B.A. 1974 Political Science Appalachian Status University
M.A. 1976 Political Science Appalachian State Univeristy
PhD. 1984 Political Body of knowledge George Washington University
Major Fields: Supranational Politics, International Law, U.S. Imported Policy
Minor Fields: Comparative Civics, Western Europe
PUBLICATIONS
1997 Terrorism in goodness Twenty-First Century.
Prentice-Hall: New Shirt, 1997.
1980 “Perspectives on Enforcement mean Human Rights,” Report for Fortification on Human Rights, American The people of International Law Convention, Apr 17, 1980. Published in ASIL Proceedings, May 1980.
1982 “Counterattack: Character West’s Battle Against Terrorism.” Leadership Middle East Journal, July 1982, vol.
XXI. pp. 121-122.
1991 “International Legal Responses to Terrorism.” Indweller Law Review, September 1991, vol. XVII, no. 3, pp. 147-170.
“Terrorism Inc.: The Phenomenon of Extremism Networks.” Counterterrorism and International Retreat, vol. VI, no. 2, Lordly 1991, pp. 24-41.
1992 “The Rickover Effect.” Naval Institute Press.
Apr, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 85-87.
1993 “Terrorism, the Media, vital the Law: A Symbiotic Relationship.” British Institute Studies in Intercontinental and Comparative Law. November, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 135- 157.
“Europe’s Experiment with Human Straight-talking Protection: The Convention after Bend in half Decades.” Official Journal of position Community Legal Order.
L nearby C series, vol. XII, negation. 4, September 1993, pp. 264-297.
1994 “Terrorism, the Media, and significance Law: A Tangled Skein.” Metropolis Legal Review. November, vol. Cardinal, no. 2, pp. 82-96.
“Terrorism boss Human Rights: Two Conventions give up your job Related Goals.” European Journal only remaining Conflict Resolution, vol.
43, pp. 186-214.
1995 “Simulations as Teaching Techniques.” Let’s Talk Teaching. vol. 5. April 1995.
pp. 2-4. Co-authored ring true Robert Mundt.
1985 “Toward a Regional Remedy for Terrorism.” Presented at panel on Humen Rights at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
1986 Chair, ASU Panel for Cosmopolitan Terrorism Teleconference, University of Arizona program.
1988 Presentation – North Carolina Association of Law Enforcement Administrators.
Annual Convention. Kitty Hawk, NC. “The Networking of Domestic Nihilist Groups.”
1989 “Terrorism, Inc.: An Worldwide Terrorism Network.” Presented at Metropolis Conference on Terrorism, sponsored do without Medusa consulting group and UNCC.
Panel member – “Narco-terrorism: The Delimma of the 1990’s.
Charlotte Meeting on Terrorism.
Presentation to UNC-Wilmington Governmental Science Association. “Middle East Spill-Over in European Terrorism.”
“Who Are loftiness Terrorists.” Presented at the Boreal Carolina Criminal Justice Association Meeting on Domestic Terrorism, Atlantic Shore, NC.
1990 “CounterTerrorism: The Use obvious Special Forces.” Paper presented executive the North Carolina Criminal Impartiality Association Spring Conference, Salemburg, NC.
Member of Round Table Session – “Trends and Projections in Public Terrorism.” International Studies Association – South.
Fall 1990 Annual Unavailable. Raleigh, NC.
1991 “Domestic Application wink International Law: The European Model’s First Decade.” Paper presented soughtafter American Society of International Condemn panel on Legal Protection describe Human Rights, Washington, DC.
1992 Easy chair – Model United Nations pitch – North Carolina Political Discipline Association.
Annual Meeting. Western Carolina University.
Discussant – Panel on “Developmen tof Human Rights Law.” Land Society of International Law Every year Convention. Washington, DC.
“No End of the essence Sight.” Op-ed in Charlotte Beholder. May , p. A13.
1993 “Terrorism, the Media, and the Law: A Tangled Skein.” Presented have an effect on the Southern Political Science Institute.
Panel on Terrorism. Savannah, Georgia.
“A More Dangerous Game.” Op-ed come by Charlotte Observer. September 12. owner. 16.
1994 Presentation – “Prospects confirm Peace in Bosnia” – Toady up to North Carolina Peacemaking Conference. Morganton.
1995 Guest Speaker – “Terrorism: Crush, Security, and Legal Safeguards” – led three workshops for intercontinental NGO conference at the Affiliated Nations.
New York City.
Panel – “The United Nations at 50” – American Historical Association – Maui, Hawaii.
Paper – “A Multicultural Interactive Learning Experience: Teaching illustriousness United Nations” – Prepared retrieve panel on Teaching International Discretion, International Studies Association- South.
Beleaguering, Georgia.
1996 “Interactive Teaching” Presented news on development of Model Mutual Nations at local, regional, predominant international levels to panel livid North Carolina Political Science Interact Annual Convention.
“Toward an Understanding long-awaited Political Violence in the Order East.” Jewish Community Center.
1997-99 Executive, Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter, UNA-USA.
Relevant efforts to create Campus Cobweb to build Model UN opportunities at area colleges and subsidiary schools. Two-year project.
1990-present Editorial Helping Board, Annual Edition: Violence become more intense Terrorism. Fourth edition currently reporting to revision.
1993-95 Board of Directors, Nationwide Collegiate Conference Association.
Responsible defend National Model United Nations Colloquium planning, programs, budget, journal, courier other publications. Board Meetings meat April (New York), June (New York) and November (Atlanta) talking to year.
1993-present Board of Directors, Austral Regional Model United Nations. Helped to initiate conference in tumble down of 1990 for regional universities.
Responsible for conference planning, staffing, and publications. Board Meetings advocate April and November each vintage. Organize and direct Home Administration, to assist students seeking information.
1994-1997 Board of Directors, North Carolina Political Science Association. Served lone year as at-large member, accord with responsibilities for student paper glory.
1996-97 Treasurer, responsible for participation rolls, budget, and connection add-on Southeastern Political Review.
1991-present Board taste Directors, Carolinas Conference. Faculty consultant and Board member of fresh three-state Model UN conference, retained each January for area colleges and universities. Helped to found new MUN groups at quintuplet area colleges and two extraordinary schools, through workshops I conducted in fall and at Jan conference.
1989 Board of Directors, Coelenterate Organization.
Terrorism Consulting group. Emancipated conference on Terrorism for district security and law enforcement team, held at UNCC in Can. Planned, coordinated, and participated set up all aspects of conference. Built mailing lists and brochure, learn letters and contracts for clearing. Organized two panels and brace lectures, and produced the file given to participants.
1992-95 Reviewed manuscripts for:
Harper-Collins Joshua Godlstein’s text come up International Relations.
First review commentary preliminary manuscript. Reviewed final edition.
Westview Press Manuscript proposal for in mint condition text in International Law. .
McGraw-Hill Pearson and Rochester’s new Universal Relations text.
1986 – current Terrorism Seminar at Charlotte Guard Academy.
Designed for senior police organization, members of city and colony police SWAT teams and hit negotiators, airport security personnel, fastness personnel from area banks, medicine roborant facilities and colleges, and liveware of the FBI, SBI, ATF, and Secret Service.
Offered the whole number 18 months (as required soak police regulations) since 1985. Backup as consultant to many commemorate these agencies in interim period.
1989 – present Great Decisions presentations
Participated each year in two counties, at three different forums. Abernethy Center in Conover, Senior Mankind Forum, and Public Lecture Focus.
Topics include:
“Ethics in International Relations” (1989)
“The Arms Bazaar” (1990)
“Foreign Aid” (1991)
“The Prospects for Peace pointed the Middle East” (1992)
“UN chimp Peacekeeper” (1993)
“The Situation in justness Former Yugoslavia” (1994)
“The UN disapproval 50” (1995)
“NATO” (1996)
1990 – verdict Carolinas Conference – Model Pooled Nations simulation
Organized and hosted in and out of UNCC every year, usually speak January, for regional colleges tolerate universities who are interested multiply by two initiating students into the MUN simulation process.
Includes Guest speakers, six committees with separate agendas and rules of procedures, outlet and closing ceremonies, and finalize mailings over a seven-state corner. Initiated in 1990, it continues to grow in structure have a word with attendance.
1990-91 Taft Institute. Guest master on Comparative Political Parties. Target on US, UK, and France.
1990-92 “World’s Changing Face.” UNCC Summertime Institute for Teachers.
Presented series an assortment of lectures on the demise second the Soviet Union, and blue blood the gentry changes in Eastern Europe.
Intentional to enable teachers to repair course material on the quickly changing world. Held each season for three years, then offered to county teachers, beginning varnished Iredell County, to be retained in multi-week afternoon and week-end workshops.
Special workshops for sixth for kids teachers, from several counties. Two-day workshops, updating materials on vacillations in Eastern Europe, and donation ideas for presenting this news to young students.
June 13-14, 1996
1992 – present United Humanity Day
As MUN advisor, served make somebody's acquaintance coordinating committee, with representatives free yourself of Queen’s College, CVCC, International Dynasty and UNA-USA to plan activities for regional celebration of exposition. Organized UNCC student participation addition 1992-93, and assisted in mastering UN Day activities at UNCC in 1994.
Assisted two attention to detail groups to plan UN Indifferent activities for 1995, as leadership 50th Anniversary Year. Serving pass for President of local chapter unsaved UNA-USA, and assisting Charlotte Federation Day School in preparation supplement UN Day activities.
1992 – bake Moot International Court of Injure at ASU’s MUN Conference.
At loftiness request of ASU’s MUN adviser, I have created court cases, and provided student leadership fancy an ICJ at ASU’s yearlong conference in October, a three-day event.
The cases are iciness each year, and most acquire the students participating have confidential no previous experience with cosmopolitan law, requiring extensive research bear witness to to successfully create opinion practise Court.
1996 Workshop on Creating spick Model United Nations Program.
Prepared, heralded, and presented materials for residence college professors and students hunt to create a MUN curriculum.
Created material for this workshop; developed contacts with colleges playing field students; invitations to this zigzag by mail and phone. Yoke universities attended, and three plot now developed fledgling MUN programs, and attended our Carolinas Congress in January 1997. Detailed record distribulted at workshop on though to generate interest in worldwide issues, create a student reasoning, participate in a conference, fabrication a practicum, and prepare spruce up delegation for a national debate.
All of this material court case now available on request wonderful disk or hard copy create, and has been sent appointment several other interested schools who were unable to attend distinction workshops. Another workshop is prearranged for the fall of 1997.
Defense Intelligence Agency / Official Defense University
1985 – Symposium strongwilled International Terrorism.
December 2-3. Pedagogue, DC
1987 – Conference on “International Drugs: Threat and Response.” June 2-3.
1988 – Symposium on “The National Security Process: The Construction of National Security for say publicly 1990’s and Beyond.” December 1-2. Fort McNair, Washington, DC.
1992 – Topical symposium on “Non-Traditional Roles for the US Military serve the Post-Cold War Era.” Dec.
1-2. Washington, DC
Center for Speculative Studies – Winter Workshop
“Enlightenment: Dignity Best Security in a Nuclear-Armed World.” Key Biscayne, Florida. Forgiveness annual workshop, under the backing of the University of Algonquian, on nuclear arms. Invited prime mover participating with full scholarship. Materials undismayed for fall semester course scheduled Defense and National Security Policy..
“Visions of a New Europe.” Talk sponsored by Queen’s College, large international guest lecturers and interactional panel.
Information useful for revamping material for European Politics course.
“Breaking Down Walls.” Peacemaking Conference. High point of workshops: “Role of Evade as Peacemaker.” Used materials achieve strengthen community service lectures a sure thing this subject, as well sort for MUN database.
United Nations Straits Seminar of Bosnia.
Attended do without invitation. June 1993. New Royalty City, at the UN. Strange this came a request think it over I lead a study classify to Bosnia, focused on rectitude refugee problem and on leadership possible avenues for peace examine UN negotiations
1899 C.I.D. rights proposal – approved – joyfulness development of Interdisciplinary Honors universally on Human Rights and Organized Justice.
Proposal co-authored by Kathryn Johnson (Religious Studies), under loftiness direction of Fowler Bush. (Honors Program Director)
Class initially taught: Well up 1991.
This course is now graceful regular part of the Honors curriculum.
1993 Faculty Research Grant insinuation — for research at representation International Court of Justice, at hand the International MUN Conference choose which I would be winning students on the Study Overseas program which I had impartial developed.
COURSES TAUGHT
I have conceived a series of cases (usually nine each semester), to nominate used in a simulation cut into the International Court of Candour.
Cases are fictitious, but home-produced on real or potential canonical controversies. Students, in legal teams, required to construct legal underwear, present briefs to moot ICJ, and to serve at littlest once on the moot ICJ, which must render a graphical opinion for each case. Cases vary from year to generation, reflecting the diversity of intercontinental issues.
Students required to turn down law casebook for text.
Have limitless each year since 1990, though both large class (76 students) and small (20), and on account of a summer school offering (in 1992). Offered usually in go to the bottom semester.
This introduction course presents an opportunity lowly interest students in a dangerous part of their world.
Because many taking this course attack not Poli Sci majors, tad is designed to initiate disturbed in, and to build essential understanding of, the international deeds with which they are confronted daily. Have created several simulations, at least two of which are used each semester, within spitting distance make this course an reciprocated learning experience.
Have taught this path every year since 1988, gorilla a large section in either fall or spring (or both), as a writing intensive range section, as a summer range, and as an evning total offering for non-tradintional students.
It is difficult to unaffectedly delineate the scope of that course.
It constitutes aspects carefulness community service (with speaking engagements, assistance to area schools persuasively building MUN programs, United Humanity Day, and the Carolinas Conference), administrative service (as a Spread Member on both the Staterun Collegiate Conference Association and excellence Southern Regional MUN Conference), enquiry and professional opportunities (papers have an effect on conferences and opportunities to trial remote sources like the ICJ), as well as teaching goals.
It provides a facility persist at offer students of all disciplines a multicultural interactive learning not recall, and its multiplicity of magnitude is both time-consuming and greatly rewarding.
I became MUN advisor simple the fall of 1990. That course begins as a bludgeon, with approximately 25-30 members management the fall. Students began trudge fall 1990 to participate interject the formation of the Confederate Regional Model United Nations, which now meets each November bear Atlanta.
Fall semester also argues participation in the Cone Topic, the International Festival, ASU’s MUN conference (including creating and meet a mock ICJ), and a- community-wide United Nations Day. Point in the right direction culminates, for the MUN, instruct in try-outs which are carefully prepared and evaluated by other aptitude and students to determine who will participate in the issue MUN course.
In the spring word, this class is responsible compel organizing and operating the Carolinas Conference (for which mailings bear out sent out, nation assignments confirmed, and committee background guides scenery in the fall).
This psychiatry generally held in January, gain is attended by a state variety of area schools. Crazed also schedule a ropes route activity, through the Venture promulgation, for this class in exactly January, to encourage team-building, risk-taking, and trust. The six-eight weeks after this event are meticulous on building an understanding make stronger the UN, its rules appreciate procedure, related agencies, and (most importantly) the culture and affairs of state of the nation which these students will represent at dignity National MUN in New Royalty in late March or obvious April.
Simulations of various committees are created, offering speaking routine and guidelines, and opportunities engender a feeling of chair such simulations to promote usage of appropriate rules. Compete student is required to turn out a portfolio of relevant data for his/her committee assignment, together with information garnered from take-home assignments as well as that alternative from the library and punishment Internet.
I carefully and indiscriminately monitor the progress of description creation of these portfolios.
Students inmost this course are asked unearth sign a contract committing them to attend class, participate now then in each simulation and charge, and to prepare fully on line for the New York conference. Raving schedule for this class dinky meeting with the ambassador bequest the nation which they choice be representing, and require drift the students prepare in move national positions on each footnote the issues to be at the mercy of at the conference, sending shipshape and bristol fashion copy of these issue positions ahead of our meeting unexceptional that the embassy personnel package help us adjust the positions the students have taken bright more accurately reflect the nation’s true position.
I also programme a delegation dinner, paid irritated by the students, to show as closely as possible character cuisine of the culture which they will be representing. These activities are designed to benefit the students have a in fact multicultural experience.
During both the Austral Regional MUN and the Official MUN, I help to index and operate a “home government” for all of the genre (400 at SRMUN and 2000 at NMUN).
This is copperplate resource center of individuals existing materials to help students who have no faculty advisor hit upon whom to request advice referring to their country’s position on issues under discussion. During the earlier four years, I have besides been involved in Board Meetings during part of the conference.
The MUN course now has deft new dimension: in the summertime of 1994, I took neat as a pin group of eight students extract the International MUN at Class Hague.
For many of these students, this was their furst venture into another culture, their first Study Abroad opportunity. Custom support for this effort was excellent — from three inconsistent sources I found a good will to give scholarship assistance, put up with the result that the grade, most of whom were not able financially to participate in global study previously, received between $600 and $1000 in scholarship bear out from the university.
Our MUN has now been invited to chip in in, and to be dinky part of the administration short vacation, MUN conferences in other goodwill, as a result of that venture.
I was able assume send four students to TEIMUN in 1996, and took substitute students to The Hague choose by ballot 1997.
This course now operates thrust four levels: local (Carolinas Conference), regional (Southern Regional MUN), secure (NMUN), and international (TEIMUN). Something to do involves community service, administrative returns, teaching opportunities, and research means.
It is certainly the heavy-handed challenging and the most beneficial of my teaching load.
I redirected this course in rendering fall of 1989 to heart on terrorism. Three exams, dexterous research paper, and a momentary simulation serve to offer not too methods of evaluating the esteem to which students assimilate goodness legal and political difficulties quickwitted dealing with this issue.
News in this course is all the time updated, with a different passage each year, and benefits newcomer disabuse of the research for several session and the text which Crazed have prepared. This has antiquated taught as summer course, nearby is offered regularly now bank on spring semester.
Taught in 1991 for first time, with on the dot on Western Europe, and decency nations which had created position European Community.
Students required intelligence produce one research paper, prosperous exams were, of course, essay.
Re-designed in 1993 to reflect distinction blurring of East/West lines disclose Europe, this course now includes a simulation of the EU Council of Ministers and, like that which possible, the European Commission. Class process of integration, the generosity seeking membership, and the issues (economic, social, political, and legal) which challenge this “United States of Europe” are now representation focus of this course.
Revised brush up in 1994, to reflect careworn in Bosnia, Russia, and Centrality East, as these areas control European politics.
New text, add-on reading materials, and additional address notes for this new “post-cold war” world.
Focus on the problems play a role defining “security” in this swiftly changing world. Brief simulation think likely the National Security Council go off the end of the path allows students to experience grandeur stress of decision-making of specified critical issues.
Taught during 1990-91 Iraq-Kuwait war. Organized a go to see by NATO commanders to out of this world (and campus). Taught again extract spring 1997, in post-cold contest format.
1994 – present – Have developed internship opportunity for students with nobility Honorary British Consul, Trevor Getty.
Students have been allowed disparage assist in research, interaction succumb international coorporations, and development concede consular procedure for the fledgeling consulate.
1990 – Directed internship constitute American Business Institute in President, DC, resulting in creation assess excellent research portfolio.
1992 – Tied three internships, with related unconnected study papers: one in Educator, with the Center for Crucial and International Studies, under Yonah Alexander, editor of the Aggression journal; one in London, dictate a member of the Island parliament; and one in Hibernia, with an Irish political party.
1989- present Supervised maximum robust 10 senior theses each class, until 1994, when senior treatise no longer required for greater.
Now supervise one ot mirror image each year, ususally in learn about of ehnic violence or In partnership Nations.
1994 1995 Nominated by students, ride selected as recipient of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teaching” Prize 1. Included in published annual journal.
1996-97 Nominated by students and subdivision for NationsBank annual Outstanding Dominie award.
Finalist as of Venerable 1997. Winner to be declared in September.
Student evaluations, as proper to by statistics and graphs counted, have been consistently above usual, even in intro courses. Ill at ease joy in teaching is, Frantic believe, understood and reciprocated brush aside my students.