Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy
October 12, 2004
Newark, Delaware - Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course.
The letter was released today by "Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy," a nonpartisan group of experts in the field of national security and international politics.
The letter asserts that current U.S. foreign policy harms the struggle against Islamist terrorists, pointing to a series of "blunders" by the Bush team in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. "We're advising the administration, which is already in a deep hole, to stop digging," said Professor Richard Samuels of M.I.T.
The scholars who signed the letter are from over 150 colleges and universities in 40 states, from California to Florida, Texas to Maine. They include many of the nation's most prominent experts on world politics, including former staff members at the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council, as well as six of the last seven Presidents of the American Political Science Association. "I think it is telling that so many specialists on international relations, who rarely agree on anything, are unified in their position on the high costs that the U.S. is incurring from this war," said Professor Robert Keohane of Duke University.
The text of the letter is available at http://www.sensibleforeignpolicy.net/letter.html. A list of signers and other information about Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy may be found elsewhere on this site.
For more information, please contact:
Stuart J. Kaufman
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Off: 302 831 1941
Cell: 302 528 7226
H: 302 392 0876
skaufman@udel.edu
Michael E. Brown
Director, Security Studies Program
Georgetown University
Off: :202-687-5727
brownme@georgetown.edu
Michael C. Desch
Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
Bush School of Government and Public Service
College Station, TX
Off. 979.458.1703
Cell: 859.396.6854
mdesch@bushschool.tamu.edu
Barry R. Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Off. 617 253 8088
Home 617 484 6269
Posen@mit.edu
Jessica Stern
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Off. 617 496-3623
Jessica_Stern@harvard.edu
October 12, 2004
Newark, Delaware - Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course.
The letter was released today by "Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy," a nonpartisan group of experts in the field of national security and international politics.
The letter asserts that current U.S. foreign policy harms the struggle against Islamist terrorists, pointing to a series of "blunders" by the Bush team in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. "We're advising the administration, which is already in a deep hole, to stop digging," said Professor Richard Samuels of M.I.T.
The scholars who signed the letter are from over 150 colleges and universities in 40 states, from California to Florida, Texas to Maine. They include many of the nation's most prominent experts on world politics, including former staff members at the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council, as well as six of the last seven Presidents of the American Political Science Association. "I think it is telling that so many specialists on international relations, who rarely agree on anything, are unified in their position on the high costs that the U.S. is incurring from this war," said Professor Robert Keohane of Duke University.
The text of the letter is available at http://www.sensibleforeignpolicy.net/letter.html. A list of signers and other information about Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy may be found elsewhere on this site.
For more information, please contact:
Stuart J. Kaufman
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Off: 302 831 1941
Cell: 302 528 7226
H: 302 392 0876
skaufman@udel.edu
Michael E. Brown
Director, Security Studies Program
Georgetown University
Off: :202-687-5727
brownme@georgetown.edu
Michael C. Desch
Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
Bush School of Government and Public Service
College Station, TX
Off. 979.458.1703
Cell: 859.396.6854
mdesch@bushschool.tamu.edu
Barry R. Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Off. 617 253 8088
Home 617 484 6269
Posen@mit.edu
Jessica Stern
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Off. 617 496-3623
Jessica_Stern@harvard.edu
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