Challenges to National Security: A Summer Institute for Educators

Participating Scholars

Sue E. Eckert is Senior Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her current research focuses on issues at the intersection of economic and national security – terrorist financing and money laundering, targeted sanctions, and critical infrastructure. At the Watson Institute, she co-directs the projects on Terrorist Financing, Targeted Sanctions, and Economic Security (jointly with the US Naval War College). Prior to joining the Watson Institute, Eckert served as Assistant Secretary of Export Administration in the Clinton Administration. She has served on numerous working groups and committees addressing security and technology issues, including the Resource Group advising the United Nations’ High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Club of Madrid’s International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security, and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Science, Technology, and Health Aspects of the Foreign Policy Agenda of the United States.

Diane Hess is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate students in social studies education, social studies research, and democratic education. Since 1998 she has been researching what young people learn from deliberating highly controversial political and legal issues in schools. She is currently the lead investigator of a five-year study that seeks to understand the relationship between various approaches to democratic education in schools and the actual political engagement of young people after they leave high school. Professor Hess also researches the ideological messages embedded in high school textbooks and other forms of curriculum. Her study of what curricula communicate about terrorism and 9/11 and its aftermath has just been completed and will be published this spring. A similar study about how textbooks treat Brown v. Board of Education was published in 2004. Hess is currently writing a book on the importance of controversial issues in schools that will be published in 2008.

Catherine McArdle Kelleher is Professor of Strategic Research at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. She was appointed College Park Professor at the University of Maryland in August 2006 where she is teaching and advising in the areas of international security and American defense policy. Her areas of interest include conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues. Her government service includes service as She served as President Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and the secretary of defense's representative to NATO in Brussels, and on President Carter's National Security Council staff. She is a former senior fellow of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, and she directed the Aspen Institute, Berlin. Kelleher has taught and written extensively on conventional and nuclear arms control as well as on German, Russian, and European security issues. She has been decorated for her public service by both the American and German governments and received a DLitt from Mt. Holyoke College and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kelleher founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and was the first president of Women in International Security (WIIS). In 2005, she completed 15 years of service as vice chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and directed annual policy dialogues with China, Russia, and India.

Linda B. Miller Linda B. Miller is Adjunct Professor of International Studies (research) at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and Professor of Political Science (emerita) at Wellesley College. Professor Miller was the editor from 1998 to 2002 of the International Studies Review (ISR), an official review journal of the International Studies Association. The Watson Institute and Wellesley College collaborated on the ISR, which was housed at the Institute and is the widest circulating international review journal in the world today. Professor Miller has published widely on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, world politics, and European affairs in British, American, and Israeli scholarly journals. She is the author of World Order and Local Disorder and co-author and co-editor of Ideas and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann. She also has held fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation, NATO, the Sloan Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts in support of research conducted at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia Universities. From 1999-2001, she was a senior scholar at the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University. Professor Miller received her doctorate in political science from Columbia University. Beginning in 2006, Professor Miller serves as co-editor of Argentia, an electronic biannual publication of the US Foreign Policy Group of the British International Studies Association.

Thomas M. Nichols is Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College. A former chairman of the Strategy and Policy Department, he also holds the Forrest Sherman Chair of Public Diplomacy. He has taught international relations, Soviet and Russian affairs, and government at Georgetown University and Dartmouth College, and is currently adjunct faculty at Harvard University. He has served as an aide in the United States Senate, where he was advisor on foreign and defense affairs during the first Gulf War to Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania. In Washington, he was a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is currently a senior associate of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York. His most recent book, about the revolutionary changes taking place in how nations go to war, is titled Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, and will be published in 2008 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
See Thomas Nichols speak at our 2007 Summer Institute.

Justine A. Rosenthal is Executive Editor of The National Interest. Formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University working with the Institute’s Global Security Program. She is also Director of the Atlantic Monthly Foundation, home to the Council on Global Terrorism, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Rosenthal’s areas of interest include terrorism, ethnic conflict, nuclear proliferation, US foreign policy, transnational crime and corruption. Previous positions include research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; director of the executive office at the Council on Foreign Relations; fellow in the US government focused on intelligence analysis; and special assistant to former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. As a Luce Scholar and Lecturer, Rosenthal also spent considerable time in China where she taught courses on international relations theory and post-Cold War security issues to students at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. She has authored articles and op-eds on international relations, US foreign policy, and nuclear proliferation. She is currently writing a book on state prescriptions for counter-terrorism. Rosenthal received her BA in political science and public policy from the University of Chicago and her MA and PhD degrees in political science from Columbia University.
See Justine Rosenthal Speak at our 2007 Summer Institute.

Nina Tannenwald is Associate Professor (research) at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her areas of interest included international institutions and norms in security. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Review, The Yale Journal of International Law, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Ethics and International Affairs. Most recently she is the author of The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, Cambridge University Press, 2006. She has co-edited, with William Wohlforth, a special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies on the role of ideas and the end of the Cold War. With support from the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, she is researching why some weapons are regarded as inhumane while others are not. Before coming to the Watson Institute, she taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a master's degree from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and a PhD in international relations from Cornell University.

NOTE: The Challenges to National Security Summer Institute is made possible with the generous support of the Cranaleith Foundation.