Staff
Richard Weitz, Working Group Leader
Dylan Lee Lehrke, Chief of Staff
Christine Gilbert, Senior Analyst
Elizabeth Zolotukhina, Head Editor
Case Study Authors
Aaron Mannes, University of Maryland, The Vice President and Foreign Policy: From “the most insignificant office” to Gore as Russia Czar
Alex Douville, Iran-Contra Affair
Alexander von Rosenbach, North Korea’s Nuclear Programs and American Policy Formation
Allison Bukowski, The 1998 Bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: The Failure to Prevent and Effectively Respond to an Act of Terrorism
Aref N. Hassan, The Reagan Administration’s Response to the Crisis in Lebanon
Brett Swaney, Reaction to Sputnik under the Eisenhower Administration
Carlene Gong, U.S. Interagency Response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Carnes Lord, Naval War College, Public Diplomacy and Psychological Operations (Cold War)
Carolyn R. Schintzius, Reversing the Revolution: U.S. Intervention in Guatemala in 1954
Celina B. Realuyo and Michael B. Kraft, U.S. Interagency Efforts to Combat International Terrorism Through Foreign Capacity Building Programs
Christine Gilbert, The Kennedy Administration and American Military Assistance to Laos; The Interagency, Eisenhower, and the House of Saud
Christopher D. Mallard, The Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), NSPD 44, DOD Directive 3000.05
Christopher J. Lamb with Alexandra A. Singer, Countering Terrorist Financing
Christopher J. Lamb with Nicholas J. Moon, Somalia: Did Leaders or the System Fail?
Daniel Gibbons, The Andean Initiative and the Transnational Social Contract, 1989-1994
Daniel R. Langberg, Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
David Kobayashi, Integrating Civilian and Military Efforts in Provincial Reconstruction Teams
David Wrathall, U.S. Response to Humanitarian Disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Central America
Dennis Barlow, America’s Rejection of the Ottawa Treaty
Devin J. Lynch, HIV/AIDS Mitigation Efforts in Africa and U.S. National Security Policy: An Analysis of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Don Rassler, Balancing Democracy Promotion and the Global War on Terror in Pakistan
Dwight A. Ink, 1964 Alaskan Earthquake
Dylan Lee Lehrke, The 1970s Energy Crisis and National Energy Policy Creation; The Banality of the Interagency: U.S. Inaction in the Rwanda Genocide
Edmund LaCour, The Bush Administration’s Democracy Promotion Efforts in Egypt
Edward A. Corcoran, U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Meets the Pakistani Weapons Program
Elin Gursky and Sweta Batni, Failures at the Nexus of Health and Homeland Security: The 2007 Andrew Speaker Case
Erin C. Hoffman, U.S. Response to the 2001 Anthrax Incidents
Evan Minsberg, U.S.Central Asian Engagement
Henrik Bliddal, The 2003 U.S. Intervention in Liberia
Hsueh-Ting Wu, Brinkmanship in the Straits: The 1995-1996 China-Taiwan Missile Crisis
The Jessica D. Tacka, Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Irina Ghaplanyan, U.S. Strategy in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Jamie Boulding, Countering Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions, 2002-2008
Jay Bachar, The Carter Administration and the Iranian Hostage Crisis Rescue Mission
Jesse Paul Lehrke, Losing Iran: The Accidental Abandonment of an Ally through Interagency Failure
Jessie Daniels, Pre-9/11 Intelligence and the Creation of the Director of National Intelligence; The U.S. Role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
John Shortal, Center of Military History, Response to Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Joseph J. Collins, Choosing War: An Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq
Joseph Washecheck, Operation Urgent Fury: The 1983 U.S. Intervention in Grenada
Juliana Geran Pilon and Nicholas J. Cull, The Crisis in U.S. Public Diplomacy: The Demise of USIA
Justin Logan, U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East after 9/11
Kimberly Nastasi Klein, Establishing U.S. Africa Command
Marianna I. Gurtovnik, The Suez Crisis: Fighting the Cold War in the Middle East
Matthew Korade, The Counternarcotics Effort in Afghanistan
Matthew P. Jennings, SALT I: A Lesson in Security Policy
Michelle Van Cleave, The NCIX and the National Counterintelligence Mission
Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, Promises and Pitfalls of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
Patrick Mendis and Leah Green, U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Paul Delventhal, U.S. Counter-Terrorism Operations in Somalia and the Horn of Africa, Post-2001
Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer, Japan after WWII
Rebecca White, The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Close Call Avoided by Successful Strategizing
Richard Chasdi, An Analysis of Counterterror Practice Failure: The Case of the Fadlallah Assassination Attempt
Richard W. Stewart, Center of Military History, CORDS and the Vietnam Experience
Richard Weitz, East Timor, 1999; Managing U.S.-China Crises
Rozlyn Engel, The Asian Financial Crisis: Managing Complex Threats to Global Economic Stability
Ryan Arant, Building and Maintaining the Gulf War Coalition
Sebastian Lederer, The Berlin Blockade: A First Test for the National Security Act
Sheila Ronis, Future Defense Industry Scenario
Taylor V. Smith, Bay of Pigs Debacle: Failed Interaction of the Intelligence Community and the Executive
Thomas Dybicz, “Improvising Furiously”: The Effort to Train Iraq’s Police
Tianchi Wu, Global Warming and National Security
Todd Lorimor, The Role of the National Security Adviser and NSC in the Establishment of Relations with the People’s Republic of China
Tristan Abbey, The 2002 Coup Attempt against Hugo Chavez
Vicki J. Rast and Dylan Lee Lehrke, Interagency Paralysis: Stagnation in Bosnia and Kosovo
William K. Warriner, Civil-Military Coordination and the 1994 Intervention in Haiti