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2008
April 11, 2008: In the INSER-supported UWISC series, Prof. Darius Rejali, Reed University, spoke on “Torture, Democracy, and our Future.” The report will be posted soon.
March 10, 2008: The reports on talks by Solingen, Adler, and Darnton are on the web!
February 29, 2008: In the INSER-supported UWISC series, Prof. Scott S. Gartner, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, spoke on “Suicide and Fragging: Strategy and Military Dysfunction.” in Thompson 317, 12:00–1:30 pm. The report will be posted soon.
February 22, 2008: In the University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC) series, Christopher Darnton, Department of Politics, Princeton University, spoke on “Overcoming International Security Rivalry: Argentine-Brazilian Rapprochement in Comparative Perspective.” The lecture was partly sponsored by INSER and the report will be posted soon.
February 20, 2008: INSER is pleased and excited to announce that we have a new member of the Strategic Planning Committee. The considerable knowledge and experience of Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus of the Information School, will be tremendous assets in developing INSER and its programs.
Dr. Eisenberg's expertise is in use of information and technology literacy, information management in learning and teaching, and school library and information programs, K-12. Professor Eisenberg has an MLS from the State University of New York at Albany (1973) and a PhD in Information Transfer from Syracuse University (1986).
 On February 13th 2008, more than 100 people heard Wendy Chamberlin, former Ambassador to Pakistan, speak at Seattle University (a co-sponsor of the event with INSER) on the combustible state of Pakistan today and its relationship with the US. The evening was opened with a welcome by Ian Moncaster, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council (another co-sponsor). William Neukom, President of the American Bar Association, introduced Ambassador Chamberlin, who is currently President of the Middle East Institute. Ambassador Chamberlin, currently president of the Middle East Institute, discussed the many challenges that Pakistan currently faces, many of which have been exacerbated by the US policy enacted in that region. While the United States had excellent policies the first 1 to 2 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Chamberlin remarked that the state of Pakistan has evolved over the years, and therefore US policy needs to be adjusted accordingly. The most important factor concerning the US-Pakistan relationship is its efforts toward combating terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has been recognized by the Bush administration as key and indispensable ally on the war on terror. However, this high esteem in which he is held has been criticized by some to be the US focusing more on the war on terror rather than upholding our vision and values of democracy. Chamberlin also touched on US unilateralism in the war on terror in Pakistan and how that is damaging our relationship with the Pakistanis. She stated that the US leaders should stop criticizing the Pakistani army's help and should act more as a partner. The point Ambassador Chamberlin stressed the most was that in order to win the war on terror in Pakistan, we must win the support of the local people. The US's relationship with Pakistan should be with the people of Pakistan.
February 14, 2008: The UW Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Y. Kim, faculty in the Information School, is the new Director of INSER. Jeff Kim has been an instrumental part of INSER since its inception; he was previously Deputy Director of INSER. Kevin Desouza will continue in his role as a faculty member at the Information School and as Director of the Institute for Innovation in Information Management at the University of Washington.
January 25, 2008: At a UWISC lecture, Emanuel Adler of the University of Toronto spoke on "Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't: Performative Power, and the Strategy of
Conventional and Nuclear Defusing." The report of the lecture, which was partially supported by INSER, will be posted soon.
January 11, 2008: At a UWISC lecture, Etel Solingen of the University of California, Irvine, spoke on "Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East." This lecture was partly supported by INSER. A report of the talk will be posted soon.
2007
December 13, 2007: Reports from the Kawato and Hiltermann talks are now available.
November 9, 2007: INSER partly supported a UWISC lecture by Joost Hiltermann, of the International Crisis Group, who spoke on "Democracy Equals Civil War: A Middle Eastern Paradox?"
November 7, 2007: INSER helped support an event in the World Affairs Council's Global Classroom series: “Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict? The Resurgent Russian Energy Superpower” Representatives from the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) gave a short overview of geography and politics in this region. This was followed by a talk by Andrew Kuchins (Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russia and Eurasia Program), known for his expertise in Russian foreign and security policy, Russian energy policy, and U.S.-Russia relations. Professor Kuchins explained the complexities of oil politics in regions that are often ignored in the news and the classroom today and discussed the politics of oil from a US national security perspective. Materials for high school teachers to use for curriculum development are at http://www.world-affairs.org/globalclassroom/curriculum/default.htm
November 1, 2007: The report from the Crenshaw talk is now available.
October 26, 2007: UWISC hosted a lecture by Yuko Kawato, who spoke on "Bases of Power: Military Effectiveness, Alliance Politics, and Protests against U.S. Military Bases in Asia." This event was partly sponsored by INSER.
October 16, 2007: INSER helped to support a World Affairs Council Global Classroom event on the oil business in Nigeria. Wolfram Latsch, Assistant Professor of International Studies at UW, gave an overview of Nigeria's history, government, and economics and the impact of its oil resources on its politics and society. He spoke about why the U.S. (and we as citizens and teachers) should care. Joel Bisina, Founder, Niger Delta Professionals for Development (NIDPRODEV), engaged the audience, mostly educators, in a dialogue with regard to the complexities surrounding Nigeria’s oil industry, sharing his own experiences working in the Niger Delta. NIDPRODEV is one of the leading NGOs in the oil-rich Niger Delta; its mission is to reach all stakeholders in the Niger Delta and to facilitate political, economic, and social stability in the region. Materials for high school teachers to use for curriculum development are at http://www.world-affairs.org/globalclassroom/curriculum/default.htm
October 12, 2007: INSER helped to support an event at which Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University, spoke on "The Debate Over 'New' and 'Old' Terrorism" as part of the University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC).
October 10, 2007: INSER is involved in a new research project, “Hybrid C2 Structures: Between Hierarchies and Edge Organizations,” recently funded through a grant from the Center for Edge Power and sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, Naval Postgraduate School.
Two ingredients are used to design the ideal command-and-control (C2) structure—information and the network. Information is generated throughout the organization and must be dissipated by the network to destinations where it is needed. Networks determine the paths that information traverses and the consequent processing and decision-making by intermediate nodes. This project will be an inter-disciplinary perspective to the study of hybrid C2 by examining information networks through multiple lenses by drawing on the investigators’ expertise in the fields of information science, organization science, telecommunications network theory, mathematical statistics, and network simulation.
August 30, 2007: The video of the Bled Strategic Forum panel discussion is online.
View the video
View a summary of the discussion
August 26–27, 2007: Professor Kevin Desouza, Director of INSER and faculty in the UW Information School, has been invited to be a panelist at the 2nd annual conference of the Bled Strategic Forum "European Union 2020: Enlarging and Integrating" in Bled, Slovenia. The Bled Strategic Forum was set up to expose strategic issues impacting Europe and the transatlantic community. The conference brings together government representatives at the highest level, politicians, EU officials, private sector leaders, and senior representatives from think tanks and the non-governmental sector to examine the key challenges that Europe is currently facing.
Prof. Desouza, in the Global Preponderance session, will discuss the understanding of power, ways in which power should (could) be used in the 21st Century to fight global challenges, and how the different actors with power can collaborate to maximize the common good.
August 21, 2007: With financial support from INSER, the World Affairs Council created an opportunity for students to attend an international business conference entitled, “Financial Services, Technology, and Broad-Based Development in China.” Students heard panel discussions that included two US Congressmen, with one discussion moderated by former Washington State Governor Gary Locke. It is unusual and exceptional for students to be provided access to this type of high-level conference. The pre- and post-conference discussions gave the students the opportunity to reflect on how the experience relates to their school learning, their current interests, and their future pursuits.
July 20, 2007: INSER helped support the World Affairs Council's celebration reception for eight high-school students from Morocco. During their 3-week visit to Seattle, these students used the visual arts to create expressions of their national and cultural identities, within the context of their evolving global perspectives. The students presented their artwork, including art glass, photography, and a short film, and they spoke of and answered questions about their experiences in Seattle to an audience of adults and students. These Moroccan students visited Seattle as a part of the Linking Individuals, Knowledge and Culture (LINC) program, which focuses on development of leadership and cross-cultural communication skills through art and culture.
July 2, 2007: INSER supported the World Affairs Council's creation of the opportunity for high-school students to attend the Washington Council on International Trade Conference, "Choosing China or India: The Future for Trade and Business," co-chaired by Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
June 22, 2007: Full reports of the Goodman, Burton, Contractor, and Awazu Lectures are available.
May 31, 2007: INSER Director Kevin Desouza is profiled in an article in University Week newspaper. The article is about Kevin's background and accomplishments and about the projects with which he is involved, including INSER.
May 24, 2007: INSER completes its first lecture series!
For more details about our talks please visit our Lecture
Series page or our blog.
May 18, 2007: Check out out blog for pictures and comments
from our recent Goodman Contractor talks.
May 18, 2007: The
reports from the
Kalyvas talk
and the Toft
talk are now available.
April 25, 2007: This weekend is
Washington Weekend, a chance for UW to show off its
wonderful campus and programs to the community. There are
over 50 events scheduled this weekend! Please check out
all the great happenings in the Community Events section below.
April 24, 2007: The
report
from the Parker talk is now available.
March 21, 2007: Check out the blog entries submitted by
INFO 300 students on the subject of government intelligence failures.
You can also view the PDF
of these summaries.
March 20, 2007: Reports from the Milward
and Hensgen
lectures and the CIAC
Colloquium are available.
March 11, 2007: Check out out blog for pictures and comments
from our recent Milward and Hensgen lectures and the CIAC Colloquium.
Mar. 9, 2007: The report
from the Jervis talk is up!
Mar. 8, 2007: INSER member David Fenner, Assistant
Vice Provost for International Education and Director of International
Programs and Exchanges (IPE) was profiled in the Volume 24, no.
2 (March 8, 2007) issue of University Week.
Mar. 1, 2007: INSER has launched a new design for
its website.
Feb. 19, 2007: INSER has launched a blog!
We encourage everyone to take a look and make comments!
Feb. 5, 2007:
Congratulations to INSER Program Manger Kevin Desouza and UW
Informatics student Ting-Yen Wang. Their
paper “Impeding insurgent attacks: The information management
agenda” was published in Technological Forecasting & Social
Change (Volume 74, pages 211–229). The article
discusses how the use of information is affecting the War in Iraq, focusing on recent insurgent attacks.
This publication highlights one of the key goals of the institute:
to raise student awareness on national security issues. Prof. Desouza also co-edited this issue.
Please see our publications page
for abstract and citation information.
January 20, 2007: The Jervis lecture made the front page of
the UW Daily (pdf)! There were 110+ people at the lecture.
January 2007: The University of Washington Institute for
National Security Education and Research (UW INSER) begins! We are
one of the six new Intelligence Community's Centers for Academic
Excellence (CAE) program, funded by the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence via the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency. Please see the agency's
press release for more details.
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