2008-09 Annual Report
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Peace Studies Program Cornell University ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 130 Uris Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-7601 voice: (607) 255–6484 fax: (607) 254–5000 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/PeaceProgram Table of Contents OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................... 2 RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................... 3 CONFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 7 VISITORS....................................................................................................................................... 7 GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 8 Support from the MacArthur Grant ............................................................................................ 8 Graduate School Continuing Fellowships ................................................................................ 10 Marion & Frank Long Endowment Fund ................................................................................. 10 Scott Travel Grants ................................................................................................................... 10 DEGREE RECIPIENTS ............................................................................................................... 11 HARROP & RUTH FREEMAN PRIZE & FELLOWSHIPS ...................................................... 12 CAMPUS ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................... 12 COURSES..................................................................................................................................... 13 OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES ................................................................................................. 14 PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAM MEMBERS .......................................................................... 14 OTHER ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................. 17 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT .................................................. 22 APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................. 24 OVERVIEW The Peace Studies Program (PSP) is an interdisciplinary program devoted to research and teaching on the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and more generally, instances of collective violence. Founded in 1970 with the support of the University’s Center for International Studies and the Program on Science, Technology and Society, the Program maintains an abiding interest in issues in science and security. In addition to its long-standing interest in nuclear non-proliferation, the Program now focuses as well on the threat posed by chemical and biological weapons and on issues related to outer space surveillance. Program members are also concerned with issues such as ethnic conflict, human rights, regional security, terrorism, and inter- national humanitarian law (laws of war). The Program is distinguished by its thoroughly interdisciplinary character and its emphasis on long-term policy issues. Both are essential for the Program’s objective of investigating the intellectual foundations of security and the preservation of peace. This commitment motivates the research and training activities of faculty and post-doctoral fellows as well as graduate and under- graduate students in the Program. In July 2006 the program received a $1.86 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to continue research and training in the area of security and technology. In addition to providing salary and research support for Kathleen Vogel (Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies), George Lewis (Senior Research Associate, Peace Studies Program), and Bharath Gopalaswamy (Visiting Scholar, Peace Studies Program), the MacArthur grants have supported a number of other activities. Several off-campus speakers were brought to campus to address technology and security issues and presented a talk during the program’s weekly seminar series. The program hosted four workshops during 2008-2009—“Space Security and Technol- ogy,” “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Post-Conflict Studies: Medicalization and Criminali- zation,” “Violence, Gender, and the Cinematic Nation,” and “Classical Realism Applied”—and details of these can be found later in this report. Other Peace Studies activities in 2008–2009 focused on the Program’s central missions of supporting student and faculty teaching and research, cross-campus interactions, and off-campus outreach. Program activities included the weekly seminars, with occasional current events round- tables scheduled throughout the year as part of that series (see Appendix A for a list of these events). In addition to the Thursday seminars, the Program co-sponsored a number of speakers, symposia, and other special events with other campus groups (see Appendix C). 3 RESEARCH In 2008–2009 Peace Studies-related research activities also included the individual re- The Peace Studies Program seeks to encour- search interests of these faculty: age faculty and graduate student research and writing on problems of international Allen Carlson’s (Government) research peace and security, broadly defined. The interests include international relations, research projects listed below were sup- Chinese foreign policy, and Asian Security. ported by a variety of sources, including the MacArthur Foundation grant to the Program Holly Case (History) studies the politics of and endowment income. The program con- violence in East-Central Europe and the tinued to promote and facilitate graduate stu- Second World War. dent professional development by hosting a dinner seminar in fall 2008 and a series of Matthew Evangelista (Government) is pre- small group meetings initiated by Jonathan paring a book manuscript Gender, Nation- Kirshner in Spring 2009. The small group alism, and War. Under the rubric Human meetings provided the opportunity for grad- Rights at War he is collaborating with Nina uate students to discuss their research proj- Tannenwald on a series of workshops and a ects with outside speakers. Jennifer Erick- book project. son, a government graduate student, hosted these small group meetings. For a list of Valère P. (Chip) Gagnon, Jr.’s research 2008–2009 graduate student development interests include the role of U.S. NGOs in activities see Appendix B. promoting democracy in the Balkans, in- cluding parallels with traditional Christian Since Fall 2005, when Kathleen Vogel and missionary work; conflictual foreign policies George Lewis initiated a study group on as a strategy of political demobilization; and Technology and Security, several visitors the need for ethnographic methods in polit- each year have come to the Cornell campus ical science research. Together with PSP to speak on technology and security issues. visitor Stefan Senders, he is also working on During 2008–2009 these visitors spoke in a project on post-conflict studies. Peace Studies Program seminars, in The Bovay Program in the History and Ethics of Bharath Gopalaswamy has been working Engineering series, and gave special lec- on the verification issues of the Comprehen- tures. The list of study group speakers and sive Test Ban Treaty. In particular, he has topics in 2008-2009 are listed in Appendix been focusing on the infrasound network of D. the verification regime. He has been work- ing on this with the Kazakhstan National During 2008–2009 the program held the Data Centre. As of September 2009 he four workshops mentioned in the overview. joined the Stockholm International Peace Further details on these events will be pre- Research Institute as a researcher. sented in the conference section of this report. Walter Isard’s (Economics) research inter- ests include conflict management, peace sci- ence, peace economics, and peace policy. 4 Peter Katzenstein’s (Government) research projects focus on the political effects of includes a project on America and the ethnic and sectarian diversity in the Middle world; a comparative study of civilizational East and the conditions under which Islamist states (United States, Europe, China, India, movements can bridge ethnic and tribal and Islam); a project on Europe’s collective cleavages, and Islamist electoral strategy. identity (with Jeffrey Checkel); a project on analytical eclecticism (with Rudra Sil); the Judith Reppy (Science and Technology rise of China; and anti-Americanism and Studies) continues to be actively interested value conflicts in world politics. He received in issues of biosecurity, dual-use technology a fellowship from the Princeton Institute for and export controls, and issues surrounding Advanced Studies for 2009–10. new military technologies. In connection with her role in the ISODARCO winter Jonathan Kirshner’s (Government) re- schools devoted to nuclear disarmament, search interests focus on political economy she is doing research on the probable effects and national security. of a transition to nuclear zero on science and technology policy in the United States. George Lewis (Peace Studies Program) has focused