Program Directors

Director
Susan Shirk

Associate Directors
Richard Feinberg
Joseph R. McGhee

Program Faculty

Matt Baum
Eli Berman
Lewis Branscomb
Tai Ming Cheung
Wayne A. Cornelius
Amb. Jeffrey Davidow
Richard Feinberg
Daniel Hallin
Mikkal Herberg
Paul Hughes
Gary Jacobson
Neil Joeck
Michael Kleeman

Matthew A. Baum is an associate professor of political science at UCLA. His research focuses on integrating domestic political variables into theories of international conflict and cooperation in general, and American foreign policy in particular, as well as in the role of the mass media and public opinion in contemporary American politics. He is the author of Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age. He received his Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego in 2000. Prior to returning to graduate school Baum was a senior analyst at GAMA Corporation in Washington, D.C. Baum was the recipient of IGCC dissertation fellowships in 1998 and 1999.

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 research includes work on ultra-Orthodox Jews, the rationality of suicide attackers, and the incidence of radical Islam. 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.

Lewis Branscomb is Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus) in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Until July 1996, he directed the school's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He currently holds two appointments at UC San Diego, adjunct professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific StudiesIRPS and research associate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His current research focuses on domestic and international research and innovation policy, information infrastructure, policies to make the world safer and more secure from disasters, and on the management of science and technology in the furtherance of democratic governance, economic equity, and safety and security.

Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow and research coordinator at IGCC. Cheung manages 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 in UC San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. 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.

Wayne A. Cornelius is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Gildred Professor of U.S.-Mexico Relations, and the director for the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego. He is one of the leading authorities on Mexican migration to the United States, as well as immigration policies in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. Cornelius is the author, co-author, or editor of 225 publications dealing with these subjects. He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. He founded UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies in 1979 and directed it from 1979–1994 and 2001–2003. Cornelius is also the founding director of UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, established in 1999, which conducts comparative research on international migration and refugee movements, especially in the North American, Western European, and Asia-Pacific regions. His Ph.D. in political science is from Stanford University.

Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow is president of the Institute of the Americas. After 34 years in the State Department, Amb. Davidow 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 effort 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 eighteen months by President Bush.

Early in his Foreign Service career, Davidow 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., 1965) and the University of Minnesota (M.A. 1967). 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).

Richard Feinberg is professor of international political economy in UC San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. 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 for national security affairs under President Clinton 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.

Mikkal Herberg was previously director of the Asia-Pacific Energy and Environment Program at UC San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Prior to this he was Director for Global Energy and Economics in the Strategic Planning group at ARCO, where he was responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk analysis responsible for advising the executive management on risk conditions and investment strategies in countries and regions where ARCO had major investments. He was involved for 20 years in strategic planning for ARCO’s investments in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and the Caspian region, and North Africa. His previous positions with ARCO included director of portfolio risk management and director for emerging markets. Prior to this he was at Bank of America in San Francisco, where he was involved in developing international banking and country risk policies.

Herberg is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the West Coast affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Association for Energy Economics, and the board of directors of the California Council on International Trade. He did doctoral work in International Political Economy at UCLA and also has a Masters degree in Latin American Studies from UCLA.

Paul Hughes is a senior program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations at th United States  Institute of Peace (USIP), where he led the Iraq Study Group’s Military and Security Expert Working Group. Prior to joining USIP, he served as an active duty Army colonel and as the Army’s senior military fellow to the Institute for National Security Studies of the National Defense University. As the director of national security policy on the Army staff he developed and provided policy guidance for the Army in numerous areas, such as arms control, weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, information operations, emerging nontraditional security issues, and crisis prediction.

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.

Gary C. Jacobson is professor of political science at UC San Diego. Jacobson specializes in the study of U.S. elections, parties, interest groups, and Congress. He is the author of Money in Congressional Elections, The Politics of Congressional Elections, The Electoral Origins of Divided Government, and coauthor of Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections and The Logic of American Politics. Jacobson has served on the Board of Overseers of National Elections Studies (1985–93), the Council of the American Political Science Association (1993–94), the APSA Committee on Research Support, and as treasurer of APSA (1996–97). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jacobson was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1990–1991. From 1970 to 1979 he taught at Trinity College, Hartford. He received his A.B. from Stanford in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972.

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 U.S. 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 holds 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. Kleeman has more than 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 UC San Diego in 1992. Lake has published widely in international relations theory, international political economy, and international security studies. He is presently completing a book on Hierarchy in International Relations: Authority, Sovereignty, and the New Structure of World Politics. In addition to more than 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 (1992–1996 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 UC San Diego (acting, 2006–2007). He is 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.

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 more than 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.

Bruce Newsome was appointed associate political scientist at RAND in Santa Monica, California, in 2003. At RAND he has published several studies relating to international security, military performance and capabilities, and terrorism. His most recent book, Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers are Better than Others, examines how personnel management affects soldier behavior in combat. He has a Ph.D. in Strategic Studies from the University of Reading, England.

Samuel Popkin is a professor of political science at UC 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 U.S. 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.

Jeffrey Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive at George Washington University. He has directed Archive documentation projects on U.S.-China relations, the organization and operations of the U.S. intelligence community, U.S. military space activities, and presidential national security directives. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and has taught at the University of Texas and the American University. Richelson is the author of a number of books, including The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security, The U.S. Intelligence Community, A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, and America's Secret Eyes in Space: The US KEYHOLE Spy Satellite Program. 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.

John E. Rielly is currently an adjunct professor of political science at Northwestern University and a visiting professor in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. During the first half of 2002, he was a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

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 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 (1958–1961).

From 1962–1963, Rielly served in the U.S. 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 Council.

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.

Jacob Shapiro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His primary research interest is the organization of terrorism and insurgency. His other research interests include international relations, organization theory, and security policy. Shapiro's ongoing projects study the balance between secrecy and openness in counterterrorism, the impact of international human rights law on democracies' foreign policy, 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, and a number of edited volumes. Shapiro is a Harmony Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy. As a Naval Reserve officer he was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Warfare Development Command. He served on active duty at Special Boat Team 20 and on board the USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968). He holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in economics from Stanford University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan.

Richard C. J. Somerville is professor of meteorology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Somerville is a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2007. Somerville is also a team member of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP).  He is the author of an award-winning and critically acclaimed popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, which covers leading global environmental issues such as stratospheric ozone loss and anthropogenic climate change, together with energy, population and policy implications. Somerville has also participated extensively in teacher professional development, given Congressional testimony, briefed U. N. climate change negotiators, and advised federal agencies on education and outreach.

Steven Spiegel is professor of political science and assistant director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. He studies international relations with a focus on the Middle East. He has authored several books on world politics, including At Issue: Politics in the World Arena, now in its seventh edition. His articles on the relationships between Israel, the Arab nations, and the United States have appeared in leading academic journals and mainstream newspapers. Spiegel is a fellow of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Brookings Institution, and the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at SAIS. His recent activities include the position of international chair of the Middle East cooperative security program for IGCC. In addition, he sits on the editorial board of Middle East Quarterly.

Barbara Walter is an associate professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. She 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. Publications include "The Strategies of Terrorism," with Andrew Kydd (International Security, summer 2006); "Building Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists But Not Others" (American Journal of Political Science, spring 2006); "Information, Uncertainty, and the Decision to Secede" (International Organization, winter 2006); "Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence," with Andrew Kydd (International Organization, spring 2002); Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton, 2001); "The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement" (International Organization, summer 1997); "Designing Transitions from Violent Civil War" (International Security, summer 1999); and Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention (Columbia, 1999) co-edited with Jack Snyder. Walter is on the editorial board of International Organization, and 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 received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago (1994).

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.

Raymond Zilinskas directs the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program (CBWNP) at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is senior scientist in residence. His research focuses on achieving effective biological arms control, the proliferation potential of the former Soviet Union's biological warfare program, and meeting the threat of bioterrorism.

Dr. Zilinskas' book Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense, provides a definitive account on how modern biotechnology has qualitatively changed developments related to biological weapons and defense. Dr. Zilinskas worked at the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (1981–1982), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (1982–1986), and the Center for Public Issues in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

In 1993, Dr. Zilinskas was appointed a William Foster Fellow at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), where he worked on biological and toxin warfare issues. In April 1994, ACDA seconded Dr. Zilinskas to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for seven months, during which time he participated in two biological warfare-related inspections in Iraq (June and October 1994) encompassing 61 biological research and production facilities. At UNSCOM headquarters, he set up a database containing data about key dual-use biological equipment in Iraq and developed a protocol to guide UNSCOM's on-going monitoring and verification program in the biological field.

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