IGCC People

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Steering Committee

Steering Committee Chair
Etel Solingen*
UC Irvine

Background: Etel Solingen is professor of political science and international relations at UC Irvine. She has served as vice-president of the International Studies Association and president of the International Political Economy section of ISA and was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation, a Social Science Research Council-Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, and a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship.

Solingen is the author of Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007), Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton, 1998), Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining (Stanford, 1996), and editor of Scientists and the State (Michigan, 1994). Her articles on international relations theory, political economy, international security, internationalization, nuclear proliferation, comparative regionalism, institutional theory, democratization, and science and technology appeared in International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Global Governance, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Review of International Studies, Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, International History Review, Peace and Change, Contemporary Security Policy, and International Politics, among others. Professor Solingen's research has focused mostly on the Middle East, East Asia, Latin America, and the Euro-Mediterranean region, and has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace, the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, Japan Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Columbia Foundation, among others.

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Steering Committee Member
Joseph Pilat
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Background: Joseph Pilat is a senior advisor in the National Security Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing particular expertise in national security policy, nonproliferation, and threat reduction. He was a special advisor to the DOE’s representative at the Third Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Fourth NPT Review Conference and as an adviser to the U.S. Delegation at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. Pilat also served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Open Skies negotiations. He has been special assistant to the Principal Director and assistant for nonproliferation policy in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy, a senior research associate in the Congressional Research Service, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

Pilat has taught at Cornell University, Georgetown University, and the College of William and Mary, and has been a senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, a visiting fellow at Cornell’s Peace Studies Program, and a Philip E. Mosely Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has lectured widely at leading institutions and has written numerous articles and opinion pieces for U.S. and European scholarly journals and newspapers. He is the author or editor of many books, including the forthcoming Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty Years?

Steering Committee Member
Neil Joeck*
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Background: Neil Joeck is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a research associate of the Center for South Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He served in 2004–2005 as director for counterproliferation strategy at the National Security Council. Dr. Joeck was primarily responsible for India and Pakistan proliferation issues, but also worked on the Bush–Putin Bratislava summit, the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, and Department of Homeland Security and multilateral regime (CWC, BWC, MTCR) issues. From 2001–2003, he was a member of the policy planning staff at the Department of State, where he was responsible for the India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and nuclear proliferation portfolios. He received the Meritorious Honor Award, and the policy planning staff Superior Honor Award, for work on Afghanistan following September 11.

Joeck worked on India and Pakistan as a political analyst and group leader in Z Division at LLNL from 1987–2001. During that time, he took a leave to become a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London in 1996–1997. He served in 1999 as consultant to the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and worked for the RAND Corporation under contract with the Department of Defense Office of Net Assessments in 2000.

Joeck received a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from UCLA (1986), an M.A. from the Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Canada (1976), and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz (1973). In addition to classified reports for the U.S. government, his publications include Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia, Adelphi Paper #312 (Oxford, 1997) and two edited books: Arms Control and International Security (with Roman Kolkowicz, Westview Press, 1984) and Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (Frank Cass, 1986). He has contributed articles to Comparative Strategy, Journal of Strategic Studies,International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Energy and Technology Review and various chapters to edited books.

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Steering Committee Member
Howard A. Shelanski
UC Berkeley

Background: Howard A. Shelanski is professor of law at Boalt Hall, associate dean of the J.D. program there, and director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Shelanski received his J.D. from Boalt Hall in 1992 and his doctorate in economics from UC Berkeley in 1993. After graduating from Boalt, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Judge Louis Pollak of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Boalt faculty he practiced law with the Washington, D.C., firm Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans. Shelanski has twice taken leave from teaching to work in government. In 1999–2000 he served as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission and in 1998–1999 as a senior economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Shelanski's research focuses on antitrust, regulation, and telecommunications law. His recent projects include “Merger Policy and Innovation: Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?” with Michael Katz (NBER, 2004); Merger Remedies in American and European Union Competition Law, with Francois Leveque (eds.) (Elgar, 2003); “From Sector Specific Regulation to Antitrust Law for U.S. Telecommunications: The Prospects for Transition,” Telecom. Policy 335 (2002); “Antitrust Divestiture in Network Industries,” with Greg Sidak, University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2001); and “Competition and Deployment of New Technology in U.S. Telecommunications,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 85 (2000). He is also co-author of the casebook Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2001).

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Steering Committee Member
Larry Berman
UC Davis

Background: Larry Berman is professor of political science at UC Davis and interim director of the UC Davis Washington Program, dividing his time between Washington and Davis.

Berman is author of Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter, and Vietnamese Communist Agent (Smithsonian Books, 2007). He made more than fifteen trips to Vietnam for interviews with An and his espionage network. He is also the author of No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam (Free Press, 2001), Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam (W. W. Norton, 1989) and Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam (W. W. Norton, 1982). A Vietnamese language edition of No Peace, No Honor (Khong Hoa Binh, Chang Danh Du: Nixon, Kissinger, va Su phan boi tai Viet Nam) is available from Viet Tide, Westminster, California. Berman is also co-author of Approaching Democracy (Prentice Hall, 2007), an introductory American government textbook now in its 5th edition.

Berman has been featured on C-Span’s Book TV, the History Channel’s Secrets of War, Bill Moyers' The Public Mind, David McCullough’s American Experience, and “Vietnam: A Television History.” He received the Bernath Lecture Prize, given annually by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations to a scholar whose work has most contributed to our understanding of foreign relations. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He received the Outstanding Mentor of Women in Political Science Award from the Women's Caucus for Political Science. He is a co-recipient of the Richard E. Neustadt Award, given annually for the best book published during the year in the field of the American presidency. He has been a fellow-in-residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Center in Bellagio, Italy. He was founding director of the University of California Washington Center, 1999–2005.

In May 2005 Berman filed suit against the CIA, seeking access to the president's daily briefs during Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He is represented by Thomas R. Burke and Duffy Carolan of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and by Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of the National Security Archive. The case is currently on appeal in the ninth circuit. To find more about this appeal, please go to http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/pdbnews/index.htm and http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1110449111629

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Steering Committee Member
Deborah D. Avant*
UC Irvine

Background: Deborah Avant is professor of political science and director of international studies at UC Irvine. Her research (funded by the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Olin Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation, among others) has focused on civil-military relations, military change, and the politics of controlling violence.  Her recent work on the privatization of security has appeared in The Market for Force: the Consequences of Privatizing Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) as well as articles in academic and popular journals such as Perspective on Politics, Review of International Studies, Foreign Policy, and International Studies Perspectives.  She is also the author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons From Peripheral Wars (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994) along with other articles on military change in such journals as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and Armed Forces and Society.  Her current research focuses on how the U.S. government’s use of private security has affected democratic processes in the United States, how private actors conceptualize and implement security in weak states and the way different non- state actors govern on the global stage.

Prof. Avant chairs the International Security Studies Section of the ISA, is an active member of the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS), and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the American Political Science Review and Security Studies.

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Barry O'Neill
UCLA

Background: Barry O'Neill is a professor of political science at UCLA, where he studies decision-making in social and political contexts. His work applies game theory to study foreign policy decisions, with a view to preventing war. He is currently studying the governance of international organizations, and examining the role of national prestige as a motive for countries seeking weapons of mass destruction. O'Neill is the author of Honor, Symbols, and War (Michigan, 1999), which won the 2000 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published on government, politics, or international affairs. He is also working on the foundations of game theory, seeking extensions that will allow wider applications in political settings.

O'Neill is currently preparing a manuscript on longstanding myths about public policy. Recently, he has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has taught courses on game theory and negotiation at Stanford's Political Science department, Yale University, York University in Toronto, Northwestern University's Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department, and in the Psychology Department of Queens University, Kingston. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical psychology from the University of Michigan.

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Thomas Hansford
UC Merced

Background: Tom Hansford is an assistant professor of political science in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at UC Merced. His primary research interests are in American judicial politics. Within this area of specialization, his work focuses on three topics: the involvement of organized interests in the courts, the degree to which the other branches of government constrain or shape judicial policy outcomes, and the development and evolution of legal doctrine at the Supreme Court. He also has a secondary interest in campaigns, elections, and voting behavior.

Hansford coauthored The Politics of Precedent at the U.S. Supreme Court (Princeton University Press) and has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Journal of Politics, Law & Society Review, and Political Research Quarterly.

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Juliann Emmons Allison*
UC Riverside

Background: Juliann Emmons Allison is co-director of the Program on Global Studies at UC Riverside. She is assistant professor in Political Science at UC Riverside, where she directs the department’s Honors Program and teaches international relations theory, political economy, and environmental politics and law. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 1995. Her central research projects employ a range of methods to describe and explain the process and outcomes of international negotiations, particularly those devoted to resolving disputes over the natural environment, the role of domestic political processes in shaping international cooperative arrangements, and women's contributions to the world's political economy.

Allison’s most recent work has appeared in Energy Policy, The Journal of Peace and Change, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, edited by Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos. She is currently a fellow at UC Riverside’s Center for Ideas and Society.

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Philip G. Roeder
UC San Diego

Background: Philip G. Roeder is a professor of political science at UC San Diego. Roeder’s research focuses on nationalism and on authoritarian politics with special attention to the Soviet successor states. He is the author of Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism, Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics, and Soviet Political Dynamics. He is also the co-author of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy and co-editor of Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars. His articles have appeared in such journals as American Political Science Review, World Politics, and International Security Quarterly. He is currently conducting research on 1) the design of political institutions to avoid or resolve wars of national liberation; and 2)] American foreign policy interests in the Soviet successor states of Central Eurasia. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University.

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Thomas E. Novotny
UC San Francisco

Background: Thomas E. Novotny, M.D., M.P.H., is director of international programs in the Office of Medical Education and professor in residence in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member of the Institute for Global Health, an organized research unit of UCSF. In these positions, he is responsible for developing academic linkages, student educational experiences, and research opportunities for faculty and students. He is part of a multi-school effort to develop a Ph.D. and Master's program in global health sciences, and he heads an area of concentration in global health for medical students, emphasizing curriculum and experiential learning. He conducts research and training programs on tobacco control, health policy, HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, Preventive Medicine, and Designing Clinical Research. He is also active as a public health consultant for the World Bank in former Eastern bloc countries (Latvia, Serbia, Albania, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia), providing input on HIV/AIDS policy, public health systems, and chronic disease control. He has published more than 100 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters on public health and epidemiology.

Dr. Novotny is board-certified in both family practice and preventive medicine. He holds an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health. He served as a family physician in Guerneville, California, as an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as assistant dean at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and as CDC liaison to the World Bank. Until retiring from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2002, he served as deputy assistant secretary for International and Refugee Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and assistant surgeon general. In 2002 he was awarded the USPH Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal.

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Gary D. Libecap
UC Santa Barbara

Background: Gary D. Libecap is Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. from the University of Montana. He previously taught economics and law at the University of Arizona. He has authored or co-authored five books, edits the series Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth; and has written more than 50 journal articles on property rights, natural resources, environmental and other issues. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Seagrant. He primarily is interested in property rights institutions—how they emerge, when they emerge, their structure, and how they affect resource use. He currently is working on issues of water rights and allocation; fishery ITQ allocation; and the efficiency advantages of the rectangular survey of property boundaries as compared to use of metes and bounds.

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ON SABBATICAL 2007–08

Steering Committee Member
Charles Kolstad
UC Santa Barbara

Background: Charles Kolstad is an environmental economist, jointly appointed in the Bren School and the Economics Department at UC Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1982, his M.A. from Rochester, and his B.S. from Bates College. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois, MIT, Stanford, and the New Economic School (Moscow) and served for two years in the Peace Corps in Ghana.

Kolstad’s research interests are broadly in environmental and natural resource economics. He is interested how information and learning influence the timing, strength, and effectiveness of environmental regulation. Much of his applied work is in the area of climate change and energy markets. He is a co-editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and a former president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). He is the author of over 100 publications, including his undergraduate text, Environmental Economics, which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese.

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Nancy Chen
UC Santa Cruz

Background: Nancy Chen is an associate professor of anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. As a medical anthropologist, she focuses on healing practices and health institutions. Her early ethnographic project compared how psychiatry and mental health became national agendas for social integration in Asia while, simultaneously, alternative forms of healing resurged. She has conducted fieldwork primarily in mainland China, with comparative research in the United States. Her interests include the study of healing narratives, chronic and infectious diseases, traditional medical knowledge, and intersections between the body politic, gender, ethnicity, and medicine.

Chen’s recent research examines the role of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industries in Asian societies. She regularly teaches on the anthropology of food and focuses on changing meanings of food and medicine. In addition, Chen is committed to the practice and study of visual anthropology. This includes using ethnographic film history and visual theory to contextualize cultural representations, master narratives and portrayals of identity in addition to promoting ethnographic media production.

Chen received her B.A. from Stanford University and her M.A.and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.She is the author of Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry and Healing in China (Columbia University Press, 2003) and coeditor (with Constance Clark, Suzanne Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffery) of China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture (Duke University Press, 2001).

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