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Terrorism Response & Foreign Policy
American foreign policy has been singled out as a pivotal issue in the 2004 presidential campaign, and it is scheduled to be the sole focus of the Oct. 13 presidential debate at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. Faculty experts listed below are willing to discuss U.S. foreign policy issues as they relate to the 2004 campaign. For a more general list of faculty with expertise in international politics and policy issues, visit the main news topic list for International Politics.
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Thomas Schweich
Visiting Professor of Law and Ambassador in Residence
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Thomas Schweich served the Bush administration as the ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan, as the government's principal deputy assistant secretary (PDAS) for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and chief of staff to the U.S. Mission ...
Expertise: foreign policy, Afghanistan
Direct contact: (314) 935-3379
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tschweich@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Melissa Waters
Professor of Law
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Waters' research and teaching interests include foreign relations law, international law, international human rights law and international criminal law, comparative law, conflicts of law, civil procedure, and complex civil litigation. Her scholarly work focuses on the incorporation of international ...
Expertise: international law, foreign relations law, war on terrorism, conflicts of law, international human rights law, civil procedure
Direct contact: (314) 935-3458
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mawaters@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Monica Matthieu
Research Assistant Professor
Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...
Expertise: mental health services, trauma, veterans, suicide prevention and disaster
mental health
Direct contact: 314-935-7516
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mmatthieu@wustl.edu
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James Davis
Professor Emeritus of Political Science in Arts & Sciences
Davis, an expert on defense and public policy, health care policy, presidential campaigns and party platforms, is a close follower of current issues in politics. Davis has taught courses focusing on the presidency, military history and political literacy and is a frequent commentator on news events, ...
Expertise: presidency, campaigns, budget battles, American politics, military history, politics of war on terrorism, U.S. intelligence operations, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5828
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davis@artsci.wustl.edu
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Victor Le Vine
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Victor Le Vine is an expert on hostages, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and political problems of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Other areas of interest include international law and politics and ethnic politics. He has followed the situation in Iraq closely since well before the Gulf War and can ...
Expertise: politics, terrorism, guerrilla warfare, Middle East, Iraq, Africa, Liberia, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5867
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vlevine@artsci.wustl.edu
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Kiernan examines the history of genocide
Yale historian examines the history of genocide for the Assembly Series
Nov. 3,
2009 -- Yale historian Benedict Kiernan to speak on the history and telltale warning signs of genocide on Nov. 11 for the Holocaust Memorial Lecture.
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NIH extends biodefense funding
$37 million to extend regional biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research
June 24,
2009 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has extended funding for the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (MRCE), anchored at the School of Medicine. The center received a five-year, $37 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue to support basic and translational research in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest.
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Refining foreign policy
Former ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan available to discuss foreign policy priorities for the new president
Dec. 4,
2008 -- "Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan need to be top foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama," says Thomas Schweich, former ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan and visiting professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Schweich, the Special Representative for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is available to discuss foreign policy issues facing the next president.
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Japanese-American graduate recalls wartime ordeal
Associated Press
and 42 others
Sept. 1,
2009 -- Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when WUSTL agreed to take him in.
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Analysis: Obama tries evenhanded approach
Associated Press
and 51 others
June 8,
2009 -- Nancy Benac reports on Obama's Cairo speech in which he tried to explain the American mindset to Muslims and the world of Islam to Americans. Various experts comment on the speech, including WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields.
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Guarding the U.S.-Mexico border, live from suburban New York
CNN.com
and 1 others
March 12,
2009 -- A Web site funded by a grant from the state of Texas, allows people around the world to watch the U.S./Mexico border for illegal activity. WUSTL immigration law professor Stephen Legomsky comments.
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Briefing: A rocky start for war crimes world court
The Christian Science Monitor
March 6,
2009 -- The arrest warrant for Sudan's president for war crimes is indicative of the mounting pressure on the International Criminal Court to show results. Includes comments by WUSTL law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who was a delegate to the diplomatic conference at which the ICC was established.
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Fulfilling a father's dream
CNN Newsroom (national)
Feb. 11,
2009 -- Two Kenyan brothers are in this country studying to be doctors. They are also fulfilling their father's dream of building a clinic in their remote home village to fight AIDS, the disease that killed both of their parents. Milton Ochieng is a resident at WUSTL's medical school. Fred is at Vanderbilt.
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Under Obama, 'war on terror' catchphrase fading
Associated Press
and 18 others
Feb. 2,
2009 -- The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations. Includes comments by WUSTL English and American culture studies professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric.
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Obama Dips Into Think Tank for Talent
The Wall Street Journal online
Nov. 17,
2008 -- The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for the incoming Obama administration. Includes comments by WUSTL economics professor Murray Weidenbaum, who wrote a book on Washington think tanks.
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Military use of robots increases in U.S.
Xinhua News Agency (China)
and 2 others
Aug. 5,
2008 -- Robots are increasingly taking over more soldier duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, with predictions that as much as 30 percent of the U.S. Army will be robotic by 2020. Two WUSTL scientists, Bill Smart and Doug Few, are on the cutting edge of this new wave of technology.
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Bush Ex-Official Says Corrupt Afghans and a Hesitant Military Hinder Drug Fight
The New York Times
July 24,
2008 -- Corrupt Afghan officials, a reluctant military and divisions over policy, as much as the Taliban, have contributed to a failing policy to fight narcotics in Afghanistan, a former Bush administration official writes in an article in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. The author, Thomas Schweich, was the senior counternarcotics official in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for two years. He is now a visiting professor of law at WUSTL.
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Republicans tense as voter disillusionment sets in
USA Today
May 20,
2008 -- Iraq is one of several tides running against GOP candidates, driving away independent voters and some party faithful. Except for Missouri, independent voters in five Senate races polled by USA Today were swinging toward the Democrat. Party loyalty was stronger among Democrats than Republicans in every state but Ohio. Michael Minta, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, comments on how the stem cell research issue is dividing Republicans in Missouri.
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Drug Informant Fights Deportation
NPR Day to Day
Feb. 8,
2008 -- A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.
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A faith-based stop for the president
Chicago Tribune
and 1 others
Jan. 11,
2008 -- WUSTL American culture studies Professor Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's recent Mideast trip. "President Bush believes in a religion of dramatic revelations — his conversion and 9/11 being the most notable — in which a person's life is transformed or the world is changed," said WUSTL American culture studies professor Wayne Fields. "These moments ... are the sources of the important 'truths' which inform his understanding of life and shape his behavior as well as his rhetoric."
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Analysis: Bush recasts war rationale
Associated Press
and 38 others
Sept. 17,
2007 -- WUSTL English professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric, comments on President Bush's speech on Iraq.
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Ancient nomads offer insights to modern crises
The New York Times
and 1 others
Aug. 8,
2007 -- Every summer for the past eight years, WUSTL anthropologist Michael Frachetti has come to the desert steppe that rolls like endless yellow waves across this expansive Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan searching for evidence of a vast, connected nomadic society.
His work concerns Bronze Age nomads, and his scholarship is aimed purely at a historical understanding of how a preliterate society functioned more than 3,000 years ago. But his work coincides with a geopolitical reality that has important implications for American foreign policy makers: many of the countries that most trouble the West -- like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia -- have government institutions that reflect a nomadic past.
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To set a pullout date or not: That is the question
Minneapolis Star Tribune online
March 9,
2007 -- House Democrats propose a measure to require that U.S. troops be withdrawn from Iraq by fall of 2008. Minnesota's delegation, regardless of party affiliation, stays on the fence, in one instance citing that people's opinions are "all over the map."
WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith comments on Nancy Pelosi's strategy.
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Scientists find potential weakness in plague germ
Scientific American
and 3 others
Jan. 26,
2007 -- The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakness that could help make a particularly dangerous form easier to treat, according to a study published on Thursday.
There are periodic natural outbreaks of pneumonic plague like one that started in 2005 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There also is acute concern terrorists could harness the bacterium as an airborne germ warfare agent to spread pneumonic plague.
Writing in the journal Science, WUSTL scientists led by molecular microbiology professor William Goldman said experiments with mice showed that the onslaught of the bacterium slows markedly when the germ cannot use a key protein.
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Bush domestic proposals address some Democratic concerns but will still be a hard sell
Associated Press
and 17 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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Bush speech lacks knockout blow: analysts
Agence France Presse -- English
and 2 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders
NPR - Morning Edition
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.
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Political pros sharpen their knives in press release wars
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 5 others
July 26,
2006 -- Article on the increasingly common attack fare in news releases from political operatives desperate to spin news coverage to their advantage.
WUSTL political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields, who directs the American Culture Studies program, says these tactics threaten to drain the substance out of political debate.
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