Faculty
I. William Zartman, Director
Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution
zartman@jhu.edu

Author of Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts (2005) with Mohammed O. Maundi, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, and Kwaku Nuamah; Cowardly Lyons: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse (2005); Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (2005), edited with Cynthia J. Arnson; Editor of Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques (2005, revised edition); Getting it Done: Postagreement Negotiations and International Regimes (2003) with Bertram Spector; A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement (2002), with Francis Deng; Ripe for Resolution: Conflict in Africa (1985, 1989), The Practical Negotiator (1982).  Editor of Elusive Peace (1995), Collapsed States (1995), Cooperative Security (1995) and The 50% Solution (1974); editor of Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation (2001); co-editor (with Lewis Rasmussen) of Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques (2001) and (with Jeffrey Rubin) Power and Negotiation (2000); editor and co-author of SAIS Studies on Africa Series: Africa and Europe: The New Phase (1992), The Political Economy of the Ivory Coast (1984), The OAU After 20 Years (1984), Tunisia: The Political Economy of Reform (1991), The Political Economy of Morocco (1987), and The Political Economy of Nigeria (1983).

Consultant to Department of State; member, Council on Foreign Relations. Former head of the department of politics, New York University; Halevy Professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, 1995, 1997; Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1993-94; distinguished fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, 1993; president, Middle East Studies Association, 1981-83; president, American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Dr. Zartman received his Ph.D. in international relations from Yale University.

Adjunct Faculty

Pauline Baker, Esther Brimmer, Terrence Hopmann, Stephen Morrison, John Murray, Stewart Patrick, Eliza Patterson, Lawrence Scheinman, Taylor Seybolt, JP Singh, Saadia Touval

Pauline Baker
Pauline H. Baker is President of The Fund for Peace, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to preventing war and alleviating the conditions that cause conflict.  Dr. Baker also taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University, and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

A political scientist who earned her doctorate with distinction from UCLA in 1970, Dr. Baker did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University. From 1964 to 1975, she lived and worked in Nigeria, teaching at the University of Lagos. While in the country, she conducted a study of fifty years of political change in Africa’s largest city, Urbanization and Political Change: The Politics of Lagos (1970). She won a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to conduct research in Southern Africa and became a specialist in countries in political transformation. She has lectured widely, provided congressional testimony on U.S. policy, served as an overseas election observer, is author of books and articles, and has written several opinion pieces and appears in the media.

From 1996 to 1981, Dr. Baker served as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, serving as staff director of the Africa Subcommittee and covering issues concerning the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and South Asia. She also served as Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program, a nonpartisan educational forum for Members of Congress. Over 100 Senators and Representatives participated in colloquia she helped design and run, focused on issues concerning the new nations of the former Soviet Union, the environment, peacekeeping and economic change.

Dr. Baker was a research scientist at the Human Affairs Research Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she founded and ran a speakers series on South Africa that hosted over 110 meetings for the foreign policy community.

In 1996, Dr. Baker became the chief executive of The Fund for Peace. Under her leadership, the organization underwent a restructuring, shifting from projects that focused on Cold War issues to a strategic focus on internal conflict and state failure in the post-Cold War world. The Fund for Peace specializes in designing strategic approaches and practical solutions and tools to advance international security. It partners with governments, multinational organizations, civil society organizations and corporations around the world.  
In 2001, the American Institute of Philanthropy, a watchdog organization, gave The Fund for Peace its highest rating. Of the eleven charities listed in the category “Peace and International Relations,” only The Fund for Peace received an A+ rating. One of the Fund’s programs was selected as a feature in Results, a magazine published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York that profiles innovative activities that the foundation supports.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and various other professional organizations, Dr. Baker’s latest publications include “The Failed States Index,” in Foreign Policy, July/August 2005; “Getting it Right: U.S. Policy in South Africa,” in Debra Liang-Fenton, ed., Implementing U.S. Human Rights Policy (2003) and  “Conflict Resolution Versus Democratic Governance: Divergent Paths to Peace?” in Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aal, eds., Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict (2000).

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Esther Brimmer
Deputy Director and Director of Research for the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS.

Author of “Redefining European Security? Insights from United States, European Union and German Assistance to the Russian Federation 1991–2000” (2002 report); “Third Time Right: Haiti,” in Breaking the Cycle: A Framework for Conflict Intervention (1997); “Some Issues of Principle: The Case of British Telecom,” co-author, in Public Enterprise at the Crossroads (1991).

Former member of the Office of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State; special assistant to the under secretary of State for Political Affairs; senior associate with the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict; DAAD Research Fellow with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; legislative analyst for the Democratic Study Group of the U.S. House of Representatives; management consultant for McKinsey & Company; taught at George Washington University and the Stanford-in-Washington Program; current member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Women in International Security.

Dr. Brimmer received her Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University.

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Terrence Hopmann
P. Terrence Hopmann is Professor of Political Science and Research Director of the Program on Global Security of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Hopmann received his B. A. in 1964 from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1969 from Stanford University. 

Professor Hopmann's primary research and teaching interests concern international negotiation and conflict resolution, and his major book entitled The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1996.  He is also the author of numerous theoretical articles on the negotiation and conflict resolution process, especially on the application of behavioral science concepts to the study and analysis of international diplomacy.  He is co-author with Daniel Druckman of "Behavioral Aspects of Negotiations on Mutual Security," in Philip E. Tetlock et al. (eds.), Behavior, Society and Nuclear War, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 1991).
His substantive research focus has been primarily on issues of security in Europe, especially on negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe and in the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe.  His monograph on Building Security in Post-Cold War Eurasia: The OSCE and U.S. Foreign Policy was published by the US Institute of Peace in its Peaceworks series in 1999.  He also completed a major study on “The OSCE: Its Contribution to Conflict Prevention and Resolution” for the National Academy of Sciences included in their volume on International Conflict Resolution after the Cold War (National Academy Press, 2000).  He is also in the process of writing a larger book exploring the full range of OSCE activities in conflict prevention, management, and resolution and post-conflict security-building since the end of the Cold War.
Hopmann's research recently focused as well on the security implications of the disintegration of the Soviet empire and of the developing relations among the semi-sovereign entities that have emerged from the former Soviet Union across a broad range of issues.  He is co-author of a monograph based on this program entitled Integration and Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Regional and Global Security" published as an occasional paper by the Watson Institute, and he is currently editing a book based on this project.  He is also principal investigator of a project supported by the Program on the Prevention of Deadly Conflicts of the Carnegie Corporation of New York entitled "The Management of Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Can Deadly Conflicts Be Prevented?"

Professor Hopmann’s recent articles on arms control include "From MBFR to CFE: Negotiating Conventional Arms Control in Europe," in Richard Dean Burns (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Scribner's, 1993); "Arms Control and Arms Reductions, View I," in Victor A Kremenyuk (ed.), International Negotiations: Analysis, Approaches, Issues (Jossey-Bass, 1991); and "Mutual Security and Arms Reductions in Europe," in Richard Smoke and Andrei Kortunov (eds.), Mutual Security: A New Approach to Soviet-American Relations (St. Martin's Press, 1991).

He has been a research fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Geneva and twice has been a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Belgium.  He served from 1984-92 as a frequent consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Foreign Ministries of Mexico and Brazil, and to the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.

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Stephen Morrison
Stephen Morrison joined CSIS as director of the Africa Program in January 2000 from the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State where he was responsible for African affairs and global foreign assistance issues. In the past year, he led the State Department's initiative on illicit diamonds and chaired an interagency review of the U.S. government's crisis humanitarian programs. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, has been an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies since 1994, and is a graduate magna cum laude from Yale College. During 1993-1995, at then USAID administrator J. Brian Atwood's request, Morrison conceptualized and launched USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives, where he served as its first deputy director, created post-conflict field programs in Angola and Bosnia, and worked on other programs in Rwanda and Haiti. From early 1992 until mid-1993 he served as the democracy and governance adviser to the USAID mission and U.S. embassies in Ethiopia and Eritrea. In the period 1987-1991 he was a senior staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa.

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John Murray

John Murray is a Senior Consultant with CMPartners, recently retired after six years with The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he held positions as Professor of Practice in International Relations and Associate Director of Maxwell’s Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts.  From 1982-1992, he had served as a founder and then President of the Conflict Clinic, Inc., a negotiation and mediation firm established with the support of Roger Fisher at the Harvard Negotiation Project. 

In addition to consulting independently and as an associate of CMI Washington/Carolina, he teaches part-time at the Maxwell School’s International Relations Program in Washington, DC.  His teaching specialties include negotiation and mediation theory and practice, especially in community and international disputes, and interagency coordination.  In his consulting work, he helps public and non-governmental organizations and individuals deal with disputes and conflict situations, providing negotiation and mediation training and advice and facilitation assistance, and is currently providing long-term assistance to the Palestinian Negotiation Support Unit in preparation for permanent status negotiations. 

Mr. Murray has a background in the military (US Marine Corps 1962-65), in elective office at the state level (Iowa State Senator 1973-82), as a practicing lawyer in New York City (1968-70) and Ames, Iowa (1972-82), law school professor (Texas Tech Law School 1982-87), and political science professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (1993-98). 

Mr. Murray received a Bachelors Degree with Honors in Government from Cornell University (1961), a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Government from Columbia University (1962), and a J.D. Degree from the University of Iowa College of Law (1968), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Iowa Law Review.

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Stewart Patrick
Dr. Stewart Patrick is a Research Fellow and Director of the Project on Weak States and U.S. National Security with the Center for Global Development where he conducts research, writing, and policy engagement on the intersection between weak states, global threats, and U.S. National Security.  Previously, Dr. Patrick worked with the Secretary of State's Policy Planing Staff, at the U.S. Departmen of States where he was the lead staff member for U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and global/transnational issues.  His portfolio responsibilities included analysis and recommendations for U.S. policies on failed/failing states and post-conflict reconstruction; sustainable development; refugees and migration; international law enforceent; and global health affairs.  Dr. Stewart hasa also taught at NYU.  Dr. Stewart holds a D. Phil and M. Phil in international relations from Oxford University.

Besides writing numerous articles and chapters, Dr. Stewart is author of Multilateralism and US Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (2002); and Good Intentions: Plegdges of Aid for Post-Conflict Recovery (2000).

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Eliza Patterson
Eliza Patterson,  an attorney, has worked on international economic law and policy for over twenty years. After graduating from Harvard Law School she entered private practice where she represented foreign corporations seeking to trade with and invest in the United States. She entered government service to  work for the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service, representing the Department in the inter-agency trade policy formation process and helping to negotiate agreements with the EU and Japan. Latter she worked at the International Trade Commission as the special assistant to the Chairman and the Deputy Director of the Office of International Liaison. She has also been a resident scholar at the WTO in Geneva, the Washington Representative for international trade policy for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and an adjunct professor at several universities and law schools.

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Lawrence Scheinman
Dr. Lawrence Scheinman is currently Distinguished Professor of International Policy of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. He is the former Assistant Director (Assistant Secretary) of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control, a post to which he was appointed by the President in 1994 and held through late 1997. He was Professor of Government (International Law and Relations) at Cornell University from 1974-1996 and served as Director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society as well as Director and later Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program. Dr. Scheinman previously held tenured posts at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles before coming to Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, a J D. from New York University School of Law and a BA. from Brandeis University. He is admitted to practice before the bar of the State of New York. 

Dr. Scheinman has been involved in international nuclear and technology related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for several decades. He served as Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the Office of International Policy Planning at the Energy Research and Development Administration (1976); as Principal Deputy to the Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and  Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary (1977, 1978  with particular responsibility for dealing with US-Japanese peaceful nuclear relations); as Special Assistant to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nonproliferation and arms control matters (1986-1988, 1992); as Counselor for Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy (late 1993-early 1994) and as Assistant Director of ACDA (1994-1997). In that capacity he was one of the US Delegation Heads at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference and subsequent PrepCom and US Head of Delegation to the NPT Depositary Meetings with the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a member of the Core Group of the Programme for the Promotion of Non-Proliferation; of the Advisory Committee of the Atlantic Council for the United States Non-Proliferation Project; of the Washington Council on Nonproliferation; and of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Scientists. He was a member of the Department of State Advisory Board on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from 1998-2001, and from 1981-1987 served on the Department of State's Advisory Committee on Oceans, Environment and International Scientific Affairs. Dr. Scheinman has been the Visiting Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1969-70) while on leave from the University of Michigan, and Fellow of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1967-1968) on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is included in American Men of Science and Who's Who in the East. In 1997 he received the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's highest tribute, the Distinguished Honor Award.

Dr. Scheinman has published extensively in the fields of non-proliferation, arms control and international nuclear and technology cooperation. His books and monographs; include Atomic Energy Policy in France Under the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1965); EURA-TOM: Nuclear Integration in Europe (Carnegie Endowment, 1967);  Nuclear Safeguards, The Peaceful Atom and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Carnegie Endowment, 1969); The Non-Proliferation Role of the International Atomic Energy: A Critical Assessment (Resources for the Future, 1985); The IAEA and World Nuclear Order (Resources for the Future, 1987); Non-Proliferation and the IAEA: A US-Soviet Agenda (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985); Assuring the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Safeguards System (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1992).

Recent articles and essays include “The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for Nonproliferation,” Disarmament Diplomacy, 76 (March/April 2004); “Shadow and Substance: Securing the Future of Atoms for Peace”  IAEA Bulletin  (December, 2003);  “Israel, India and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime,”  [with Marvin Miller] Arms Control Today  (December, 2003)  “Transcending Sovereignty in the Management and Control of Nuclear Materials” in  IAEA Bulletin, (December,. 2001) and in Journal of Nuclear Materials Management  (Winter, 2002);  “U.S. Nuclear Policy, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Retrospect and Prospect,” in Disarmament in the 21^st Century: Appeal from Hiroshima (Hiroshima Peace Institute Press, 2002);    “The Non-Proliferation Regime and Fissile Materials”(in P. Leventhal, ed.  Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Can We Have One Without The Other?   Brassey Press, 2002);    “Implications of the War against Terrorism for the Non-Proliferation Regime” in M. Barletta (ed)  After 9/11: Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation (MIIS/CNS Occasional Paper #8, 2002);    “Nuclear Weapons and Peace in the Middle East” in S. Spiegel (Ed) Dynamics of Middle East Proliferation (Mellen Press, 2002);   "Arms Control Treaties and Confidence-Building Measures as Management Tools" (with M.Krepon) in Crocker et al (eds) Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing Conflict (Washington, USIP, 2001);  "Regimes, Defense and Deterrence" (The CBW Conventions Bulletin, June, 2000) - a longer version appears as "Possible Responses to Chemical and Biological Weapon Attacks" in J.Goldblat (ed) Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb ( London, I.B.Tauris; 2000);   "Politics and Pragmatism: The Challenges for NPT 2000" (Arms Control Today, April 2000);   "Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime," (PPNN Issue Brief 16, May, 1999);   "Pragmatic Steps Toward Nuclear Disarmament" (with T.Hirsch) in M. Jawhar Hassan, A Pacific Peace: Issues and Responses (ISIS, Malaysia, 1998).;   "Almost a Success Story: Non-Proliferation, Retrospect and Prospect" (Foreign Service Journal, February, 1998);  "Challenges and Opportunities in the Post NPT Conference Environment" (in Beier and Mataija, eds. Verification, Compliance and Confidence Building: The Global and Regional Interface, 1996);    "Modalities for Verifying a Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free Zone" (in Spiegel and Pervin, eds. Practical Peacemaking in the Middle East, 1995); "Regional Imperatives and Global Non-Proliferation: The Challenge of Reconciliation," (Pacifica Review, 1994); "Lessons from Post-War Iraq for the International Full-Scope Safeguards Regime," Arms Control Today, 1993); "The International Atomic Energy Agency and Arms Control" (in Burns, ed. Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, 1993); "Managing the Coming Glut of Nuclear Weapons Material," Arms Control Today, 1992; and "Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation in a Changing World Order, Security Dialogue (December, 1992).

Current projects include (1) a MacArthur Foundation funded study, “Technology Sharing and Non-Proliferation: A Critical History and Roadmap for the Future,”  (2) a study in conjunction with UNIDIR on the role of multilateral institutions in treaty verification in the 21st century with a focus on IAEA, OPCW, UNSCOM/UNMOVIC and regional institutions including ARF/ASEAN, OAU, OAS, OSCE; (3) regional security in Asia with a focus both on Japan, China and the US in the context of missile defense issues, and South Asia with emphasis on nuclear issues; (4) innovative strategies for dealing with the nuclear fuel cycle in the context of the NPT and (5) challenges to the effectiveness of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.

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Taylor Seybolt
Taylor Seybolt joined the Institute in 2002 as a program officer in the Grant Program. From 1999 to 2002 he was director of the Conflicts and Peace Enforcement Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Stockholm, Sweden. At SIPRI, Seybolt published on humanitarian intervention and the incidence of major armed conflicts worldwide. From 1997 to 1999 he was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote on humanitarian intervention, communal civil conflicts, and coordination among organizations during crisis response.

Seybolt received an Institute grant when he was at SIPRI to write a book on humanitarian intervention. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was awarded a dissertation fellowship funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Seybolt has given presentations and lectures in Austria, Bosnia, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United States and is a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

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JP Singh

Dr. J. P. Singh teaches and researches international trade and negotiations, international development, qualitative research methods, and international cultural policies.

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Saadia Touval
Saadia Touval is a Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS, teaching courses on multilateral negotiation and alliance politics. He formerly served as Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He also taught as a Visiting Professor at several universities in the United States, including Brown, Cornell and Harvard. In 1993-94 he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington.

Dr. Touval has written extensively on conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, and on mediation in international politics. His books include Somali Nationalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963); The Boundary Politics of Independent Africa (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972); The Peace Brokers: Mediators in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1979 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars, 1990-1995 (Palgrave 2002); and (with I. W. Zartman, editors and contributing authors), International Mediation in Theory and Practice (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1985).

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