Faculty News and Activities

November 2009

Maxwell Dean Mitchel B. Wallerstein publishes an article on export restrictions in Foreign Affairs.
Read the full article, "Losing Controls: How U.S. Export Restrictions Jeopardize National Security and Harm Competitiveness," here.

October 2009

David M. Crane L'80, professor of practice in the College of Law, spoke to Voice of America and the BBC for reports on the Special Court for Sierra Leone which upheld the sentencing for three Revolutionary United Front rebel leaders, Issa Sesay, Maurice Kallon and Augustine Gbao, for crimes against humanity.

David M. Crane L’80, professor of practice in the College of Law, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the United Nations Human Rights Council vote to endorse a Gaza war crimes report.

William Snyder, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, will chair a panel at RUSI's two-day forum on "Cyber Security: A Public-Private Partnership: Government and Industry Working Together to Improve UK Cyber Security." Held London on October 21-22, 2009, Snyder's panel will discuss "Legislation and Regulation of Cyberspace – The Limits of the Possible." More information is available here.

July 2009

David M. Crane L'80, professor of practice in the College of Law is quoted in the New York Times in an article on the 1985 U.S. jailbreak of former Liberia leader Charles Taylor.

William C. Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor, is quoted in a New York Times article about targeted killings.

William Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism in the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was quoted in the Worcester Telegram on cultural and operational changes at the FBI.

David M. Crane '80, professor of practice in the College of Law, authored an op-ed in Jurist on Iranian leaders responding to post-electoral unrest.

June 2009

Maxwell Professor Renée de Nevers participated in a Wilton Park conference in Nyon, Switzerland that explored the possibility of developing an international code of conduct for private military and security companies.  The conference was organized in cooperation with the Geneva Centre for the Democract Control of the Armed Forces, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and was supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

INSCT's Resilience and Security Project and its Workshop Report were recently highlighted on the popular web log, Homeland Security Watch.  The report was also listed on SSRN's Top Ten download lists for its Journals of Conflict Resolution, Prevention, Management and Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Alliances.

Book Release. Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving from Violence to Sustainable Peace by Louis Kriesberg, Bruce B. Dayton (Editors).Edited by INSCT Faculty, Bruce W. Dayton and Louis Kriesberg. The book examines the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts.

May 2009

INSCT is proud to announce its co-sponsorship of The Journal of National Security Law & Policy, by joining the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in supporting the nation's only journal devoted exclusively to national security law and policy.  INSCT Director William C. Banks will take over as Editor-in-Chief from Co-Editors-in-Chief John Sims of Pacific McGeorge and Steve Dycus of Vermont Law School. 

SU Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor awarded INSCT a Chancellor's Leadership Award in recognition and support of its interdisciplinary work with the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.  The Mapping Global Insecurity  project is developing methods of detecting, mapping, and analyzing regions throughout the world located outside effective governmental controls that often serve as breeding grounds for criminal activity and terrorism.

William C. Snyder, visiting assistant professor in the College of Law, participated in an Minnesota Public Radio broadcast on counterterrorism and terror cells in America.

INSCT Fellow Nick Armstrong's working paper entitled, "The Next U.S. National Security Strategy: A Normative and Public Management Approach," was recently listed on the Social Science Research Network Top Ten list.

April 2009

David M. Crane ’80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, commented in The Times and Law.com on a proposal to try Somali pirates in Kenya.  He was also quoted in a Foreign Policy article on Lithuanian Jews and the Holocaust.

Renée de Nevers, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School, authored an article in Security Dialogue entitled "Private Security Companies and the Laws of War." An abstract can be found here.

On April 22, William C. Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor and Director of INSCT, was interviewed on CBS the Early Show to comment on recent calls for prosecution of former Bush administration officials linked to the CIA torture memos.

 
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On April 16, William C. Banks, participated as a panelist on Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering Duke University conference titled "National Security Under a New Administration."  This event was televised by C-SPAN.

Professor Banks recently commented in a Washington Times story on the Supreme Court declining to hear the case of an accused al Qaeda operative challenging his military detention.

March 2009

INSCT & College of Law Professor David M. Crane was recently quoted in an commented on the laws of war in an Associated Press story about Israel and Gaza.  He was also quoted by Agence France-Presse about war crimes trials in Sierra Leone.

William C. Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor and director of Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, commented in a Washington Times story on the Supreme Court declining to hear the case of an accused al Qaeda operative challenging his military detention.

February 2009

INSCT & College of Law Professor David M. Crane was recently quoted in an commented on the laws of war in an Associated Press story about Israel and Gaza.  He was also quoted by Agence France-Presse about war crimes trials in Sierra Leone.

INSCT and Maxwell Professor David Van Slyke recently published a report on federal contracting and acquisitions for the IBM Center for Business and Government titled, "The Challenges of Contracting for Large Complex Projects: A Case Study of the Coast Guard's Deepwater Program."  Click here to listen to Prof. Van Slyke's interview on Feb 23 with Federal News Radio on the federal acquisitions process.

January 2009

Voice of America interviewed David M. Crane about the rule of law in Africa on its Africa News Tonight program January 1st.  Crane also was interviewed by BBC World News about last month's Rwanda war crimes convictions.

William Banks was interviewed by 88.9 KNPR (Nevada) explaining how unmanned Predator Drone strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated by US forces on the ground.  Listen here.

William Banks was quoted in a New York Times report on a federal appeals court ruling on the president’s legal power to conduct wiretapping of terrorism suspects.

David M. Crane was quoted in an Associated Press article on possible human rights violations in the recent Gaza conflict.  He was also a guest on WAMU-FM (Washington, D.C.) to speak about the International Criminal Court.

2008 News and Activities

December 2008

Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations,  delivered an address on "Cultural Sensitivities in Building Health Capacities" at the Symposium on Culture, Health and Human Security in the Middle East, held on December 3, 2008 in Washington, D.C. 

November 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was interviewed by Voice of America about the conviction of the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on torture charges.

Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, presented the paper, "The Known and the Unknowable: An Anthropological Perspective on the origins of the Iraq War," at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA.

September 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in the American Lawyer and The Guardian on Chuckie Taylor, son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was interviewed by Voice of America in a story on the war crimes trial of the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, authored an article on China’s political relationship with the Sudan for Bitterlemons International, a website on the Middle East.

Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations and INSCT Faculty Associate, published the paper "Culture and Interoperability in Integrated Missions," in the journal International Peacekeeping, volume 15, number 4. The paper is co-authored by Maxwell Alumni, Diana M. Keller and Michael E. Scherger.

August 2008

The syllabus "Culture and World Affairs," developed for the Maxwell School's International Relations Program by Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, was selected as a model syllabus in an open competition.  It will be published in Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th edition in August 2008.  For further details, click here.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story about the International Criminal Court.  He was on BBC World’s “World News Today” about Radovan Karadzic and Sudan president Omar al Bashir.

Impunity Watch, an organization of College of Law students that works to publicize human rights abuses, was mentioned in the Zimbabwe Times and New York Times.

William C. Banks, professor and director of INSCT, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story on the progress of the FBI's intelligence-gathering efforts on terrorism.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law recently wrote, "Seeking Justice for Zimbabwe: A Case for Accountability Against Robert Mugabe and Others" with Sir Desmond De Silva and Professor Tom Zwart.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was interviewed about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic by the New York Times. He also was quoted in an Associated Press story about Karadzic.

July 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted on war crime tribunals and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Associated Press, MSNBC, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Kansas City Star articles.  Crane was also quoted on the Canadian government's role in the U.S. prosecution of the Guantanamo "child soldier" Omar Khadr, in an Inter Press Service News Agency story.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, authored an op-ed that appeared in the Baltimore Sun on the genocide charges against the president of Sudan.  He also provided commentary to the International Herald Tribune on this topic and was interviewed on CNN International's "Inside Africa" program.

Professor Crane was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about the appointment of Navanethem Pillay as the next U.N. Human Rights Commissioner.

Professor Crane was mentioned in a World Defense Review column and interviewed by Voice of America and Wall Street Journal on heads of state who have been charged with genocide and other war crimes.

June 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Supreme Court rulings against the Bush Administration's interpretation of war powers.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in the Toronto Star,Vancouver Sun, Canada.com and in The Globe and Mail on the trial of Omar Khadr and Guantanamo detainees.

May 2008

William Snyder, Visiting Professor in the College of Law, was quoted in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story about the corruption trial of a local coroner.

April 2008

William Banks, professor and director of INSCT, was quoted in a New York Times story on a 2003 Justice Department legal memorandum concerning interrogation techniques.

March 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor story on a decline in methamphetamine use in Montana.

Professor William C. Banks was chosen to serve as a lead member of a new national security task force for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Heritage Foundation.

February 2008

David M. Crane, LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, contributed the following article to JURIST: Children as Terrorists: Wrong to Train, Wrong to Charge.

David M. Crane, LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in the Calgary Herald in a story on child soldiers.  He also authored an op-ed in the Toronto Star on the same topic.

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was interviewed on CBC's "Newsworld" about the Omar Khadr case.

January 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted by the Canadian Press and Toronto Star about charging children for war crimes and the prosecution of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr.  He was also quoted by Xinhua News on the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in The Hague.