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Inside August/October 2003
Double Issue
Vol. IX, Nos. 5­6

• National Peace Essay Contest

• New Board Members

• IRAQ: Global Terrorism

• IRAQ: Post-Conflict Reconstruction

• Coercive Diplomacy

• Building Strong Bridges through Dialogue

• Senior Fellows Report

• Institute People

• Short Takes

• About Peace Watch

• PDF Also Available

August/October 2003
Vol. IX, Nos. 5–6


New Board Members
Left to right: Michael M. Dunn, Stephen D. Krasner, Daniel Pipes, and Charles Horner.

Four New Members Join Board

Michael M. Dunn, a lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force, is president of National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C., and an ex officio member of the board. After graduating fourth in his class from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1972, Dunn flew the F-106 at Castle Air Force Base, Calif. Following various duties in Washington, D.C., Florida, and Alabama, he transitioned to the F-15, which he flew in the Far East. Dunn has commanded the 1st Operations Group at Langley Air Force Base, Va. He previously served in four joint tours—at U.S. European Command Headquarters, the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, UN Command and U.S. Forces Korea, and the Joint Staff. In Korea he was the lead negotiator with the North Korean army at Panmunjom. He is a command pilot with more than 2,500 flying hours.

Charles Horner is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former president of the Madison Center, a public policy organization. He served as deputy representative to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, deputy assistant secretary of state for science and technology, and associate director of the United States Information Agency in the Reagan administration and the first Bush administration. Previously, Horner served on the staff of Senator Henry M. Jackson and then as senior legislative assistant to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. Horner has served on the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, the Secretary of Commerce's Advisory Committee on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Voice of America's Advisory Committee.

Stephen D. Krasner is Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform. Before going to Stanford in 1981, Krasner was an associate professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and assistant professor at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972. Krasner's publications include Asymmetries in Japanese-American Trade: The Case for Specific Reciprocity; co-editor with Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane, Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics; Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy; and editor, Problematic Sovereignty. He was editor of the journal International Organization from 1986 to 1992, and he served on the National Security Council in 2002.

Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. He received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, both in history. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and Defense, including vice chair of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and currently serves on the Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology at the Department of Defense. Pipes has written 12 books, many of them concerned with Islam and the Middle East, especially Syria. He has also written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs and the Washington Post, and appears regularly on television to discuss current issues. Pipes received a recess appointment from President George Bush and will serve until the end of this Congress in January 2005. Horner and Krasner will each serve a four-year term.

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