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Alumni Archive
Alumni Spotlights
Awards and Promotions
Publications
SSP Alumni Reception 2008
SSP Alumni Reception 2007
Alumni Spotlights
Alumnae Spotlight: Whitney Raas
Alumnus Spotlight: Geoffrey Kemp
Alumnus Spotlight: Daryl G. Press
Alumnae Spotlight: Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki
Alumnus Spotlight: Eric J. Labs
Alumnus Spotlight: Fred Kaplan
Awards and Promotions
Catherine McArdle Kelleher has received the 2007 Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service. This award is given to a scholar who has been active in national security affairs both as an academic and as a public servant.
Vanda Felbab-Brown is the recipient of the APSA's 2007 Harold D. Laswell Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public policy. The title of her dissertation is "Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Substances on Military Conflict."
Boaz Atzili has won the APSA's 2007 Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the field of international security. The title of his dissertation is "Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors."
Alumni Publications
Sarah Kenyon Lischer, "Security and Displacement in Iraq: Responding to the Forced Migration Crisis," International Security, 33, 2 (Fall 2008) pp 95-119.
Jennifer Lind, Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, Cornell University Press, 2008.
Christopher Twomey, "Lacunae in the Study of Culture in International Security," Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 29, no. 2 (August 2008), pp. 1-20.
Christopher Twomey, "Explaining Chinese Foreign Policy Toward North Korea," Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 17, No. 56 (August 2008) pp. 401-423.
Christopher Twomey, Editor, Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Eugene Gholz and Daryl Press, "All the Oil We Need,' New York Times, August 21, 2008.
Tim Wolters, "Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories," Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008) pp. 755-783.
Austin Long, "The Anbar Awakening," Survival, Vol. 50, No. 2, (April-May 2008) pp. 67-94.
Jeremy Pressman, Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics, Cornell University Press, 2008.
David Mendeloff, "'Pernicious History' as a Cause of National Misperceptions: Russia and the 1999 Kosovo War." Cooperation and Conflict 43, no. 1 (March 2008): 31-56.
Fred Kaplan, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, (Wiley, January 2008).
David Mendeloff and Fen Osler Hampson, "Intervention and the Nation-Building Debate." In Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, eds. Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, 679-99. Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
Christopher Twomey, "Distracted at the Creation: Washington's China Policy", Audits of the Conventional Wisdom, MIT Center for International Studies, October 2007.
Oliver Fritz and Col Gregory A. Hermsmeyer, "The US Air Force and Stability Operations Transformation", USAF Joint Forces Quarterly Issue 47 / 4th Quarter 2007, pp 128-134.
Taylor B. Seybolt, Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Charles A. "Bert" Fowler, Robert P. Haffa, Jr., James H. Patton, Jr., Jasper Welch, "Sustaining a Competitive Advantage for the Nation's Defense: Education, Technology, Acquisition, and the Defense Industrial Base." Northrop Grumman, 2007.
Laura Holgate, "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," in Atoms for Peace: A Future After Fifty Years, Joseph Pilat, ed., Woodrow Wilson Press, 2007.
Laura Holgate, "Nuclear Fuel Reserves: Some Outlines," Security Index No. 2 (82), Volume 13, Summer/Fall 2007.
Dan Lindley, Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Alan Kuperman has an op-ed in the April 4, 2007 edition of USA Today. The piece is titled "How can we deprive al-Qaeda of an Iraqi base? Arm moderate Sunnis."
MIT SSP Alumni Reception 2008
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On March 14, 2008, the Security Studies Program held its second annual alumni reception in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club. Barry Posen, the SSP Director, provided an update on the Program and thanked all those who have contributed to the SSP Founders' Fund and the SSP Directors' Fund. He also asked the assembled alumni to join him in thanking Magdalena Rieb for her service as program coordinator; she is moving on and moving up at MIT. Professor Posen spoke briefly on the theme of "Integration" as the watchword of SSP: integration of teaching, scholarship, and policy analysis; integration of civilian and military professionals in the study and practice of national security policy; and integration across disciplines and expertise to develop coherent understandings of complex national security problems. SSP also hopes to help our alumni reach out to each other as an integrated network, and to integrate our alumni with the current SSP family of faculty, researchers, and graduate students.
MIT SSP Alumni Reception 2007
On Monday, March 12, 2007, the MIT Security Studies Program hosted its annual alumni reception at the National Press Club in Washington DC. This year marked the beginning of a new Program initiative to keep in touch with its alumni, to help them keep in touch with each other, and with the Program's current graduate students. The meeting also marked the launch of two efforts to pay tribute to those who founded and nurtured SSP. On this great occasion Professor Posen announced two new funds: The MIT SSP Founders' Fund to honor Professors Jack Ruina, William Kaufmann and George Rathjens, and The MIT SSP Directors' Fund to honor subsequent generations of SSP leadership.
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