International Security Studies
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A journalist, Ilan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.
A 2007 – 2009 Journalism Fellow at The Asia Society, he was the recipient of the 2008 Lange-Taylor Prize, and was the recipient of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship, a Ruhr Grant from the University of Dortmund and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute. Last fall he was a journalis...
Professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also the Director of both the Center 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 adviser...
Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
My interest in biological weapons issues first emerged during my graduate work in the sciences at Princeton University, where I developed a side interest in science policy issues. During that time, I studied technical security issues under Frank von Hippel, a physics/policy professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. From this experience, I began my first forays into research on se...
Journalist/Author; Contributing Editor, Defense Technology International
Richard Whittle is a writer specializing in military affairs and author of The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey (Simon & Schuster, 2010). A Senior Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, Whittle is also a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, a regul...



