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The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is pleased to announce that Prof. James Giordano, PhD, Vice President for Academic Programs and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, is a recipient of a J. William Fulbright Senior Fellowship Award. As a Fulbright awardee, Prof. Giordano will spend three and a half months from October 2011-February 2012 at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU), in Munich, Germany, working on a project entitled Integrating Neuroscience, Ethics, Legal and Social Issues (NELSI) in Programs of Science and Technology Education and Training.
Commenting on the award, Prof. Giordano said, " I am humbled, honored and of course, very pleased to have been awarded this fellowship, and am proud to join the ranks of both current Fulbright Fellows, and those who have preceded me. I look forward to working with my colleagues at LMU, and to forging a durable collaborative relationship between our institutions." Potomac Institute Chairman and CEO Michael Swetnam added, “Professor Giordano is one of the most deserving of all Fulbright scholars. He is dedicated, accomplished and brilliant.”
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Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith, (Ret.), directs the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia. In an article for the Georgian publication Tabula, he looks at the recent revolts in the Middle East and North Africa. Amb. Smith writes that although the full ramifications of these events remain unclear, worldwide socio-economic impacts - including rising insecurity about energy supplies - could have the effect of empowering Russia. Click below to read the article in full.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith, (Ret.), directs the Georigian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is a keen observer of Russian foreign policy. In his latest column for the Georgian publication Tabula, he writes about Moscow's newly aggressive posture toward a group of islands that Japan considers to be part of its Northern Territories, but Russia calls the Kuril Islands and claims as Russian soil. He writes that a recent diplomatic confrontation with Tokyo was planned in Moscow "for some time, following an altogether familiar pattern—expansionism, paranoia, pretext, military action and righteous indignation," and adds, "anyone familiar with Russia’s 2008 attack on Georgia will recognize Moscow’s Kuril caper for what it is." Click below to read the article in full.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Dan Gallington, Esq., is an intelligence and security analyst who has served as Deputy Counsel for Intelligence Policy at the Department of Justice and Legal Advisor for Intelligence Oversight in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, among other positions. He says all indications are that ongoing revolutions in the Arab world took the US intelligence community by surprise, which is a great cause for concern. In a recent interview on the Jim Bohannon Show he focused on challenges facing the intelligence community. Click here to listen to the interview in full.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Tawfik Hamid, the Institute's Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism, is optimistic that the revolution in Egypt will be a new start for that country after thirty years under Hosni Mubarak. Dr. Hamid, who is originally from Egypt, was interviewed on C-SPAN's Washington Journal about Egypt's future post-Mubarak and what the US can do now to support democratic reforms there. Click here to visit C-SPAN's website and watch the program in full.