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Academic Background

Graduate

Cornell University Ph.D. 1977 (Government) The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies M.A. 1973 (International Studies)

Undergraduate

Vanderbilt University B.A. 1971 (Political Science)

Fields of Academic Specialization

International Relations
Comparative Politics (esp. Third World)
Foreign Policy (esp. US/Third World)
Public Administration / American Government DISSERTATION

TITLE: "The American Experience in Okinawa: A Case Study for Foreign Policy and Decision-Making Theory"

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, MERCY COLLEGE, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522 (Associate Professor September 1983 -August,1987; Assistant Professor, September 1978_ August 1983 ); substantial responsibility for new course development and building political science curriculum; student internships and advising, and

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, BARUCH COLLEGE/CUNY, teaching undergraduate and graduate co.urses.

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, BARUCH COLLEGE / CUNY 1/77-8/78 (includes summer semesters 1977 and 1978); extensive responsibility for curriculum development and graduate student advising, thesis supervision.

TEACHING ASSISTANT, CORNELL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT 1973-1975.

RESEARCH AIDE ON U.S. AFRICA POLICY TO THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICA, 1973.

RESEARCH INTERN, FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE, 1973_1975.

RESEARCH INTERN, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1971_1972 (extensive archival work).

HONORS: Fulbright Senior Lectureship, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1985-86. Summer Fellowship Winner and Honorary Member, International Studies Association, 1975.

Fellowships, Research Grants

Peace Studies Program (Cornell/Ford) Research Grants, 1975 and 1976.
Cornell University China_Japan Program Grant, 1976.
Cornell Center for International Studies Grant, 1975.

Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association
International Studies Association

Foreign Languages

French; basic Spanish and basic Japanese

Research Completed, Publications

BOOK CHAPTER, "Misperception at the Top" in H. Wiberg and Paul Smoker, Inadvertent Nuclear War, Pergamon, 1993 BOOK CHAPTER, "The American Interlude in Okinawa: 1945_72," in George DeVos and Koji Taira (eds.), Okinawa: Challenge and Adaptation at Japan's Periphery, U. Hawaii Press, forthcoming
BOOK, Preventable Disasters: Why Governments Fail, ( Rowman and Littlefield, 1991)
ARTICLE, "Iran: The Unheard Revolution," in Kyushu University Review of Law and Politics, April, 1986
BOOK, Ethnic Separatism and World Politics, University Press of America, 1983
BOOK, Tokyo and Washington: Dilemmas of a Mature Alliance, Lexington Books (D.C. Heath) November, 1980
BOOK, America, Okinawa, and Japan, (Univ. Press of America) 1980
BOOK, The New American Foreign Policy: A Primer for the 1980's, (edited reader) Collegium Book Publishers, 1979 ARTICLE, "American Rule in Okinawa," in December 1978 Ryudai Law Review (Ryukyu National University, Japan)

Professional Conferences

Symposium Paper, "Misperception, Multipolarization and History in Fast Forward," Presented at the Conference on the Consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union for the Inadvertent Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, held in Parnu, Estonia, April 16-20, 1992. Proceedings will be published by the Estonian Academy of Sciences on 1993.

Panel Paper, "Okinawa's American Interlude: 1945_1972," INTERNATIONAL NORTH AFRICAN AND ASIAN STUDIES (ICANAS) CONFERENCE, Toronto, August, 1991

Symposium Paper,"Preventing the Ultimate Disaster: Misperception at the Top," CONFERENCE ON ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR WAR, University of Copenhagen Centre for Research on Peace and Conflict, Copenhagen, June, 1990.

Panel Paper, "Nuclear Disaster Prevention in Theory and Practice," INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEETING, London, March 1989

Panel Paper, "Iran: The Unheard Revolution," AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, Chicago, September, 1987

Panel Paper, "Israel's October Surprise," NORTHEAST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (NEPSA) CONVENTION, Boston, 11/86

Panel Paper, "Ethnic Diversity and Third World Democracy," NEPSA, Boston, November 1984

Chaired Panel, "Ethnic Separatism and World Politics," NEPSA, Philadelphia, November 1983

Chaired Panel, New Directions in American Foreign Policy and Presented Paper "Preventable Disasters" NORTHEAST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, Newark, November, 1981

Panel Paper, " Rationality Re_Visited: Bureaucratic Politics Assessed" NY STATE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Chaired Panel, "Comparative Foreign Policy," INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Toronto, 2/79 ANNUAL CONVENTION


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