ISSS 2019 Election Candidates

ISSS 2019 Election Candidates Vice Chair Candidate Monica Duffy Toft Monica Duffy Toft is Professor of International Politics and founding Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to Tufts, Toft was Professor of Government and Public Policy at Oxford University s Blavatnik School of Government. Prior to Oxford, Toft was Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, she was also the Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the founding director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. Toft is a Global Scholar of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, a faculty associate of Oxford s Blavatnik School, a fellow of Oxford s Brasenose College, a research advisor to the Resolve Network, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Political Instability Task Force. The Carnegie Foundation of New York named her a Carnegie Scholar, and she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Norway and the World Politics Fellowship at Princeton University. She is the author of seven books and edited volumes and has published widely on international relations, strategy and national security, global politics, nationalism and religiously-inspired violence and war in academic and policy journals. Toft was educated at the University of Chicago (MA and PhD in political science) and UC Santa Barbara (BA in political science and Slavic languages and literature, summa cum laude). Before college, she spent four years in the US Army as a Russian linguist (honorably discharged). Regular Candidates Boaz Atzili Dr. Boaz Atzili is an Associate Professor and the Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of International Service of American University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT and a BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research focuses on territorial conflicts and peace, the politics of borders, and deterrence and coercion, with a Middle East focus. He published three books, Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Territorial Designs and World Politics: Inside-out and Outside-in (Routledge, 2017, edited with Burak Kadercan), and Triadic Coercion: Israel s Targeting of States that Host Non-State Actors (Columbia University Press, 2018, with Wendy Pearlman). Dr. Atzili has published articles in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Review, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Territories, Politics, Governance. His work has won the American Political Science Association s Kenneth N. Waltz prize for the best 2006 dissertation in the area of security studies, the Edger E. Furniss 2014 Award for the best first book in international security, and the A. Leroy

Bennett Award for the best paper presented at ISA Northeast, 2015. Dr. Atzili frequently serves as a reviewer for book publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, and Columbia University Press, as well as for journals such as International Security, Security Studies, World Politics, ISQ, and APSR. In 2017 he served as the program chair for the ISSS-ISAC Conference at American University in Washington DC. Saira Bano If elected, I will be happy to serve for the Governing Council of the International Security Section of the ISA. Currently, I am serving as an Award and Election Coordinator (2017-19) at the WCIS (Women Caucus of International Studies) Executive Council. My responsibility as Award and Election Coordinator is to collaborate with Chair and Vice- Chair to coordinate nominations for various ISA committees and WCIS elections. I am working as a lecturer at Mount Royal University in the Department of Policy Studies. My research is related to strategic and security issues in South Asia and I have been active to engage with the IR concepts and theories in the contextual knowledge of South Asia and feminism at various forums of ISA. I look forward to serving the professional development, and advancement of Security Section through my role in the Governing Council. Naazneen Barma Naazneen H. Barma is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. She is also one of the founders and a co-director of Bridging the Gap, an initiative devoted to enhancing the policy impact of contemporary international affairs scholarship. Her research and teaching focus on peacebuilding, statebuilding, natural resource governance, and the political economy of development, with a regional specialization in East Asia and the Pacific. She is author of The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her scholarship has also appeared in journals such as International Peacekeeping, Governance, International Studies Perspectives, and Conflict, Security & Development. Her current research includes projects on statebuilding through foreign aid and the evolving global governance landscape. Her work is primarily driven by an interest in empirical puzzles and she is committed to theoretically and methodologically diverse approaches to international security studies as well as a broad and inclusive definition of the field. Her extensive service to the discipline through Bridging the Gap includes designing and implementing professional development and other opportunities for emerging and established scholars seeking to heighten the policy relevance and impact of their research. She has also served enthusiastically in ISA panel chair and discussant roles and peer-reviewed for ISA and other journals over many years. She is eager to become more involved in section governance and is especially committed to mentoring underrepresented groups and enhancing diversity in the discipline.

Ehud (Udi) Eiran Dr. Ehud (Udi) Eiran (Ph.D, Brandeis Univesity, M.Phil (High Pass), Cambridge University) is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa, Israel and the academic director (on behalf of the University) of Israel s National Defense College. Eiran helped found the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy. Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, and a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at MIT. Eiran s research focuses on spatial and temporal dimensions of international conflict, with a special emphasis on territorial expansion, maritime issues, intelligence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He authored and co-authored articles in (among other places): Terrorism and Political Violence, Washington Quarterly, Intelligence and National Security, Comparative Politics, Middle East Journal, Negotiation Journal, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Eiran authored and co-authored policy and opinion pieces in: Foreign Affairs.com, New York Times.com, War on the Rocks, Monkey Cage, Newsweek, Political Violence at a Glance and the Atlantic Council s IranSource blog. He serves on the board of the Journal of Global Security Studies, an official ISA publication. More broadly, he is a proud (and grateful!) member of ISA and the section since he was in graduate school, back in the Quaternary Ice Age. Courtney Fung Dr. Courtney J. Fung is an assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on how rising powers, like China and India, address the norms and provisions for a global security order. She is particularly interested in how status affects these states' approaches to UN peacekeeping, intervention, and norms like the responsibility to protect. Her forthcoming Oxford University Press book explains China's varied response to intervention at the UN Security Council. Courtney was previously a post-doctoral fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, based at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. She held pre-doctoral fellowships with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and with the Global Peace Operations Program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. Heidi Hardt Heidi Hardt is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines effectiveness, efficiency, knowledge management, change and the impact of gender in international security organizations (e.g. NATO, EU, UN). Her international security expertise is in the areas of crisis management, military operations, peacekeeping, conflict, strategy, adaptation and military doctrine. Hardt is the single author of two books: Time to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response (Oxford University Press, 2014) and NATO s Lessons in Crisis: Institutional Memory in International Organization (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her research has been published or is forthcoming in journals including The Journal of

Politics, Review of International Organizations, Global Governance, European Security and African Security. Grant agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Fulbright Commission, the American Political Science Association (APSA) and NATO Science for Peace and Security have funded her research. She has been a member of the International Security Studies section and the International Organization section of ISA since 2008 and has been a member of the ISA Women's Caucus section since 2015. Lise Howard Lise Morjé Howard is Associate Professor of Government and International Relations Field Chair at Georgetown University. Her research on civil war termination, peacekeeping, and American foreign policy, has appeared in such journals as International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Foreign Affairs, and the Journal of Democracy. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2008) won the Best Book Award from the Friends of the Academic Council on the UN System. Her new book, Power in Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is based on field research in Lebanon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic. Howard earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.B. in Soviet Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She has held fellowships at Stanford (CISAC), Harvard (Belfer Center), and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She currently serves as an elected board member (and program co-chair) of the International Security Section of APSA, and would like to do the same for ISA. Stuart Kaufman Stuart J. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He taught at the University of Kentucky from 1990 to 2004. He is the author of two award-winning books on nationalism and ethnic conflict: Nationalist Passions (2015) and Modern Hatreds (2001), co-editor of The Balance of Power in World History, and author of articles that have appeared in most leading I.R. journals including International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and World Politics. Stuart's engagement with policy issues is highlighted by his service in 1999 as a member of the U.S. National Security Council staff while holding a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. He specializes in ethnic conflict, international security affairs and international relations history. Stuart's previous service to ISA and ISSS includes a previous term on the ISSS Governing council, terms as President of ISSS and of ENMISA, and service as one of the founding Associate Editors of ISA's newest journal, Journal of Global Security Studies.

Christopher Layne Christopher Layne is University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M University. From 2014 to 2017, Chris had the privilege of serving on the ISSS Governing Council, which was one of the most rewarding experiences of his professional career. Chris has been a fixture at the ISA s Annual Meetings - as paper presenter, roundtable member, panel chair, and panel discussant - for more than twenty-five years. He is a member of the editorial boards of both International Security, and Security Studies. Chris has contributed as a scholar to the field of security studies, where his fields of interest are grand strategy, great power politics, and American foreign policy. His current book project, After the Fall: International Politics, U.S. Grand Strategy, and the End of the Pax Americana, is under contract with Yale University Press. Chris s work has been published in both scholarly and policy journals, Chris has been a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, and is and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In May and June 2014, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Chiara Ruffa Chiara Ruffa is Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and associate professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defense University. Chiara s research interests lie at the cross-road between political science, sociology and peace and conflict research with a specific focus on state military organizations and civil-military relations. Her work has been published in Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, Armed Forces and Society, Security and Defence Analysis, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Comparative European Politics, and several edited volumes. Her book, Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, has been published with the University of Pennsylvania Press (in May 2018). She is an editorial board member of Armed Forces and Society. Stephen Saideman Stephen Saideman holds the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He has written four books: The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy and International Conflict; For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism and War (with R. William Ayres); NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone (with David Auerswald); and most recently Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada s War in Afghanistan, as well as articles and chapters on nationalism, ethnic conflict, civil war, and civil-military relations. Prof. Saideman has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Sciences Research Council. The former placed him on the US Joint Staff for a year, and the latter facilitated research in Japan. He taught previously at the University of Vermont, Texas Tech University, and at McGill University. He writes online at OpenCanada.org, Political Violence at a Glance, Duck of Minerva and his own site (saideman.blogspot.com). He has won two awards for teaching, one for mentoring other faculty, one for public engagement, and two for his blogging on international

studies. He is currently working on the role of legislatures in civil-military relations as well as seeking funding to build the Canadian Defence and Security Network. He founded the ISA s Online Media Caucus, has served as chair of the OMC and of the Foreign Policy Analysis section, both the ISA Professional Development Committee and the ISA Book Award committee, on three ISA editorial boards (ISR, JoGSS, FPA), and as the program chair for multiple sections. Keith Shimko Keith Shimko is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University (USA). My primary teaching and research interests are in international relations, particularly United States foreign/defense policy, international security, war and international conflict, and international relations theory. He has published several books in these areas, including Images and Arms Control (University of Michigan Press), The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution (Cambridge University Press), five editions of International Relations: Perspectives, Controversies and Readings (Cengage), and, most recently, The Foreign Policy Puzzle: Interests, Threats and Tools (Oxford University Press). He is also the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, the Kenneth Kohfmehl Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Instruction and was inducted into Purdue University s Book of Great Teachers in 2014. In 2016 he received the Charles B. Murphy Award, Purdue University's highest award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. This past year he served as coordinator of the team that organized and hosted the annual ISSS-IS conference at Purdue University in November 2018. Michal Smetana Dr. Michal Smetana is Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and Coordinator of the newly-established Peace Research Center Prague. His main research interests include nuclear politics, arms control and disarmament, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, deterrence theory, norms and deviance in international affairs, frozen conflicts, and political psychology. His most recent articles have been published in International Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of International Relations and Development, Asia Europe Journal, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nonproliferation Review, and other academic and policy journals. He is the co-author of Global Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives (Routledge) and Indirect Coercion: Triangular Strategies and International Conflict (Charles University Press). He has been recently awarded an ISA Catalytic Research Grant on the innovative approaches to the study of the nuclear taboo.

Trevor Thrall Trevor Thrall is an associate professor at George Mason University s Schar School of Policy and Government, where he teaches courses in international security, and a senior fellow for the Cato s Institute s Defense and Foreign Policy Department. His recent research includes work on shifting American attitudes toward foreign policy, an analysis of the role of arms sales in U.S. foreign policy, and an edited volume on grand strategy, U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21stCentury: The Case for Restraint (Routledge 2018). Thrall is also the co-host of the Power Problems podcast, a biweekly podcast that explores important questions in international security with guests from across the political spectrum. He has been an active member of ISA for many years and looks forward to the opportunity to helping ISSS extend its run as a vibrant and growing community.