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THE HERTOG GLOBAL STRATEGY INITIATIVE

The 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative (HGSI) was focused on the critical topic of Nuclear
Proliferation and the Future of World Power. Eighteen undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. students
participated in a 12-week intensive course and undertook independent and group research projects
on nuclear proliferation.
The program also included two optional electives, Lectures in Global Strategy and The Cold War,
and weekly talks on global strategy by top government officials and leading experts in the field.

Students around the table in a seminar room at the Herbert H. Lehman Special guest Dr. Henry Kissinger shares his
Center for American History in the School of International and Public Affairs. experiences with seminar students.

The HGSI students spent the first three weeks of the summer of 2010 in “total immersion,” training
in nuclear strategy and the methods of international history during daily seminars and a two-day
workshop. In late June, they dispersed for eight weeks to conduct independent and team research
projects and to prepare their findings. In August, the class reconvened and presented their research,
developed future scenarios, and participated in a crisis simulation exercise. All together, the program
demonstrates the potential for collaborative historical research on key problems in world politics.

Workshop participants like Michael Levi of the Council on

Foreign Relations engage with students from around the Professor Etel Solingen sits between seminar instructors Francis Gavin
world during workshops and special events. and Matthew Connelly as they discuss their own research and
possible research topics proposed by HGSI students.

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 HGSI Director Professor Matthew Connelly; Dr. Hans Blix,
Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission;
and Dr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor
of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University.

MIT Professor Stephen Van Evera jokes about "the importance

of fact verification" in response to HGSI Professor Francis Gavin's
laudatory introduction of Van Evera at a workshop in May.

Professor Richard Betts, Director of the Saltzman Institute of

War & Peace, leads part of a May workshop.

Students learn
how to use
new technologies
for digital and
archival research
from librarian
Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg Jean Laponce at
addresses students and other audience members Columbia’s
at an HGSI lecture in June. Butler Library.

HGSI uses an online file-sharing site to

The weekly HGSI lectures are recorded for future facilitate collaborative research amongst
viewers and streamed live to the web so that students in the Seminar on Global Strategy.
students travelling for research can watch and pose
questions related to their projects.
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Seminars
A select group of undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. students were admitted into the 2010 Seminar on
Global Strategy. The course kicked off with a two-day workshop on the critical topic of Nuclear
Proliferation and the Future of World Power, and for three weeks the seminar met daily for intensive
discussions. Students read texts ranging from Richard Betts' Nuclear Blackmail to Marc Trachtenberg's The
Craft of International History. They debated questions such as: What role do nuclear weapons play in
contemporary world politics? And what policies should the United States and the global community adopt
to meet the dangers posed by these weapons?

A glimpse of the reading

assignments included on the
three-week seminar syllabus.

The 2010 Global Strategy research seminar instructors were Matthew Connelly, Professor of History at
Columbia University, and Francis Gavin, Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the Lyndon Baines
Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Visiting speakers included Richard Betts, Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at
Columbia University; Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission; Robert
Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University; Henry Kissinger of
Kissinger Associates; Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations; David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow
for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at
the Council on Foreign Relations; Scott Sagan, Director of the Center for International Security and Co-
operation at Stanford University; Etel Solingen, Professor of Political Science at the University of California
at Irvine; and Stephen Van Evera, Professor of Political Science at MIT.

Summer Electives
LECTURES IN GLOBAL STRATEGY
Maximilian Terhalle, a Visiting Fellow in Yale University’s Political Science Department taught an elective
entitled “Lectures in Global Strategy.” Program participants could take this course alongside the
Global Strategy research seminar. Columbia Summer Session students could also register for the course.
This class is met weekly during the summer of 2010 to discuss readings related to the weekly
Global Strategy Lecture Series and to tackle problems in transnational politics and history. Students
also met privately with guest lecturers.
THE COLD WAR
Anders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of
History, taught an elective on The Cold War. This weekly course pursued major
perspectives on the Cold War and the different histories they produce, chiefly,
but not exclusively, from a U.S. vantage point. Students considered the historical and
historiographical controversies related to the topic of the Cold War.

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Summer Research
THE HERTOG GLOBAL STRATEGY VIRTUAL ARCHIVE
Each student in The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative's Seminar on Global Strategy completes
an eight-week independent research project and contributes to the creation of a virtual archive.
Last summer, participants visited archives around the country and the world—including Atlanta,
Austin, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Washington D.C.— to do
research on nuclear proliferation. While there, they upload documents, notes, and bibliographical
information into a shared text-searchable database. In August, the students reconvened in New
York City for a week of presentations and collaborative projects. Their work demonstrated the
possibilities for collaborative, interdisciplinary historical research on transnational policy issues.

The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative worked with the Columbia

University Librarians to create a file-sharing site that current and
future students could use for collaborative research.

RESEARCH TOPICS
Students pitch their independent research topics
during the three-week seminar and refine their
projects throughout the summer. Below is a
sample of the research topics chosen by students
in the 2010 program.
 Sentinel and Safeguard: Debating Anti-Ballistic Missile and Horizontal Proliferation From Johnson to Nixon
What effect, if any, would deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems have on horizontal proliferation?
(Matthew Fay)
 The Prodigal State: Co-opting India into a New Non-Proliferation Treaty—A study of the renaissance in Indo
-U.S. ties and the nuclear deal. (Giulia Ferrini and Jaideep Prabhu)
 How do states choose between conventional arms and nuclear weapons? Under what circumstances may
states prefer to field a conventional force instead of developing a nuclear bomb? (Bonny Lin)
 How did U.S. nonproliferation strategies evolve during the Carter Administration? What are the implications
for U.S. policymakers approaching the proliferation problem? (Harrison Monsky)
 The Tensions of Tlatelolco: Argentina, Brazil, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime in Latin America.
How does the regional nuclear weapons free zone established in Latin America in 1967 affect levels of
interaction between the Argentine and Brazilian nuclear programs? (Ryan Musto)
 China’s Nuclear Arsenal: What U.S. intelligence failures led to the U.S.'s inability to predict China’s minimal
deterrent nuclear strategy? (Euhana Ossi)
 Which negotiations led to the U.N. 1967 Outer Space Treaty? What is the relationship of the treaty's
combination of a nuclear weapons free zone and the basic legal principles for space? (Taunton Paine)
 Cooperative Threat Reduction in the Former Soviet Union: How Program History and Trends can Inform
Policy-Makers on Future Cooperative Threat Reduction Activities (Lindsey Ricchi)

Meet the participants on Page 8.

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Lecture Series
THE GLOBAL STRATEGY LECTURE SERIES

Dr. Hans Blix inaugurates the Hertog Global Strategy Lecture Series

Each week during the summer of 2010, The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative invited an expert in the
field of nuclear proliferation to the Columbia campus to give a free public lecture. Video and
commentary from the lectures was streamed live on the internet and virtual participants were able
to ask questions via Twitter and other live chats. The lectures are also made available to the public
via YouTube and iTunes U. The 2010 lecture series was cosponsored by the Arnold A. Saltzman
Institute of War and Peace Studies and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia.

SPEAKER SCHEDULE
May 27: Hans Blix, Chairman, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission
June 3: David Sanger, The New York Times
June 10: James Steinberg, United States Deputy Secretary of State
June 17: Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
June 24: Robert Gallucci, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
July 8: Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia
July 15: Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
the John F. Kennedy School of Government
July 22: Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science, Yale University
July 29: Bonnie Jenkins, Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs, Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
August 5: John Mueller: Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University
August 12: John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University

For archived talks and a link to live lectures visit: http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu/media

or search for The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative on Youtube and iTunes

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David Sanger of The New York Times
presents “Obama after 18 Months: New
Strategies Confront Old Realities.”
Anyone can watch the lectures online,
Professor Robert Jervis of Columbia
participate in an online discussion, and
University discusses the historiography of
virtually submit a question to the
nuclear weapons.
presenter.

Social Media & Technology

FACILITATING DISCUSSION VIA NEW MEDIA
The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative
seeks to provide alternative mediums
through which students can interact
with one another and with the greater
community. Along with the Virtual Ar-
chive, HGSI utilizes platforms such as
Skype and SuperCoolSchool for
video-conferencing; and Youtube.edu
and iTunes U to archive footage of
lectures. Livestream, Twitter and
Facebook are used for video and
photo-sharing, moderated discussions,
and online Q-and-As with visiting
experts. With these tools, HGSI
provides continued access to content
for current and future students, engages
a wider audience in important
conversations on international politics, Students travelling for research can still watch the lectures live at
and invites new users to join the debate. http://livestream.com/liveHGSI. In this shot, captured online, Dr.
Robert Gallucci describes vulnerable points in the nuclear fuel cycle.

Virtual participants
follow HGSI activity in
in real-time
real-time viavia
Twitter, Facebook and
and Livestream,
Livestream, and and
participate in online
moderated
discussions. Here,
HGSI Professor Fran-
cis GavinGavin
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Future Forecasting
SCENARIO-BUILDING EXERCISES

Dr. Betty Sue Flowers observes a scenario-building team from a distance,

while another group of students brainstorm how the year 2020 may look.

During the last week of the program, seminar group students

examined the policy implications of their historical work
through a future scenario-building exercise under the direction
of Dr. Betty Sue Flowers. Flowers, the former director of the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at The University of Texas, is a
leading expert in future forecasting and a long-time veteran of
Shell Oil's Global Scenarios program, the much-emulated gold
standard in the field.
Flowers divided the students into four teams to develop
alternative scenarios for the year 2020, centered on the United
After agreeing on one inevitable
States-China relationship. At the end of the exercise, students reality of the year 2020, students
chose one scenario to inhabit for the following 24-hours. Their posit some unknown variables.
assignment was to develop a new U.S. nuclear proliferation policy
for the year 2020. Later that evening, the exercise was layered with a crisis simulation, positing a
mock terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. In this way, seminar students learned about the
challenge of reformulating long-term strategy in the midst of a national emergency. The activity
underscored both the difficulty – and the necessity – of taking a long view when the pace of
historical change accelerates.

Students considered
Students illustrate the regional different alternatives for the
implications of each of their scenarios year 2020. Students present their scenarios.

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Program coordinator Nettra Pan presents Student Gus Hagen-Dillon describes a world Doctoral students Mira Rapp-Hooper and
her group’s scenario. with cooperative interactions between the Jaideep Prabhu present their 2020
United States and China. scenario on behalf of their team

POLICY-PLANNING EXERCISE
LAYERED WITH A CRISIS SIMULATION

HGSI Participant Giulia Ferrini shares her perspective with colleagues during a policy-planning exercise.

Left-to-right: fictional National

Security Council Briefing signed
by “U.S. President” with
instructions for HGSI
Participants; presentation pre-
pared for “U.S. President” by
students, mock news and
intelligence relayed to students “Policy-Planners” hard at work.
during the crisis simulation.
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Highlights
STUDENT EXPERIENCES FROM NUCLEAR SUMMER

Students, faculty and staff pose with Workshop Leaders at the end of the two-day Student-Expert Workshop in May.

I was incredibly excited to meet everybody, especially after reading the

biographies and learning of everyone's accomplishments. I wanted to
absorb different ways of thinking, new perspectives, and the
backgrounds from which everyone drew their ideas and approaches to
scholarship. I learned so much and made some life-long friends.
- Lindsey Ricchi, B.A. student, Public Policy, Duke University

This has been one of the most beneficial experiences I’ve ever had in
higher education. I learned more in the first three weeks of this program Above: HGSI Participant Taunton
than I have ever learned in such a short period. It was intense, very Paine plays the role of Legal Counsel in
challenging, and extremely rewarding. I have a much better grasp of the the Arms Control & Disarmament
Agency during the simulation exercise.
material than I could have under any other circumstances.
- Taunton Paine, M.A. student, International and World History, Below: Graduate students Jaideep
Columbia University and London School of Economics Prabhu and Matt Fay consult with one
another before a group meeting.

As an undergraduate, perhaps the best thing about the

program is meeting people that normally
undergraduates wouldn’t have access to. I’ve been
working with graduate students on a day-to-day basis.
Throughout this summer, with the public lecture series,
I've talked to many academics from other
universities. And I’ve had the opportunity to talk to
policy-makers themselves, including Henry Kissinger
and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
- Will Leonard, B.A. student, History,
Columbia University

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 First Impressions
THE HERTOG GLOBAL STRATEGY INITIATIVE 2010
We had a group of people who came together very
Left: Undergraduates
well. Saturday evening we could sit there over beer and Gus Hagen-Dillon and
discuss non-proliferation. I could go to the professors' Nick Standish, discuss
offices and argue with them—and with my colleagues research projects
also. These kinds of exchanges were really helpful. before presenting in
There’s a community… The biggest plus-point this August. Below: Ph.D.
program had is the kinds of people that came from the students Mira Raap-
Hooper presents find-
outside. Not every place could attract Henry Kissinger,
ings, and Jaideep
Hans Blix, Jim Steinberg, or Bob Gallucci, people who Prabhu participates in
worked on nuclear proliferation. Most programs cannot the crisis simulation
boast of that lineup. exercise.
- Jaideep Prabhu, Ph.D. student
Modern Middle East & South Asia,
Vanderbilt University

I’m the youngest in the seminar and it’s been incredible

to be working with graduate students who have been
working on these issues on 5-plus years all together in
one room, doing research together and interacting in a
way that I’ve never seen before. This program has got-
ten me really interested in doing research in the pri-
mary documents and in really getting your hands dirty
at different archives and combining interviews with
multiple archives with secondary sources and
theoretical arguments. I would absolutely recommend
this program to undergraduates. I already have.
- Harrison Monsky, B.A. student, Yale University

The fact that you invite students who were travelling to

tune in online really was indicative of how up to date
and technologically-savvy this program is. Its methods
seem new and unprecedented. That complements the
program very well—revolutionary ideas with very new
technologies.
- Kira Yevtukhova, B.A., International Relations,
Mount Holyoke College Undergraduate student Harrison Monsky talks after dinner with
HGSI Professor Francis Gavin.

This summer not only opened my eyes to an important and

fascinating topic but to so much more. I feel so much more
confident about applying for Ph.D. programs and eventually
writing a dissertation having participated in this program.
- Matt Fay, M.A. student,
International Relations and Conflict Resolution,
American Military University
When I came to the United States I didn't know what
to expect, and now… I’m seriously thinking about
doing my Ph.D. here.
- Giulia Ferrini, B.A., M.A.,
International Relations, University of Roma Tre

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2010 Participants
THE HERTOG GLOBAL STRATEGY INITIATIVE
In 2010, the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative received applications from students hailing from
sixty-nine different undergraduate institutions and fifty graduate institutions. The inaugural class
included students with varied skills and expertise, including degrees in science and engineering, direct
experience with weapons systems and nuclear reactors, as well as fluency in such languages as Russian,
Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic, and Farsi.
Christopher Brownfield is a student of
sustainability management at Columbia's Earth
Institute. He graduated from the U.S. Naval
Academy in May 2001 and studied engineering
management at Old Dominion University. He
volunteered for duty in Iraq in 2006, and from
2008 to 2010, studied International Energy Policy
& Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University. His first book, My Nuclear Family, will
be released in September.
Matthew Fay is a research intern at the Cato
Institute. He earned a B.A. in Political Science
from St. Xavier University in 2007 and is pursuing
an M.A. in International Relations and Conflict
Resolution at the American Military University.
From 2007 to 2009, he conducted research on
U.S. foreign policy and international terrorism for
the Prometheus Institute. His research interests
include International Political Systems,
International Security, International Terrorism,
and Narco-Terrorism.
Giulia Ferrini earned an M.A. in International
Relations from the University of Roma Tre in
2010. Her master’s thesis was titled, “Indo-U.S.
Relations Before and After 09/11.” She earned a
B.A. in Political Science from the University of
Roma Tre in 2008 and subsequently interned for
the Italian Counselor for Economic Affairs at the
Italian Embassy in Paris. Her research interests
include the history of International Relations, U.S.
-Indo Relations, Cold War Studies, and Nuclear
Non-Proliferation. She speaks French and Italian.
Augusta Hagen-Dillon is a rising senior at Barnard
College. She is majoring in History with a focus
on Empires and Colonialism, and minoring in
Russian. She is active in environmental issues,
serving as the EcoRep for Barnard College
Residential Life and Housing and as a board
member of Columbia Green Umbrella. She is
interested in nuclear issues as they relate to
Russia.
Mohammed Homavouyash is a Ph.D. candidate in
International Relations at Florida International
University. He is a graduate of Allameh Tabatabai
University in Iran, where he earned an M.A. in
International Relations in 2002 and a B.A. in
Linguistics and English Translation in 2000. He is
fluent in Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, and reads
Spanish. His research interests focus on Iranian,
Israeli, and Russian nuclear policy.
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Margarita Jimenez is an M.A. student in Global Policy
Studies at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She
specializes in National Security, Law, and
Diplomacy. She served in the U.S. Air Force and
earned a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies with a
concentration in Arabic Language and Literature
from UT Austin in 2009. She was a scholar in the
Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement
Program. Her research interests include Veteran’s
Issues and the Middle East.
Will Leonard is a rising junior at Columbia
University, where he studies history. He is an
editor of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of
History and an active member of the Columbia
International Relations Council and Association, also
known as CIRCA. His interests focus on American
diplomatic and military policy during the Cold War.
His research for the program examines the nuclear
weapons strategy of the Carter Administration,
specifically President Carter’s decision to deploy
long-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe in
the late 1970s.
Yang Bonny Lin is a Ph.D. student in political science
at Yale University. She earned a B.A. in Government
from Harvard University in 2005 and an M.A. in
Asian Studies from the University of Michigan in
2006. She has studied and researched a range of
East Asian security issues and focuses on U.S.-China
relations. She is interested in nuclear strategy and
the relationship between nuclear and conventional
weapons. She speaks Chinese and reads Latin.
Harrison Monsky is a rising sophomore at Yale
University. He has participated in the Yale
IvyScholars Program in Grand Strategy and has
won titles at national Model United Nations
conferences. He was a national student coordinator
for the Green Schools Alliance and founded the Eco
Expo for Environmental Education in 2009. His
research for the program examines the evolution of
U.S. nonproliferation policy during the Carter
Administration. He also speaks French.
Ryan Musto is an M.A. student in the Columbia
University/London School of Economics Dual
Master’s Degree Program in International and
World History. He earned a B.A. in History from
New York University and taught international
history to high school students in the United Arab
Emirates. This summer, he is researching
international security and nuclear non-proliferation
in Latin America and will be using both English and
Spanish sources.
Brian Keenan Muzás is a Ph.D. student at the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the
University of Texas at Austin, where he is a
Harrington Doctoral Fellow. He earned a B.S.E.
in mechanical and aerospace engineering from
Princeton University in 1996, an M.S. in
aeronautics from the California Institute of
Technology in 1998, and an M.Div. in
pastoral ministry and an M.A. in systematic
theology from Seton Hall University in 2003.
Taunton Paine is an M.A. student in the
Columbia University/London School of
Economics Dual Master’s Degree program in
International and World History. He earned a
B.A. from American University in 2009 and
researched the League of Nations’ policies
regarding civil aviation and aircraft disarmament.
His master’s thesis focuses on the United
Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
Euhana Ossi earned a B.A. in International
Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in
2010. Her studies focused on international
security, culminating in a senior thesis analyzing
China’s ability to enforce nuclear
nonproliferation. She has also worked on
constituent service, armed services, and foreign
affairs issues for Senator Barbara Boxer and
Senator Robert P. Casey Jr.
Jaideep Prabhu is a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt
University. His dissertation analyses Indian
nuclear decision making from 1949 to 1979 and
is tentatively titled, “Nuclear Dharma: India’s
Road to the Military Atom.” His research
interests focus on international political theory,
diplomacy, and memory. He specializes in the
Modern Middle East and South Asia. He has also
studied Modern Europe, Islamic history and
philosophy, history of technology, and American
foreign policy. He speaks French, German and
Hindi.
Mira Rapp-Hooper is a Ph.D. student in Political
Science at Columbia University. She
concentrates in security studies. She earned a
B.A. in History from Stanford University in 2006
and an M.A. in Politics from New York
University in 2009. From 2007 to 2008, she
served as Assistant to the Vice-President of the
Council of Foreign Relations. Her primary
research interest is nuclear weapons and
proliferation. She speaks French and Italian.
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Lindsey Ricchi is a rising senior at Duke
University, where she studies Public Policy. She
is a member of the Air Force ROTC Detachment
585 and serves as executive Vice-President of
Duke’s Pan-Hellenic Board. She is proficient in
French and beginning Italian and studied in
Florence during the fall of 2009. Her senior
thesis focuses on nuclear terrorism.
Nicholas Standish is a rising senior at Columbia
University, where he studies History and English.
He is co-captain of the Columbia Wrestling Team
and coordinator of the Columbia Chapter of the
Health Education Awareness League, Community
Impact. He is researching the how American
intellectuals, policymakers, and journalists
perceived the threat of nuclear terrorism at the
end of the Cold War.
Kira Yevtukhova earned a B.A. in International
Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 2010,
where she concentrated in Russian and Eurasian
Studies. She interned for the Seoul Metropolitan
Government CIO Forum Secretariat in 2009 and
for the European Union’s Committee of the
Regions in 2008. She served as the department
liaison for Mount Holyoke’s International Relations
Department and as president of Model United
Nations at Mount Holyoke. She is fluent in Russian
and is interested in nuclear proliferation in Russia
and the former Soviet Union.
Students attend a post-lecture dinner with the evening’s
speaker. Right-to-left: Mira Rapp-Hooper, Mohamad
Homavouyash, Euhana Ossi, James Steinberg, Matthew
Connelly, Ryan Musto, Francis Gavin, and Betty Sue Flowers.
Faculty & Staff
THE HERTOG GLOBAL STRATEGY INITIATIVE
The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative is a project of the Columbia University Department of History.
It was initiated in the summer of 2010 by History Professor Matthew Connelly and Dr. Line Lillevik,
Executive Director of the Dual Master’s Degree Program in International and World History.

2010 Faculty
PROFESSOR MATTHEW J. CONNELLY
Matthew J. Connelly is the Director of the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative.
He also directs Columbia’s Dual Master’s Degree Program in International and
World History with the London School of Economics and co-edits a series on
global history for Columbia University Press. He is a professor of history at
Columbia University, and has held visiting positions at the University of Sydney,
Sciences Po, and the University of Oslo. His courses at Columbia include
International and Global History since World War II, The End of Empires, and
The Future as History.
Connelly earned a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Columbia
University. His latest book, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World
Population is the first global history of the population control movement. It was an
Economist and Financial Times book of the year. His first book, A Diplomatic
Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era,
garnered five prizes and will soon be published in French by Payot-Rivages. In
addition to publishing in academic journals, Connelly has written articles on
foreign policy for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wilson Quarterly, and The National
Interest and has commented on current affairs for media outlets including The New
York Times, The History Channel, and the BBC.

PROFESSOR FRANCIS J. GAVIN

Francis J. Gavin co-taught the 2010 Seminar on Global Strategy with
Matthew Connelly. He is the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for
International Security and Law and the first Tom Slick Professor of International
Affairs at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at
Austin. He is also the Director of “The Next Generation Project - U.S. Global
Policy and the Future of International Institutions,” a multi-year national initiative
sponsored by The American Assembly at Columbia University. Previously, he was
an Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International
Affairs, an International Security Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of
Government, and a Research Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the
University of Virginia, where he started “The Presidency and Economic Policy
Program.” His teaching and research interests focus on United States foreign
policy, global governance, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms
control, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary
relations.
Gavin earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Diplomatic History from the University of
Pennsylvania, a Master of Studies in Modern European History from Oxford, and a
B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. His book, Gold, Dollars, and
Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971, was published in
2004 by the University of North Carolina Press under their New Cold War
History series. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Nuclear Politics and
Policies: From the Cold War through the 21st Century. He has also published numerous
scholarly articles, book reviews, and editorials.

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2010 Staff
Sydney Schwartz Gross is the Executive Director of The Hertog Global
Strategy Initiative. She earned an M.S. in Print Journalism from Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in History from The
University of Chicago. Before joining HGSI, she worked as a reporter for two
daily newspapers, The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and the
Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn., and completed graduate coursework
in American History at the University of Miami. Her research interests include
modern American urban and social history, Jewish history, and public history.
Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Providence Journal, The San
Diego Union-Tribune, the South Bend Tribune, The Times-Picayune, Archaeology
magazine, and other publications.

Nettra D. Pan was the Manager of Public Relations and New Media Strategy
for the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative. She is a rising junior at Columbia
University, where she studies Political Science. She is the leader of Columbia
Students for Southeast Asian Development & Service, also known as SEADS.
She is also involved in Columbia’s International Relations Council and
Association, also known as CIRCA, competing in their Model United Nations’
team and chairing a committee at their annual conference. Her research
interests include the relationship between international security and
development. In the fall of 2011, she will begin her M.A. in International Affairs
at Sciences Po, Paris.

Lydia Walker was the Research Coordinator for the 2010 Hertog Global
Strategy Initiative. She earned a B.A. in History from Columbia University in
May 2010. Her thesis, “The Partisan’s Long War: Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the
Partisan and the Trial of Raoul Salan, 1962-1963,” won the Charles A. Beard
prize for best undergraduate thesis from the Department of History. She
published a research note, “Forging a Lock, Turning a Key: Counterinsurgency
Theory in Iraq 2006-2008,” in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism in 2009 and an
article, “Marion McVitty: Peace Secured by Disarmament,” for Minerva in 2006.
She trained at the School of American Ballet and danced with the Suzanne
Farrell Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet II from 2001 to 2006. She also works as a
research assistant to Professor Matthew Connelly.

Jefferson Decker was the Hertog Postdoctoral Fellow for 2009-10 and, in
that capacity, helped get the first Hertog Global Strategy Initiative up and
running. Before joining HGSI, Jeff received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia
University, where he studied 20th century U.S. history. His doctoral
dissertation described how politically conservative lawyers, working through a
combination of litigation and direct political action, helped to reshape American
government during the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to his academic research,
he has published articles and reviews in The Nation, Boston Review, and other
publications. He is currently an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Department
of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

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Sponsors
The 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative has been made possible by a gift from the Hertog
Foundation, which was founded by Roger Hertog. A graduate of City College of New York,
Hertog is chair of the New York Historical Society; chair emeritus of the Manhattan Institute;
and a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the New York
Public Library, the New York Philharmonic, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He is also
vice-chair emeritus of Alliance-Bernstein L.P. In 2007, he received the National Humanities Medal.
The 2010 lecture series was cosponsored by the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and
Peace Studies and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. Undergraduate
Research Fellowships were also supported by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and
Policy at Columbia University, which works to produce pioneering social science research and to
shape public policy by integrating knowledge and methods across the social scientific disciplines.

Summer 2011 Program: Summer Fever

APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2011
In 1918, an influenza known as the Spanish Flu spread across the world, killing between 50 and
100million people. Experts warn that global trends such as increased travel and international trade
are making another such pandemic inevitable, even if it is impossible to predict its nature and
timing. How should the world community prepare for this threat, and at the same time strike a
balance with other, more immediate priorities?

The 2011 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative will explore such questions. It will delve into the history
of pandemics and public health, seek out lessons for future policy, and train a new generation to
take on these global challenges. The 2011 Program on "The History and Future of Pandemics and
Global Public Health" will take place between May 23, 2011 and August 12, 2011. For application
information, please visit: http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu/admissions.

CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative please contact:
Executive Director Sydney S. Gross at (212) 851-5916 or ssgross@columbia.edu.

The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative

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