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November 10, 2009
FPRI Senior Fellow Frank G. Hoffman has been named Principal Deputy, Office of Program Appraisal, Department of the Navy. The Office of Program Appraisal is the Department of the Navy's principal activity for the integration of the Navy and Marine Corps strategies, programs and resources. It conducts comprehensive and independent assessments of the Service programs for the Secretary of the Navy. OPA also facilitates the senior leadership’s discussions on resource priorities and investment decisions for the Department of the Navy, an agency with an annual budget of over $150 Billion with nearly 900,000 sailors, Marines and civilian employees. This is a loss for FPRI, but a gain for the country.
November 9, 2009
Dominic Tierney, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, has been named a Senior Fellow of FPRI. He is author of Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics (Harvard, 2006), FDR and the Spanish Civil War (Duke 2007), and How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War (Little Brown, forthcoming 2010).
October 5, 2009
Barak Mendelsohn, an assistant professor of political science at Haverford College, has just been appointed a Senior Fellow at FPRI's Center on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security.
He is author of the new book Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009). He teaches courses at Haverford on Jihadi movements and on the Middle East. He served in the Israeli army for five years and received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He spoke for FPRI in the summer on “Al Qaeda's Palestinian Dilemma” and subsequently published an essay on the subject in the journal Survival (August-September 2009), published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London).
His "Global Terrorism Resource Database" can be found at http://people.haverford.edu/bmendels/.
October 5, 2009
Michael Horowitz, a Senior Fellow in FPRI´s National Security Program and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named Book Review Editor of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs.
Prof. Horowitz spent the 2006-07 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He has served as a consultant for the DoD on a range of international security issues. Princeton University Press will publish in 2009 his book The Spread of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics.
October 5, 2009
Samuel Helfont, a new FPRI Adjunct Scholar, is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (Moshe Dayan Center, 2009) and the forthcoming FPRI monograph The Sunni Divide: Understanding Politics and Terrorism in the Arab Middle East. He is a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Princeton University´s Department of Near Eastern Studies, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. He is also an Iraq war veteran and continues to serve as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
October 5, 2009
Former intern Tina Kaidanow has just been named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In 2006, she became the chief of mission and charge d'affaires at the U.S. Office in Pristina, which was to become the U.S. Embassy to Kosovo. Two years later, following the independence declaration, she became the first U.S. ambassador to Kosovo. She served at FPRI in the 1980s, when she was a student at the University of Pennsyvania, and worked as a rapporteur for one of the annual conferences of FPRI and the Soviet Institute of the USA and Canada.
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August 6, 2009
Writer and Marine Corps veteran David Danelo has been named a Senior Fellow in FPRI´s Program on National Security. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. In 2004, then-Captain Danelo served near Fallujah with the First Marine Expeditionary Force as a convoy commander, intelligence officer and provisional executive officer for a rifle company. Danelo´s first book, Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq (Stackpole:2006), was awarded the 2006 Silver Medal (Military History) by the Military Writers Society of America. His book, The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide (2008), was endorsed by The Economist, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and Texas Books in Review, which called it “an unequivocally compelling read.”
In July, he commenced a year-long study on “Border Nation: A Regional Security Strategy for Northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest,” which will examine the local and regional dynamics of the states on both sides of the US-Mexican border, and make recommendations for a strategy to defeat the drug-fueled criminal insurgency.
August 6, 2009
Jacques deLisle, Director of FPRI’s Asia Program, has been named director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for East Asian Studies. Under Jacques's twin directorships, we look forward to expanded collaboration with Penn's East Asia Center. Indeed, on September 15, we are cosponsoring a talk with them and with Penn’s Law School, where Jacques teaches (and where FPRI Senior Fellow Amy Gadsden serves as Associate Dean for International Affairs). The talk will be given by Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council. She will speak on “Hong Kong's Road to Democracy.”
July 21, 2009
FPRI Senior Fellow S. Abdallah Schleifer, who is distinguished professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo, has been appointed to the executive board of the C-1 World Engagement, a new global initiative to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West.
Schleifer and his fellow board members, who include HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammed of Jordan, Tony Blair, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, the Anglican Bishop of London, the President of Georgetown University, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, will be participating in a international conference at Georgetown University early in October to determine an action plan for Muslim-Christian and Jewish joint activities based on the Common Word Initative undertaken by a group of leading Muslim religious scholars and intellectuals including Schleifer, who entered into dialogue over the past year with the Vatican, the Anglican Communion, and American Evangelical theologians hosted by Yale Divinity School.
June 15, 2009
FPRI is proud to report that its Senior Fellow William Anthony Hay, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University, has been elected to Britain's Royal Historical Society. Hay is the author of The Whig Revival, 1808–1830 (2005).
May 5, 2009
Walter McDougall, co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers, will receive the Athenaeum's Literary Award for his book Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 (HarperCollins, 2008).
The program will take place on May 6 at 5:30 at the Athenaeum building, which itself is a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia. For information and reservations, call Susan Gallo at the Athenaeum at 215 925-2688.
The Athenaeum is a special collections library founded in 1814 to collect materials connected with the history and antiquities of America.
April 29, 2009
FPRI is pleased to announce the establishment of a Program on Grand Strategy, jointly based at Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (www.temple.edu/cenfad) and FPRI. It is the result of a 3-year grant to Temple University from the Hertog Foundation.
The program has three principal goals:
By looking at grand strategy, we hope to encourage a way of thinking about power that can draw upon history, strategic studies, and classic works of theory to inform choices in times of global crisis.
FPRI’s Michael Noonan and Alan Luxenberg will be working directly with William Hitchcock and Richard Immerman at Temple University to coordinate the project.
April 28, 2009
On Wednesday, April 29, at 2:00 p.m., FPRI Senior Fellow Rens Lee will be among 5 experts who testify on the National Security Implications of U.S. Policy Toward Cuba before the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. On Wednesday, there will be a link to the webcast or broadcast on this page: http://oversight.house.gov/. Other experts testifying will be:
Lee has followed developments in Cuba for many years. His areas of expertise also include international organized crime, international drug trafficking, and nuclear smuggling. He is currently working on a project on Afghan Police Reform, jointly undertaken by FPRI and the Royal United Services Institute (London); the project includes a comparative study of police reform around the world.
April 21, 2009
FPRI is pleased to announce two new appointments.
Paul Bracken, formerly a contributing editor to FPRI’s Orbis: A Quarterly Journal of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed to FPRI’s Board of Advisors. Bracken is a Professor of Political Science and Business at Yale University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Transformation Advisory Group of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, as well as advising other parts of the Government and National Academy of Sciences Task Forces. Bracken teaches a course in Yale College on Strategy, Technology and War, and in the School of Management courses on Business, Government and Globalization and Problem Framing. He is currently at work on a book on Managing the Second Nuclear Age.
Kori Schake has been appointed to the Board of Editors of Orbis. Dr. Schake holds the Distinguished Chair in International Security Studies at the U.S. Military Academy, where she teaches an honors seminar on American power in a changing international order. She is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where she is working on a book entitled Managing American Hegemony, which explores ways the international order is changing and strategies for gaining more benefit from American strength.
March 26, 2009
FPRI is saddened to report that its longtime Senior Fellow Michael Radu (April 29, 1947 – March 25, 2009) has passed away. He joined FPRI in 1981, becoming founding co-chairman of our Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security in 2002.
Dr. Radu was born and grew up in Romania. He came to the United States and received his doctorate in international relations from Columbia University in 1981. He was author, co-author, or editor of 15 books, two of them due out later this year. He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of terrorist groups worldwide and appeared regularly in local, national, and international media. He had also conducted research for a variety of US government agencies and served as an election monitor in Peru, Cambodia, and Romania. He was an editor and co-founder of Agora, a Romanian-language quarterly published by FPRI from 1987-91; the journal was distributed in Romania in the last years of the Ceausescu regime and included contributions from dissidents and exiles throughout Eastern Europe. His E-notes on a wide variety of topics appear on our website; he was also a frequent contributor to Orbis. He received two master’s degrees from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), in philosophy and art history, and was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1984–85.
Michael is survived by his wife, Patricia, to whom FPRI’s trustees and staff extend their heartfelt condolences. Michael will be greatly missed by his colleagues and community.
March 9, 2009
The FPRI Wachman Center’s Program on Teaching Innovation is pleased to announce the following winners of our essay contest on “The Top Five U.S. Inventions since 1945”:
The winning essay writers each receive a $1,000 prize, split in the case of teams. Additionally, our judges agreed that three essays deserved honorable mentions:
The honorable mention essay writers each receive $150, split in the case of teams.
We congratulate the winners and thank all the students who participated in this contest. We were very pleased with the creativity, thoughtfulness, and care that went into them. The winning essays are posted at www.fpri.org/education/innovation/contest.
The Wachman Center founded its program on innovation in 2007 out of growing awareness of how important it is for students to understand the history of innovation and be encouraged to themselves be innovative. Core funding for the Wachman Center is provided by the Annenberg Foundation and Mr. H.F. Lenfest; additional funding for its innovation program is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. For more information, see www.fpri.org/education/innovation or email Wachman Center director Alan Luxenberg, lux@fpri.org
February 20, 2009
FPRI is pleased to report that FPRI Senior Fellow Prof. S. Abdallah Schleifer, a veteran journalist, has been appointed editor-at-large of the relaunched Islamica Magazine. In 2006 Schleifer gave FPRI’s 11th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs, addressing the issue of religion and the media in the Arab Islamic world. More recently he served on a delegation of Muslim scholars and intellectuals to the Vatican, where they were received by Pope Benedict XVI. He is also one the 34 Americans who recently drafted and signed the policy paper Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World, a report widely endorsed in mainstream public policy circles and circulating at the highest levels of the Obama administration.
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