Iraq Reconstruction and U.S. Foreign Policy

I. M. Destler - professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy; international trade policy; homeland security agency reorganization; international security; National Security Council

Credentials: consulted for the Executive Office of the President and Department of State on government organization for economic and foreign policy-making; coauthored "Protecting the American Homeland" and "Assessing the Department of Homeland Security;" 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/papers/destler/destler.html

Post-war Civil-Sector Reconstruction
Kurt E. Müller - former NATO civil affairs officer; director of external relations, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language
Expertise: post-war civil-sector reconstruction; conflict termination; refugee issues; multilateral operations; language use in multilateral contexts

Credentials: former NATO civil-military cooperation officer based at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe, where he oversaw military efforts supporting civil-sector implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords; commanded civil affairs battalion supporting operations in Haiti; had civil-military assignments in Africa, Southwest Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe; expertise as consultant on publications and program development in languages and international education; publications include "Toward a Concept of Strategic Civil Affairs" and "Addressing Counterterrorism: U.S. Literacy in Languages and International Affairs" and 1986 book "Language Competence: Implications for National Security"
Contact: 301-226-8854 (office); kmuller@umd.edu ; after-hours , Neil Tickner, 301-257-0073

Benjamin R. Barber - distinguished university professor of government and politics (Kekst Professor of Civil Society), University of Maryland
Expertise: Social Security and democracy; roots of terrorism; international democratization; impact of globalization

Credentials: author of 17 books, including Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy, which predicted the folly of war in Iraq, and offers a long-term answer to terror - what he calls "preventive democracy"; 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
Contact: Alison Forns, 212-247-5433; aforns@civworld.org
Web site: www.benjaminbarber.com

Post-war Germany-Post-war Iraq Comparison
Jeffrey Herf - professor of history, University of Maryland
Expertise: modern, especially 20th century, European and German intellectual, political and international history

Credentials: recent essay compares post-World War II German reconstruction with rebuilding Iraq (http://hnn.us/articles/1655.html); books include Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles and Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys; contributor to New Republic, Partisan Review, Die Zeit, Die Frankfurter, Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt; awarded the Fraenkel Prize (Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London) and the George Lewis Beer Prize (American Historical Association)
Contact: 301-405-7667 (office); jherf@umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, ntickner@umd.edu; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/herf.html

Ted Robert Gurr - distinguished university professor (emeritus), 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

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, he Stakes: America and 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: www.cidcm.umd.edu/bio.asp?id=17

Steven Kull - director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), Maryland School of Public Policy 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 - Stern Professor of Civic Engagement; director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy; acting dean, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise: American politics and public policy; political & public policy ethics;

Credentials: deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal in first Clinton administration; served as senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. during 1999-2000 presidential campaign and the run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988; issues director for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign, 1982-1984.
Contact: 301-405-6347 (office); bgalston@umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours).
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/galstonm.html