U.S. Foreign Policy

I. M. Destler - professor and director of the Program on International Security and Economic Policy, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs; visiting fellow, Institute for International Economics
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy; international security; National Security Council; international trade policy

Credentials: coauthored Protecting the American Homeland and Assessing the Department of Homeland Security; consulted for the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State on government organization for economic and foreign policy-making; currently writing a history of the National Security Council
Contact: 301-405-6357 (office); 202-328-9000 (alternate office); 703-759-0588 (home); mdestler@wam.umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/destlerm.html

Shibley Telhami - Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development, University of Maryland
Expertise: Middle East foreign policy and politics; Arab-Israeli dispute; psychology of peace

Credentials: senior fellow, Brookings Institution; books include, The Stakes: America and the Middle East and Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East; appointed by President Clinton to the United States Institute of Peace board
Contact: 301-405-6734 (office); sadat@gvpt.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622 (office); 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/bio.asp?id=17

Benjamin R. Barber - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: roots of terrorism; international democratization; impact of globalization

Credentials: author of 14 books, including Fear's Empire: Terrorism, War and Democracy (forthcoming) about war in Iraq, reconstruction and likelihood of future wars, international best seller Jihad Vs. McWorld and The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House, about his role as informal adviser to the president; consults for European governments
Contact: 212-548-0696 (office 1); 301-405-4129 (office 2); or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/barber/

Ted Robert Gurr - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: rebuilding Iraq; international conflict management; ethnopolitical conflict; U.S. foreign policy

Credentials: founded Minorities at Risk Project at university's Center for International Development and conflict Management; coauthor of Peace and Conflict 2003: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy, senior consultant to the State Failure Task Force, 1994-2000; author of Why Men Rebel and coauthor of Ethnic Conflict in World Politics and Violence in America
Contact: Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.cidcm.umd.edu/people/gurr.htm

Monty G. Marshall - faculty research scientist, coordinator of the Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland
Expertise: rebuilding Iraq; international conflict management; ethnopolitical conflict; U.S. foreign policy

Credentials: coauthor of Peace and Conflict 2003: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy, senior consultant, U.S. government's State Failure Task Force
Contact: 301-314-7704 (office); mmarshall@cidcm.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.cidcm.umd.edu/people/mmarshall.htm

Steven Kull - director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), Maryland School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland; PIPA conducts polls on many foreign policy issues
Expertise: political psychologist specializing in U.S. public opinion on foreign policy issues

Credentials: conducted polls on U.S. attitudes toward war and reconstruction of Iraq before and after hostilities commenced; co-authored Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (1999) and Minds at War: Nuclear Reality and the Inner Conflicts of Defense Policy Makers
Contact: 202-232-7500 (office); 301-254-7500 (cell); 301-718-8393 (home); skull@pipa.org
Web site: http://www.pipa.org; http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/kullm.html

Dangers of a First Strike Policy
William Galston - professor and director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: American politics and public policy
Galston says:

"If we promote and then act on our new principles of preemptive attacks, nations around the world will adopt them and shape them for their own purposes with consequences we will not always like."