and previously attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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Dr. Gordon B. Smith
Ph.D. in Political Science, Indiana University (1976)
M.A. in Political Science, Indiana University (1974)
B.A. in Journalism and International Relations, Iowa State University (1971)
Phone: 803-777-8180
Email: smithg@sc.edu

Gordon B. Smith is Director of the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of nine books and more than 30 articles and book chapters on Russian politics and law, international legal cooperation in criminal prosecution, and technology transfer. His latest work, State-Building in Russia: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Challenge of the Future, was published in 1999 by M. E. Sharpe.

Professor Smith is currently working on a project on Russian responses to terrorist acts both domestically and internationally. He frequently travels to the former Soviet Union, conducting research and lecturing to Smithsonian groups. Dr. Smith has been a fellow of the Harvard University Russian Research Center , the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Smithsonian Institution, and a visiting scholar at prestigious Russian Studies centers in England and Japan.
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