Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies

presents a

Teach-In:
The United States in Post-War Iraq

Wednesday, November 19, 2003
GC Middle Ballroom
12:30-2:00 p.m.

Panelists

HARVEY AVERCH
Professor of Public Administration

LT. COL. CHRISTOPHER COTTS
National Defense Fellow at Florida International University.

KAREN GARNER
Director, Women's Center

ANTHONY P. MAINGOT
Professor of Sociology/Anthropology

JUDITH STIEHM
Professor of Political Science

Moderator

JOHN F. STACK, JR.
Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies
Professor of Political Science and Law

Panelists:

Harvey Averch is Professor of Public Administration, at Florida International University where he teaches and conducts research in areas of political economy, statistics, management science, budgeting. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina and his undergraduate degree at the university of Colorado. Professor Averch has been an extremely prolific writer who has conducted an astonishing amount of service and research for numerous important organizations in the US. Dr. Averch was the Chief Co-Editor of the well-know journal, Policy Studies Review (between 1989-1994); twice Chairman, United States-Israel Hi-National Science Foundation (1977, 1979); Chairman, White House Committee on Forecasting Models, 1972; Professor and Lecturer at numerous other universities including: University of Maryland, George Washington University; Dalian Institute of Technology in China. Between 1961-1971, for 10 years, Dr. Averch was Senior Economist, The Rand Corporation, where he led systems studies on national defense, national security affairs, and economic development. With President Lyndon. L. Johnson established the first mathematical models of firms subject to public regulation. Between 1977-1982 he was the Director of Scientific and Technological Affairs, National Science Foundation where he managed the science and technology policy and administered 40 science and technology agreements for the U.S. government. He has published at 6 seminal books in his field and dozens or referred scientific articles. His latest book is titled: The Rhetoric of War: Language, Argument, and Policy During the Vietnam War, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000--an examination of policy models used in Vietnam and the practical difficulties involved in injecting rational analysis into models based on values. He wrote a Strategic Analysis of Science and Technology Policy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1935, an assessment of American science and technology policy since World War II (this was voted the best policy studies book of 1985-1986 by Policy Studies Organization). In sum, he is the author of many articles and monographs in local economics, science and technology policy analysis, economics and national security issues.

Lt Col Chris Cotts is the 2004 National Defense Fellow at Florida International University. Commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1985, Lt Col Cotts most recently commanded the 51st Communications Squadron, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. He has served on the Air Combat Command staff, the Air Force headquarters staff, and as the speechwriter to the Secretary of the Air Force. Lt Col Cotts has also served in and commanded Air Force units across the United States as well as in the Republic of Honduras, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, and the Kingdom of Bahrain. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University and Master of Science Degree in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University. Lt Col Cotts is a graduate of the Air Force's Squadron Officer School, the United States Marine Corps Command and Control Systems School, and the Air Command and Staff College.

Karen Garner directs the Women's Center at Florida International University. Her research interests include women's history, U.S. international relations and modern East Asia. Her current book project--"Women and Global Leadership: Theory and Practice in the World YWCA, 1925-2000"--analyzes the separate but related problems of women's global leadership and the challenges in building global feminism over the course of the 20th century. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University in Lithuania, 2003, and published her first book, Precious Fire, Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, also in 2003.

Anthony P. Maingot is Professor of Sociology at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1967. Dr. Maingot has taught at Yale University (1966-72), at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad (between 1972-74) and, since 1974, at FIU. Dr, Maingot was a member of the Constitutional Reform Commission of Trinidad, between 1971-1974 and has published numerous articles and books. He is co-author of a book titled "A Short History of the West Indies, now in its fourth edition; and author of: "Small Country Development and International Labor Flows: where he examines and describes "Experiences in the Caribbean"; Professor Maingot also published two other books titled: "The United States and the Caribbean;" and "Trends in US-Caribbean Relations. His forthcoming book is: "The US and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era." The scholarly work of Dr. Maingot is impressive and places him well at the leading edge of his field.

Judith Hicks Stiehm is Professor of Political Science at Florida International University where she served as Provost and Academic Vice President for four years. Her specialties include political theory, social change, the status of women, and civil-military relations. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin, University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. She has been a Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute and at the Strategic Studies Institute at Carlisle Barracks. She earned a BA in East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, an MA at Temple University in American History, and a PhD in Political Theory from Columbia University. Her books include Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance (Heath, 1972), Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy (California, 1981), Women's and Men's Wars (Pergamon, 1983), Arms and the Enlisted Woman (Temple, 1989), It's Our Military Too!: Women and the US Military (Temple, 1996), and U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy (Temple 2002). Professor Stiehm has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the California Vocational Education Commission, as a consultant to the United Nations Commission for the Advancement of Women and to the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and as an Expert Witness to the Senate Armed Services Committee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds the U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and appears in the most recent edition of Who's Who.