Alumnus Spotlight: Geoffrey Kemp
Degree: PhD in Political Science, 1971
Dissertation: “A Mission-Specific Analysis of Military Force Structures in Third World Strategic Environments and Some Alternative Arms Donor Policy Options”
Current Position: Director of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center, Washington, DC
Recent Publications:
“Our Imaginary Foe,” The National Interest, April 25, 2008.
“The East Moves West: India and China’s Great Game in the Gulf,” The National Interest, June 1, 2006.
"Iran and Iraq: The Shia Connection, Soft Power, and the Nuclear Factor," United States Institute of Peace, November, 2005.
SSP recently interviewed alumnus Geoffrey Kemp. Dr. Kemp has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career as a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a staffer for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a policy planner and analyst for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a special assistant to the president on the National Security Council staff, and an author and leader at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nixon Center. He has written widely on energy security, geopolitics in the Middle East and Persian Gulf, the arms trade, and arms control.
Publications and Media Appearances
Taylor Fravel's new book is now available. It is titled Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes (Princeton University Press, 2008).
The PBS documentary "The Living Weapon", which features Jeanne Guillemin as a narrator and focuses on her book, Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism (Columbia University Press, 2004) has won an Emmy Award in for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research."
SSP Alum Jennifer Lind has a new book available: SORRY STATES: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2008).
Caitlin Talmadge's Summer 2008 International Security article, "Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz," was quoted extensively in a Bloomberg.com article titled "Iran Mining of Strait Would Pose Great Challenge, Analysis Says." (Bloomberg.com, September 12, 2008).
Professor Harvey Sapolsky, SSP Alum and research affiliate Eugene Gholz, and SSP graduate student Caitlin Talmadge recently published a new book, titled US Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy. (Routledge, 2008).
On September 11, 2008, Professor Stephen Van Evera was on WBUR's "On Point." The topic: "Who's Winning the War on Terror?"
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