Bruce Dayton Assistant Professor, Political Science Co-Director, Transboundary Crisis Management Bruce Dayton is the Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School where he specializes in conflict studies, crisis management, and global environmental politics. He has been active in community-based advocacy work and was a practitioner with the Boston-based Center for Policy Negotiation. Dayton currently heads a project to evaluate the impact of third-party interventions on intractable identity-based conflicts, which received funding from the United States Institute of Peace. He also co-directs an initiative to train Maxwell graduate students in a comparative case-study methodology focusing on crisis management. In January of 2005 Dayton was elected to serve as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Dayton recently published “Managing Crises in the Twenty First Century”. He has also authored “Policy Frames, Policy Making and the Global Climate Discourse,” and is the associate editor of Social Conflict and Collective Identity. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Nebraska.   Margaret (Peg) Hermann Professor, Political Science Co-Director, Transboundary Crisis Management Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of The Moynihan Institute of the Maxwell School. Her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and currently has such data on 130 leaders. She has been president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies Association (ISA) as well as editor of the journal, Political Psychology. At present she is editor of the International Studies Review, a journal of the ISA, and Advances in Political Psychology, an annual sponsored by ISPP. She developed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. Her books include The Psychological Examination of Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Among her journal articles are “Presidents, Advisers, and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,” “Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from Political Psychology,” “International Decision Making: Leadership Matters,” “Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of Bullets and Bombs,” and “The US Use of Military Intervention to Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record.” Hermann received her Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.     Asthildur E. Bernhardsdottir Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Iceland Staff, Transboundary Crisis Management Asthildur received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Univrsity of Iceland. She received a masters degree in Public Administration and Public Policy and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Iceland. She is the former Executive Director for the Icelandic Association for Quality, and has among other things worked for the national media. Her research interests involve policy making, organizational learning, cultural politics and crisis management. She currently is the coordinator of the Icelandic research group working for CRISMART's (The Center for Crisis Management Research and Training in Sweden) crisis management program.     Juanita Horan Assistant Director, Moynihan Institute Staff, Transboundary Crisis Management As the Assistant Director of the Institute, Juanita Horan's scope includes analysis, planning, operations and logistics. She manages the Institute's resources. In her role she has budget oversight for grants, endowments and operations. She helps to secure funding for the Institute's programs. She is responsible for publications and promotion for the Institute including managing the website. Juanita Horan also supervises the Global Affairs staff.     Arjen Boin Director Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, Louisiana State University Scholar, Transboundary Crisis Management Dr. Arjen Boin received his Ph.D. from Leiden University, The Netherlands where he taught at the Department of Public Administration before moving to LSU. He was the director of the Leiden University Crisis Research Center, a founding director of Crisisplan (an international crisis consultancy based in the Netherlands) and the founding director of the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute. Dr. Boin has published widely on topics of crisis and disaster management, leadership, institutional design and correctional administration. His most recent books are The Politics of Crisis Management (Cambridge University Press, winner of APSA’s Herbert A. Simon book award), Governing after Crisis (Cambridge UP, 2008), and Crisis Management: A Three Volume Set of Essential Readings (Sage, 2008). Dr. Boin serves on the editorial board of Risk Management (Palgrave) and the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (Blackwell). He is the American editor for Public Administration, a premier journal in the field. More Info...     Dr. Mark Rhinard Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs Scholar, Transboundary Crisis Management Mark Rhinard is Senior Researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), a foreign policy research institute based in Stockholm. His main research interests are international institutions, European integration, European Union politics and policymaking, and international internal security cooperation. Mark earned degrees at the University of Oregon (BA) and Cambridge University (MPhil, PhD) in political science. More Info...   Bartosz Stanislawski Doctoral Student, Political Science, Maxwell School Scholar, Transboundary Crisis Management Bartosz Hieronim Stanislawski is Associated Director of the Moynihan Center for European Studies and European Union Center, and a Transnational Societal Security Research Fellow at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. He supervises a Black Spots research project and focuses on threats from non-state actors, overlapping of law enforcement and military security matters, transatlantic security cooperation, and evolution of European defense capabilities. He is beginning a line of research that will look at the comparison of border protection methods and policies of the EU’s Frontex agency and US’s Department of Homeland Security. Bartosz holds Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University as well as the Certificate of Advanced Studies of Latin America. While in Poland, he studied Government Administration and Foreign Service at the Independent University of Business, Administration, and Computer Technology in Warsaw, focusing on the evolving nature of NATO and intelligence studies.     Hanneke Derksen Doctoral Student, Political Science Department Graduate Student Representative, Transboundary Crisis Management Hanneke is a doctoral student in the Political Science Department of Syracuse University. Her research interest is on leadership and decision making in international relations, taking a political psychological approach, especially in times of crises when individuals tend to frame the situation and the viable policy options. She is originally from The Netherlands and holds a MA degree in American Studies from the University of Utrecht and a MA in Political Science from the University of Wyoming.     Havva Karakas-Keles PhD Candidate, Political Science Graduate Student Representative, Transboundary Crisis Management Havva Karakas Keles is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from Fatih University and another M.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University. Havva’s research interests include political leadership, foreign policy decision-making and social movements. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation. Her work is a comparative study of how prime ministers manage the foreign policymaking process in three countries with parliamentary systems—UK, Germany, and Israel. She carries out a systematic comparison of prime ministerial management of foreign policy-making processes under different cabinet arrangements.     Azamat Sakiev PhD Candidate, Political Science Graduate Assistant, Transboundary Crisis Management Azamat Sakiev is a doctoral student at department of Political Science of Syracuse University. Research interest – post-Soviet democratization and leadership. B.A. 2002 from American University – Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), M.A. 2003 from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). Currently working on dissertation examining the role of presidential personality and leadership styles on regime formation in post-Soviet Central Asia. Also currently a research assistant at Moynihan Institute of Maxwell School at Syracuse University.     Matthew Smith PhD Candidate, History Graduate Assistant, Transboundary Crisis Management Matthew J. Smith is a PhD candidate in U.S history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and is currently completing his dissertation. After graduating from the University of Liverpool, U.K., with a B.A. (honors) in American history, he obtained a Masters degree in Educational Psychology at the College of Saint Rose. While at Syracuse, Matthew’s research interests concentrate on U.S. diplomatic, military, imperial and colonial history in the Pacific during the twentieth century. His dissertation analyzes the U.S.-Filipino colonial relationship during the interwar years, investigating whether a culture of imperialism, embraced during the 1890s, persisted among the American colonial administration and foreign policy elites of the 1920s and 1930s. Matthew also has research interests in International Relations theory, specifically the role of identity, leadership and historical/institutional memory in state relationships, and was awarded a Masters degree in Political Science in May 2007.