Program Directors

Director
Susan Shirk

Associate Directors
Richard Feinberg
Joseph R. McGhee

Program Faculty

Henry Abarbanel
Eli Berman
Samuel Bozzette
Lewis Branscomb
Bruce Cain
William M. Chandler
Tai Ming Cheung
Patrick Connolly
Peter Cowhey
Amb. Jeffrey Davidow
Arthur Ellis
Richard Feinberg
Stephan Haggard
Daniel Hallin
Paul Hughes
Neil Joeck

Dr. Abarbanel is a member of UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program. He has served as chairman of Special Interest Group for Dynamical Systems, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; chair, University of California–NASA, Steering Committee for Joint Program in Nonlinear Science; chairman, California Coordinating Committee for Nonlinear Studies of the University of California; and is presently the director of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at UC San Diego and a research physicist at SIO's Marine Physical Laboratory. Dr. Abarbanel also serves as editor-in-chief for the Springer-Verlag Series in Nonlinear Science, and was a member of the Office of Naval Research Board of Visitors in Physics.

Eli Berman is an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego. His research interests include labor economics, environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and political economics and culture. Recent work focuses on the internal economies of radical religious organizations. Past work on ultra-Orthodox Jews, the rationality of suicide attackers, and the incidence of radical Islam can be found at http://econ.ucsd.edu/%7Eelberman.

Berman has an M.A. in economics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He was a National Bureau of Economic Research Sloan Fellow in 1999. Before joining UC San Diego, he taught at both Rice and Boston University.

Samuel Bozzette is senior natural scientist at RAND. His expertise is in infectious diseases, particularly HIV and agents of bioterrorism and biowarfare. He is also interested in health outcomes research and clinical decision making. Dr. Bozzette holds an M.D. from the University of Rochester, a M.Phil, and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Bozzette currently directs the Health Services Research Unit and the Center for Patient-Oriented Research at the VA San Diego, and is a research director for the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in HIV/AIDS. He is co-principal investigator of the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study, which is assessing costs, access, and quality of care in the first nationally representative study of HIV-positive individuals.

Dr. Bozzette is affiliated with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America; a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigations and the American Association of Physicians; and a participant on many local, national, and international boards and committees.

Lewis Branscomb is Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and former director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A former director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (1951–1969) and vice president and chief scientist of IBM (1972–1986), Branscomb served as chairman of the National Science Board from 1980 to 1984. The author of several books on technology policy and early-stage high-tech innovation, he was co-chair of the National Academy’s project on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism (2002). He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.

Bruce E. Cain is Robson Professor of Political Science and director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, and the director of the UC Washington Center. Cain came to UC Berkeley in 1989 from the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1976 to 1989. A summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College (1970), he studied as a Rhodes Scholar (1970–1972) at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. His writings include The Reapportionment Puzzle (1984), The Personal Vote (1987, with John Forejohn and Morris Fiorina), and Congressional Redistricting (1991, with David Butler). He has also co-edited numerous books, including Developments in American Politics, volumes 1–4 (with Gillian Peele), Constitutional Reform in California (with Roger Noll), Racial and Ethnic Politics in California, vol. II (with Michael Preston and Sandra Bass), and Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary (2002, with Elisabeth R. Gerber).

Cain has served as a polling consultant for state and senate races to Fairbank, Canapary and Maulin (1985–86); redistricting consultant to (among others) the Justice Department, 1989; Los Angeles County, 1991; San Diego Citizens Commission on Redistricting, 2001; City and County of San Francisco, 2002; Special Master for a three-judge panel, Arizona State Legislative Redistricting, 2002; consultant to the Los Angeles Times (1986–89) and political commentator for numerous radio and television stations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. He received the Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service in March 2000, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2000.

William M. Chandler is professor of political science at UC San Diego. Chandler completed his undergraduate education at Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research has concentrated on comparative political analysis, with special interests in Canadian, German, French and Italian governments and the European Union. Publications include Public Policy and Provincial Politics, Federalism and the Role of the State and Challenges to Federalism: Policy-Making in Canada and West Germany, plus numerous journal articles and book chapters on party government, Christian Democracy, party system change, European integration, and immigration policy.

He has previously served as guest professor in Germany, at Tübingen and Oldenburg Universities. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of German Politics and the Journal of European Integration. From 2001–03, he served as research director for the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and is currently president of the Conference Group on German Politics, 2002–2004, the national association of German specialists in political science.

Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow and research coordinator at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation based in San Diego. His responsibilities include managing the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, the institute's Track Two program that brings together senior foreign ministry and defense officials as well as academics from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia for informed discussions on regional security issues.

Cheung also teaches at UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. In addition, he is a doctoral candidate in the War Studies Department at King's College, London University. He is a long-time analyst of Chinese defense and national security affairs. He was based in Asia from the mid-1980s to 2002 covering political, economic and strategic developments in greater China. He was also a journalist and political and business risk consultant in northeast Asia.

Peter F. Cowhey is the Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy, dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), and associate vice chancellor of international affairs at UC San Diego. He is an internationally recognized expert in telecommunications and information policy and markets who also is a leader in building cooperative international arrangements for the management of security and economics issues.

Cowhey joined UCSD's faculty in 1976 and became dean of IR/PS in July 2002. He was the director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) from 1999–2006. He is currently co-leader of the IGCC project on biological threats and public policy funded by the Carnegie Corporation. He holds a B.A. in foreign services from Georgetown University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley.

From 1985 to 1986 Cowhey served as a member of the international planning group of AT&T International. After that he served as a member of the international telecom advisory board of A. T. Kearney, where he advised on numerous client matters concerning the global industry. In 1994 Cowhey took leave from UC San Diego to join the Federal Communications Commission as the commission's Senior Counselor for International Economic and Competition Policy. Later he became chief of the International Bureau of the FCC and he led the commission's work in the WTO negotiations on basic telecommunications services and new competition rules for international telecom services (including the Internet).

Amb. Jeffrey Davidow assumed the presidency of the Institute of the Americas in 2003. Upon completion of 34 years in the State Department, he retired as America's highest ranking diplomat, one of only three people to hold the personal rank of Career Ambassador.

During his Foreign Service career, Amb. Davidow focused much of his efforts on improving relations with Latin America. He served in increasingly senior positions in the U.S. embassies in Guatemala, Chile, and Venezuela, and then later returned to Venezuela as ambassador from l993–1996. From 1996 to 1998, he was the State Department's chief policy maker for the hemisphere, serving in the position of Assistant Secretary of State. He then served as ambassador to Mexico from 1998 to 2002. Initially appointed to that position by President Clinton, he was asked to remain in his post for an additional 18 months by President Bush.

Early in his Foreign Service career, he served as a congressional staff aide in a program organized by the American Political Science Association. In that capacity, he organized in 1979 the first congressional hearings on the possibility of establishing a free trade area for North America. After leaving Mexico in 2002, he returned to Harvard to become a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. During the 2002–03 academic year, he worked extensively with undergraduate and graduate students and wrote a book on U.S.-Mexican relations. El oso y El Puercoespin: The United States and Mexico was published in Mexico by Casa Editorial Grijalbo. The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine is also available in English from Markus Weiner Publishers.

Amb. Davidow graduated from the University of Massachusetts (B.A., l965) and the University of Minnesota (M.A. l967). He also did postgraduate work in India (l968) on a Fulbright travel grant. He holds an honorary doctor of laws from the University of Massachusetts (2002).

Ellis holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in chemistry from MIT and Caltech, respectively. He has served as Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry and as the chair of the Graduate Materials Science Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has garnered much recognition for his work. Among his many awards are Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the National Science Foundation Director’s Meritorious Service Award and the NSF’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Ellis and his co-workers have published more than 200 research papers in leading scientific journals and obtained nine patents.

Richard Feinberg is professor of international political economy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), at UC San Diego. He is an authority on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and summitry. He is an expert on trade and investment, globalization, democratization, and non-governmental organizations.

Feinberg also serves as director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center, dedicated to research, scholarly exchange, and public education on subjects of interests to APEC member countries. He is co-director of the Leadership Council on Inter-American Summitry, a blue-ribbon council that evaluates progress in U.S.-Latin American relations. He is also the coordinator of the APEC International Assessment Network (APIAN), a pan-Pacific coalition of experts that monitors and evaluates APEC’s performance.

Feinberg has authored more than 120 articles and books. His book, Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report, provides the first in-depth analysis of how U.S. foreign policy is made. Other publications include The Intemperate Zone: The Third World Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy and Subsidizing Success: The Export-Import Bank in the U.S. Economy. He served as special assistant to President Clinton for National Security Affairs and senior director of the National Security Council’s (NSC) Office of Inter-American Affairs. While at the NSC, Feinberg was a principal architect of the 1994 Summit of the Americas in Miami. He previously served as president of the Inter-American Dialogue, executive vice president of the Overseas Development Council, and has held positions on the policy planning staff of the U.S. Department of State and in the Office of International Affairs in the U.S. Treasury Department.

Daniel C. Hallin is professor of communication at UC San Diego. Hallin's research concerns political communication and the role of the news media in democratic politics. He has written on the media and war, including Vietnam, Central America, and the Gulf War. He has written on television coverage of elections, demonstrating the shrinking "sound bite" and offering an interpretation of its meaning for political journalism. His new research focuses on comparative analysis of the news media's role in the public sphere, concentrating on Europe and Latin America. His books include We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere (Routledge, 1993) and The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 1986). Hallin received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

From January to August 2003, Hughes served as the chief of the Special Initiatives Office for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and as the director of the Strategic Policy Office for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during which time he developed several policy initiatives, such as the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of the Iraqi military. From 1996 to 2000, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as deputy director of the Office for Humanitarian Assistance and Anti-Personnel Landmine Policy, where he led the OSD response to Hurricane Mitch, the Turkish earthquakes, and Mozambique floods.

Hughes holds two master’s of military arts and sciences and a B.A. in sociology from Colorado State University. His awards include two Defense Superior Service Medals, three Bronze Star Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, and several campaign and service ribbons.

Neil Joeck is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and an adjunct professor of political science at UC Berkeley. He served from 2004 to 2005 as director for counterproliferation strategy at the National Security Council. 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, Joeck 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 leave as 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).

Michael J. Kleeman is an independent consultant working in the technology and health related areas. During the last two years he served as the chief technology officer for Catenas, a network of professional services firms, and Aerie Networks, a new long-distance provider in the United States. Previously he was a senior technology partner in a global consulting firm, specializing in the telecommunications, Internet and computer/information areas.

Kleeman has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications and information systems related business strategy, technology design, economic analysis and complex project management. He has also worked on the design and implementation of networks for voice and data communications, including carrier and private networks, in both domestic and international arenas. He has extensive industry expertise in the technology/computer, commercial, government, financial, and health areas, both as a consultant and as an operating manager. His background includes work for local and inter-exchange carriers, network and computer hardware and software vendors, user organizations, and national agencies. Kleeman has been the lead designer and project manager for numerous telecommunications projects, for a wide range of user, carrier, and vendor organizations. In addition to these specific activities he has worked with numerous clients on new business strategy (especially new market entry or product launch), technology planning, LBO/restructuring of technology firms, contingent planning in dynamic markets, and international communications.

David A. Lake is professor of political science at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and taught at UCLA for nine years before coming to UCSD in 1992. Lake has published widely in international relations theory, international political economy, and international security studies. He is presently completing a book, Hierarchy in International Relations: Authority, Sovereignty, and the New Structure of World Politics. In addition to over fifty scholarly articles, he is 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 Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition (2003) and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (2006).

Lake has served in numerous administrative posts, including research director for international relations 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 (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.

Michael May received his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Whitman College and his Ph. D. in physics from UC Berkeley. He served as director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) laboratory from 1965 to 1971. His research work there centered on nuclear explosion theory; nuclear weapons design; radiation transfer; and astrophysics and general relativity. In addition, Professor May taught graduate science courses in the Department of Applied Science at Livermore, a part of the School of Engineering of the University of California at Davis. In the eighties, Professor May designed and managed an in-house advanced research program at the laboratory structured to provide opportunities for research into new areas of relevance in the Department of Energy’s main areas of responsibility. He retired from LLNL in 1988. His current research interests focus on two areas, nuclear weapons policy issues and the extent and impact of energy growth in East Asia, especially in China.

Starting in 1972, Professor May became involved in strategic arms control. May served as a technical representative on the Threshold Test Ban Treaty negotiating team in Moscow in 1974, then as a member of the U.S. delegation to SALT, in Geneva from 1974 to 1976. Professor May has been a member of the Defense Science Board and other government advisory groups, chairing studies on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons systems, the utility of lasers in space, and other matters. He was a trustee of the Rand Corporation (1972–93) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (1985–95).

Mathew McCubbins is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Associates Chair of Political Science at UC San Diego. He specializes in political economy. His principal works include Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House (1993); Under the Watchful Eye: Managing Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era (1992); The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (1991); and Congress: Structure and Policy (1987). Recent co-edited books include The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World (1997); and Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality (2000). His most recent book is Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy (2001) with Elisabeth Gerber, Arthur Lupia, and D. Roderick Kiewit.

McCubbins is also the author of numerous articles in journals such as Legislative Studies Quarterly; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Law and Contemporary Problems; and the American Journal of Political Science. Awards he has received include the APSA's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for Best Publication on U.S. National Policy for The Logic of Delegation, APSA's Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the Outstanding Book Published in legislative studies, for Legislative Leviathan, and the APSA's Congressional Quarterly Award for Best Paper on Legislative Politics. He is the coordinator of the Law and the Behavioral Sciences Project and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for 1994–95. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Joseph McGhee is a former foreign service officer with over twenty years of experience in international affairs. As the Washington representative for the UC INstitute on Global COnflict and Cooperation, McGhee works to increase IGCC's profile within the policy community and serves as IGCC's liaison in Washington, D.C. He designs, implements, and manages IGCC outreach activities, programs, and fundraising initiatives in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Congress, government agencies, nongovernmental and other organizations, academic institutions, and other foreign policy-related organizations. McGhee also identifies and develops funding sources for UC system-wide fellowships, projects, and programs.

Barry Naughton is professor of Chinese economy; and Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego.
Naughton is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance, and China's transition to a market economy. Recent research focuses on regional economic growth in the People's Republic of China and the relationship between foreign trade and investment and regional growth. He is also completing a general textbook on the Chinese economy.

Recently completed projects have focused on Chinese trade and technology, in particular, the relationship between the development of the electronics industry in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the growth of trade and investment among those economies. His book, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993, is a comprehensive study of China's development from a planned to a market economy that traces the distinctive strategy of transition followed by China, as well as China's superior growth performance. It received the Ohira Memorial Prize in 1996.

Naughton is the author of numerous articles on the Chinese economy and is editor or co-editor of three other books: Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions; Urban Spaces in Contemporary China; and The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Naughton joined IR/PS in 1988 and was named to the Sokwanlok Chair in Chinese International Affairs in 1998.

Samuel Popkin is a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Popkin has also been a consulting analyst in presidential campaigns, serving as consultant to the Clinton campaign on polling and strategy, to the CBS News election units from 1983 to 1990 on survey design and analysis, and more recently to the Gore campaign. He has also served as consultant to political parties in Canada and Europe and to the Departments of State and Defense. His most recent book is The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns ; earlier he co-authored Issues and Strategies: The Computer Simulation of Presidential Campaigns; and he co-edited Chief of Staff: Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency. He is equally well known for his work on peasant society, with particular reference to East and Southeast Asia, including The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. His current research focuses on presidential campaigns and the relationship of public opinion to foreign policy.

William Potter is institute professor and director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He also directs the MIIS Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Potter has contributed chapters and articles to over eighty-five scholarly books and journals. He has served as a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the RAND Corporation, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has been a member of several committees of the National Academy of Sciences and currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences Joint Working Group on Nuclear Nonproliferation. His present research focuses on nuclear terrorism and on proliferation issues involving the post-Soviet states.

Potter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and served for five years on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and the Board of Trustees of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for Policy Studies in Russia (Moscow). He was an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan to the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference and to the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2004 sessions of the NPT Preparatory Committee, as well as to the 2000 NPT Review Conference.

Robert S. Price, Jr., is president of International Risk Strategies LLC, which offers analyses of political, regulatory, and other risks, as well as strategies for risk mitigation, to U.S. and foreign companies considering major capital investments in the United States or abroad. He retired as Director of European and Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy in March 2006, following a distinguished career there that spanned more than three decades, beginning during the 1973–74 Arab oil embargo.

At DoE, Price held a number of senior executive positions, including acting deputy assistant secretary for national security policy, acting deputy assistant secretary for science and technology policy, and director of international science & technology cooperation. From 1981–83, Price was an International Energy Agency (IEA) deputy division head in Paris and was responsible for the 1982 Natural Gas: Prospects to 2000, the Agency's first natural gas publication, and its 1983 gas security study. In 1990, he helped create the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Working Group (EWG) and was the senior U.S. government delegate to the EWG. He organized the Secretary of Energy’s Presidential Missions to India, Pakistan, and Hong Kong and China in 1994–1995, during which he negotiated bilateral energy policy dialogues with China and India that continue today, as well as numerous other Secretarial missions to Europe and Asia over the following decade.

Price has authored several articles on international natural gas trade, participated as a speaker and panelist on international energy matters in the United States and abroad, and lectured at the College of Petroleum Studies, Oxford, and the U.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has participated in studies of U.S.–China relations at the Council on Foreign Relations and at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson Center. He is a member of the International Association of Energy Economics and the Academy of Political Science. He received his B.A. from Trinity College (Conn.) and his M.A. from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Prior to his retirement in August of 2001, Rielly served for three decades as executive director and president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a large, private foreign policy institute in Chicago founded in 1922. Rielly earned his B.A. at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, received his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, and taught in the Department of Government at Harvard University from 1958–1961.

From 1962–1963 Rielly served in the United States Department of State; from 1963–1969 he was foreign policy assistant to Senator and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; from 1969–1970 he was a consultant to the Office of European and International Affairs at the Ford Foundation. He became executive director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in 1971 and president of the Council in 1974. In June 1998, he also became director of the newly established Konrad Adenauer Program for European Policy Studies at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

Rielly is the author of American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy (seven editions; 1974–1999) and has published articles in Foreign Policy, the New York Times, Politique Etrangere, International Politik, the Chicago Tribune, and other journals.

Richelson is the author of a number of books, including The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology (Westview, 2001), America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security (University Press of Kansas, 1999), The U.S. Intelligence Community (Westview Press, 4th ed., 1999), A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1995), and America's Secret Eyes in Space: The US KEYHOLE Spy Satellite Program ( Harper & Row, 1990). His articles have appeared in Scientific American, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, International Security, Intelligence and National Security, and other publications.

C. Wesley Spain is the division leader of Z Division (International Assessments and Knowledge Discovery Program) and the director of the Department of Energy’s Field Intelligence Element in the Nonproliferation, Homeland, and International Security Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He oversees LLNL’s analytical contributions to the national intelligence effort and leads the all-source analysis and research program, which includes studies of early-stage foreign technology development and acquisition, patterns of international cooperation, foreign cyber threats, counterterrorism, and homeland security. Z Division’s analytic program has a strong emphasis on weapons-related activities of weapons states (declared and de facto), proliferators, and terrorists groups (state sponsored and transnational), as well as biological and chemical weapon development and deployment efforts.

Before assuming his current responsibilities, Spain served as principal deputy division leader of Z Division and as program leader for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, Homeland Security Organization at LLNL. In this role, he oversaw efforts that included advanced scientific computing, terrorist threat assessments, threat and infrastructure vulnerability integration, and infrastructure protection initiatives. Spain served as the LLNL representative on a team of five national laboratories directly supporting research and development efforts in Threat Awareness for the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.

Before joining LLNL in 1997, Spain was an analyst with Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence where he was responsible primarily for military and security issues of the Levant region of the Middle East. During an assignment from CIA, Spain served as program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency investigating the application of advanced analytic tools and techniques to intelligence analysis. Spain holds an M.A. in International Relations and B.S. in Political Science.

W. Andrew Terrill joined the Strategic Studies Institute in October 2001, and is SSI's Middle East specialist. Prior to his appointment, he served as a Middle East nonproliferation analyst for the International Assessments Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).In 1998–99, Terrill also served as a visiting professor at the U.S. Air War College on assignment from LLNL. He is a former faculty member at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and has taught at a variety of other colleges and universities. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and Foreign Area Officer (Middle East).

Terrill has published in numerous academic journals on topics including nuclear proliferation, the Iran–Iraq war, Operation Desert Storm, Middle Eastern chemical weapons, and ballistic missile proliferation, terrorism, and commando operations. Since 1994, at U.S. State Department invitation, Terrill has participated in the Middle Eastern Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) track two talks, which are part of the Middle East peace process. He holds a B.A. from California State Polytechnic University and an M.A. from the University of California, Riverside, both in political science. Terrill also holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.

Herbert York was tapped to work on the Manhattan Project the year he received his M.S. in Physics from the University of Rochester (1943). His illustrious career includes many distinctions, among them science advisor to President Eisenhower and first chief scientist and co-founder of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA/DoD). From 1979–81 York was an ambassador and chief negotiator at the trilateral Comprehensive Test Ban talks between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, held in Geneva. His academic career included stints as the first chancellor of UC San Diego (1961–64), and founder and first director of IGCC (1983–88). He was also acting chancellor of UC San Diego from 1970–72.

In 2000, York received three major awards recognizing his contributions to science. The first, the Enrico Fermi award, is a Presidential award—one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. Government. It recognizes scientists of international stature for a lifetime of exceptional achievement in the development, use, or production of energy (broadly defined to include the science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle interactions and effects). York also received the Vannevar Bush award from the National Science Foundation's National Science Board. Finally, York received the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education, created in 1968 by UC Berkeley's Academic Senate to honor individuals who have made an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education.

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