IDDS Board and Officers 2005

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr Judith Reppy, Chair, Dr Hayward Alker, Dr Joshua Cohen, Dr Bruce Cumings, Amb. (ret.) Jonathan Dean, Dr Matthew Evangelista, Dr Natalie Goldring, Dr Robert Legvold, Dr Philip Morrison (deceased April 2005)
OFFICERS
Amb. (ret.) Jonathan Dean, President; Dr Joshua Cohen, Treasurer; Alex Brown, Secretary; Ann Lakhdhir, UN NGO Representative; Dr Randall Caroline Forsberg, Executive Director

Dr JUDITH REPPY, BOARD CHAIR
Founding board member (1980)
Dr Reppy received a PhD in Economics at Cornell University in 1972, and has taught at Cornell since that time. She is currently a professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. Her recent research concerns issues surrounding bioterrorism and biosecurity. Over the last three decades Reppy has studied the defense industry in the USA and Europe, technology transfer, dual-use technology, and security and peace issues. She has been a leader in the US and international Pugwash organization, and has participated in many joint research and education projects with scholars from other countries. Her recent publications include: The Earth Sciences in the Cold War (2003), Regulating Biotechnology in the Age of Homeland Security (2003), The United States and Asian Security (2002), and The Place of the Defense Industry in National Systems of Innovation (2000).

Dr HAYWARD ALKER
Former President and founding board member (1980)
Dr Alker is the John A McCone Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations. He taught at Yale, where he received a PhD, from 1963 to 1968, and at MIT from 1968 to 1995. Alker is currently co-authoring two books, one on World Order Debates, the other on Conducting Social Inquiry. In addition to theoretical studies of international relations, social science, and artificial intelligence, Alker has worked for many years on the design and development of information resources for anticipating, preventing, managing violent intergroup and interstate conflicts around the world. This includes the development of qualitative and quantitative databases on past and present conflict-handling successes and failures, the empowerment of networks of scholars and activists concerned with conflict prevention and management, and the development of new computer-assisted information handling, analysis and forecasting tools. Alker’s most recent books are Journey Through Conflict (co-authored, 2001); and Rediscoveries and Reformulations: Humanistic Methodologies of International Studies (1996). Alker has also published scores of articles in quarterly journals including the American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and American Society for International Law. He has also served on many scholarly boards and advisory groups.

Dr JOSHUA COHEN, TREASURER
Board member since 1993
Dr Cohen, a professor of political philosophy, has a joint appointment in the Philosophy and Political Science Departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of the Humanities. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cohen has written extensively on issues of democratic theory, particularly on the theory of deliberative democracy, and the implications of that idea for issues of personal liberty, freedom of expression, electoral finance, and new forms of associative and direct-democratic participation. He is currently working on issues of global justice, including the foundations of human rights, distributive fairness, and supra-national democratic governance. Cohen is also co-editor of Boston Review, and has edited more than 20 books that have grown out of forums that initially appeared in Boston Review, including For Love of Country?, Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?, What’s Wrong With a Free Lunch?, and Islam and Toleration.

Dr BRUCE CUMINGS
Board member since 2001
Dr Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in Modern Korean History, East Asian Political Economy; and International History. His research and teaching focus on 20th century international history, US-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, modern Korean history, and American foreign relations. Dr. Cuming’s recent publications include: Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria (2004), North Korea: Another Country (2003), Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American East-Asian Relations (1999), and Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1998),and Origins of the Korean War, Vol I (1981) and Vol II (1990), He is currently finishing a book called Industrial Behemoth: The Northeast Asian Political Economy in the 20th Century.

AMB. (RET.) JONATHAN DEAN, PRESIDENT
Board member since 1990
Amb. Dean is an Adviser on Global Security Issues at the Union of Concerned Scientists, with expertise in NATO and UN missions, and international security. Dean works on issues of national and European security, arms control, and international peacekeeping. He joined the Union of Concerned Scientists in1984, after 30 years as a career foreign service officer in the Department of State, concluding with appointments as the US deputy negotiator for the quadripartite agreement on Berlin (1968-1971) and the US deputy representative and later ambassador to the NATO-Warsaw Pact force reduction talks in Vienna (1973-1981). Dean has published op-ed pieces in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun, and articles in quarterly journals including Foreign Policy, International Security, and Foreign Affairs. He has the author of three books, most notably Ending Europe’s Wars (1995), Meeting Gorbachev's Challenge: How to Build Down the Nato-Warsaw Pact Confrontation (1990), and Watershed in Europe: Dismantling the East-West Military Confrontation (1986). A graduate of the National War College, Dean holds a PhD in political science from George Washington University. During World War II, he saw combat infantry service from Normandy to the Elbe. After serving in several foreign service posts in Europe and elsewhere, he returned to Bonn in 1968 as the deputy US negotiator quadripartite agreement on Berlin, signed in 1971.

MATTHEW EVANGELISTA
Board member since 1993
Dr Evangelista is a professor of government and the Director of Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. His current teaching and research interests focus on the relationship between gender, nationalism, and war; ethical and legal issues in international affairs (particularly, just war theory and international humanitarian law); transnational relations; and separatist movements. Dr. Evangelista has authored several books, including Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (1999), and The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (2002), which assessed the durability of Russia’s system of “asymmetric federalism” and its consequences for international security. He has also published scores of articles in professional journals. While a senior at Harvard in 1981, Evangelista was one of the first interns at IDDS, where, drawing on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, he wrote a paper on Soviet military capabilities and objectives in the immediate aftermath of War II (1945–1953).

NATALIE GOLDRING
Board member since 1990
Dr Goldring is Executive Director of the Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is an expert on a wide range of international security topics including conventional and nuclear weapons, the international arms trade, nonproliferation, small arms and light weapons, and security issues in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. She is the immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and is a consultant to the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs. She serves on the boards of Women in International Security and Student Pugwash, as well as the editorial board of the Nonproliferation Review. Goldring was previously Executive Director of the Program on Global Security and Disarmament at the University of Maryland. Before that she had worked with non-governmental organizations for more than fifteen years, most recently as Deputy Director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), where she was the founding director of BASIC's Project on Light Weapons.

ROBERT LEGVOLD
Board member since 1993
Dr Legvold is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he specializes in the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He was Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia from 1986 to 1992. Before that he served for six years as Senior Fellow and Director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. For most of the preceding decade, he taught at Tufts University, where he received his PhD in 1967. Legvold’s research interests focus on the foreign policies of Russia, Ukraine, and the other new states of the former Soviet Union, US relations with the post-Soviet states, and the impact of the post-Soviet region on the international politics of Asia and Europe. His most recent books are: Statehood and Security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution (co-authored, 2005); Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of National Security in Belarus and Ukraine (co-authored, 2004); Thinking Strategically: The Major Powers, Kazakhstan and the Central Asian Nexus (2002), Belarus at the Crossroads (co-authored, 1999), and Russian Security and the Euro-Atlantic Region (co-authored, 1999). He has also published extensively in scholarly journals. Legvold is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,and a member of the board or advisory board of the National Bureau of Asian and Soviet Research; the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the International Forum of the US-Russian Business Council; the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University; the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University; the Foundation for International Peace and Democracy led by Mikhail Gorbachev; Cambridge Soviet Paperbacks (Cambridge University Press); and Columbia’s Journal of International Affairs.

PHILIP MORRISON (deceased 22 April 2005)
Founding board member (1980)
A theoretical astrophysicist, Dr Morrison began teaching as a professor in the Cornell University Physics Department in 1946. In 1965 he moved to the Physics Department at MIT, where he was soon promoted to Institute Professor. In 1942, a physics post-Doc who had done his thesis under Robert Oppenheimer at Berkley, Morrison joined the Manhattan Project, working first at the University of Chicago and then at Los Alamos. He participated in the Trinity test (the first test explosion of an atomic bomb) and in the final assembly on Tinian of the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Immediately after the war, Morrison began a lifelong career of writing and public speaking in support of peace, disarmament, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1946, he co-founded the Federation of Atomic Scientists (later changed to Federation of American Scientists), with this mission. For decades, Morrison was among the top astrophysicists in the United States, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, author of many articles and a number of books, and recipient of many awards. He helped launch the search for extraterritrial intelligence (SETI) with a seminal article, published in 1959, on the probability of that intelligent life existed elsewhere in the universe. Dr Morrison also devoted much of his time to science education and popularization. Between 1950 and 1995 he authored a book review column in Scientific American, for which he scanned about 100 books each month in all fields of natural and social science, read 20-30, and reviewed 4-6. He wrote and took part in two influential public television series, The Ring of Truth and Powers of Ten. His popular science books (some co-authored) include: The Ring of Truth, Powers of Ten, Nothing Is Too Wonderful to be True, Reason Enough to Hope, and The World of Mathematics (an anthology).

Other IDDS Officers

ALEX BROWN, Secretary
Officer since 2001
After ending a 30-year career in software for distributed systems and networks in 2001 as a software architect in telecommunications, Alex Brown is now a student and researcher in geoscience and remote sensing, cartography and planning, and GIS applications for development and environment at Clark University. Since the 1980s Brown has assisted various public interest groups with computer and network support, has assisted in computer-related development aid through TecsChange (http://tecschange.org), He has also organized public education programs through the Boston Chapter of IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, a special interest group on technology and policy within the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In 2004–2005 he assisted the ACLU of Massachusetts in preparing public education programs on issues of telecommunications privacy and surveillance, and electronic election systems and voting rights. Since 2001 Brown has served as a volunteer IT staff person for IDDS, and secretary of the IDDS board.
Contact: abrown@igc.org, 617 308 9456


ANN LAKHDHIR, UN NGO Representative
Founding officer (1980)
Ms Lakhdhir has served as the accredited IDDS Representative at the United Nations since 1980. For most of the past 25 years she has been a board member of the UN NGO Committee on Disarmament and Vice President for Program of the organization, now called the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security. She is currently the President of this Committee. Lakhdhir has been responsible for arranging panel discussions involving both NGO experts and official UN delegates, which take place annually at UN Headquarters in New York in the autumn and spring. Before each panel she has solicited input on topics and speakers from the broad community of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with progress on peace and disarmament within the UN framework. She has personally invited most of the speakers, taken care of practical arrangements for the speakers and panels, and then followed up transcribing the panel discussions and then having the UN Office of Public Information publish the proceedings in softcover books and distributed them widely by mail to the NGO community around the world. Lakhdhir works vigorously with other NGO representatives in New York to increase the visibility, participation, and input of NGOs into the deliberations on security and disarmament in the General Assembly and its First Committee (Committee on Security and Disarmament).