COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland has a wide range of experts who can help you give depth and perspective to your coverage of the crisis in North Korea and how the Bush Administration is handling it.

For more information, contact Dave Ottalini, Senior Media Relations Specialist, 301.405.4076; dottalin@umd.edu

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Milton Leitenberg: Senior research scholar, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: Nuclear and biological weapons; arms control; recent wars and conflicts

Credentials: Internationally recognized authority on chemical, biological and nuclear warfare; written or edited a dozen full-length studies on recent wars and conflicts and biological and nuclear weapons
Contact: 301-405-7605 (office); 301-340-3049 (home); ml188@umail.umd.edu

Steve Fetter: Physicist and professor of public policy, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: Nuclear and radiological weapons; arms control; health effects of radiation>

Credentials: Vice chair, Federation of American Scientists; member, National Academies' Committee on International Security and Arms Control and U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee; Studied North Korea as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy and was a council on foreign relations fellow in the State Department
Contact: 301-405-6355 (office); 301-422-6857 (home); sfetter@wam.umd.edu

International Policy/Military Strategy

John Steinbruner: Professor and director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland in the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: International security issues, including arms control and nuclear weapons

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); js526@umail.umd.edu

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

Credentials: Deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal in first Clinton administration; senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. in 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); wg14@umail.umd.edu; or Dave Ottalini, 301-405-4076; after-hours, 301-257-0073

Jacques Gansler: Professor of public policy; director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: National security; government acquisition; advanced technology; defense industries

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); jg311@umail.umd.edu; or Dave Ottalini, 301-405-4076; after-hours, 301-257-0073

George Quester: Professor of government and politics, University of Maryland.
Expertise: National security; American foreign policy; international military and security policy

Credentials: Taught at National War College and U.S. Naval Academy; 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

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: International security; U.S. foreign policy; National Security Council.

Credentials: Consultant, Executive Office of the President and 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

Adm. Stansfield Turner: Senior research scholar, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: American foreign policy; terrorism; arms control; nuclear weapons

Credentials: Director, Central Intelligence Agency in the Carter Administration; former commander, U.S. Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic; author of numerous articles and books including Caging the Nuclear Genie: An American Challenge for Global Security
Contact: 301-405-6365 (office); or Dave Ottalini, 301-405-4076; after-hours, 301-257-0073

Domestic Politics and Economics

Trevor Parry-Giles: Professor of political communication, University of Maryland
Expertise: Political strategy and communication

Credentials: Former political consultant; co-authored Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics
Contact: 301-405-8947 (office); 301-495-8875 (home); tp54@umail.umd.edu

Peter Morici: Economist and professor of international business, University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business; adjunct senior fellow, Economic Strategy Institute, Washington, D.C.
Expertise: International economics and macroeconomic policy

Credentials: Former Director of the Office of Economics at the U.S. International Trade Commission; adjunct Senior Fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute and National Policy Association; Author of 16 books and monographs and has published widely in leading public policy and business journals
Contact: 301-405-2136 (office); 703-549-4338 (home); pmorici@mbs.umd.edu

The Impact of China on the Crisis

Chuan Sheng Liu: Institute for Global Chinese Affairs
Expertise: China from an historical, political and cultural perspective; understanding the Chinese mind in international affairs.

Credentials: As the IGCA director, works to promote understanding and friendship between all types of Chinese speaking and American communities through research programs, lectures and workshops, seminars and conferences on global Chinese affairs, and cultural programs
Contact: 301-405-0216 (office); cl29@umail.umd.edu

The United States and North Korea - Is Either Side Listening?

John Davies: Co-Director of the Partners in Conflict Project; senior faculty associate, Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM); and adjunct faculty with the department of government and politics, University of Maryland.
Expertise: Conflict resolution in Asia and elsewhere in the developing world; conflict management and transformation of ethnic, nationalist and other complex social conflicts; multi-track diplomacy, peace building and development of democratic political cultures.

Credentials: Teaches courses and provides training in conflict and peace analysis and conflict and crisis prevention; consults with the US Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of Defense on development of their early warning and vulnerability assessment systems, and for the White-House-initiated State Failure and Genocide Early Warning Projects.
Contact: 301-314-7709 (office);

Hank Sims: Professor; Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a senior scholar at the University's Academy of Leadership
Expertise: Leadership, teamwork, management and organizational psychology

Credentials: International consultant, researcher, and executive education leader with several organizations; has traveled to Korea and worked for the Korea Development Institute
Contact: 301/ 405-2258 (office); 301-571-0060 (home); hsims@rhsmith.umd.edu

Andrew Wolvin: Professor in Communications at the University of Maryland and a senior scholar at the University's Academy of Leadership
Expertise: Political communications and intercultural understanding; Listening, communication training and development, speechwriting, and intercultural communication

Credentials: Teaches courses in listening, communication training and development, speechwriting, and intercultural communication; research focuses on the study of listening behavior.
Contact: (301)-405-6521 (office); awolvin@deans.umd.edu

Understanding The Asian Mind

Robert Ramsey, Professor of East Asian linguistics and immediate past chair of the department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures
Expertise: Asian culture and thinking; the historical development of Japanese and Korean and the historical relationships between the two languages and cultures

Credentials: Korean dialects and the reconstruction of prehistoric stages of Korean. Written extensively on sociolinguistic topics and is the author of three books and several dozen articles. Lectured widely on various linguistic topics in Japan, Korea, Europe, and the United States
Contact: 301.405.4256 (office); email: srl@umail.umd.edu