Security and Defense Experts
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Mr. Futori has been a Research Associate for the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 2011 to 2012. And he was a chairman of the Harvard Commemorative Cherry Tree Planting Initiative for the 100th anniversary of cherry trees given to the United States from Japan. During 2009-2011, Mr. Futori worked as a Visiting Fellow at th...
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Sixty years have passed since the day when in San Francisco representatives of 51 countries, by signing the Charter, laid the foundation of the United Nations, an organization that at the moment symbolized the success of freedom-loving nations in World War II and their determination to prevent the repetition of deadly conflicts in the future by means of peaceful cooperation. However, the debates a...
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies and Senior Research Associate, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University
EducationPh.D., International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Senior Historian, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
As the Cold War drew to its close, I was hired as a public historian to document, research, and write a historical report on how the United States government was preparing for and then conducting arms control inspections under the Intermediate-Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1989. A bilateral treaty with the Soviet Union, this precedent-setting arms reduction treaty mandated the elimination of 2,700 nucl...
Jane Harman resigned from Congress February 28, 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson Center as its first female Director, President and CEO. Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence and four on Homeland Security. She has made numerous Congressional f...
Vice-President for Operations and Compact Development, Millennium Corporation, Washington, DC
Professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also the Director of both the Center for Security Studies and of the Security Studies Program.
Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty-five years. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. He was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an a...