WILLIAM C. BANKS (return to top)

William Banks is a Professor of Law and Public Administration, as well as 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.

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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. His books include A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (University of California Press, 2003); Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 1994 and 1997), which received the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights; and Disaster and the Millennium (Yale University Press, 1974 and 1986). Barkun has served as a consultant to the Critical Incident Analysis Group since 1995. 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, Communal Societies, and Tikkun.  He has held fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.  Barkun earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1965.

Professor Barkun teaches International Law, Perspectives on Terrorism, International Law and Organizations, Comparative Political Analysis, and Religion and Politics.

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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.

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CATHERINE BERTINI (return to top)

Catherine Bertini, former under-secretary-general for management at the United Nations, joined the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a Professor of Practice in the Department of Public Administration. Bertini is the former head of the UN World Food Program, where she oversaw the largest humanitarian agency in the world. As under-secretary-general Bertini was responsible for the United Nation's $3 billion biennial budget as well as human resources and security for 9,000 staff members.

Bertini has received numerous honorary degrees from universities in four countries. In 2003, she was awarded the prestigious World Food Prize – the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. She graduated with a BA in Public Administration from SUNY-Albany in 1971.

Professor Bertini teaches Humanitarian Action:  Challenges, Response, Results.

DAVID M. CRANE (return to top)

David M. Crane served in the government of the United States for over 30 years, most of them as an attorney. He was appointed a member of the senior executive service in 1997. 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. He spent many years with US special operations forces and is a master parachutist.

In April 2002, Mr. Crane was appointed the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by UN Secretary Kofi Annan with the rank of undersecretary general. Mr. Crane's mandate was to prosecute those who bear the greatest responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international human rights committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone during the 1990s. He completed this appointment in July of 2005.

Crane is a 1980 graduate of the College of Law at Syracuse University and holds a Master of Arts Degree in International Affairs and a Bachelor of General Studies in History, summa cum laude, from Ohio University. 

Professor Crane is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and teaches National Security Law.

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EVAN J. CRIDDLE (return to top)

Professor Criddle teaches and writes in the fields of administrative law, international law, foreign relations law, statutory interpretation, treaty interpretation, and civil procedure. His recent publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. 

Professor Criddle received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. He clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty in 2007, Professor Criddle spent three years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, handling trial and appellate litigation for foreign sovereigns, multinational corporations, and political refugees. 

During the 2008-2009 academic year, Professor Criddle will serve as a research fellow for the interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media.

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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.

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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.

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COLIN ELMAN (return to top)

MIRIAM ELMAN (return to top)

LOUIS KRIESBERG (return to top)

Louis Kriesberg is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Conflict Studies and an Associate of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. His research interests include social conflicts, conflict resolution, interstate and intercommunal conflicts, and constructive struggles. Kriesberg is currently analyzing American governmental and nongovernmental actions in conflicts related to al Qaeda and other jihadist groups, Afghanistan, and Iraq.  He also 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 coexistence. Kriesberg has authored several books, including: Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution (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.). Kriesberg has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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PATRICIA H. LONGSTAFF (return to top)

Pat H. Longstaff is a policy analyst who is not afraid to look in new places for clues about tough problems.  Her most recent work is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the concept of “resilience” and its implications for public policy planning for “surprises” such as terrorism and natural disasters. This puts together ideas come from her previous work in regulating networks and complex systems. She received funding from the National Science Foundation to lead a cross-disciplinary study of resilience. 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.  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.

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ROBERT 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. Rubinstein is an anthropologist with expertise in political and medical anthropology and in social science history and research methods. Rubinstein’s work focuses on cross-cultural aspects of conflict and dispute resolution, including negotiation, mediation and consensus building. Rubinstein has published more than fifty articles in journals and books and is author or editor of six books and research monographs. His books include: Science as Cognitive Process: Towards an Empirical Philosophy of Science (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984); Peace and War: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Transaction Books, 1986), The Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict (Kendall/Hunt, 1997), and Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax (Transaction Books, 2001). Rubinstein is co-chair and was a founding member of the Commission on Peace and Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and since 2000 he has been editor of the commission’s official journal, Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights. Rubinstein is a member of the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund and of the Syracuse Jewish Family Services. Rubinstein consults and lectures widely, both domestically and abroad. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York and a M.A. in public health from the University of Illinois.

Professor Rubinstein teaches the History of Anthropology Theory, Multilateral Peacekeeping, Conflict Resolution in Groups, and Negotiation: Theory and Practice.

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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.

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WILLIAM SNYDER (return to top)

                     William C. Snyder is an Assistant Professor of Law for the 2007-2008 school year, teaching Federal Criminal Law, Terrorism and the Law, Computer Crimes, and Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III Courts.  A graduate of Yale University and the Cornell Law School, he was the 2004-2005 Fellow in Government Law and Policy at the Albany Law School's Government Law Center. A career federal prosecutor prior to joining the Government Law Center, Mr. Snyder served over 13 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.  He taught National Security Law, Current Legal Issues in Government and Fact Investigation at Albany Law School.  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.

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BRIAN TAYLOR (return to top)

Brian Taylor is an assistant 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). Taylor received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.

Professor Taylor teaches Politics of Russia and Comparative Civil-Military Relations, at the graduate level, and Politics and the Military and Politics of Russia at the undergraduate level.

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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. 

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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. Wallerstein previously served as Vice President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where he directed the Program on Global Security and Sustainability. Earlier, 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.

Dean Wallerstein teaches International Security and the Asymmetric Uses of Force.

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