The FY 2013 defense budget request will raise many questions about the ability of the U.S. to protect its national security interests abroad. American University Prof. Gordon Adams, former associate director for national security and international affairs at OMB in the Clinton administration is available for analysis and reaction.
Nova Southeastern University subject matter expert Dustin Berna, Ph.D., is available to speak with media regarding the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and the impact it will have globally.
Iago Gocheleishvili is a Cornell University lecturer of Persian Studies, and has worked with the U.S.-sponsored Central Asia and Caspian Basin Project as an expert on the Iranian world. He comments on the recent sanctions by Western powers against Iran.
University of Alabama at Birmingham award-winning international affairs expert says if Greece's government falls, it will show how a small country with a small economy can cause serious harm to an economic union.
This year’s UN General Assembly Heads of State meeting has no shortage of controversy from issues ranging from a Palestinian bid for membership to new leaders who emerged from Arab Spring countries not to mention Iran’s firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the financial crises in the U.S. and Europe.
Key differences in how Muslims were perceived before 9/11 in the United States and Western Europe played a key role in how much — or how little — attitudes of Muslims have changed there since 9/11, says John R. Bowen, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
As the U.S. and European economies destabilize under the pressure of debt, the global economy is leaning heavily on China.
“Consumers — historically and especially during times of economic decline — value price over quality,” says Karen Hogan, Ph.D., professor of finance at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. “China offers the U.S. and European economies cheap labor and affordable imports; we’re hooked on it.”
The violence against peaceful protesters in Libya and Syria drives home the need for an international convention for the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity, says Leila Nadya Sadat, JD, international law expert and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law. “The concerted efforts of the international community have helped to bring about a resolution of the Libyan situation, but the situation in Syria continues to deteriorate,” she says. “Reports of civilian roundups in Syria are reminiscent of Nazi roundups of the Jews during WWII. History shows that widespread human rights abuses lead to ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and even genocide.”
Steven C. Kyle, associate professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, comments about the implications of a U.S. government default if Congress and the White House fail to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2.
U.S. recognition of the rebel leadership in Libya as the country's legitimate government is a major step in establishing a new order in the war-torn country, according to an Indiana University expert on international legal affairs.
Rabia Akhtar, a doctoral student in security studies at Kansas State University and Fulbright scholar from Pakistan, recently analyzed one component in what is an almost high-stakes blinking game between Pakistan and India. Her analysis focuses on the strategic and uneasy peace between India and Pakistan that centers on each country's nuclear weapons stock.
U.S.-Pakistan relations are at a boiling point and must be restored to pre-tension levels says American University Expert, Akbar Ahmed. Ahmed was Pakistan’s former High Commissioner to Britain. He has advised incoming CIA Director General Petraeus and high-ranking officials in the Obama administration on Islam and foreign policy.
Barry Strauss, chair of the Department of History at Cornell University and an author of 11 books on military history, comments on the long-term implications of President Barak Obama’s plan for a substantial drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan.
The debate over whether President Obama has the authority under the War Powers Resolution to continue U.S. military involvement in Libya has come down to interpretation of the word “hostilities.” A UH Law Center expert on international law is available to comment on the issue, which he calls "highly problematic for U.S. military personnel."
In the two-volume An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide, Samuel Totten tells the stories of the men and women who have lost loved ones, homes and hope in the crisis in Darfur.
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University professor of history, is a leading historian of the Vietnam War. He is the author of several books on the Vietnam War, including “Twilight War,” to be released by Random House in early 2012. Here, he comments on the official release of the Pentagon Papers.
Gordon Adams’s article appearing in Foreign Policy, "Unfinished Business: Ten huge challenges Bob Gates leaves behind," outlines challenges Panetta must solve as secretary of defense. Adams cautions “Panetta is going to have to get tougher, a lot tougher. . . .” to tame a bloated defense budget .
Peru's runoff election between Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala is widely viewed as a crossroads. The outcome of the election affects not only the country’s own future but for how it relates to its neighbors and the hemisphere as a whole. American University experts available for analysis.
American University Professor Boaz Atzili argues President Obama's resurrected 1967 border proposal presents an historic opportunity for Israel to cement international recognition in his Huffington Post article. Atzili further asserts backing of Abbas's UN gambit by Obama and Israel.
Jens Ohlin, professor of law at Cornell University, comments on the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.
American University experts Akbar Ahmed, Clovis Maksoud, and Ghiyath Nakshbendi possess over 100 years of combined experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether serving as ambassadors, financial experts, or journalists, they can offer expert analysis of Obama’s Mideast speech today.
Anthony Wanis-St. John is a member of the faculty of American University’s Peace and Conflict Resolution program. His new book, Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process (Syracuse 2011) explains Back Channel Negotiations from the standpoint of the Israel-Palestinian decades’ long conflict and how the model is used elsewhere.
Criminal Justice Professor Jeffery Walker, whose expertise spans juvenile gang strategies to global security, sees the Arab Spring as the biggest threat to al-Qaida's survival.
In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, Gordon Adams, a professor at American University’s School of International Service, calls for more Pentagon budget cuts. Adams is a former associate director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Four Kansas State University members are available to talk about the following in relation to the death of Osama bin Laden: Military history/relations and handling of bodies during war, terrorism, cultural understandings.
The targeting of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was consistent with the U.N. charter and U.S. law and not an illegal assassination as some critics have argued, two national security law experts affirmed.
Professors from University of Kentucky's College of Arts and Sciences and Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce are available to comment on the recent death of Osama bin Laden and its impact on the war on terrorism and the psyche of the American public.
American University, ranked by Princeton Review as the most politically active campus in the nation, has professors available to provide expertise and commentary on President Barack Obama’s announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death.
“This is the beginning of a new day. The importance of the individual voice has been heightened,” says Wake Forest University social media expert and professor of communication Ananda Mitra. It began when Sohaib Athar in Pakistan unwittingly live-tweeted the Bin Laden raid hours prior to the news breaking on social networking sites.
Florida State University’s nationally regarded experts in terrorism, trauma, communications and economics are ready to answer media questions and provide analysis of the historical, political, cultural and economic ramifications of the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Under Osama bin Laden's leadership, al Qa'ida has been one of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, responsible for more than 10,000 deaths and injuries in a dozen years - finds a new analysis by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland (START).
Editors: In response to news late Sunday (May 1) that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks had died in a firefight with U.S. forces at his hideout in Pakistan, here is information from experts at Indiana University Bloomington who can offer additional perspective.
University of Maryland experts in terrorism, international security, politics, and more, can discuss the ramifications of the death of Osama Bin Laden - including the grim body count from his attacks, the areas of greatest vulnerability in the future, how the U.S. has improved connecting the dots, and the risks of summary assassination.
Vincent A. Ferraro, a specialist in international relations and American foreign policy at Mount Holyoke College, is available to comment on what Osama Bin Laden’s death means for the future of U.S. relations with both Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as the impact that Bin Laden’s death will have on the war on terror.
Faculty experts and scholars from the University at Buffalo are available to comment on the political, cultural, international and economic impact of Osama bin Laden’s death.
Dean Alexander, director of the Homeland Security Research Program and associate professor of homeland security in Western Illinois University's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, has extensively lectured and published about terrorism, security, and legal issues.
Dr. John C. McManus, a military historian and the author of “Grunts,” a book about the importance of ground forces in recent U.S. military history, is available to discuss the role highly trained “boots on the ground” played in Sunday’s killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Experts from the University of New Hampshire are available to discuss the national security, foreign policy, and political implications of the death of Osama bin Laden.
An authority on terrorism and nationalism at the University of Indianapolis says the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is worth celebrating, but it should not distract the United States from the ideological struggle it still faces in the Islamic world. Douglas Woodwell, Ph.D., is available for interviews.
Americans maintain a vexed relationship with aristocracy. We pride ourselves in not having one, but our fantasy lives are completely peopled by royals, according to James Krasner, professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. So it’s no surprise that Americans are eagerly anticipating the wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton this week.
With over a dozen states considering banning Sharia (Islamic law) in their courts, laws governing other countries are facing increased scrutiny. “This is emblematic of U.S. fears about international law,” says Leila Nadya Sadat, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. “International law has become a ‘whipping boy’ for the ills that are being felt because of globalization.” Sadat say that this is unfortunate because the United States proudly led the trial of the major German leaders at the end of World War II at Nuremberg.
A new study shows that 17 percent of the United States’ imported oil for transportation could be replaced by biofuel made from algae. Researchers also determined that the water needed to grow that algae could be substantially reduced by cultivating it in the nation’s sunniest and most humid regions.
In this opinion essay on the Libyan conflict, international relations expert Douglas Woodwell of the University of Indianapolis argues, contrary to conventional wisdom, that the Afghanistan example calls for the U.S. to arm and support the Libyan rebels.