Steering Committee
 Steering Committee Chair
T. J. Pempel
UC Berkeley
T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined Berkeley's Political Science Department in July 2001 and became director of the Institute of East Asian Studies in January 2002. He holds the Il Han New Chair in Asian Studies. Just prior to coming to Berkeley, he was at the University of Washington at Seattle where he was the Boeing Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and an adjunct professor in political science. From 1972 to 1991, he was on the faculty at Cornell University; he was also director of Cornell's East Asia Program. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Colorado and the University of Wisconsin.
Pempel's research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, and Asian regionalism. His recent books include Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell), Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Oxford), The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, and Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes (all from Cornell), and The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Catalysts of Development, a jointly edited book sponsored by the World Bank (Oxford). Earlier books include Policymaking in Contemporary Japan (Cornell), Trading Technology: Europe and Japan in the Middle East (Praeger), and Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism (Temple). In addition, he has published more than eighty articles and chapters in books.
Pempel is chair of the Working Group on Northeast Asian Security of CSCAP, is on the editorial boards of several professional journals, and serves on various committees of the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Social Science Research Council. He is currently doing research on various problems associated with Asian regionalism.
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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?
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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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Committee Member
Martin Shapiro
UC Berkeley
Background: Martin Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at Boalt Hall. He has taught in the political science departments at Harvard and Stanford Universities and at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1977 and has been a visiting professor at Amherst University, Yale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Universita degli Studi di Milano, and the Summer Institute of the European Group for Public Law in Greece.
Shapiro is the author of Law and Politics in the Supreme Court; Freedom of Speech: The Supreme Court and Judicial Review; Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies; Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis; and Who Guards the Guardians: Judicial Control of Administration. His recent publications include "The Politics of Information: U.S. Congress and the European Parliament" in Lawmaking in the European Union (1998) and "Judicial Review, Democracy and the European Court of Justice" in the Israel Law Review (1998).
In 2003 Shapiro received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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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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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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Amy Zegart
UCLA
Background: Amy Zegart is an associate professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses in U.S. foreign policy and public management. Zegart's research focuses on the design problems of U.S. national security agencies. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, where she studied under Condoleezza Rice. Her first book, Flawed By Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC (Stanford University Press, 1999), won the highest national dissertation award in political science and has become standard reading for several U.S. military and intelligence training programs. More recently, she has written about adaptation failures in the CIA and FBI, the role of presidential commissions, organizational problems in nonproliferation policy, and port security. She is currently finishing a book about why U.S. intelligence agencies adapted poorly to the rise of terrorism after the Cold War.
Zegart has served as a national security analyst for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and National Public Radio. A former Fulbright Scholar, she received a B.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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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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 Ian Whitmarsh
UC San Francisco
Background: Ian Whitmarsh is an assistant professor of anthropology at UC San Francisco. He was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Genome Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Whitmarsh’s research explores tensions in the uses of biomedical categories linking race and disease among researchers, medical practitioners, government officials, and patients. He has conducted ethnographic research following a US-based asthma genetics study conducted in Barbados, exploring how the study is creating new regimes of care, state interventions, and unexpected biomedical diagnostics. His current research is in the Caribbean and the United States on the emerging biomedical category of the metabolic syndrome, a diagnostic that links obesity, abnormal cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension as risk factors for heart disease. These projects examine the ways vernaculars of ethnicity, gender, and illness influence and are reshaped by the expansion of bioscience into new health conditions and across national borders. He is the author of Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean.
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Gary 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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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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