HOMELAND AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES
(Including Iraq, Terrorism, Intelligence, U.S. Military)

John Steinbruner - professor and director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: international security issues, including arms control and nuclear weapons; managing bioterror risk to keep advanced technology out of terrorists' hands

Credentials: member, National Academies' Committee on International Security and Arms Control; former director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; author, Principles of Global Security
Contact: 301-405-4578 (office); 202-244-9142 (home); jsteinbr@umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/steinbrunerm.html

William J. Lahneman - program coordinator, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: maritime security; counter-terrorism; national and international security; future of intelligence analysis; training future intelligence analysts

Credentials: coordinates Maryland's National Intelligence Council Project, providing a liaison between the intelligence community, academia and other nongovernmental sources; Commander, U.S. Navy (retired), served on a number of combatant ships; consultant on maritime security issues
Contact: 301-405-7602 (office); 410-741-5905 (home); lahneman@umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/lahnemanm.html

Stansfield Turner (USN Ret.) - senior research scholar, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: terrorism; arms control and nuclear weapons; intelligence operations; national and international security; U.S. foreign policy; naval operations

Credentials: director, CIA, under President Carter; former commander, U.S. Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet, Atlantic; author of numerous books and articles, including Ten Steps to Fight Terrorism Without Endangering Democracy
Contact: 202-266-5441; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/turnerm.html

Lee S. Strickland - professor, information law and policy, and director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland; former senior intelligence officer, CIA.
Expertise: intelligence community operations; information law and policy, privacy and homeland security needs; information processing.

Credentials: career senior intelligence officer, attorney and computer specialist; served as special assistant U.S. attorney; served on assignment to U.S. Marine Corps and Joint Special Operations Agency (Department of Defense); awarded Intelligence Commendation Medal (CIA); publications include “Information and the War Against Terrorism” and “Were American Intelligence and Law Enforcement Effectively Positioned to Protect the Public?”
Contact: 703-994-1952 (cell); 301-405-1741 (office); lstrickl@umd.edu
Web site: www.cip.umd.edu/principals/bios/stricklandbio.htm

I. M. Destler - professor and director of the Program on International Security and Economic Policy, University of Maryland's School of Public Policy; visiting fellow, Institute for International Economics
Expertise: homeland security reorganization; international security; National Security Council; U.S. foreign policy; 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@umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/papers/destler/destler.html

George Quester - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: national security; international military and security policy

Credentials: taught at National War College and U.S. Naval Academy; has written or edited numerous books, including Security Studies for the 21st Century
Contact: 301-405-4146 (office); 703-534-1396 (home); gquester@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/quester/

Jacques Gansler - acting vice president for research; Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise; director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: advanced defense technology; defense supply-chain; defense industries; government acquisition

Credentials: undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, 1997-2001, responsible for all Department of Defense acquisitions, logistics and research and development, including defense technology, biological, chemical and nuclear programs
Contact: 301-405-4794 (office); jgansler@umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/ganslerm.html

Terrorism in South Asia
Tariq Karim- senior advisor, IRIS Center (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector), University of Maryland
Expertise: impact of terrorism in South Asia; politics and diplomacy of the region

Credentials: former ambassador from Bangladesh to United States, Iran and Lebanon; former high commissioner from Bangladesh to South Africa; publications include: Pakistan: Stalking Armageddon in South Asia?
Contact: 301-405-0794 (office); tariq@iris.econ.umd.edu ; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours); or Fiona Shukri (IRIS Center) 301-405-3721 (office), 443-745-2622 (cell)
Web site: http://www.iris.umd.edu/aboutiris/viewstaff.asp?ID=249

Terrorism Trends
Gary LaFree - sociologist, professor of criminology, University of Maryland
Expertise: trends in terrorism; national and international crime trends

Credentials: building and analyzing comprehensive database of terror attacks (1970-1999), in part, to determine whether terrorism correlates with political, economic and social stability; author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
Contact: 301-405-4714 (office); GLaFree@crim.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/faculty/lafree/index.html

U.S. Military
David R. Segal - professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland
Expertise: military leadership, morale and performance; performance of U.S. peace-keeping forces; volunteer army vs. draft

Credentials: president, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society, the major military international scholarly organization; during the early years of volunteer military force, directed the sociological research program at the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences; tracked American peacekeeping operations in the Sinai over the past two decades; books include, The Postmodern Military
Contact: 301-405-6439 (office); dsegal@socy.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/dsegal.html

U.S. Military
Mady Wechsler Segal - professor of sociology and associate director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland
Expertise: military sociology; military personnel and family issues; women in the military

Credentials: chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee for the U.S. Army Research Institute's Army Family Research Program; member of the National Academies' Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel; human resource consultant to the Secretary of the Army; special assistant to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; and a member of the Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues; author, several books, including Peacekeepers and their Wives: American Participation in the Multinational Force and Observers.
Contact: 301-405-6433 (office); msegal@socy.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/msegal.html