INSCT Faculty
INSCT faculty have experience in national security law, military planning and operations, global counterterrorism and arms control policy, counter-proliferation policy, diplomacy and international relations, terrorist methods and psychology, mass communication, history, law, and economics. Our interdisciplinary faculty publications, white papers, and lectures, as well as their analysis featured in major news venues are available here.
William C. Banks (return to top)
William
Banks is Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor of Law, as well as a
Professor of Public Administration, and
Director of the Institute for National Security
and Counterterrorism. He is recognized internationally as an
expert on constitutional and national security law. Working with Stephen
Dycus, Arthur Berney and Peter Raven-Hansen, Banks wrote the definitive
text in the field.
National Security Law was published in 1990, and it is now
contracted for its fourth edition. He is also the author of
numerous other books, book chapters and articles including the most
recently published “The Normalization of Homeland Security After
September 11: The Role of the Military in Counterterrorism Preparedness
and Response.” Banks received his B.A. from the University of
Nebraska and his J.D. and M.S. from the University of Denver.
Professor Banks teaches National Security Law, Counterterrorism and the Law, Perspectives on Terrorism, Constitutional Law, and Public Administration and Law.
>> Professor Banks' Faculty Webpage
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Professor Banks' Recent Publications
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Professor Banks in the News
Michael Barkun (return to top)
Michael
Barkun is a Professor of Political Science whose research
includes domestic terrorism, right-wing extremist groups,
and the relationship between religion and violence. He has
published 10 books and 60 articles and book chapters. Barkun
has served as a consultant to the FBI’s Critical Incident
Analysis Group. He edits the Religion and Politics series
for the Syracuse University Press and sits on editorial
boards of Terrorism and Political Violence, Nova Religio,
the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, and Communal
Societies. Barkun earned his Ph.D. from
Northwestern University.
>> Professor Barkun’s Faculty Webpage
David H. Bennett (return to top)
David H. Bennett is
a Meredith Professor of History specializing in 20th century American history, modern military history, terrorism and the history of terrorism. He has written extensively on American right-wing movements and political extremism. His book
The Party of Fear: The American Far Right From Nativism to the Militia Movement (Vintage Books, 1995) was named an “Outstanding Book of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review in 1996. An earlier edition won the Gustavus Meyers Prize, awarded to the best scholarship of the subject of intolerance in the United States. Bennett received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1963.
Professor Bennett teaches The World at War; Perspectives on Terrorism; The United States in the Modern Age: 1917-1963; and Recent History of the U.S.: 1963-Present.
>> Professor Bennett’s Faculty Webpage
Catherine Bertini (return to top)
Catherine Bertini is a professor of public
administration. For ten years Bertini served as chief
executive of the United Nations Food Programme. She also
served as Under Secretary General for Management at the
United Nations and has worked in the public sector at the
international, national, state, and local levels.
Bertini has received numerous honorary
degrees from universities in four countries and received her
B.A. in political science from SUNY-Albany.
David M. Crane (return to top)
David M. Crane is a professor of practice at
Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to entering
academia, Crane served in the United States government for
more than 30 years. Past key legal positions include serving
as the Director of the Office of Intelligence Review,
Department of Defense Inspector General; Assistant General
Counsel for the Defense Intelligence Agency; and as Waldemar
A. Solf Professor of International Law at the Judge Advocate
General's School, U.S. Army. From 2002 to 2005 Crane served
as the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra
Leone, an international war crimes tribunal. Professor
Crane is the author of numerous scholarly articles on
international criminal law, as well as national security. He
lectures and speaks throughout the world on the rule of law.
Crane received a J.D. from Syracuse University, a Doctor of
Law degree from Case Western Reserve University, as well as
an M.A. in African studies, and a B.A. in history from Ohio
University.
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Professor Crane's Faculty Webpage
>>
Professor Crane In the News
>> Read more about Prof. Crane in
Syracuse University News
and in the
Syracuse Post-Standard.
Evan J. Criddle (return to top)
Evan Criddle is an assistant professor at the Syracuse University College of
Law, where he teaches international law, administrative law, and civil
procedure. Professor Criddle received his J.D. from Yale Law School and
clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He spent several year at Cleary Gottlieb
Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, handling trial and appellate
litigation for foreign sovereigns, multinational corporations, and
political refugees. Professor Criddle’s research explores the
relationship between legal and political theory in shaping state
sovereignty, international human rights, and administrative discretion.
>> Professor Criddle's Faculty Webpage
Tucker Culbertson (return to top)
Professor
Culbertson is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University College of
Law. Much of his work concerns the synthesis of international,
constitutional, and statutory law regarding war and counterterrorism.
Specifically, Professor Culbertson is researching new directions for
U.S. law and policy regarding war crimes, toxic munitions, and
post-conflict reconstruction. He is also writing a book on the
centrality of war in Anglo-American conceptions of statehood, law, and
justice. Professor Culbertson received his A.B. from Princeton
University, his J.D. from UC-Berkeley, and held a fellowship with
Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Law and Culture. He is
presently completing his Ph.D. in UC-Berkeley’s Jurisprudence and Social
Policy Program.
Bruce Winfield Dayton (return to top)
Bruce Dayton is the Associate Director of
the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and teaches in the Department
of Political Science. His research interests include crisis
management and conflict resolution. He directs an initiative to
train Maxwell graduate students in a comparative case-study methodology
focusing on crisis management. Dayton serves as the Executive
Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP).
He recently co-edited Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding:
Moving from Violence to Sustainable Peace (Routledge 2009) with
Louis Kriesberg, and is the author of "Managing Crises in the Twenty
First Century" for the International Studies Review.
>> Professor Dayton’s Faculty Webpage
Renee de Nevers (return to top)
Renee de Nevers is
an Assistant professor of Public Administration. Previously, she
taught at the University of Oklahoma, and was a Program Officer at the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has been a
research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the International
Institute for Strategic Studies. She received her Ph.D. from
Columbia University.
Recent Articles and books include "Imposing International Norms: Great Powers and Norm Enforcement" (International Studies Review, Spring 2007), "NATO's International Security Role in the Terrorist Era" (International Security, Spring 2007), "The Geneva Conventions and New Wars" (Political Science Quarterly, Fall 2006), and Combating Terrorism, co-authored with William C. Banks and Mitchel Wallerstein. Her book, Comrades No More: the Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe, was published by the MIT Press in 2003.
Her current research interests include the implications for sovereignty of nonproliferation-related interdiction activities, and regulation of private security firms.
>> Professor De Never’s Faculty Webpage
Joan Deppa (return to top)
Joan Deppa is an
Associate Professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications teaching courses on journalism ethics, as well as a course on the media and terrorism. She has been examining the relationship between terrorism and communications since the 1998 bombing of Pan Am 103, which claimed the lives of 35 Syracuse University students, and is principal author of The Media and Disasters: Pan Am 103. Her professional career, as a newspaper and wire service journalist, covered more than 16 years and included seven years in Europe as a correspondent and editor for United Press International. She earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Michigan State University in 1960 and completed a Ph.D. from the same university in 1981.
Professor Deppa teaches Terrorism and the Media, Perspectives on Terrorism, and Critical Perspective on News.
>> Professor Deppa’s Faculty Webpage (under new media/vic)
Colin Elman (return to top)
Colin Elman studies International Relations theory, the history of
the US as a great power, and qualitative methods in political and social
inquiry. He is co-founder and director of the Institute for Qualitative
and Multi-method Research, which offers intensive methods training to
graduate students and faculty from across the country and the world. The
IQMR will relocate to Maxwell under Colin’s continuing leadership, in
cooperation with the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. Colin’s book,
Regional Hegemony: The United States and Offensive Realism, 1803-1898,
is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Miriam Elman (return to top)
Miriam Elman is an Associate Professor of Political Science focusing on
the impact of war and peace on democratic political development,
democratization in the Middle East; the role of religious political
parties in promoting or moderating violence; and the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Elman is the editor of Paths to Peace: Is Democracy the
Answer? (MIT Press, 1997) and co-editor of Bridges and
Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of
International Relations (MIT Press, 2001) and Progress in
International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (MIT Press,
2003 and 2008). Elman currently serves on the editorial board of one of
the leading journals in international relations, International
Security. Elam received her B.A. from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Isaac Kfir (return to top)
Dr. Kfir is a lecturer at the Raphael
Recanati International School, the Lauder School of Government and a
senior researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in
Herzliya, Israel. Prior to coming to Israel, he served as a
Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of
Buckingham, England. His research interests range from UN
peacekeeping, peace-building and peacemaking. He also has
published in the field of counter-terrorism, Islamic radicalism in South
Asia and Horn of Africa. He is currently writing a book on
Pakistan and democracy. Kfir received a PhD in International
Relations from the London School of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in
Law (GDL) from BBP Law School. Dr. Kfir will be in residence at
Syracuse University during the 2009-2010 academic year through a grant
from the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.
Louis Kriesberg (return to top)
Louis Kriesberg is a Professor Emeritus of
Sociology and Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict
Studies and an Associate of the Program on the Analysis and
Resolution of Conflicts. Kriesberg continues to consult and
lecture at universities in the U.S. and abroad and for
governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the areas
of conflict resolution, transforming intractable conflicts,
and American security policies. Kriesberg has authored
several books, including: Constructive Conflicts: From
Escalation to Resolution (2007, 3rd ed., 2003 2nd
ed., 1998, 1st ed.), International Conflict Resolution: The
U.S.-USSR and Middle East Cases (1992), and Social Conflicts
(1982, 2nd ed., 1973, 1st ed.), and he co-edited with Bruce
Dayton, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving
from Violence to Sustainable Peace (2009). Kriesberg has a
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
>> Professor Kriesberg's Webpage
Patricia H. Longstaff (return to top)
Patricia Longstaff is an educator and analyst
specializing in the business and public policy issues
affecting the communications industry in the US and
internationally.
She is also a Research Affiliate at Harvard University's
Program for Information Policy Research (PIRP); a member of
the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on
International Communications Policy; and a member of the
Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications
Society. Her current research focus is the
interdisciplinary study of resilience mechanisms. Professor
Longstaff has a J.D. and M.A. in mass communication from the
University of Iowa, and a M.P.A. from Harvard University.
>> Professor Longstaff's Faculty Webpage
Ines Mergel (return to top)
Ines Mergel is an
Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She was
previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Networked
Governance, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. She received a Doctor of Business
Administration (D.B.A.) from the University of St. Gallen,
Institute of Management, in Switzerland, where she studied
Information Management. Ines studied Business Economics at
the University of Kassel, Germany, and University of Leiden,
The Netherlands. Ines is an associated member of the Center
for Junior Research Fellows at the University of Konstanz in
Germany. Her research focuses on informal social networks
as well as the diffusion and adoption of technologies in the
public sector.
>> Professor Mergel's Faculty Webpage
Ambassador Donald Planty (return to top)
Ambassador Planty is Chair of the International Relations
Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs and Professor of Practice. He is also President of
his own international consulting company, Planty &
Associates LLC, and was a co-founder of Port Security
International (PSI), a firm that works on homeland security
solutions. As an expert on Latin American affairs and
European security issues, Planty’s 40 year professional
career includes 30 years in the Foreign Service of the
United States, public service at the local and state levels
and extensive private sector experience. From 1996-99,
Ambassador Planty was the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala.
>> Donald Planty’s Publications
Robert A. Rubinstein (return to top)
Robert A. Rubinstein is a Professor of
Anthropology and International Relations and was Director of
the
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts
at the Maxwell School. He has published more than eighty
articles in journals and books and is author or editor of
eight books, most recently Peacekeeping Under fire:
Culture and Intervention (Paradigm Publishers 2008)
and Building Peace: Practical Reflections from the
Field (Kumarian 2009). Rubinstein is co-chair of the
Commission on Peace and Human Rights of the International
Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, interim
president of the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium,
and a member of the board of directors of the Ploughshares
Fund. He received a Ph.D. from the State University of New
York, Binghamton, and his MsPH. From the University of
Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago.
>> Professor Rubinstein’s Faculty Webpage
F. William Smullen, III (return to top)
F. William Smullen is director of the Maxwell School’s
National Security Studies Program, an integrated course of academic and practical instruction for senior DOD military and civilian officials. Until August 2002, Smullen was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he had worked for nearly 13 years. Smullen was a professional soldier for 30 years, retiring from the Army in 1993 as a Colonel. He earned his B.A. in business and economics from the University of Maine in 1962 and his M.A. in public relations from the Newhouse School at Syracuse in 1974.
Col. Smullen teaches public relations to both graduate and undergraduate students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
>> Col. Smullen’s Faculty Webpage (under public relations)
William C. Snyder (return to top)
William C. Snyder is
an Assistant Professor of Law
teaching Prosecuting Terrorists in Article
III Courts for the fifth time during the 2009-2010 school year.
In addition, he is teaching Federal Criminal Law, Computer
Crimes, and Evidence at the Syracuse University College
of Law, where he also previously taught Counterterrorism and the
Law. A graduate of Yale University and the Cornell Law
School, Mr. Snyder served over 13 years as an Assistant United
States Attorney in the District of Columbia and in the Western
District of Pennsylvania, including assignment to the Joint
Terrorism Task Force. He was the 2004-2005 Fellow in Government Law and
Policy at the Albany Law School, where he taught National
Security Law and Fact Investigation.
Professor Snyder's research focuses on the intersection of
intelligence and law enforcement investigations, as well as
determining principled reasons for choosing among civilian courts,
international tribunals, and military courts for using the rule of
law to fight terrorists.
>> Professor Snyder's Faculty Webpage
Brian Taylor (return to top)
Brian Taylor is an
Associate Professor of political science whose research
focuses on the politics of Russia and the post-Soviet
region. He has studied the role of state coercive agencies,
including the military and the police, in domestic politics.
Taylor is the author of Politics and the Russian Army:
Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000 (Cambridge
University Press, 2003) and the monograph Russia’s Power
Ministries: Coercion and Commerce (INSCT, 2007). He has
published articles in multiple journals, including
Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies,
Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and
International Studies Review. Taylor received his Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
>> Professor Taylor's Faculty Webpage
David Van Slyke (return to top)
David Van Slyke is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and a Senior Research
Associate in the
Campbell Institute of Public Affairs
His research areas focus on public
and nonprofit management topics including privatization and
public-private partnerships, contracting and contract management, policy
implementation, strategic management, and philanthropy. He has published
on public and nonprofit management topics in journals such as the
Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, and the International Journal of Public
Administration. Professor Van Slyke is the recipient of the 2002
Best Article Award and the 1999 Best Conference Paper Award from the
Academy of Management's Public-Nonprofit Division for a co-authored
article that appeared in Organization Science.
He
received his
Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
of the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Professor Van Slyke teaches the Public Organizations and Management course and Project Management course as well as a class on the Implementation of Social Policy.
>> Professor Van Slyke's Faculty Webpage
Mitchel B. Wallerstein (return to top)
Mitchel Wallerstein
is Dean of the Maxwell School and a professor of political
science and public administration. He has authored numerous
books, articles, and other publications on issues related to
national security, the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, international science and technology policy,
and global regime management. He served from 1993-1997 as
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Counterproliferation Policy and as Senior Representative for
Trade Security Policy. He earned an M.P.A. from the Maxwell
School in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in political science
from M.I.T. in 1977-1978.
