 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 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 (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.
 Eli Berman is an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego, research director for international security studies at IGCC, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include economic development and conflict, the economics of religion, labor economics, technological change, economic demography, and applied econometrics. Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (2002 and 2005) have enabled him to look closely at relationships between religion and fertility from an economic standpoint. His latest publications are "Religion, Terrorism, and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model" (with David Laitin) in the Journal of Public Economics (2008), and "The Economics of Religion," in the New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics (with Laurence Iannaccone). Berman received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His book Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism is forthcoming in Fall 2009 with the MIT Press.
 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Felter, a career Special Forces
and foreign area officer, is the director of the Combating Terrorism Center at
West Point and
an instructor in the USMA terrorism studies program. His military experience
includes service as a platoon leader with the 75th Ranger regiment and as
a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha and Company Commander in the
1st Special Forces Group. As a military attaché in Manila, he planned
and coordinated combined efforts to develop the counter-terrorist capabilities
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Felter is a graduate
of the United States Military Academy, earned a masters degree from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. in political
science from Stanford University. His dissertation assesses the impact that
variation in quality and structures of state internal security forces has on
efforts to combat insurgency and terrorism.
 Colonel Fred T. Krawchuk is a U.S. Army Special Forces officer currently assigned to the U.S. Special Operations Command as the director of a multi-agency task force. Last year, Krawchuk stood up a joint interagency task force in Iraq as a member of General Petraeus's staff. He has also led soldiers in a variety of other infantry, information operations, and special operations assignments in the United States, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America.
Krawchuk
served as an Olmsted Scholar in Spain and as an Army Senior Fellow with the
U.S. Department of State. Krawchuk is a General MacArthur Leadership Award winner
and graduate of the United States Military Academy, University of Navarra-IESE,
and Harvard University. He has also attended courses at Strozzi Institute,
Integral Institute, and Esalen Institute. Krawchuk has served as a term member
with the Council on Foreign Relations, the French American Foundation's Young
Leaders Program, and the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs. He
has published articles on the topics of terrorism, leadership, and strategic
communication. One of Krawchuk's passions is bringing together diverse voices
in order to holistically address complex international relations issues in
a wise and compassionate manner.
 David Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has conducted field research in Somalia, Nigeria, Spain, Estonia, and France. His latest book is Nations, States and Violence. For the past decade, in collaboration with James Fearon, he has investigated ethnic relations and their impact on civil wars in the past half-century. From that project, "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" has appeared in the American Political Science Review. He is currently working on a project concerning Muslim integration into Europe. Laitin received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the National Academy of Science.
 David A. Lake is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in international relations theory and international political economy. Lake’s most recent book is Hierarchy in International Relations (2009). In addition to more than seventy scholarly articles and chapters, he is also the author of Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939 (1988) and Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (1999) and co-editor of eight volumes including most recently Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition (2003) and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (2006). He is also the co-author of a comprehensive new textbook on World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions (2009).
Lake has served as Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1992–1966 and 2000–2001), co-editor of the journal International Organization (1997–2001), chair of UCSD’s Political Science department (2000–2004), and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at UCSD (2006–present). He is the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society, and was Program Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2007). He is President-Elect of International Studies Association (2010–2011). The recipient of the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and taught at UCLA from 1983 to 1992.
Lake has served in numerous administrative posts, including research director for international relations at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1992–1966 and 2000–2001), co-editor of the journal International Organization (1997–2001), chair of UC San Diego’s Political Science Department (2000–2004), and associate dean of social sciences at UC San Diego (acting, 2006–2007). He is the vice president (elect) of the International Studies Association, program co-chair of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, and founding chair of the International Political Economy Society. He is the recipient of the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
 Jason Lyall is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. His research focuses on the dynamics of violence in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, with particular attention to Russia's Northern Caucasus. Ongoing projects include assessing how indiscriminate violence and ethnicity shape patterns of insurgent violence in Chechnya; the causes of victory in battle and war since 1800; and the role of state violence and aid in explaining insurgent violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Northern Caucasus. His research has been published in International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics, and has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a visiting scholar at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
 COL Jeffrey D. Peterson is an Academy Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy and responsible for West Point’s economics program. He was commissioned into the Army from West Point in 1987 as an armor officer with a B.S. in civil engineering. As an armor officer, he served in a variety of leadership and staff positions in the United States, Korea, Cuba, and the Middle East. Most recently, he served as the commander for a cavalry squadron based at Ft. Lewis, Washington. While in command, the squadron deployed to Baghdad, Iraq and conducted counterinsurgency operations from July 2006 to September 2007 during the height of sectarian violence in Baghdad and the beginning of the "surge." His experience in using economics as part of an overall plan to establish stability in his area of responsibility motivated his desire to research the military’s role in economic development in a post-conflict environment and the importance of economics as a component of successful counterinsurgency operations. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has contributed to various RAND publications concerning military leader development for the contemporary operating environment, the applications of networked capabilities in low-intensity contingency operations, and the effects of personnel stabilization on unit performance.
 Jacob N. Shapiro is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. His primary research interests are the organizational aspects of terrorism, insurgency, and security policy. Shapiro’s ongoing projects study the balance between secrecy and openness in counterterrorism, the causes of militant recruitment in Islamic countries, and the relationship between public goods provision and insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. His research has been published in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Military Operations Research, and a number of edited volumes. Shapiro is a Harmony Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy and a former Naval officer. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
 Barbara Walter is currently a professor of political science at the School of International
Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. Walter is an authority
on international security, with an emphasis on internal wars, bargaining
and cooperation, and
terrorism/counter-terrorism. Her current research and teaching
interests include reputation building and war, the strategies of
terrorism, and the behavioral foundations of rational behavior.She is
a former IGCC research director.
Publications include: "The Strategies of Terrorism" (with
Andrew Kydd, International Security, 2006); "Building
Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists But Not Others" (American
Journal of Political Science, 2006); "Information, Uncertainty,
and the Decision to Secede" (International Organization,
2006); Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton
University Press, 2001); and Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention (Columbia
University Press, 1999, co-edited with Jack Snyder). She has just completed
a book manuscript on reputation building and war, and is continuing to
work on a manuscript on strategies and counter-strategies of terrorism.
Walter is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including
awards from the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of
New York, Guggenheim, and Smith Richardson Foundations. She earned her
M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago.
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