Subject: [big campaign] FW: NSN Press Call Today at 1PM on Situation in Iraq
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:56 -0400
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NSN Press Call Today at 1PM on Situation in Iraq

Washington D.C. - National security experts Rand Beers, Marc Lynch and Colin Kahl will hold a conference call today to discuss this weekend's comments from Nouri al-Maliki regarding troop presence in Iraq and other matters pertaining to the situation on the ground there.

WHAT:       PRESS CALL - Situation in Iraq
WHEN:       TODAY, Monday, July 21 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT
DIAL-IN:    1-800-894-5910
ID:               7IRAQ
WHO:         Marc Lynch, Professor of International Affairs at the Elliot School of International Affairs, Colin Kahl, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and Rand Beers, President of the National Security Network

BIOS

Professor Marc Lynch received his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics and international relations. He is the author of State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity (1999) and Voices of the New Arab Public (2006). He also writes at the website Abu Aardvark<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=nrwkppcab.0.0.olnitxbab.0&ts=S0351&p=http%3A%2F%2Fabuaardvark.typepad.com%2F&id=preview>.

Professor Colin Kahl is an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on international relations, international security, American foreign policy, civil and ethnic conflict, terrorism, and the war in Iraq.

His current research focuses on U.S. compliance with the Law of War in Iraq. He has published articles on U.S. policy and military conduct in Iraq in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and International Security, and he is completing a book manuscript entitled The Culture of Calamity: Norms, the U.S. Military, and the War in Iraq. His previous research analyzed the causes and consequences of violent civil and ethnic conflict in developing countries, focusing particular attention on the demographic and natural resource dimensions of these conflicts. His book on the subject, States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World, was published by Princeton University Press in 2006, and related articles and chapters have appeared in International Security, the Journal of International Affairs, and various edited volumes. He is a regular consultant for the Department of Defense on stability operations, counterinsurgency, and strategy, and he has been a consultant for the U.S. Government's Political Instability Task Force (formerly the State Failure Task Force) since 1999. From January 2005 to August 2006, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations where he worked on issues related to counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and responses to failed states, and conducted research on U.S. operations in Iraq, including a summer 2006 "lessons learned" study in Baghdad. From 1997 to 1998 Kahl was a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.

Rand Beers is currently the president of the National Security Network. He served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served on the National Security Council Staff at the White House as Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. From 1998-2003 he was Assistant Secretary of State for International. Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism. In 2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council. Beers earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from the University of Michigan.

Adam Blickstein
Press Secretary
National Security Network
202-289-7113 (office)
617-335-0859 (mobile)
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