2004 PPBT Summer Seminar
Syllabus
Required
Reading
Please read the following prior to your arrival.
Brower, Jennifer, and Peter
Chalk. 2003. The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases:
Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy (Santa Monica,
Calif.: RAND).
Garrett, Laurie. 2000. Betrayal of
Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. (New York: Hyperion), ch.
5–6.
Miller, Judith, William Broad, and Stephen Engelberg. 2001. Germs: Biological
Weapons and America's Secret War. (New York: Simon and Schuster). Available
for purchase at http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0684871580.
Smolinski, Mark S., Margaret A. Hamburg, and Joshua Lederberg, eds. 2003. Microbial
Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response (Washington,
D.C.: National Academies Press). Available at http://books.nap.edu/books/030908864X/html/.
Accessed 16 October 2004.
Optional Background Reading
Alibek, Ken, and Stephen Handelman.
2000. Biohazard: The Chilling True
Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World: Told
from
Inside
by
the Man
Who Ran It (New York: Delta).
Garrett, Lori. 1995. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a
World Out of Balance (New York: Penguin).
Lederberg, Joshua, ed. 1999. Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat.
BCSIA Studies in International Security. (Cambrige, Mass.: MIT Press).
Preston,
Richard. 2002. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (New
York: Ramdom House).
Week One
July 19
PPNT JOINT SESSION: Problem Overview and Current Responses
Peter Cowhey
Sam Bozzette
July 20
Bio Science II
Host Response
Microbial Pathogenesis and health response session
Pharmacology
Palmer Taylor
Bardin, P.G., S. F. van Eeden, J.A. Moolman, A. P. Foden, and J. R.
Joubert. 1994. "Organophosphate
and Carbamate Poisoning." Arch. Intern. Med. 154:1433–41. Link
to online abstract.
Giacobini, E., ed. 2000. Cholinesterases and Cholinesterase Inhibitors (London:
Martin Dublitz).
Nozaki, H., and N. Aikawa. 1995. "Sarin Poisoning in the
Tokyo Subway." Lancet 346:1446–47.
Taylor, P. 2001. "Acetylcholinesterase Agents." In Goodman
and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 10th ed, Joel
G. Hardman and Lee E. Limbird,
Eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill), 175–91.
PPNT JOINT SESSION: International Regime Design
Lawrence Scheinman
Steven Weber
Du Preez, Jean. 2002. "The Impact of the Nuclear Posture Review on
the Nonproliferation Regime." The Nonproliferation Review 9
(fall/winter):67–81. Available at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol09/93toc.htm.
Accessed 16 September 2004.
Goldblat, Jozef. 1997. "Nuclear Weapon Free Zones: A History
and Assessment." The Nonproliferation Review 5 (spring/summer):18–32.
Download available at http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol04/43toc.htm. Accessed
16 September 2004.
Haggard, Stephan, and Beth A. Simmons. 1987. "Theories of International
Regimes." International
Organization 41, 3 (summer):491–517.
Available on JSTOR.
Miller, Marvin, and Lawrence Scheinman, 2003. "Israel,
India, and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Nonproliferation
Regime." Arms Control Today (December):15–20. Accessed
16 September 2004.
Rauf, Tariq. 2000. "Viewpoint: The 2000 NPT Review Conference." The Nonproliferation
Review 7 (spring): 146–61. Download availalable at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol07/71toc.htm.
Accessed 16 September 2004.
Rauf, Tariq, and Rebecca Johnson. 1995. "After the NPT's Indefinite Extension:
The Future of the Global Non-Proliferation Regime." The Nonproliferation
Review 3 (fall):28–42. Available at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol03/31toc.htm.
Accessed 16 September 2004.
Sagan, Scott. 1996. "Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models
in Search of a Bomb." International Security 21, 3 (winter):54–86. Available on JSTOR.
Scheinman, Lawrence. 2001.
"Transcending Sovereignty in the Management
and Control of Nuclear Material." IAEA Bulletin 43 (4):33–38.
Accessed 16 September 2004.
Scheinman, Lawrence. 2003. "Reflections
on Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Regime." Unpublished ms.,
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, Calif.
Squassoni, Sharon. 2004. "Closing
Pandora's Box: Pakistan's Role in Nuclear Proliferation." Arms
Control Today (April). Accessed 16 September 2004.
Weiss, Leonard. 2004. "Pakistan:
It's Deja Vu all over Again." Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists 60 (May-June):52–59. Accessed 16 September
2004.
The White House. 2004. Remarks by President George W. Bush on Weapons of Mass
Destruction Proliferation, Fort Lesley J. McNair, National Defense University,
Washington, D.C., 11 February. Text of the speech is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040211-4.html. Accessed
16 September 2004.
July 21
PPNT JOINT SESSION: Bio Science III: Weaponization of Biological Agents
Dean Wilkening
Michael May
PPNT JOINT SESSION: WMD and Terrorism: Defining the Threats
Dean Wilkening
Michael May
July 22
PPNT JOINT SESSION: The Technical Challenges of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
Weapons Verification (NBC)
Cyndi Wells
Bill Priedhorsky
Margaret Kosal
Center for Nonproliferation Studies. 2001. "Chronology of State Use
and Biological and Chemical Weapons Control." October. Available at
http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/pastuse.htm. Accessed
13 July 2004.
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW). "Convention
of the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use
of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction." Available
at http://www.opcw.org/docs/cwc_eng.pdf
or
through the OCPW website.
Please pay particular attention to the sections "Inspections" and "Verification" associated
with the links under
the "Organization at a glance" section of the website. Accessed
6 October 2004.
Kosal, M. E. 2004. "The Basics of Chemical and Biological Weapons Detectors." November
24. Available at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/031124.htm.
Accessed 19 July 2004.
Maerli, Morten Bremer, and Roger Johnston. 2002. "Safeguarding This
and Verifying That: Fuzzy Concepts, Confusing Terminology, and Their Detrimental
Effects on Nuclear Husbandry." The Nonproliferation Review 9,
1 (spring):54–82.
Available at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol09/91/91maerli.pdf.
Accessed 19 July 2004.
Pollack, Kenneth M. 2004. "Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong." The
Atlantic Monthly (January/February). Available at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/pollack.htm.
Accessed 13 July 2004.
Woodward, Angela. "Time to Lay Down the Law: National Laws to Enforce
the BWC." A VERTIC special publication. Available online at http://www.vertic.org/assets/Time%20to%20lay%20down%20the%20law%20-%20final%20report.PDF.
Accessed 19 July 2004.
Library Sciences (Session takes place in Geisel Library)
Roberta Shanman
Sue McGuinness
Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
Mark Smolinski
Committee on
Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application
of Biotechnology. National
Research
Council. 2004. Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
(Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press). Available
at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089778/html/.
Accessed 13 July 2004.
Jackson, Ronald J., Alistair J. Ramsay, Carina D. Christensen,
Sandra Beaton, Diana F. Hall, and Ian A. Ramshaw. 2001. "Expression
of Mouse Interleukin-4 by a Recombinant Ectromelia Virus Suppresses Cytolytic
Lymphocyte Responses and Overcomes Genetic Resistance
to Mousepox." Journal of Virology 75 (3):1205–10.
Rolph, Michael S., and Ian A. Ramshaw. 2003. "Interleukin-4-Mediated
Downregulation of Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Activity Is Associated with Reduced
Proliferation
of Antigen-specific CD8+ T Cells." Microbes and Infection 5:923–32.
July 23
Smolinski, Mark S., Margaret A. Hamburg, and Joshua Lederberg,
eds. 2003. Microbial
Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response (Washington, D.C.:
National Academies Press), 1–18. Available at http://books.nap.edu/books/030908864X/html/index.html.
Accessed 6 October 2004.
Surveillance (Early Level/Environmental, Syndromic Surveilance, Early Reporting)
Frank Garland
Michael Heller
Centers for Disease Control. 1999. "Proceedings of the First National
Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism." Emerging
Infectious Diseases 5, 4 (July-August):491–564. Available
online at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no4/contents.htm.
Accessed 6 October 2004.
Week Two
July 26
Easterbrook, Gregg. 2004. "In an Age of Terror, Safety Is Relative." New
York Times (late edition, East Coast), 27 June,
4.1
Gramlich, Edward. 1981. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Government Programs.
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall),
ch. 4, 5 (53–61, 68–71,75–78), 6, 7 (116–123, remainder
of chapter
optional), 13.
Kunreuther, Howard, and Paul Slovic. "Science,
Values, and Risk." Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 545 (May):116–25.
Available through JSTOR. Accessed 6 October 2004.
Optional reading
Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2002. "Putting a Value on Three Thousand
Lives." The New Yorker, 25 Nov.
Weimer, David, and Aidan
Vining (1999). Policy Analysis: Concepts
and Practice,
3d ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Simon and Schuster), 275–85.
Program Design and Evaluation II
Linda Cohen
July 27
Berman, Eli. "Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist's
View of Radical Religious Militias." Available at http://econ.ucsd.edu/%7Eelberman/tamir.pdf.
Kydd, Andrew, and Barbara Walter. 2002. "Sabotaging the Peace: The
Politics of Extremist Violence." International Organization (spring):263–66,
275–91.
Kreps, David. 1990. Game Theory and Economic Modelling (New York:
Oxford University Press). Offers an excellent and readily accessible overview
of the main
game-theoretic contributions to economics that revolutionized economics during
the 1980s.
Lake, David A., and Robert Powell, eds. 1999. Strategic Choice and
International Relations. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Provides an introduction to a rational-choice approach to international
relations.
Optional reading
There is now a very wide range of game theory textbooks.
Some of these roughly ranging from the least to the more difficult are:
Dixit, Avinash,
and Susan
Skeath. 2004. Games of Strategy, 2d ed. (New York: W.W. Norton).
Bierman, H. Scott, and Luis Fernandez.1993. Game Theory with Economic
Applications,
2d ed. (New York: Addison-Wesley).
Morrow, James. 1995. Game
Theory for Political Scientists (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Dutta, Prajit K. 1999. Strategies and Games (Cambrigdge:
MIT Press).
Watson, Joel. 2001. Strategy: An Introduction to
Game Theory (New
York: W. W. Norton).
Gibbons, Robert. 1992. Game Theory for Applied
Economists (Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Binmore, Ken. 1992. Fun and
Games (Lexington,
Mass.: Heath).
Myerson, Roger. 1991. Game Theory (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press).
Fudenberg, Drew, and Jean
Tirole. 1991. Game
Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).
July 28
Government/Industry/Academia Interactions
Opening Remarks
Tom Dillon
Creating Constructive Industry-Government Partnerships in Controlling
Dangerous Technology
Tom Dillon
Biotechnology Industry Perspectives
Dalibor Hodko
Incentives/Disincentives/Increasing Regulations
Alex Sette
How Academics Inform Government and Work Together
Henry Abarbanel
Role of Government in Stimulating Innovation
and how Effectively Government and Industry Interact
Don Prosnitz
Industry Perspectives and
Individual Firms: Control of Industry Perspectives, Incentives for Innovations,
and Trends in Industry
Cathryn Campbell
Kate Murashige
John Wetherell
July 29
Noll, A. Michael, ed. 2003. Crisis Communications. (Rowman and
Littlefield).
Emerging Infections
Michele Ginsberg
July 30
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