Participant Biographies :
Badredine Arfi, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 UNITED STATES
Tel 1 618-453-3171:
E-mail: barfi@siu.edu <mailto:barfi@siu.edu>
His research interests include international relations, international security, politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Islamic politics, game theory, mathematical modeling and fuzzy logic methods to study politics. He is the author of International Change and the Stability of Multi-ethnic States (Indiana University Press, 2004). His other research has appeared in the journals International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Political Analysis, Democratization, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and in edited volumes.
Gülnur Aybet, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury, Rutherford College, Canterbury Kent CT2 7NX UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: Work: + 44 1227 827473. Mobile: + 44 7787 373555.
E-mail: GulnurAybet@aol.com <mailto:GulnurAybet@aol.com>
Her major publications include: A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy (Macmillan, 2000) and The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation, 1945-1991 (Macmillan, 1997, 2nd Edition, 2001). She is also the author of two monographs: NATO's Developing Role in Collective Security ( SAM, Strategic Research Centre, Turkey) and Turkey's Foreign Policy and Its Implications for the West' ( Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, London) She has also published several journal articles on issues relating to European security. She has given evidence to the House of Commons and Lords Committees on security issues.
Davis B. Bobrow, Professor of Political Science and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 3427 Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 UNITED STATES
Phone: 412 648-7637
E-mail: bobrow@birch.gspia.pitt.edu <mailto:bobrow@birch.gspia.pitt.edu>
His research interests have focused on International security affairs, international political economy, public policy, information and decision-making, East Asia. His recent publications include: "A Changing American World Role?" Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft, 12(1): 83-96, 2002; "Visions of (In)Security and American Strategic Style." International Studies Perspectives, 2:1-12, 2001; "American Views of Asia-Pacific Security: Comprehensive or Military," in James C. Hsiung (ed.), Twenty First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific: Value Change, Exigencies, and Power Realignment. Palgrave, 2001, 257-86; Policy Analysis by Design (co-author), Pittsburgh, 1987 (Dezain shiko-no Seisakubunseki, Showado, 2000); Prospects for International Relations: Conjectures about the Next Millennium (editor and co-author), Blackwell, 1999; "Hegemony Management: The US in the Asia-Pacific," The Pacific Review, 12(2):172-96, 1999.
Amit Das Gupta, Institut für Zeitgeschichte - Edition der Akten zur auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, c/o Auswärtiges Amt, Referat 117 an IfZ-AAPD, 11013 Berlin, GERMANY
Phone.: +49 30 - 5000 - 4398
Fax: +49 30 - 5000 - 3817
Email: 117-ifz-8@auswaertiges-amt.de <mailto:117-ifz-8@auswaertiges-amt.de> and AmitRDasGupta@gmx.de <mailto:AmitRDasGupta@gmx.de>
His research concentrates on the foreign, security and development policy of Germany and on South Asia since the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. His publications include Handel, Hilfe, Hallstein-Doctrine. Die bundesdeutsche Südasienpolitik unter Adenauer und Erhard 1949 bis 1966, (Trade, aid, Hallstein-Doctrin. The South-Asia-Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany under Adenauer and Erhard 1949 to 1966), in the series „Historische Studien“, Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2004, as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Sűdasien. Magazine of the Sűdasienbuero. Internationale Spectator, and elsewhere. He held the position of Senior Researcher at the Germany Institute of the University of Amsterdam
Trine Flockhart, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111 AUSTRALIA
e-mail is t.flockhart@griffith.edu.au <mailto:t.flockhart@griffith.edu.au>
Her research interests include the process of socialization of new norms, where she is currently working on a structural framework for explaining norm change across different cases. Her research interests also include the process of Europeanization both in its current form and historically. She is currently working on an edited volume on Socialising Democratic Norms in the New Europe, and a monograph on the Europeanization of Europe. Her publications include, From Vision to Reality: Implementing Europe's New Security Order, Westview Press, 1998, 'Democracy, Security and the Social Construction of Europe' in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and 'Masters and Novices - Socialization through NATO's Parliamentary Assembly' International Relations, vol 18 (3) (2004), pp. 361-380; and T. Flockhart (ed) Socializing Democratic Norms: The Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe Palgrave, 2005.
Maria Raquel Freire, Assistant Professor, Departamento Relacoes Internacionais, Universidade de Coimbra, PORTUGAL
phone: 00 351 91 9061199
fax: 00 351 22 5487972
E-mail: rfreire@por.ulusiada.pt <mailto:rfreire@por.ulusiada.pt>
Her research focuses on conflict and security issues and the role of international organizations in Europe and the former Soviet space. Publications include, “The Search for Innovative Procedures: The OSCE Approach to Conflicts in the Former Soviet Area”, in Hensel, Howard (ed.), Sovereignty and the Global Community: The Quest for
Order in the International System, 2004; “Poland at the Crossroads: The Impact of Post-Cold War Globalization Processes in the Country’s Post-communist Transition” (with Teresa Gomes), Canadian American Slavic Studies, special issue on “Globalization and Its Impact on International Relations in East and Central Europe” (forthcoming); Conflict and Security in the Former Soviet Union: The Role of the OSCE, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003; “The Multi-Dimensional Approach of the OSCE in Estonia: Assessing the Organization’s Preventive Diplomacy Role”, in Hensel, Howard (ed), The United States and Europe: Policy Imperatives in a Globalizing World, 2002; “Crisis Management: The OSCE in the Republic of Moldova”, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, vol. 2, n. 2, 2002.
Monica Hirst, Executive Direct, Fundación Centro de Estudos Brasileiros (FUNCEB) [Argentina] , Esmeralda 965, Capital Federal, Bs.As, ARGENTINA
Phone: +5411 4313-6448
Fax: +5411 4313-9776
E-mail: mhirst@funceb.org.ar <mailto:mhirst@funceb.org.ar>
She has published extensively on Brazilian foreign policy and on Brazilian-U.S. relations, including Brazil-Estados Unidos na trasicao democratica, as well as on Mercosur and broader security issues in Latin America. She is Professor in the Program in International Relations at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)in Buenos Aires and has been Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University
Lena Jonson, Swedish Institute of International Relations, Lilla Nygatan 23, Box 1253, 111 82 Stockholm SWEDEN
Telephone: +46 (0)8-696 05 17 or 696 05 00
Fax: +46 (0)8-20 10 49
E-mail: lenajonson@ui.se <mailto:lenajonson@ui.se>
She has published extensively on issues related to Central Asian security. Her recent publications include Putin and Central Asia: the Shaping of Russian Foreign Policy, 2004; Religioznyi ekstremizm v Tsentralnoi Azii. Problemy i perspektivy, 2002; Central Asian Security: The New International Context edited with Roy Allison, 2001; Political Islam and Conflicts in Russia and Central Asia. edited with Murad Esenov,1999; Russia in Central Asia: A New Web of Relations, 1998; The Tajik War: A Challenge to Russian Policy, 1998; Peacekeeping and the Role of Russia in Eurasia, with, Clive Archer, 1996, along with numerous articles
Roger E. Kanet, Professor of International Studies, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248123, Coral Gables, FL 33124-2211 UNITED STATES
Tel: +1 305 284-3407
Fax
E-Mail: rkanet@miamil.edu <mailto:rkanet@miamil.edu>
He has edited and contributed to twenty books on security and foreign policy issues including several books coedited with Edward Kolodziej, The Limits of Soviet Power in the Developing World: Thermidor in the Revolutionary Struggle, 1989; The Cold War as Cooperation: Superpower Cooperation in Regional Conflict Management, 1991; Coping with Conflict after the Cold War, 1996; as well as an edited volume entitled Resolving Regional Conflicts, 1998 and more than 150 articles that have appeared in scholarly journals and edited books.
Remonda B. Kleinberg, Associate Professor of International and Comparative Politics/
International Law, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403-5607
Tel: 910-962-4254
E-mail: kleinbergr@uncw.edu <mailto:kleinbergr@uncw.edu>
Her research interests include international trade and security issues, international law and terrorism. She is completing an LLM degree in international law and in addition to several articles, her publications include Economic Liberalization, Democratization, and Civil Society in the Developing World (editor, 2000) and Strategic Alliances and Other Deals: State-Private Sector Relations and Economic Reform in Mexico, 1999.
Edward A. Kolodziej, Research Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 302 E. John Street, Suite 1705, MC-429, Champaign, IL 61820 UNITED STATES
Tel: +1 217 356-1734 (h) and (217) 265-7519 (o)
E-Mail: edkoloj@uiuc.edu <mailto:edkoloj@uiuc.edu>
He has written or edited fourteen books on security and foreign policy including: The Uncommon Defense and Congress: 1945-63 (1966); French International Policy under De Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (1974); and Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System (1987, several books coedited with Roger Kanet, The Limits of Soviet Power in the Developing World: Thermidor in the Revolutionary Struggle, 1989; The Cold War as Cooperation: Superpower Cooperation in Regional Conflict Management, 1991; Coping with Conflict after the Cold War, 1996; and an edited volume entitled A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights, 2003. His most recent publication is Security Studies and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2005, Publication, September 2005), a critique of prevailing schools of security theory.
Carola McGiffert, Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
Tel:+1.202.775-3147
Fax:+1.202.775.3199
E-mail: cmcgiffe@csis.org <mailto:cmcgiffe@csis.org>
She helps manage Asia projects for the CSIS International Security Program, with a focus on Northeast Asian security issues. Prior to joining CSIS, she was the senior policy adviser to the New Democrat Network, where she worked with congressional Democrats in support of Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China and China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ms. McGiffert served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997: in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she worked on the China WTO negotiating team; in the Commerce Department, where she ran the Big Emerging Markets program; and in the White House, where she worked on NAFTA and other initiatives.
Saodat Olimova, Ph.D., Independent Research Centre Sharq 3, ul. Bufanda 7 kv. 9, 734025 Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN
Phone: +372 21 89 95 5
E-Mail: olimov@tajik.net <mailto:olimov@tajik.net>
Dr. Olomova's numerous publications deal with political, social and religious trends and developments in Tajikistan and across Central Asia more broadly.
Raju G. C. Thomas, Professor, Department of Political Science, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1181 UNITED STATES
Phone: +1 414 288-6840/42
E-mail: gcthomas@ameritech.net <mailto:gcthomas@ameritech.net>
He is the Allis Chalmers Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, UCLA, UW-Madison, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He is the author or editor of a dozen books that include Indian Security Policy (Princeton, 1986), South Asian Security in the 1990s (Adelphi Paper Oxford University Press, 1994), Democracy, Security and Development in India (Palgrave, 1996), India's Nuclear Security (Lynne Reiner, 2000), and Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention (Lexington Books, 2004)
