Dr. Chris C. Demchak---

Associate Professor---

University of Arizona---

School of PA and Policy---

College of Business and PA---

--- Tucson  AZ 85721  ---

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Education

Ph.D.    University of California, Berkeley, spring, 1987; Political Science (Organization Theory/Public Administration, American politics,  African politics).

M.A.     University of California, Berkeley; Energy Resources Group (Energy systems analysis).

M.P.A.  Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University; (Economic development).

B.A.      University of California, Riverside; (High Honors) (Political Science).

 

Dissertation and Thesis

Ph.D.                War, Technological Complexity and the U.S. Army.

Todd M. LaPorte (chair), Nelson Polsby, Richard Abrams (History).

 

M.A.                 Complexification and Organizational-Institutional Design: The Case of the U.S. Radioactive Waste Program. John Holdren (advisor).

 

Major Fields

Organization Theory

Comparative Technology and Security Policies

Comparative Management, Administration and Politics

Technology and Energy Politics

Economic Development

American Politics

Civil-Military Relations

 

Positions Held

School of Public Administration and Policy, University of Arizona

and (joint) Department of Political Science, University of Arizona

            Associate Professor, 1998 - present

            Assistant Professor, 1991 - 1998

Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy,

            Assistant Professor and active duty Officer, 1987 - 1990.

Logistics Management Institute, Washington, D.C.

            Consultant, consultant 3 years. Research Fellow, in residence 3 years.

Institute for Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley

            Fellow, part-time 3 years. Research Staff.

TERA Corporation, Berkeley, California

            Research Associate, 4 mos.

IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria.

            Young Scientist Program, summer program.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

            Research Associate, 10 mos.

MATHTECH (Environment and Engineering), Princeton.

            New Jersey, Research staff, 3 mos.

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Paris, Research Intern.

Officer, US Army Reserve, officer, continuing service since 1981.

 

Honors and Awards

The Leonard D. White Award for best dissertation in public administration, public policy and related areas for 1987-1988, American Political Science Association.

 

NSF Grant Scholar, 1996-98, 1999-2003

Teaching Award, 1999, 2001

Udall Fellow, 1993

MacArthur Fellow, 1990-1991

Fulbright Scholar, Israel, 1992

Science Research Lab Fellow, USMA, 1988-1990

Fellow, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, 1985-1987

Fellow, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1984 - 1987

Regent's Fellow, University of California, 1977-1978

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, 1975-1977

Governor's Scholar, University of California, 1973-1975

National Merit Scholar, University of Denver (Temple Buell), 1971-1973.

 

Publications

Books and Scholarly Monographs

Demchak, Chris C., Military Organizations, Complex Machines: Modernization in the U.S. Armed Forces, Cornell University Press, security studies series 1991.

-----, (with Gene I. Rochlin), Lessons of the Gulf War: Ascendant Technology and Declining Capability, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, number 39, 1991.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Demchak, Chris C. forthcoming 2003.  “Wars of Disruption: International Competition and Information Technology-Driven Military Organizations”..Contemporary Security Policy.

-----. forthcoming 2003."Creating the Enemy: Worldwide Diffusion of an Electronic Military" In Goldman, Emily and Leslie C. Eliason, eds.  The Diffusion of Military Knowledge from the Napoleonic Era to the Information Age.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

-----.  Forthcoming 2003. “Cyber War:  Emerging Lessons from the Palestinian/Israeli Hacker Conflict.”  Military Review. (with Patrick D. Allen).

-----.  2002. "Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web". Administration and Society. 34:4 (September) 411-446. (with Todd M. LaPorte, and Martin de Jong)

-----.  2002.  “Complexity and a Midrange Theory of Networked Militaries.” In Farrell, Theo, and Terry Terriff. 2000. The Sources of Military Change: Culture, Politics, Technology.  New York: Lynne Rienner Publisher.

-----.  2001. “Webbing Governance: Global Trends Across National Level Public Agencies”. Communications of the ACM. Special issue on Democracy in an IT-Framed Society.  (January).  (with Todd M. La Porte and Christian Friis).

-----.  2001.  " Webbing Governance: National Differences in Constructing the Public Face" In G. David Garson, ed. Handbook of Public Information Systems. New York: Marcel Dekker Publishers.  (with Christian Friis and Todd M. La Porte).

-----.  2000, " Watersheds in Perception and Knowledge: Security and Technology in the past Twenty Years."  In Stuart Croft and Terry Terriff, Eds, Critical Reflections on Security and Change. London: Frank Cass. 

------. 2000. "Revolution in Military Affairs in Developing States: Botswana, Chile, and Thailand Dilemmas of Image, Operations, and Democracy". National Security Studies Quarterly. 6 (Autumn 2000): 1-45.

-----. 1999. "New Security" in Cyberspace: Emerging Intersection between Military and Civilian Contingencies "  Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 7:4 (December) 181-198.

-----.  forthcoming 2002. “Institutional Decision-Making and External-Internal Error Dilemma: Congressional Concerns and Military Acquisition,” accepted for publication by Administration and Society and currently under final revision.

-----. 1999, "Watersheds in Perception and Knowledge".  Contemporary Security Policy.  20:3 (December).

-----. 1998. "Configuring Public Agencies in Cyberspace: A Conceptual Investigation."  IN I.Th.M. Snellen and W.B.H.J. van de Donk, Public Administration in an Information Age: a Handbook.  Amsterdam: IOS Press. Research not published elsewhere.  (with Christian Friis and Todd M. La Porte).

-----. 1996.  “Tailored Precision Armies in Fully Networked Battlespace: High Reliability Organizational Dilemmas in the ‘Information Age’," Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management 4:2, June 1996.

-----. 1996. "Numbers or Networks: Organizational and Modernization Dilemmas in the Israeli Defense Forces," Armed Forces and Society 23:2, winter 1996.

-----. 1995. "Coping, Copying, and Concentrating: Organizational Learning and Modernization in Militaries (Case Studies of Israel, Germany and Britain), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 5:3, July 1995.

-----. 1995.  "Modernizing Militaries and Political Control in Central Europe," Journal of Public Policy 15:2, 1995.

-----. 1994. "Colonies or Computers: Modernization and Organizational Challenges to the Future British Army," Defence Analysis (British academic journal on technology and defense studies), 10:1, April 1994.

-----. 1992. "Complexity, Rogue Outcomes, and Weapon Systems," Public Administration Review 52:4, July-August 1992.

Other Scholarly Publications

Demchak, Chris C. 2002. “State Security Paths in a Digital Mass Society: New Internet Topologies and Security Institution Obligations”.  Cambridge Review of International Affairs (online). peer-reviewed online journal.

-----, 2002. Demchak, Chris C. "Un-Muddling Homeland Security: Design Principles for National Security in a Complex World". The Forum, an online journal of applied research in contemporary politics. 1:2 (fall) online. http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol1/iss2/art2

-----. 2001.  “Modernizing Defence in Small Nations: Israel, Taiwan and the "Atrium" Model of a Future Military.”  Taiwan Defense Affairs. (summer). 6-33.

-----.  2001. "Technology’s Knowledge Burden, the RMA, and the IDF: Organizing the Hypertext Organization for Future ‘Wars of Disruption’”. Journal of Strategic Studies. 24:2 (June).

-----.  2001. "Technology’s Knowledge Burden, the RMA, and the IDF: Organizing the Hypertext Organization for Future ‘Wars of Disruption’”. In Bar-Joseph, Uri (ed). 2001. Israel’s National Security Towards the 21st Century.  London: Frank Cass Publishers.

-----. 2001. “Cyber Hot War: The Palestinian/Israeli Hacker Conflict.” Proceedings of the 69th Military Operations Research Society Symposium. Annapolis, MD. June. (with Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2001. “An IO Conceptual Model and Application Framework”. Military Operations Research Journal, Special Issue on IO/IW. 6:2 (June special issue) 9-22. (with Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2000. “The Need for, and Design of, an IO Federation of Models,” Proceedings of the Standards Interoperability Workshop,  (March). (with Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2000. “Recommendations on Higher-Echelon Organizational Behavior Models for Information Operations”. Proceedings of the Computer Generated Forces Conference. May. (with Patrick D. Allen)

------. 1999. " Public Administration on the WWW - Evaluating Openness" (Offentlig forvaltning på World Wide Web: Evaluering af åbenhed). In K. V. Andersen, C. S. Friis, J. Hoff, & H. W. Nicolaisen (Eds.), Informationsteknologi, organisation og forandring - den offentlige sektor under forvandling  (Information Technology, Organization and Change - Transformating the Public Sector). Translated into Danish. København (Copenhagen): DJØF-forlaget. (with Christian Friis and Todd M. La Porte).

-----. 1997.  “Information Warfare, Complex Organizations and the Power of Disruption,” invited essay, Enjeux Atlantiques (European defense journal) 14, February.

Works under Review

-----   “Operationalizing 'NonProfitness': Inviolability and Discreteness as Elements of a Midrange Theory,” submitted to Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. November 1999. With Ming Hsu (CyPRG student researcher) and Roger Hartley.  Under revise and resubmit.

Works in Progress

Demchak, Chris C. Wars of Disruption: Ensuring Security Over the Information and Terrorism Age. manuscript under preparation.

------. “Privacy without Anonymity: Resolving the Security and Freedom Dilemma of the Global Internet” (with Kurt Fenstermacher

-----. forthcoming chapter.  “Information Warfare, Surprise, and Changing Leadership Presumptions”. In Atwater, Leann and Susie Weisband, eds. Leadership at a Distance. Manuscript sponsored by Army Research Lab and currently under construction. (with Emily Goldman and Patrick D. Allen)

-----. "The Atrium - Refining the HyperText Form for Public and NonProfit Organizations". In preparation.

---- (withTodd M. LaPorte, and Christian Friis).  "Hotlinked Governance: Public Values and Structures in the Global Rise of the Public Web," book manuscript.  Interested publisher: The Brookings Institution.

-----, “An Information Age Theory of Military Organizations: Adaptive Networks in Destructive Institutions,” under preparation.

-----, “Machine Dreams, Path Dependence and Embedded Conflicts: Organizational Evolution and Technology in the US Army,” manuscript in preparation.

-----, “Expertise or Expedition: Modernization and System Fit in Germany’s Post Cold War Military,” manuscript in preparation.

----- and Todd M. LaPorte, “Concentric Interdependence: Integrating Technology, Organization, and Politics Models and Concepts,” manuscript in preparation.

Scholarly Presentations

            Invited Essays and Reviews

Demchak, Chris C.  2002. UnMuddling Homeland Security: Key Design Principles for a Complex post9/11 Global Environment. The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in American Politics Berkeley Press online American Politics Journal.

-----. Forthcoming 2003. Review essay of The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security. Grant T. Hammond. 2001. London: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Contemporary Security Policy.

----- 2001. “Technology and Complexity:  The Modern Military’s Capacity for Change,”  US Army War College Annual Strategy Conference. Proceedings of Annual Strategy Conference:Transforming Defense in an Era of Peace and Prosperity. April 17-20, 2001. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (with Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2000.  Book review of Military Leadership. Taylor, Robert L. and William E. Rosenbach, eds. 1996.  3rd edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. In Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management. 8:1 (March).

-----. 1999. “End Run:  A Simulation Architecture for Information Warfare Report,” McLean Research Corp., DARPA SBIR DAAH01-99-C-R113, December.  (with Patrick D. Allen)

----- 1998. book review of Fundable Knowledge The Marketing of Defense Technology. A. D. van Nostrand. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997. In Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17:4 (June) 745-748.

-----. 1997.  “Modems, Miracles and Mixed Blessings,” invited essay, Initiative, newsletter of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona 8:1, summer.

-----. 1995.  ”Complex Adaptive Systems, Chaos, and Contemporary Policy Making,” invited essay and book review of organizational change in large technical systems, Policy Studies Journal 23:2, fall 1995.

-----. 1995.  “Computers as Substitute Soldiers?” invited essay, Communications of the ACM,  February.  (with Seymour E. Goodman).

-----. 1994.  book review (expanded) of Changing Large Technical Systems. Jane Summerton, ed., Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 348 pages.  In Policy Studies Journal, 23:2, 1995.

-----. 1994,  “Cyberspace and Emergent Body Politic: Tough Issues, Murky Structures and Unknowns of the “Net-Polis,” invited essay, Policy Currents, Policy Section newsletter, American Political Science Association, 4:4, November 1994.

-----. 1994.  book review of Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment.  Maureen Hogan Casamayou.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, 215 pages.  In Policy Currents, Policy Section newsletter, American Political Science Association, 4:1 February 1994.

-----. 1994.  book review of The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy.  Kenji Hayao. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1993, 349 pages.  In Policy Studies Review, December 1993.

-----. 1994.  book review of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines.  Manuel De Landa, New York: Zone Books, 1991, 271 pages.  In Armed Forces and Society, journal of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, December 1993.

-----. 1994.  book review of Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military.  Stephen Peter Rosen, Cornell University Press, 1991, 287 pages.  In Survival, journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, winter 1992-93.

----- 1992.  book review (expanded) of The Foundations of Defensive Defence.  Anders Boserup and Robert Neild (eds.), London:The MacMillan Press Ltd., 1990, 201 pages.  In Survival, journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, spring 1992. (with Gene I. Rochlin).

-----. 1991. "The Gulf War: Technological and Organizational Implications," invited essay, Survival, journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, May/June 1991.

-----. 1991. book review of Armed Services and Society. Martin Edmonds.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, 226 pages.  In American Political Science Review, March 1991.

 

Conferences

Demchak, Chris C.  2002. “Wars of Disruption: International Competition and Information Technology-Driven Military Organizations”.  Conference on “Security in the Information Technology Age” sponsored by the University of Californai Joint Center for International and Security Studies (JCISS); Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Lab. (April 19).

-----.  2001. Security and the Internet – Small Panel Symposium. University of Aberwystwith. October 25-26. United Kingdom. (symposium postponed to 2002 due to attack of September 11, 2001.)

-----. 2001. “Management and Human Factors”.  OECD Workshop: Information Security in a Networked World. Conference jointly organised by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Government of Japan (GOJ). Tokyo, Japan: 12-13 September.

-----.  2002 (April). "Conflict and Warfare in the Information Age". Presentation for Redefining Security in the Information Age conference sponsored by Joint Center for International and Security Studies (JCISS). December. University of California Davis.

-----. 2001. “Information Warfare, Surprise, and Changing Leadership Presumptions”. Presentation for  Army Research Institute (ARI) conference on "Leadership at a Distance”. October 18-20, Scottsdale, Arizona. (with Emily Goldman and Patrick D. Allen).

-----. 2001.  “Egovernance, Ecommerce and Daunting Social Challenges across Levels of Government: Local, National and International”. Sixth National Public Management Research conference. University of Indiana. October 19-21. (presented by coauthor Todd M. La Porte)

-----. 2001. “The RMA and Organizing the Israeli Defense Force for future “Wars of Disruption””. paper presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, September. San Francisco, California. Sep 2.

-----. 2001. “Hotlinked Governance:  A Worldwide Assessment, 1997-2000”.  paper presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, September. San Francisco, California. Sep 2. (presented by coauthor Todd M. La Porte)

-----. 2001. “Cyber Hot War: The Palestinian/Israeli Hacker Conflict,” 69th Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Annapolis, MD. June. (presented by coauthor Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2001. “E-Commerce and E-Governance: Mutual Catalysts or Separate Spheres?”. Fifth International Research Symposium on Public Management. Barcelona, Spain. April 9-11, 2001. (presented by coauthors Todd M. La Porte and Christian Friis)

-----. 2001.“State Security Paths in a Digital Mass Society: New Internet Topologies and Security Institution Obligations”. Cambridge Review of International Affairs Seminar on State Security and the Internet. London, May 18-19.

-----. 2001. “Technology and Complexity:  The Modern Military’s Capacity for Change,”  US Army War College Annual Strategy Conference. “Transforming Defense in an Era of Peace and Prosperity”. April 17-20, 2001. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (with Patrick D. Allen)

-----. 2000. invited panel chair. “New Global Threat Analysis”. Conference on Globalization and Security. International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section annual conference. Denver, CO. 9-11 November.

-----. 2000. “Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web.” International Political Science Assn annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, Aug 5. (presented by coauthors Todd M. LaPorte, Christian Friis, and  Martin de Jong).

-----. 2000.”Trapped in the Net: Roundtable Presentation on Rochlin’s 1998 book on implications of web technologies.”  American Political Science Association annual conference. Washington DC. Sep 3.

-----. 2000  "The Need for, and Design of, an IO-ISR Federation of Models".  Paper submitted for presentation and publication in proceedings.  Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization's (SISO) annual conference and proceedings, Mar 2000, Orlando, Florida. (presented by coauthor Patrick Allen).  Award: SISO certificate as one of ten best papers presented at this conference.

-----. 2000. "An Information Operations (IO) Conceptual Model and Application Framework." paper submitted to Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Symposium, 20-22 June 2000  Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO (presented by coauthor Patrick Allen).

-----. 2000. “Beginning of New Governance? Data Patterns in Web Use  by Middle Eastern Governments.”  University of Arizona Middle East Center Conference on Internet and the Middle East.  April 11. Tucson, Arizona.

-----. 1999. "Public Organizations on the World Wide Web: Empirical Correlates of Administrative Openness". National Public Management Research Conference. December. College Station, Texas.  (presented by coauthors Todd M. LaPorte, and Martin de Jong).

-----. 1999. Revolution in Military Affairs in Developing States: Botswana, Chile, and Thailand Dilemmas of Image, Operations, and Democracy" National Security Studies Quarterly Conference, "Technology Diffusion, International Military Modernization, and the International Response to the Revolution in Military Affairs", sponsored by National Security Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. October 13-14. Washington DC.

-----. 1999.  "Security and Technology in the past Twenty Years" International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section annual conference, 12-13 November, Washington DC

----.  1999. "'E-space' Evolution: US-defined Emergent Models for National Security and Agency Governance". paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, September. Atlanta, Georgia.

----. 1998.  invited Panel Chair, “Past and Future Perspectives on Security Policymaking,” International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section annual conference, 6-7 November, Monterrey, California.

-----. 1998. invited speaker, "Governance and the Internet" and "Creating the Enemy: Worldwide Diffusion of an Electronic Military", University of Californa Davis, Joint Center for International and Security Studies, Davis, California,  4-5 November.

-----. 1998.  " Diffusing Models of IW Militaries, the RMA and the Inter/Intra-Net", paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, September. Boston, Massachussetts.

-----. 1998. " Evaluating Openness in Agencies with the Web: Conceptual Black Holes and Partial Solutions ", paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, September. Boston, Massachussetts.

-----. 1998.  invited participant/author, annual conference European Group on Public Administration, Tilburg, Netherlands. May.

-----. 1997.  invited Panel Chair, “Models of Militaries in the Post-Cold War Era,” International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section annual conference, November.

-----. 1997. invited, "Public Agencies and Operational Uses of the Web," National Public Management Research Conference, October.

-----. 1997. “Mis-Anticipation of War through “Operations without Organizations”: Trading Information for Mass in Emergent Military Socio-Technical Systems,” American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1997.invited Panel Chair, “Models of Proliferation and Deterrence with Small Forces,” American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1996. “Constructing the Enemy: Military Structuration and Autopoesis in International Security," International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section annual conference, November.

-----. 1996. invited Panel Chair, “Strategic Forces in the Post-Cold War Era,” ISSS conference, November.

-----. 1996. “Operations without Organizations: Security Implications of Information Warfare and Military Structures,” American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1995. invited, “Complex Technologies, Organizational Implications, and Force Structures,” Conference on Armed Conflict into the 21st Century: Politics, Strategy and Technology, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, November.

-----. 1995. invited, “Postmodern Advantages of Premodern Public Structures: Likely Systems Fit of  American and European Public Agencies in Cyberspace,” National Public Management Conference, October.

-----. 1995. invited panel organizer and chair, “Cyberspace and Emergent Networked Society,” American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1995. “Cyber-Crats” among “Cyber-Orgs”? Public Organizations’ Paradox of Participation in Regulating Transnational Networks,” American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1995. “High Reliability Implications of Military Modernization: Will Defense Leaders Want What They Get when They Get It?" American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1995. “Fully Networked Battlespace: Uncertainty and the “Information Age” Army,” 14th European Conference on Operational Research, Jerusalem, Israel, July.

-----. 1994. "Complex Technologies, Conflicted Organization: Modernization-Driven Changes in the Israeli Defense Force," American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1993. invited, "Coping, Copying and Concentrating: Organizational Learning and Modernization in Militaries (Israel, Germany and Britain), National Public Management Conference, October.

-----. 1992. Chair, panel on Arms Control and Disarmament, International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section (ISSS) annual conference, November.

-----. 1991. "'High Tech' Arms and Democracies: Political Control of Modernized Militaries (applications to central Europe)," American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

-----. 1990. "Advanced Technologies and Modern, Smaller Defense Organizations: Germany, Israel and Britain," American Political Science Association annual conference, September.

Seminars

Demchak, Chris C.  participant and program cochair, “Intelligence and Security Informatics: integrating MIS, security and justice studies into theory and practice”, seminar, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, cosponsored by US National Science Foundation, June 2-3

-----. 2000.  invited to teach seminar, “Organizational Elements, Implications, and Alternatives to the ‘Revolution in Military Affairs.’” George C. Marshal European Center, “Leaders for the 21st Century” Course 00-5.  Garmisch-Partenkirschen, Germany. 23 October. (medical emergency intervened)

-----. 1999. invited talk, "Implications for Global Military Community of Technological Advances in Militaries over the past Twenty Years," National Intelligence Committee, office of NIO BG Landry (retired), 13 November 1999, Washington DC.

-----. 1994. invited, Information Systems panel, U.S. Army “Information Warfare and Army Force 2000,” Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, January.

-----. 1993. invited, “Complex Organizations, Complex Machines: Comparative Perspective,” Udall Center, University of Arizona, May.

-----. 1993. invited, "Colonies or Computers: Modernization and Organizational Challenges to the Future British Army,", British Military Studies seminar, London, March.

-----. 1992. invited, international seminar on "Regional Security Regimes: Israel and Its Neighbors," Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June.

-----. 1992. invited, international seminar on "Future European Security Regimes," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, London, January.

-----. 1991. invited, seminar on "Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrines," Eotvos Lorand University, International Law Department, Budapest, Hungary, April.

Workshops

-----. 1995. invited participant, “Inadvertant Organizational Effects of Modernization,” Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Army Digitalization Office, Pentagon, Washington D.C., April 11.

-----. 1995. and Helen Ingram, co-organizers, “Cyberspace and Emergent Body Politic: Tough Issues, Murky Structures and Unknowns of the “Net-Polis,” cosponsored by the International Studies Association, the Udall Center for Public Policy of the University of Arizona, the University of Arizona's School of PA and Policy, and the University of Arizona’s Political Science Department, April, Tucson.

-----. 1990. invited discussant, panel on comparative military and civilian organizations, Military Organization Workshop, National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, San Francisco, California. September.

Other Activities

Editorial Board of online journal The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in American Politics  Sep 2001-present.

Program Chair, 2003, American Political Science Association, International Security and Arms Control Division 19, Philadelphia, PA, August 29-Sep 2.

Program Chair, annual conference, International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section, Richmond Virginia, October 18-19, 2002.

Elected Board Member, 2002-2005. International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section.

Elected Section Chair, 1999 -2003. American Political Science Association, International Security and Arms Control section.

Field Investigator, 1999-2000. Critical Infrastructure Project (Y2K), National Research Council.

Member, Steering Committee, 1999-2000, CSS 2000 Steering Committee, online Computers and the Social Sciences 2000 annual conference, G. David Garson (UNC) chair.

Elected Board Member, 1996-1999. American Political Science Association, International Security and Arms Control section.

Webmaster, 1997-2002. home page for International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section, w3.arizona.edu/~isssisac.

Webmaster, 1997-2002. home page for American Political Science Association, International Security and Arms Control Section w3.arizona.edu/~isssisac.

Committee Member, 1999, APSA Public Administration Subsection Website Steering Committee for Policies and Procedures www.apsanet.org/~pubadmin.