Letter From the Director

Academic year 2011-2012 was another exciting and fruitful year for TISS. The year was bookended with two milestone events that capture the spirit of the organization. At the start of the school year, TISS hosted a major, multi-campus, multi-partner commemoration of the 9/11 attacks. The workshops, panel discussions, keynote addresses, student interactions, and artistic exhibits drew on TISS’ rich tradition of inter-disciplinary collaboration and public outreach. At the end of the school year, TISS hosted a selective workshop for senior generals and admirals exploring the theme of practical civil-military relations. This drew on TISS’ reputation as a field-leader in civil-military research, and the resulting two-day discussion was a personal highlight for me. We hope to continue both traditions – public engagement on the important issues of the day, and applying scholarly research in the service of society – through a variety of programs in the coming year. TISS’ partnership with Duke’s American Grand Strategy Program continues to be especially fruitful. Through those relationships, we brought a number of high-profile speakers, including two speakers in the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture series: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a proud Duke alum, and Dr. Condoleeza Rice, former Secretary of State. Thanks to the Energy and Security Initative, we are forging a solid relationship with colleagues in RTI International and at North Carolina State University, and building bridges between engineers and social scientists. Particularly rewarding were the visits to the NCSU campus by distinguished nuclear expert, David Albright, Institute for Science and Society and former Director of National Intelligence, R. James Woolsey. This year also was our first year with a sizable cohort of UNC-TISS Military Fellows, mid-career military officers who spend a year with us in lieu of their senior service school requirement. The five Military Fellows contributed significantly to the intellectual life of TISS, and we look forward to growing the program with new fellows through the Duke Counter Terrorism and Public Policy Fellowship Program. Graduate students at both the Master’s and Doctoral levels likewise presented their research, the latter at our New Faces conference (now in its thirteenth year) and the former at a new conference series started by National Defense University at Fort Bragg. TISS undergrads from all three of our constituent universities also fully participated in the intellectual life of our community, enjoying private meetings with many of our speakers and even presenting their research at an honors symposium. The rest of the newsletter provides chapter and verse to document the lively programs and opportunities of the past year. In our case, the past is a good predictor of the future, and we hope it will likewise lure you into participating even more fully this coming year.

Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS)

Volume XXVII•2012

TISS Executive Committee (2011-12)

Duke UniversityPeter Feaver (Director)Henry (Hal) Brands

University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWayne LeeKaren Hagemann

North Carolina State UniversityWilliam A. Boettcher Akram Khater

North Carolina Central UniversityRolin Mainuddin

StaffCarolyn W. Pumphrey Coordinator

Jennifer Boyle Program Assistant

132 Rubenstein Hall Box 90316 302 Towerview Drive Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0316 Telephone: 919-613-9280 Fax: 919-684-9940

tiss-nc.org

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TISS Director, Peter Feaver, escorts GEN Martin Dempsey during his visit to Duke.

Newsletter Contents

Overview..............................................2 Core Events..........................................4 Twelfth Annual New Faces............5 Programs - UNC Chapel Hill .........6Programs - Duke (AGS)....................7NCSU Energy and Security ...........8Executive Education......................10Outreach ..........................................11Plans ..................................................12

Overview

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Students and administrators dine with Condoleezza Rice at the Nasher Museum of Art.

GEN Rodriguez speaks on Al Qaida threats in Gerrard Hall.

ROTC cadet questions GEN Martin Dempsey.

Dr. Rice meets with TISS-affiliated faculty over breakfast.

Ambassador Dave and Mrs. Kay Phillips, Mrs. Lisa Brodhead, and UNC-Duke Dip-lomat in Residence, Bill Lucas, listen to Dr. Rice in Page Auditorium.

and North Carolina State University) at the same level as in the past. We also got funding from the Bradley Foundation for New Faces XI and the Civil-Military Relations short course for generals, and from the DoE for the trip to Oak Ridge, as well as support from the National Security Fellows Program.

Our activities were further enriched through collaborations and partnerships with a number of departments, institutions, and initiatives, most notably, perhaps, the Endowed Lectureships at Duke University. We were also successful in two grant applications for FY 13: Bradley will fund in full New Faces XIII and the Army War College will partner with us on a conference on “American Grand Strategy in An Age of Retrenchment.”

Those of you who have been members of TISS for a long time, will notice that the organization is changing. Although we remain true to our core values, we have expanded our horizons and are developing new initiatives.

TISS has always been a keen supporter of graduate student education. This continues to be reflected in its involvement of graduate students in everything from its public engagement to one if its signature events, the Annual TISS New Faces Conference for doctoral candidates in the security studies field. A new addition this year was a program we cosponsored for students pursuing a Master’s degree in security studies. Truly interdisciplinary, this was organized by Richard Kilroy, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, and held at Fort Bragg.

In recent years TISS has come to devote relatively more attention to undergraduate education. The vibrant program in Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina

To all our old friends and colleagues, a warm thank you for your continued support of our organization. To new members, welcome! As you just learned from the TISS Director, we have enjoyed a very productive year. We also benefited from a year of relative stability.

There were no moves and no changes in either the Executive Board or staff, although Jenny Boyle received a well deserved promotion at the end of the fiscal year. This July she joins Carolyn Pumphrey as one of two part-time Program Coordinators. Her focus will continue to be on the National Security Fellows Program, Executive Education, and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. Carolyn will continue to organize traditional TISS events (including New Faces and faculty seminars), run TISS Outreach and Development, and foster the TISS/NCSU Energy and Security Initiative. Jenny is also Coordinator for the Triangle Center for Terrorism and Homeland Security - our two institutions share a common interest in security and have formed a close partnership since the foundation of TCTHS. This coming year, we expect to find further opportunities to collaborate through the Duke Counter Terrorism and Public Policy Fellowship Program, led by David Schanzer, the Director of TCTHS, which parallels in many ways the TISS/PWAD National Security Fellowship Program.

We have generally good news to share on the financial front. Despite the challenging fiscal environment we received commitments from our constituent funders (Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill,

in Chapel Hill, now boasting nearly 300 majors, the expanding program in American Grand Strategy at Duke, and the fledgling Energy and Security Initiative at North Carolina State University gives us a pool of interested, intellectually curious young people on which to draw. Undergraduates not only attend public events, but interact with speakers in informal settings, give presentations of their own research, and participate in special events as Wickersham Scholars.

Our commitment to engage with the military is stronger than ever. This is reflected not merely in the speakers we bring to campus, but also in some new programs, among them the National Security Fellows Program which brings to our campuses Army Colonels and/or Lieutenant Colonels who spend the year researching, studying, and participating in TISS activities; and a short-course for Generals on Civil-Military Relations.

The bulk of our members are social scientists, in keeping with a tradition that dates back to the first brown bag discussions between Duke-UNC historians and political scientists over fifty years ago. The balance has swung a bit towards political science and public policy in recent years. However, the historical dimension is rarely left out of our discussions of current events and the History of the Military, War, and Society research seminars, organized by TISS Board member Karen Hagemann, ensures that our members are still given rich exposure to cutting edge historical research. (http://www.unc.edu/mhss) Thanks to the Energy and Security Initiative, moreover, we are bringing social scientists into more regular dialogue with security experts in the more technical fields.

As noted elsewhere in this newsletter, membership in TISS is open to the interested general public. TISS also has a Speakers Bureau on National and International Security, and sends TISS experts on security to discuss critical issues with civic groups, K-12 students, and community colleges. Analysis of current events is disseminated to the general

public through the electronic journal American Diplomacy founded by TISS post-doctoral fellow and former diplomat Henry Mattox and just recently redesigned: (http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat).

We spread the word about the very many excellent events organized by other groups through our newsletters (this one and the GRID- an electronic journal devoted to the Energy and Security Initiative), via our list serv(s) and through the TISS web site: (tiss-nc.org). Speaking of web-sites the reader is invited to log on to the splendid AGS web site newly designed by CPT Brian Forrester: (sites.duke.edu/agsp). Thanks, Brian!

This last year was very eventful – so eventful indeed, that it will be impossible to provide detailed accounts of everything that took place. To see a full listing of public talks organized by TISS and /or financially supported by TISS during academic year 2011-12, the reader should log on to the TISS web site. (tiss-nc.org/programs/reports). Suffice it here to say that TISS organized some 33 security-focused events, including three conferences and a short course, involving a total of 89 speakers.

We can promise you an equally lively year in 2012-2013. Among the events will be at least three conferences: our Thirteenth Annual New Faces Conference, the conference we are hosting on behalf of ISAC/ISSS -- the theme of which will be “Security Studies in Times of Transition” and the conference on American Grand Strategy in Times of Retrenchment. Working Schedules are posted on the TISS home page and will be updated as time goes on.

What follows will give you just a taste of what we do. We hope that you will all enjoy the coming year.

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Profile - TISS Wickersham Scholar and Volunteer Emily Kowalczyk.

TISS draws much of its strength from its lively undergraduate programs and dedicated student body. This summer, we have relied the hard work and skills of Ms. Emily Kowalczyk. Emily has devoted long hours to the task of improving our outreach services. A rising sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, double majoring in History (concentration in US History) and Peace, War, and Defense (concentration in the Evolution of Warfare), Emily is a member of Honors Carolina. When not reading about history, she likes to write fiction, watch birds, hike, and fence. She is interested in a career in the security studies arena or in law - where she hopes to make a difference.

AGS Senior and Air Force ROTC Cadet, Nick Setterberg listens to a lecutre by Dr. Slaughter. Seated near him are three of the National Security Fellows, who audited classes at Duke.

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In Their Own Words:

This year, I was one of the students chosen to present their undergraduate honors theses. This annual dinner brings together students from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke who have completed a thesis focused on security issues. They are invited to give brief presentations of their research to members of the TISS community. I remember being struck by how wonderful this program was when I first heard about it. It allows students to interact with professionals and to practice presentation skills. Experiencing how to explain our subjects, methodologies, and findings is invaluable because we will likely have to do so again and again in life. We also benefitted from exposure to multiple perspectives. Member of the audience proposed problems and solutions we might not have considered otherwise. After investing in this research for a year, I believe many of us will continue to explore these issues in the future. The feedback we received will be invaluable. Without this event, finishing our theses might have felt a bit anticlimactic. Like works of art, theses are ‘never truly finished, only abandoned.’ But the presentation marked an end to one chapter of our research and allowed us to celebrate our hard work with college students’ favorite thing: good food. Keri Majikes, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Honor Students Selected to Speak at 2012 Dinner*William Cauley, North Caro-lina State University (History) – Effectiveness of Afghan resistance during the Soviet –Afghan War.

Kelsey Farson, UNC-Chapel Hill (Peace, War, and Defense [PWAD] and Public Policy) -- NATO-EU Intervention in the Balkans and Afghanistan

Michelle Lu, Duke University (Political Science) -- Economic Interdependence and the Development of Cross-Strait Relations (China/Taiwan)

Keri Majikes, UNC-Chapel Hill (PWAD) -- Palestine, Water Rights, and the Conflict with Israel

Cody Poplin, UNC-Chapel Hill (Political Science) -- The In-ternational Response to Presi-dent Bush’s War Frames

Erin Sanderson, UNC-Chapel Hill (PWAD) -- Global Non-Proliferation, Multinational Fuel Bank, and Small Modular Reactors

Brad Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill (Political Science) -- Strategic Loss Avoidance: Domestic Signals and Interstate Military Coalition Participations

Medha Surampudy, North Carolina State University (Po-litical Science) -- Transitional Justice in the Former Yugo-slavia

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Core Events

A Conference “Reflecting on the Tenth Anniversary of September 11, 2001.”

The academic year was launched with a three day conference that “framed” 11 September, with events held in Durham on Thursday and Friday and on Raleigh and Chapel Hill on Monday, leaving individuals to commemorate the day itself in their own fashion.

The themes varied from campus to campus. At Duke, speakers reflected on how the terrorist attacks might have changed the United States and other nations’ perceptions of us. It featured 15 Duke faculty members on 4 panels. While attendance at the panel discussions was small, the event was live streamed and widely viewed on line. Nearly 200 people attended the keynote - an interview of Juan Zarate by TISS Director, Peter Feaver. Zarate stressed the seriousness of the attacks, the lessons we have learned, and the need to remain vigilant.

On Monday morning, the conversation moved to North Carolina State University. Here the main focus was on the impact of 9-11 on the National Security Establishment. On the first panel, three TISS members outlined changes sparked by 9/11. They addressed the transformation of U.S. military organization, of civil-military relations, and of the intelligence community. On the second panel, Lieutenant Colonel Tim Nichols, USMC (Ret.) engaged in an informal conversation with National Security Fellows who provided thought provoking and moving insights into how the lives of soldiers and their families have been shaped by this event.

Later that afternoon, the conference resumed in Chapel Hill. A large crowd attended a presentation and panel discussion that focused on Muslims at home and abroad – yet another community profoundly affected by the tragic events of this day. Here the keynote theme was struck by Arif Alikhan who addressed the continued need to eliminate prejudice.

The event was remembered not just in words but also in art : At Duke an exhibition of Muslim Self Portraits was opened in Rubenstein Hall just hours before the keynote talk.

Key sponsors were the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, and the UNC Global Center. In all, 20 groups in the Triangle worked together to help put on this event – a fitting testament to the power 9/11 still has to draw communities together.

Honor Students Dinner Presentations April 2012

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Our Twelfth Annual New Faces Conference, generously funded by the Bradley Foundation, was held on 16-17 September at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Seventy persons registered as speakers, discussants, and attendees. As was true last year, we found that the majority of our applications came from political scientists.This was reflected in the roster of speakers which featured six political scientists and one historian. The interdisciplinary flavor was maintained, however, thanks to the very eclectic nature of the TISS audience and because discussants came from the fields of history, economics, sociology, and law. The conference reflected an interesting transformation in security studies scholarship – what was once a male dominated field, clearly no longer is. The conference also reflected the way in which our understanding of national and international security has broadened. Several presentations focused on sub-state violence and military intervention rather than interstate violence. The majority, moreover, focused not so much on the use of force as on other instruments of national power, to include humanitarian assistance, economic sanctions, mediation, peacemaking, and diplomacy. The two New Faces who are studying sub-state violence were Jacqueline Hazelton, Brandeis, and Sarah Zukerman-Daly, MIT. Hazelton challenged the prevalent population-centric interpretation of counter-insurgency operations (COIN), claiming that that those successes counterinsurgency operations have had to date have resulted from a heavy use of force and limited, targeted political accommodations. Daly argued persuasively that organizational patterns (recruitment, deployment, and post-war migration patterns) in post-war Columbia help explain why some of these armed groups dissolve, yet others return to war, or form non-violent political parties. Discussing mediation and diplomacy were Shawn Ling Ramirez, University of Rochester, and diplomatic historian David Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ramirez argued that confidentiality in the mediation process allows a leader to offer peaceful concessions and

avoid domestic punishment. Rodriguez showed how non-US elites from the islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic challenged American hegemony and influenced the U.S. policy-making process from within between 1945 and 1965. Focusing on economic issues were Bo Ram Kwon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Neil Narang, University of California at San

Diego, and Andrea Everett, Princeton. Kwon explained the theory she is developing on the efficacy of economic sanctions. Narang argued that international humanitarian assistance can inadvertently prolong civil war by skewing the enemy’s evaluation of enemy strength and adding uncertainty to the bargaining process. Andrea Everett, Princeton University argued that, because of competing domestic political pressures, powerful Western democracies do not always pursue policies that meet the most pressing needs of civilians, notably security.

As Wayne Lee, UNC-Chapel Hill, noted in his concluding remarks, the one thing that all these sessions illustrated was the enormous complexity of conflict and the difficulty of finding solutions. Over the course of the two days, the audience was made to understand that counterinsurgency is an ugly business which political reforms are not in and of themselves likely to resolve, that humanitarian intervention may prolong civil-wars, and that entrenched economic interests may undermine sanctions. They were also made to understand the role played by domestic pressures as well as organizational structures in influencing post-war environments and peace-making.

As always this was an event that was not only intellectually rigorous but also fun. There were three social events. The welcoming reception gave New Faces a chance to get to know one another before presenting and this made the “mock” job-talks a much more relaxing experience than it might have been. Friday ended with an excellent buffet dinner at Spanky’s - a Chapel Hill favorite. This allowed participants to continue discussions begun during the day’s events. And the two day event ended with a casual and relaxed “cookout” at the Friday Center, open not just to speakers but to attendees.

Twelfth Annual New Faces Conference

From left to right: Jacqueline Hazelton, Neil Narang, David Rodriguez, Shawn Ling Ramirez, Andrea Everett, and Sarah Zukerman Daly .

Spanky’s Restaurant

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Programs - UNC- Chapel Hill

TISS held a rich array of programs in Chapel Hill this past year. They included its signature New Faces con-ference (now in its twelfth year), its annual dinner for undergraduates (now in its eighth year), a panel discussion of the implications of 9/11 for Muslims (see p. 4), and an exciting inauguaral conference organized by the National Security Fellows (see below). We also held one of our traditional TISS evening seminars featuring Roger Cliff, an independent scholar recently retired from RAND who provided an incisive evaluation of Chinese military capabilities. Thanks to the kind offices of our friend and colleague at High Point, Rick Schneid, we were also able to welcome back Jeremy Black, a leading military historian who just recently celebrated his 100th book party and ranks as one of the most prolific as well as one of the most fascinating writers of our time. We were especially gratified that among those we invited to speak were many old friends. This year former Duke Professor Tim Lomperis spoke about his experiences in MACV in Vietnam, the focus of his recent memoir; Captain C.C. Felker, USN, who was a graduate student at Duke braved Tar Heel terrority to talk about NATO Mission Afghanistan; and Larry Goodson, a proud UNC alum and expert on Afghansitan came down from the Army War College to give a luncheon talk in his old stomping grounds. Last, but not least, Patricia Sullivan, a former New Face and now a faculty member in Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill discussed her ongoing research into public support of military operations over a dinner at the Friday Center.

The standing seminar series on the “History of the Military, War, and Society” started in January 2006 as a joint initiative of the Duke, NC State and UNC Chapel Hill faculty working on issues relating to war, peace and society and in the field of a most broadly defined history of the military. The Triangle Institute for Security Studies is a main co-sponsor. The primary purpose of the seminar series is to provide a forum for scholars in the region—faculty and graduate students—to discuss research on the subject. The seven events held this last year focused on a wide variety of themes from the past and present. They made clear the rich and ever-growing diversity of approaches and methods that have come to characterize the study of the military, war and society, from political, diplomatic and institutional history to economic, social, cultural, and gender history as well as studies of violent conflicts, peace building and peace keeping. The 2011-12 program included seminars with the local graduate students Andrew Byers (Duke), Friederike Brühöfener (UNC Chapel Hill), and Elizabeth Shesko (Duke), the local faculty Susanna Lee (NC State), as well as nationally and internationally well-known scholars like Stefan Dudink (Radboud University Nijmegen), Nadje Al-Ali (University of London, SOAS), and Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University). The series has its own list serve and website which you can consult to learn about its events: http://www.unc.edu/mhss/. Please contact Dirk Bonker (db48@duke.edu) or Karen Hagemann (hagemann@unc.edu) if you want to get regular email information or are interested in presenting a paper. Karen Hagemann, UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Future War on Al-Qaida and Its Adherents.

One of the highlights of the year was the conference organized by the Na-tional Security Fellows (2012) (see p. 10). This was held in historic Gerrard Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus on April 20, 2012. The topic was central to the concerns of the Fellows, all of whom had served in US Special Operations, and most of whom came to Carolina fresh out of Afghanistan. The keynote address, given by General David M. Rodriguez, Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command, was followed by a panel discussion featuring a military correspondent (Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post), a retired diplomat with years of service in the Middle East (David Litt) and BG (P.) Michael Nagata, Deputy Director for Spe-cial Operations and Counterterrorism, who brought to bear on the discussion his intimate knowledge of Pakistan. David Schanzer, Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, artfully questioned the panelists about the challenges facing the United States now that the war in Afghanistan is wind-ing down. How will the broader conflict with Al-Qaida continue? Will it? In what shape? What is the likely terrorist threat over the next ten years and how will the nation’s military seek to meet it? The discussion among the panelists was lively and inspired considerable audience participation. The conversation continued for several hours after the roundtable was over as guests enjoyed a barbeque dinner just outside the Hall on what turned out to be a sunny evening.

Bottom left: BG Michael Nagata chatting with TISS members over BBQ. Top left: Ryan Beck, Advisor for Military Affairs, Office of Federal and Military Affairs seated next to National Security Fellows. Right: General David M. Rodriguez at the podium, delivering the keynote address at the Fellows Conference.

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Programs - Duke (AGS)

The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy is esentially the “Duke leg” of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. Though AGS is geared towards the home academic community--undergraduate (and some graduate) students, we host a large number of lectures that are open to the general public and TISS members. The 2011-2012 academic year has arguably been the most successful year to date. Over 3,000 individuals attended public events, 87 students met in small group sessions with distinguished visitors, 50 students took part in experiential education opportunities (including a staff ride to Fredericksburg battlefield; a career exploration trip to Washington, DC; a Crisis Simulation; and a trip to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s Capabilities Exercise at Fort Bragg, NC). Distinguished visitors included Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, General Martin Dempsey, Lieutenant General (Ret.) Doug Lute, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Juan Zarate, Dr. Jeremi Suri, and Dan Blumenthal. Additional information on the AGS program can be found on our new website-- sites.duke.edu/agsp.. Jennifer Boyle, TISS.

General Martin Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Duke University on January 12-13, 2012. He delivered the first public remarks on the “strategic rebalance” following announcements of cuts to the defense budget. He suggested that developing a new strategy has provided an opportunity to rethink how the nation can best advance its interests. It provides a balance between “principle and pragmatism,” building on traditional American values and strengths while re-sponding to events such as the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and regime change in North Korea. He emphasized the great quality of the men and women who have volunteered to serve in the Armed Services as well as the heavy burdens placed on them.

Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department (2009 –2011), delivered the Von der Heyden Fellows Program Endowment Fund Lecture on November 1, 2011. Her talk focused on “Grand Strategy for the 21st Century” and laid out what she saw as some of our most pressing strategic concerns.

Secretary Condoleezza Rice delivered the Ambas-sador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lectureship on April 10, 2012. She provided an incisive overview of some of the challenges facing our nation today, while at the same time treating the audience to a moving and yet humorous account of her personal challenges and extraordinary career. Besides deliver-ing the public talk, she also met with AGS undergradu-ate and graduate students, and TISS-affiliated Faculty, sharing with them her wit and her wisdom.

The TISS Energy and Security Initiative (ESI) based at NCSU went through a period of leadership transition last year as Professor Man-sung Yim returned to South Korea to become Head of the Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department at the Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology. While we will all miss Man-sung’s friendship and support for TISS programs, we have welcomed Associate Professor John Mattingly into the ESI. John previously worked at the Oak Ridge and Sandia national laboratories before coming to NCSU’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and maintains an interest in nuclear security (broadly defined). Another ESI “new face” this past year was Dr. Byung-wook Lee, on leave from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). Dr. Lee is being hosted by the School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA) at NCSU through 2013 and is working on a research project, with TISS member Bill Boettcher, on alliance cohesion and economic cooperation between the U.S. and ROK. Despite the departure of Professor Yim, the Department of Nuclear Engineering (lead by Professor Yousry Azmy) and College of Engineering (lead by Dean

Louis Martin-Vega) once again provided substantial support for TISS and the ESI. As in the past, SPIA (lead by Director Rick Kearney) and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (lead by Dean Jeffrey Braden) provided the balance of TISS/ESI funding. The two highlights of this year’s activities were visits by Dr. David Albright in November and former CIA director R. James Woolsey in March. Albright, President and Founder of the Institute for Science and International Security, discussed Iran’s nuclear program in a compelling talk (http://mediasite.online.ncsu.edu/online/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=62b0f74840164eeab488e9c121646a161d) just one week after the release of the IAEA report on Iran’s recent activities. Woolsey, at a luncheon meeting with faculty and students and in a broader public address, discussed the future of U.S. energy policy—suggesting the convergence of security, environmental, and economic interests. (http://tiss.sanford.duke.edu/WoolseyNCSTRef.mov) Each of these talks was well attended, timely, and provocative. We were particularly happy to welcome NCSU Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development Terri Lomax to the Woolsey luncheon and hope to involve her in additional ESI programs in the future. This year’s ESI activities were once again augmented by a grant from the Atlantic Coast Conference International Affairs Collaborative (with matching funds from CHASS) for an undergraduate research project on energy and security. Five of Boettcher’s students (including one from Nuclear Engineering) traveled to Atlanta, GA to participate in a two-day energy and security simulation with students from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech University. This visit, hosted by TISS friend Adam Stulberg, culminated in participation in the 2012 Sam Nunn Policy Forum on “Energy and Security: Global Challenges, Local Opportunities” (http://www.inta.gatech.edu/sam-nunn-forum/2012/schedule). Boettcher’s students presented portions of their research at an early May conference on “Shale Gas and Nuclear Power: The Bridge to a Renewable Energy Future?” which included Vikram Rao from RTEC, Trina Ozer from NC DENR, and Will Morgan from the NC Sierra Club. The ACCIAC-funded students finished the year with a visit to Washington, DC to meet the Senior Director of Federal Relations for ExxonMobil corporation, Susan Carter (a SPIA alumna), and the Deputy Director for Technology Strategy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs at the Pentagon, Dr. Adam Rosenberg.

William Boettcher, North Carolina State UniversityTISS Executive Board RepresentativeDirector of the Energy and Security Initiative

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Energy and Security Initiative

The talks given at NCSU by Woolsey (top) and Albright (bot-tom) were among the most rewarding events of the year.

NCSU students in Washington DC.

Global National Security Workshop, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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Indicative of the rewarding collaboration that has developed between TISS and Oak Ridge was the visit by 15 students from UNC, NCSU, and Duke to the lab to en-gage in a day-long workshop on October 14th . The event was kindly paid for Dunbar Lockwood of the NNSA.

This covered topics in Global Nuclear Security, Current Nuclear Threats and Issues, Nonproliferation Programs and Efforts, and the Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The students were taken on tours of EVEREST, which featured an amazing 27-projector Powerwall displaying 11,520 by 3,072 pixels or a total of 35 million pixels, the historic Graphite Reactor where chemist produced the world's first grams of plutonium, and the Safeguards Laboratory.

The event proved well worth the long road-trip. Stu-dents who attended the event found it eye-opening and intellectually stimulating. It has even inspired some to think of a future career in nuclear security.

We plan a return trip this October for students partici-pating in Joe Caddell’s PWAD class on Nuclear Security in the Twenty First Century as well as interested members of the INMM chapter and Wickersham Scholars.

In their Own Words:

Going to ORNL and listening to experts who have dedicated their careers to nuclear issues was fascinating… It impressed upon me how urgent nuclear security is. Chloe Adcock, UNC

I am a huge proponent of experiential learning and getting the chance to go and learn from experts in any field means more to me than you can know. …. Being able to go to Oak Ridge and see first-hand how nuclear material, issues, and policy are handled in the real world … [was really helpful]. Matt Farley, UNC

Getting to travel to ORNL has been the first occasion that I’ve actually been able to leave the classroom, and travel to a place where much of the action is taking place…My experience at ORNL was invaluable and eye-opening… Because of this trip, I plan on pursuing an internship at ORNL for this next summer, or at some point in the next few years. Katy Fanning, UNC

The ORNL staff that we met with were very smart, well informed, and most importantly, eager to talk with us…. It was great to see the variety of work being done at ORNL and Y-12. Jacob Presson, NCSU

TISS at North Carolina State University -- The Energy and Security Initiative was not the only TISS activity on the NCSU campus. The Wolf Pack also benefited from the UNC/TISS National Security Fellows Program. The five fellows participated in a discussion of the national security implications of 9/11 in September and visited NCSU classes to discuss their experiences with undergraduates. NCSU also saw visits by Major General Jon B. Lilland, Assistant Chief of Staff for Pro-gramme and Planning Management, NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and former New Face, Sarah Krebs, who spoke on financing the war in Afghanistan. NCSU alum LTC Tony Hale (left) stands next to

NCSU faculty member and mentor Bill Boettcher outside Gerrard Hall just after the Al-Qaida conference.

Students and Faculty at Oak Ridge Workshop.

Executive Education

The UNC-TISS National Security Fellowship Program (NSFP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a ten-month postgraduate research fellowship for military officers (lieutenant colonels and colonels) and civilian government officials. It is part of the Senior Service College Fellowship Program and is hosted by UNC’s Curriculum on Peace, War and Defense (PWAD) in cooperation with the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). Upon completion of the program fellows receive credit for Senior Service School. Fellows pursue a supervised research project (individually or in groups), take classes, and participate in TISS and other events. We are glad to know that the fellows enjoyed their year - best expressed (see above in their own words). But the fact is that our own community has been profoundly enriched by their presence amongst us. They provided us with a better understanding of the sacrifices made by the men and women of our Armed Services and impressed on us the intellectual quality and thoughtfulness of its leadership. We are privileged to have come to know them, thank them for their service, and wish them all the best.

Practical Civil-Military Relations for Senior Leaders.

From May 29-30th, 2012, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies held a short-course on Practical Civil-Military Relations for Senior Leaders at the request of the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey. Twelve attendees were hand-selected for this pilot program by Lieutenant General George Flynn (USMC), Director for Joint Force Development. The workshop was held at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill and conducted in a casual, off-the-record, seminar format—later deemed “vital” to the workshop’s success. Instructors were Dr. Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science & Public Policy (Duke University), Dr. Richard Kohn, Professor of History, Emeritus (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dr. Eliot Cohen, The Robert E. Osgood Professor (John’s Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies [SAIS]), Major General Charles Dunlap, Jr. (USAF, Ret.), Professor of the Practice of Law (Duke Law School), Lieutenant General Douglas Lute (USA, Ret.), The Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Ambassador Eric Edelman, the Roger Hertog Distinguished Practitioner in Residence (John’s Hopkins University). The Participants all said they planned to recommend the course to other senior officers, and several underscored the importance of inserting the topic into the curriculum at the staff colleges. Support from the Bradley Foundation helped to offset venue and other event costs, thereby lowering the cost to the U.S. Department of Defense.

In their Own Words:

“Attending a Senior Service College Fellowship at a civilian institution of higher learning exposes the military fellow to a wide range of perspectives from a diverse population of students and faculty that challenge us to see things differently. I have not come away from a single lesson without learning something new, or seeing a particular situation in a different light. It puts us in closer contact with the society that we serve, and offers us insight with how they think about things. The students and faculty challenge us equally, and it is my belief that we challenge them. Each classroom experience has been a superb mix of applied and theoretical exchanges that make for a rich educational experience. Professionally, we have been able to explore areas of academic interest and reflect upon what we have been doing for the past 20 years, while personally we have been afforded the time to reconnect with our families. I would not trade this experience for anything else!” LTC(P) Tim Ladouceur, NSFP 11-12

(The fellowship) has allowed us to see how the young people we lead (by demographic) see the world and how they communicate with one another and authority figures (faculty and staff). It has provided me a great deal of insight into alternative points of view and connected me with the foundational theories upon which many of our national security strategies and policies are founded. The TISS Universities have allowed us to express ideas and thoughts that would not be received as openly at a DoD institution, as well as experiencing ….an instructional methodology that is immensely different than (that of) the standard military programs…Additionally we have all been permitted to interact with exemplary guest speakers in ways that would not have been possible at military institutions… Due to the flexible schedule at TISS, I have been afforded the opportunity to learn a great deal, yet reconnect with my family in a way that has not been possible over the last 10 years of continuous deployments. LTC(P) John Brennan, NSFP 11-12

This has been a completely enriching and fulfilling experience unlike any in my military career highlighted by the opportunities afforded while studying at these esteemed institutions and with their education professionals, the students and surrounding communities. Of great benefit was blending in the realities of our life experiences and observations into the classroom seminars which broadened the learning environment with examples of first-hand accounts. The Fellowship provides a unique rounding experience for someone who has lived in the insular and focused world of the military for several decades. I arrived as an ambassador for my service and leave with a greater understanding of how academia and their surrounding communities view and think about national policy, strategy, information, and the use of our military. COL Mike Gawkins, NSFP 11-12

National Security Fellows 2012, shown here with GEN Dempsey.

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Outreach

An essential part of the TISS mission continues to be service to the general public. Many of our members not only enjoy the benefits of listening to the speakers brought to the Triangle, but generously share their time and knowledge with the local community. This year, 26 members or the TISS Speakers Bureau gave a total of 35 talks. They included former diplomats, and faculty from the departments of history, political science, and communications. Most of these faculty members came from our constituent universities, but they were joined by speakers from further afield, from Elon, NDU-CISAC, Wake Forest University, UNC-Wilmington, and Appalachian State University. The furthest to come was our old friend, Robin Dorff, who came from the Strategic Studies Institute to speak at World View’s Residential Leadership Program. They spoke to university students at Elon University and Vance-Granville Community Colleges, to students attending the Governors’ School; to K-12 teachers and educators at World View events. They spoke to the public by invitation of WPTF Radio, the Durham Rotary Club, the Raleigh Woman’s Club, and the Raleigh Jewish Community Center. And they also spoke to retirees at Fearrington Village, Carolina Meadows, the Forest at Duke, Croasdaile Village, and the Cedars of Chapel Hill. As in the past talks reflected the very broad interests of TISS members and also the changing national security concerns. Historical periods covered ranged from the Middle Ages through World War I. Topics included intelligence, cyber warfare, and energy security. Geographic regions considered included the United States and Europe, the Arctic, the Philippines, Afghanistan and the Middle East. The hot topic of the year was the Arab Spring. The speakers who gave talks this year are listed opposite. However, our warm thanks also go to the many other TISS members who agreed to participate in this program. TISS has also been building connections with faculty and students outside of the Triangle but close enough to benefit from our programs and to enrich our own intellectual life. We continued to work closely with the Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs at Fort Bragg. Students from this College attended a number of TISS events while TISS members attended several of the CISA Distinguished Lecture Presentations. One of the most worthwhile events was a day long conference for Master’s students in Security Studies held at Fort Bragg. NDU students were joined by students from UNC, Duke, NCSU and a host of other local universities. This was especially welcome to us, because up to this point we have been able to provide a venue for undergraduates and for doctoral candidates to present their research, but this was the first time that we were able to provide one for students at this level. It was also in keeping with our goal to foster communications between soldiers and civilians..

Anna Bigelow, NCSU

William Boettcher, NCSU

Joseph Caddell, UNC-CH

Peter Coclanis, UNC-CH

Amb. Mike Cotter (Retired)

Robin Dorff, SSI (AWC)

Christian Lundberg, UNC-CH

Amb. Patrick Duddy, US Foreign Service (Ret.)

Charles Dunlap, Duke LENS

Peter Feaver, Duke

Sean Giovanello, Elon

John Harrison, NDU, CISAC

Curt Jones, US State Dept. (Re-tired)

Stephen Kelly, US Foreign Service (Ret.)

Akram Khater, NCSU

Sarah Lischer, Wake Forest

Amb. David Litt, (Retired)

Christian Lundberg, UNC-CH

Daniel Masters, UNC-Wilmington

Charlie Miller, Duke Grad School

Robert Moog, NCSU

Mark Nance, NCSU

Carolyn Pumphrey, NCSU

Curt Ryan, Appalachian State

David Schanzer, TCTHS

Sarah Shields, UNC-CH

Gerhard Weinberg, UNC-CH

Plans

The fall season will be rich in conferences and workshops. We can promise you our “Thirteenth Annual New Faces Conference” for graduate students in security studies (14-15 September), a Conference on “Retrenchment and/or Renewal: American Grand Strategy in Times of Fiscal Constraint,” cosponsored by the US Army War College and in collaboration with the University of Texas-Austin (9-10 November), and a conference on “Security Studies in Times of Transition.” This last is a first for us – we are hosting the 2012 sectional conference of the International Security Studies Section of ISA and the International Security and Arms Control Section of APSA at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill from (4-6 October 2012). It will feature some 40 panels and keynotes by Major General H.R. McMaster (Thursday night) and by Thom Shanker and Eric Schmidt of the New York Times (Friday night) We will hold a “Young Turks” workshop for the rising cohort of junior scholars working on civil-military relations: many of them are also participating in the ISAC/ISSS conference, so it will take place directly following that event.

.Plans for two spring conferences are also underway. We are cosponsoring the Sanford School’s conference on “The Uses of History in Foreign Policy ” on 16-17 May 2013. Hal Brands (Duke) and Jeremi Suri (University of Texas- Austin) will be co-hosts.We expect six new National Security Fellows and look forward to working with them to organize a conference. The Fellows will decide on the structure and theme of this event. TISS is planning a number of other events as part of its Energy and Security Initiative, to include a field trip to Oak Ridge to attend a workshop on Global Nuclear Security, (11-12 October) ; a fall panel discussion on the “Threat of the Peaceful Atom: Through the Lens of Iran” (24 September); and a a discussion of the Energy-Water-Security Nexus (20/21 March). We will also host a year – long series of “energy” luncheons to be held the third Monday of every month between 11:45 am – 1:30 pm in the 1911 Building, NCSU Campus. These will primarily feature the work of local faculty members across many disciplines. The series will lead off with a talk by William Kinsella, NCSU on “Entangled Discourses of Nuclear Energy” (20 August) and later in the season, you can look forward to a talk by Alex Roland, Duke “Different Ways of Knowing?: Scientists and Engineers, Historians and Sociologists” (15 October) .

We will continue our traditional seminars and thanks to TISS/AGS, we anticipate another year of lively events at Duke. Already scheduled are visits by Peter Beinart , City University of New York (September 20) and Michelle Flournoy, UnderSecretary of Defense for Policy (2009-12) (22 September). (For details see sites.duke.edu/agsp). We expect to mentally prepare ourselves for the coming general elections with a talk given on 4 September by Klaus Larres, UNC-Chapel Hill, who will compare the crisis years of Obama and Nixon, and by one of the quadrennial student debates on foreign policy and the presidential campaign conducted by students in Peter Feaver’s senior seminar. On 31 January Tana Johnson, Duke University, will discuss her research into International Organizations at a dinner seminar. TISS members can also look forward to the rich offering of historical seminars hosted by our cosponsors on the History of the Military, War, and Society and to our Ninth Annual Honor Student Dinner (16 April).

We invite you to log on to the TISS web site (tiss-nc.org) to find out further details about this year’s coming events. As always, we will send you announcements (and reminders) closer to the day.

American Grand Strategy in Times

of Fiscal Constraint

Registration will open in September.

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4:00 – 6:00 pm Duke University ¥ East Campus ¥ Carr Building ¥ Boyd Seminar Room

Friday, 14 September 2012 ARIANA E. VIGIL (UNC Chapel Hill)

War Narratives: Gender, War, and Activism in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

Co-conveners: Duke-UNC “Gender, War and Culture” Series, and UNC Department of WomenÕs and Gender Studies

Friday, 26 October 2012 SONYA O. ROSE (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Gender and the Politics of Sacrifice: Britain and the Colonial Empire in the Age of World War I

Co-conveners: Duke-UNC “Gender, War and Culture” Series, UNC Center for European Studies, and UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Friday, 16 November 2012 KLAUS LARRES (UNC Chapel Hill)

Peacemakers: Attlee – Churchill – Macmillan. British Attempts to Settle the East-West Conflict (1945-1963)

Friday, 7 December 2012 HAL BRANDS (Duke University)

Conspiring Bastards: Saddam Hussein's Strategic View of the United States

For more information see the website: http://www.unc.edu/mhss/

Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

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edu/mhss

ISAC/ISSS Annual Conference hosted

by TISS

Information Avail-able on the ISA web

site:

http://www.isanet.org/

meetings/tiss-isss-isac-2012.html

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