Contributors

Ralph A. Cossa is Executive Director of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, a non-profit, foreign policy research institute affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. He is also a board member of the Council on US–Korean Security Studies and an Overseas Honorary Research Fellow with the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis. Cossa is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the multinational Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), a nongovernmental organization focusing on regional confidence building and multilateral security cooperation, and also serves as Executive Director of the US Committee (USCSCAP). He also co-chairs the international CSCAP working group on confidence and security building measures.

Richard E. Darilek is a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation in Washington, D.C. He is also project director for Korean and Middle East Arms Control studies. From August 1989–March 1991, he served as Distinguished Visiting Analyst at the US Army’s Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) in Bethesda, Maryland. Previously, he has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Darilek is the author of A Loyal Opposition in time of War: The Republican Party and the Politics of Foreign Policy from Pearl Harbor to Yalta (1976), various RAND studies, and numerous publications on US foreign and defense policy issues. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in History from Princeton University.

Sony Devabhaktuni is Program Assistant for South Asia at the Asia Society in New York City. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where he edited the volume, “Regional Cooperation in South Asia: Problems and Prospects.” He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Rut Diamint is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Buenos Aires University. She also coordinates the “Civil–Military Relations in New Latin American Democracies” project at Torcuato Di Tella University, funded by The Ford Foundation. Previously, she has been a researcher on “Peace and Security in the Americas” at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and at FLASCO (Latin American Faculty on the Social Sciences) in Chile. Diament received her M.A. in Social Sciences from FLASCO. She is the author of several articles related to defense, security, confidence- building measures, and defense expenditures in Latin America.

Jenny S. Drezin is a Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center where she works on the Confidence-Building Measures project. She is working on regional comparisons on the use of CBMs in public declarations and the effectiveness of CBMs in resolving border disputes. Previously, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Morocco and an intern at the Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, Mass. She holds a B.A. with Honors in International Relations from Brown University and pursued graduate work in Cultural Anthropology at Princeton University.

Cathleen S. Fisher is a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she directed the 340 Contributors

Center’s Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction project. Previously, she taught in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, and was a MacArthur Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the MacArthur Foundation for work at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Maryland, respectively. Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University.

Stephen O. Fought is the Director of the Electives Program at the Naval War College where he also holds the Chair of Public Diplomacy. He received an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy, specializing in national security policy, from Brown University. His work now deals extensively with issues of national security in South America. He has hosted two major regional conferences on confidence-building measures in South America.

Jill R. Junnola is currently a freelance editor. She was a Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center from 1994–1996 where she worked on confidence-building measures in Latin America and in the Middle East, focusing on both the bilateral and multilateral tracks of the peace process. Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Overseas Development Council and as an editorial intern at Middle East Report. She is proficient in Arabic, and has lived and studied in both Syria and Kenya. She holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from Boston University in International Relations/African Studies.

Roger Kangas is Deputy Director of the Central Asia Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining SAIS, he was a Research Analyst on Central Asian Affairs for the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) from 1995–1996, and also worked with such groups as the Kennan Institute, the Open Society Institute, United State Information Agency (USIA), and other US government agencies on issues relating to Central Asia. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Dr. Kangas earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Indiana University. In addition to writing numerous articles and book chapters on Central Asian politics and society, Dr. Kangas is the author of Uzbekistan in the Twentieth Century: Political Development and the Evolution of Power (1998).

Gilbert M. Khadiagala is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and African Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, his M.A. at McMaster University, Canada, and received a B.A. with Honors at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Khadiagala has taught at the University of Nairobi and Kent State University. He is the author of Allies in Adversity: the Frontline States in Southern Africa Security, and is currently finishing a book on Mediating Civil Wars in Eastern Africa.

Khurshid Khoja is a Senior Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center. He works on Southern Asian security issues for the Confidence-Building Measures project. He also serves as the Contributors 341 coordinator of the Visiting Fellows Program, moderator of the Stimson Center’s Southern Asia Internet Forum, and the editor of the CBM project journal, Asian Security in Perspective. He has authored op-ed pieces which appeared in India Abroad and ASIANaffairs magazine. Prior to this, Khoja attended the University of Chicago, where he completed graduate study towards an M.A. in International Relations, and DePaul University, where he received his B.A. with High Honor in Political Science.

Michael Krepon is President of the Henry L. Stimson Center. He previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the US House of Representatives, assisting Congressman Norm Dicks. He is the author of numerous articles as well as Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (1984) and Arms Control in the Reagan Administration (1989). He is the co-editor of Commercial Observation Satellites and International Security (1990), Verification and Compliance, A Problem-Solving Approach (1988), The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification (1991), Open Skies, Arms Control and Cooperative Security (1992), and Crisis Prevention, Confidence-Building, and Reconciliation Between India and Pakistan (1995). He is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Dominique M. McCoy is currently working as a legislative assistant to Congressman Melvin L. Watt and attending law school at Georgetown University. Previously, he worked as a legislative assistant for a Dutch member of the European Parliament in Brussels and interned at the Foreign Service Journal. He studied History and Economics at Wesleyan University where he received an A.B. with Honors. McCoy was a Research Assistant at the Henry L. Stimson Center from 1992–1993. He worked on Latin American and Middle East confidence-building measures, as well as the US role in UN peacekeeping and international humanitarian relief efforts.

Michael Newbill is a Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, currently working on the Confidence-Building Measures project, with a focus on India, China and the Asia–Pacific region. He spent one year in a Master’s program at Jawarharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in the Centre for Historical Studies on a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Elsewhere in South Asia, he served as an Intern in the Political Section of the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. Newbill holds an M.A. in South Asian History and Politics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Lisa Owens is a foreign affairs specialist at the US Department of Energy, Office of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, International Safeguards Division. She is currently managing Latin American Safeguards Cooperation agreements and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) policy and technical support programs. Previously, she investigated Latin American confidence-building measures and nuclear non-proliferation efforts as a Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center. She was a research fellow at the Program for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, interned at the IAEA in Vienna and worked as a consular officer for the Spanish Consulate in Los Angeles. She received her M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her B.A. in Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 342 Contributors John R. Redick is an expert on Latin American nuclear policy and non-proliferation issues. A consultant to foundations, Dr. Redick is currently Executive Director of the Charlottesville–Albemarle Community Foundation and an academic lecturer at the University of Virginia. He has previously served as Research Director of the Stanley Foundation and Program Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and author of over forty articles and studies which have appeared in professional journals, periodicals, and edited books. Recent publications include: “Precedents and Legacies: Tlatelolco’s Contribution to the Next Century,” in Pericles Gasparani Alves and Diana Belinda Cipollone, eds., Nuclear Weapon-Free-Zones in the Next Century, (UNIDIR, 1998); and “El Papel de los Cientificos en el Processo de Cooperacion Nuclear en Sudamerica,” (with Paulo Wrobel), in Revista Occidental, Estudios Latino Americanos, Ano 14, Numero 2, 1997. He has conducted extensive field research in Latin America, and in 1994–96 directed the Argentina–Brazil Nuclear Non- Proliferation Project with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. He received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. all in Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Matthew C.J. Rudolph is a doctoral candidate in Government at Cornell University. His work compares state-formation, security, and political economy in China and India. He was a Senior Research Assistant at the Henry L. Stimson Center from 1992–1994. He worked on confidence-building measures in Asia and also covered US security policy toward South Asia. He lived and studied in South Asia for nearly five years.

Frédéric Ruiz-Ramón is a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, VA. Previously, he served in the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense as the country director for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay where he worked on civil–military issues throughout South America. He participated in the establishment of a number of key CBMs in the region, including the Bilateral Working Group between Argentina and the US, the Defense Consultative Committee between Chile and the US, and both the Williamsburg and Bariloche Defense Ministerial conferences. Ruiz-Ramón received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1994. He is currently preparing a number articles on civil–military relations in Argentina, France, and Spain for publication and is converting his dissertation Depoliticization of Military Organizations: A Theoretical Framework, Policy Implications, and Case Studies of France, Spain, Argentina, and Nigeria for submission to publishers.

Amit Sevak is a consultant with Bain & Company, an international management consulting firm based in Boston. Previously, he served as a program coordinator with the Stimson Center’s Visiting Fellows program where he also co-edited Crisis Prevention, Confidence-building and Reconciliation in South Asia with Michael Krepon (1995). Sevak recently taught international politics on a Henry Luce Scholarship at the Foreign Affairs College, Beijing. He holds both an M.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Don O. Stovall is currently Principal Staff Member, BDM Federal Inc., McLean, Virginia, responsible for conventional arms control verification and compliance policy and is an occasional lecturer at universities and colleges. Stovall, as a US Army colonel, planned and conducted the first US on-site inspection of a military exercise in the Soviet Union under the Stockholm Document. He Contributors 343 has acted as a consultant to the Federal Republic of Germany, France,Turkey, and Switzerland on receiving and conducting on-site inspections of military exercises. He also served for six years with the US Military Liaison Mission to the Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces, Germany. Four of those years were as Chief of Mission. He served on the faculty of the US Army War College for two years and for three years was Commandant of the US Army Russian Institute, Garmisch, Germany. Stovall received his B.S. from Kansas State University, his M.A. from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from Gerogetown University (1988).

Kate Walsh is a Senior Analyst with DFI International, a private research and consulting firm in Washington, DC. She is currently conducting a study of national security and economic implications of US technology transfers to the People’s Republic of China for the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) of the US Department of Commerce. Prior to working for DFI, she was a Research Associate for the Confidence-Building Measures in Regions of Tension program at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where her work involved research and analysis of regional security and arms control-related issues and opportunities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation and confidence-building with regard to China. Walsh has a Master of International Affairs degree in International Security Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University and a B.A. in International Politics from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

Paulo S. Wrobel is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK, where he is undertaking research on South American trade and security issues. Wrobel holds a Ph.D. in International Relations (War Studies) from King’s College, University of London. Previously, he has worked at Catholic University and the Getulio Vargas Foundation, both in Rio de Janeiro, and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. He has published recently on the Negotiations for a Free-Trade Area of the Americas, Argentine–Brazilian Relations, and British–Brazilian Relations.