Cambridge Security Programme

Background

Cambridge Security Programme (CSP) was an academic institution founded six months after the 11th September, 2001, in "response to the demands to find an answer to the compelling need for new ways to address the instability and uncertainties that characterise the current climate of insecurity." While the institution ceased to operate in December 2007, its website remains accessible as an archive of its activities.

CSP worked closely with academics within the University of Cambridge, integrating work from various faculties including history, anthropology, divinity, international law, and the social and political sciences. It promoted cross-institutional research and inquiry, combining work by younger scholars with more established academics and practitioners to develop pragmatic new approaches to the challenges at hand. CSP worked with the EU, NATO, military establishments in both the UK and US, and other universities worldwide.

People

• Professor James Mayall - Academic Director (2002-2006)
• Peter Cavanagh - Executive Director (2002-2007). Cavanagh was responsible for the feasibility study, development plan and executive direction of CSP, university-wide and cross-disciplinary research programme, as well as for building up a related international network.
• Nick Sinclair-Brown - Academic Advisor (2002-2006) The CSP website lists Sinclair-Brown as active in the organisation until 2007 when in fact he died in 2006. This failure to acknowledge the death of an advisor could be read in a number of ways...
• Rafal Rohozinski Research Fellow: Research Fellow of CSP and Director of the Advanced Network Research Group. He is also a visiting fellow at the International Development Research Centre (Canada) and a Ford Foundation/Social Science Research Council Scholar (2002-2004). Rohozinski's research focuses on the nexus between globalisation and information technologies and the changing dynamics of conflict and security. His current projects include: mapping the tele-geographies of conflict (Palestine, Caucasus, Colombia and Somalia); enumerating global state censorship and surveillance practices (www.opennetinitiative.net); and monitoring the evolution of information warfare (www.infowar-monitor.net).

Roxane Farmanfarmaian Coord. Programme Devel.: Farmanfarmaian is the Coordinator of Programme Development for CSP and a PhD Candidate at the Centre of International Studies. Her current research is on Western Identity and Islamic Threat: Interpretations of Democracy in the Persian Gulf, 1979-2004. Roxane is also the Editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affair; Donner Scholar for research in Trans-Atlantic Relations; Editor, MoD/CSIS report, A New Security Paradigm.

Farmanfarmaian is a specialist in Western policy toward Iran and Iraq, including issues of oil, media, terrorism, and Islam. This specialist knowledge has led to many influential roles. Roxane was Briefer for British Ministry of Defence, Speech to Officers of the Queens Royal Hussars in Sept. 2003 in preparation for their departure to Basra. Other roles she has had are; Policy Scholar, EastWest Institute (2002-); Guest Lecturer, Middle East Department, University of California, Berkeley (1997-2001); Speaker and Commentator, including appearances at: The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco; TheCouncil on Foreign Relations, Dallas; closed sessions with Congressional Representatives, Washington, D.C.; TV and Radio Commentator for, among others: CNN International, BBC, NBC-San Francisco, ABC-Los Angeles, NPR, WNEW-New York;

Educated at Princeton University, Roxane studied Middle East Studies at degree level writing her thesis on the 'The Entrepreneurial Elites of Iran'. In 2001 she completed an M. Phil in International Studies at the University of Cambridge, writing a thesis on The Media's Policy Impact in the Confrontation between the West and Islam, 1979-2001.

Her recent publications include: Blood and Oil: Inside the Shah's Iran (Random House 1997; Modern Library 1998). She has also had her work published in other forms of media having been an Essayist and Op-Ed writer with articles/editorials published in: The New York Times, USA Today, The Times of London Sunday Magazine. She has also worked for various other newspapers and television as journalist or editor.

A member of various associations that include, British International Studies Association; Authors Guild, New York; British Institute of Persian Studies, London; Pacific Council on International Policy, San Francisco; PEN International Transatlantic Forum, Quandt Foundation (2000,2001, 2004) Fellow, Munich. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre of International Studies

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Academic Coordinator: de Oliveira is the Academic Coordinator of CSP. A BA in Politics from the University of York and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre d'etudes et recherches internationales (Sciences-Po) in Paris and a Joseph C. Fox Fellow at the Centre of International and Area Studies at Yale University. He has worked at the World Bank, the European Commission and Catholic Relief Services. He is presently completing his doctoral dissertation on "Petroleum and the Political in the Gulf of Guinea" at the Centre of International studies, University of Cambridge.

His research interests include international relations, international political economy and "alternative" globalisations in natural resource extraction, state decay and organized crime. Theoretical interests are currently the diverse political trajectories of modern states and the linkages between the political imagination and political actuality; at the methodological level, a concern with interdisciplinary approaches across the social sciences and the humanities.

Dr. Charles Jones Academic Advisor: Jones is an Academic Advisor to CSP; Reader in the History of International Studies at the University of Cambridge and Director of the University of Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies.

Jones studied Moral Sciences and History at Clare College, Cambridge, before turning to a doctorate on Anglo-Argentine relations. After many years teaching international political economy and developing postgraduate programmes at Warwick University, he moved to Cambridge in 1998, where he teaches international relations theory and inter-American relations.

Originally a historian of direct foreign investment and the political responses it provoked, he concentrated on contemporary international economic relations in the later 1970s, publishing North-South Relations: a Brief History in 1983. More recently he has been working on civil-military relations in Latin America, the role of Christianity in the English School of International Relations, and representations of war and violence. As Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies in Cambridge he is developing a research project on security in the Caribbean, centring on Cuba. He is a regular visitor to Argentina and Venezuela. Dr. Jones has worked extensively on the past and contemporary international economic relations of Latin America, especially the Southern Cone. His current research is concentrated on Romantic representations of organized violence in the Americas.

Recent publications include:

E H Carr and International Relations (1998) The Logic of Anarchy, an influential critique of neorealism (Columbia UP 1993, with Barry Buzan and Richard Little) El Reino Lunido Y America (Madrid 1992) North-South Relations: a Brief History (London 1983) Charles Jones's next book explores the treatment of war in novels by Sir Walter Scott and his imitators in the Americas, including James Fennimore Cooper and Vicente Fidel Lopez.

Dr. Philip Towle Advisor; Towle is Academic Advisor to CSP and is Reader in International Relations at the University of Cambridge.

Towle currently runs the course on International Security for the MPhil in International Relations, edits the alumni newsletter with Wendy Slaninka, coordinates library activities, and runs six courses each year for the Board of Continuing Education. Towle's research interests are in East Asian security, arms control, and post-war peace conferences, and he has published analyses of media coverage of the Russo-Japanese, Falklands, Gulf and Bosnian Wars. Towle is the longest serving member of staff at the Centre for International Relations. He joined in 1980 following a period as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, previously having worked for Reuters News Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was Deputy Director (1982-93) and then Director of the Centre of International Studies (1993-1998).

Recent publications include: Democracy and Peacemaking: Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973, Routledge, London, 2000 Japanese Prisoners of War (Ed. with Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi Kibata), Hambledon and London, 2000 Enforced Disarmament from the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997 Dr. Towle has just completed contributions to five edited books: Treaty of Locarno; British General Staff between the two World Wars; Physicist PMS Blackett's contribution to nuclear strategy; US policy towards missile defences; and media reactions to September 11th.

Dr. Towle is now editing a collection of essays on Anglo-Japanese economic relations and working on civil-military relations in Britain.

Recent Events

• Unconventional Information Warfare and the Global War on Terror: Critical Issues and International Cooperation Workshop, 2-3 November 2005

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held jointly with MABIT’05 in cooperation with the Institute of Information Security (Moscow State University), National Security Council of the Russian Federation, and the Institute of Cryptography.

• Information Operations and Winning the Peace?: Lessons Learned from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Leadership Workshop, 28 Nov - 1 December, 2005

US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

Contact

Cambridge Security Programme

Cambridge University

18 Millers Yard

Mill Lane

Cambridge

United Kingdom

Contact information:

Telephone: 44-0-1223 741747

Email: info@removeme.cambridgesecurity.net

Website: http://cambridgesecurity.net