CPU Newsletter

October 1, 2006

Columbia Political Union Weekly Update 10.2-10.7

CPU Weekly Update 10.2-10.7

CPU presents: "Nuclear Terrorism in a Post 9/11 World," Wednesday 10.4
Hamilton 602, 8 PM

Moderator:

Kimberly Marten, Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University

Dr. Marten earned her B.A. at Harvard University and Ph.D. at Stanford University. She has been a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation; a visiting scholar at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies; a visiting scholar at Tokyo's Institute for International Policy Studies (through a Hitachi/Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship); a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York; and has taught at Ohio State University and Japan's National Defense Academy. She has written three books: Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (Columbia University Press, 2004); Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (Columbia University Press, 1997); and Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation (Princeton University Press, 1993), which received the Marshall Shulman Prize. She has completed two open-source contract projects for the Director of Net Assessment at the Pentagon. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Panelists:
Tracy C. Brown, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office at the United Nations

Ms. Brown is the Liaison/Public Information Officer and Deputy in the New York Office of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and has been with the organization since May 1997. The office interacts with the United Nations Secretariat, including the

offices of the Secretary-General, the Security Council, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and the Departments of Political Affairs and Disarmament Affairs, among others. She consults with representatives from other international organizations, officials from permanent missions, and with U.S. Government officials in Washington, D.C regarding matters of nuclear energy.

Leonor Tomero, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Leonor Tomero recently joined the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation to work on international security and specifically non-proliferation issues. Prior to joining the Center, she was President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS), where she had also previously served as Director for Western Europe and Latin America, leading programs to enhance international commitment under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. Leonor also worked on the staffs of Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.-1) on nuclear waste, energy, and environmental issues. While in law school she served as a law clerk at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and

in the U.S . Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Section. She is a member of the LAWS Board of Directors and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Law and Politics at Georgetown University. She holds a J.D. from American University, an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in government from Cornell University.

John Burroughs, J.D., Ph.D., Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP)

Dr. Burroughs represents LCNP at Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review proceedings and the United Nations. He is co-editor of Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties, 2003, to which he contributed the chapter on the NPT; author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice, 1998; and co-author of articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the World Policy Journal. He is an adjunct professor of international law at Rutgers Law School, Newark. Dr. Burroughs received his B.A. from Harvard University and his graduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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