Conference Program

Extremism in

The Greater Middle

East and Its Implications

for U.S. Foreign Policy

January 15, 2015

3rd International Conference

Extremism in The Greater Middle East

and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

8:00-8:45 a.m. Registration 8:45-9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Dr. Mohsen Milani Professor and Executive Director Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies USF World Mr. Jean Cocco USF Student Body President USF Board of Trustee Opening Remarks: Dr. Roger Brindley Vice Provost USF System Associate Vice President USF World

9:00-9:50 a.m. A Conversation with Vice Admiral Mark Fox

Deputy Commander of the U.S. Central Command “Extremism in the CentCom’s Area of Re Responsibility”

Moderated by Dr. Mohsen Milani

10:00-10:50 a.m. Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Former Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S. “Delusion and Jihadism: Islamist Terrorism in South Asia”

Chair: Dr. Michael Decker, Professor Department of History, USF

The phenomenal rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, has created a profound national security threat to the United States. However, ISIS is only one aspect of a much broader and important phenomenon in the Islamic world, namely extremism. The purpose of this conference is to examine the causes for, and manifestations of, extremism in the Greater Middle East and their implications for American foreign policy.

11:00-11:50 a.m. Mr. David Prodger British Consul General in Miami

“Extremism in the Middle East: A British Perspective” Chair: Dr. Randy Borum, Professor Program Coordinator, Strategy & Intelligence Studies School of Information, USF

Noon Lunch 1:00-1:50 p.m. Dr. Paul Salem

Vice President for Policy & Research Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. “Political Extremism in Lebanon” Chair: Dr. Abdelwaheb Hechiche, Professor Department of Government & International Affairs, USF

2:00-2:50 p.m. Dr. Randa Slim Director, Track II Dialogues Initiative Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. Adjunct Research Fellow, New America Foundation

“Women and Political Extremism in the MENA Region” Chair: Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos, Professor Department of History, USF

3:00-3:50 p.m. Ambassador Gary Grappo

Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman “Saudi Arabia and Oman: A Contrast in the Approaches of Two Gulf States to Violent Extremism” Chair: Dr. John Belohlavek, Professor Department of History, USF

4:00-4:50 p.m. Ambassador Christopher Hill Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies University of Denver

“Extremism and the Viability of Middle Eastern Nation States”

Chair: Mr. Walter Andrusyszyn, Adjunct Professor Muma College of Business, USF

4:50 p.m. Closing Remarks Dr. Roger Brindley

Biographies

Dr. Golfo Alexopoulos is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of South Florida. Her research and teaching focus on Stalinism and the Soviet Union, political violence and global communism. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, and her research has been supported by fellowships from the National En-dowment for the Humanities, the Hoover Institution, and the Davis Cen-ter for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Her books include Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State and the forthcoming, Health and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag.

Walter Andrusyszyn has been an Adjunct Professor of International Business at the College of Business Administration of the University of South Florida, where he began teaching in spring 2007. From January to May 2009 he was temporarily assigned as Deputy Permanent Represen-tative to the U.S. Mission to NATO. He joined the Plastipak Packaging Company in January 2004 following a career in the U.S. Government. He retired from public service at the end of 2003, after serving at the White House as the Director for Northern and Eastern European Affairs in the National Security Council (he became Director in November 2001).

Mr. Andrusyszyn became the Desk Officer for Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia in 1992. In 1994, he returned to Bonn to head the unit reporting on domestic political events in Ger-many. In October 1995, he was assigned to the American Embassy in Sarajevo where he served during the Dayton Peace Talks and for the first months of IFOR deployment. For his efforts to gain the release of an imprisoned American journalist held by Bosnian Serb authorities, Mr. Andrusyszyn received the Secretary’s Award for Heroism. In August 1997 he was appointed Charge d’Affaires at the American Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia and in July 1999, be became director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, responsible for NATO and the OSCE. In September 2001 he was named the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism in response to the September 11 attacks.

Dr. John M. Belohlavek is a professor of 19th and 20th century U.S Dip-lomatic and Political History at USF, Tampa. Born in Pittsburgh, Dr. Beloh-lavek received his B.A. from Thiel College (Greenville, PA) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. He has taught on numerous occasions at the Florida State University campus in London, and was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the Soviet Union at Azerbaijan State Uni-versity in Baku. His most recent manuscript is entitled “Patriots, Prosti-tutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American Revolution.”

Jean Cocco is the President of the USF System Student Advisory Coun-cil. Mr. Cocco board assignment includes the Academic and Campus Environment workgroup.

Dr. Randy Borum is a Professor and Program Coordinator for Strategy & Intelligence Studies in the School of Information and Academic Coordina-tor for Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida. He supported three Directors of National Intelligence (DNI) on the Intelligence Science Board (ISB) and served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Understanding Human Dynamics. He has taught courses on Terrorism, Interrogation, Intelligence, and Criminal Psychology and is author/ co-author of more than 150 professional publications. He also has been an

instructor since 1999 with the BJA State & Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Pro-grams for Investigations and Intelligence. Dr. Borum is fellowship-trained in forensic psychology and spent more than 15 years as a Board Certified Forensic Psychologist. He worked as a Senior Consultant to the U.S. Secret Service for more than a decade, and is listed on the United Nations' Roster of Ex-perts in Terrorism. He served as the Principal Investigator on the Psychology of Terrorism initiative, and is Past-President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He currently serves as Senior Editor of the Journal of Strategic Security.

Dr. Michael Decker is Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History and Ortho-dox Religion and Associate Professor of History at USF. He joined the History Department in 2004 after completing an Andrew Mellon Postdoc-toral Fellowship at Rice University. He earned a BA from Penn State Uni-versity and an MST and DPhil from Oxford University in Modern History. During his time at Rice, Michael worked with Professor David Cook, with whom he studied Arabic and from whom he developed an appreciation for Islamic history and the study of radical Islam. His most recent book is The

Byzantine Art of War (Westholme, 2013).

Dr. Roger Brindley is the Vice Provost and USF System Associate Vice President for USF World. A Professor in the College of Education, Dr. Brindley has served USF for seventeen years. He is committed to extend-ing the global curriculum and helping the next generation of university stu-dents develop global perspectives and international cultural competencies, initiating the British Schools Experience in 1998 and directing two cohorts of the USF/Shortwood Early Childhood Education master’s program in Jamaica.

In 2000, Dr. Brindley received the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from USF and was identified as an "Honored Professor" by the National Society of Collegiate Schol-ars in 2001. The recipient of the USF President's Award for Faculty Excellence in 2003, Dr. Brindley was a department Chair from 2006-2009 and Chair of the University Gradu-ate Committee from 2007-2009. He served on multiple university and national commit-tees, has written numerous articles published in national and international education jour-nals, and served as Editor for three national/international journals before joining the excit-ing new initiative to create USF World in 2009.

Vice Admiral Mark Fox assumed responsibilities as deputy com-mander, U.S. Central Command in early September 2013. A native of Abilene, Texas, he was commissioned in June 1978 upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy and designated a Naval Aviator in March 1980. Fox has spent the majority of his operational career deploying to, and operating in, the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, having commanded U.S. Naval Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet/Combined

Maritime Forces (2010-2012); Carrier Strike Group 10 aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) (2008); Carrier Air Wing 2 aboard USS Constellation (CV 64) (2001-2003); and Strike Fighter Squadron 81 aboard USS Enterprise (CVN 65) (1995-1996) in the re-gion. Additionally, he served as Communications Division Chief and spokesman for the Multi-National Force–Iraq (MNF-I) in Baghdad from 2006-07, where he worked exten-sively with coalition partners. Other command and executive leadership assignments include service as deputy chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy (N3/N5) in Washington, D.C.; com-mander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in Fallon, Nevada; deputy assistant to the President and, director, White House Military Office (WHMO); responsible for overseeing all military support to the President; commodore of the Strike Fighter Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Lemoore, California; and, service as the first commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 122, the Navy's first FA-18E/F Super Hornet squadron, in Lemoore. Shore tours include: duty as the deputy director of WHMO; service as the Aviation Pro-grams liaison officer in the Navy's Office of Legislative Affairs in Washington, D.C.; joint duty as the maritime plans officer at Supreme Headquarters; Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Casteau, Belgium; Aide and Flag Lieutenant for Commander, Naval Air Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet and the assistant chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare - OP-05); a tour as the Light Attack/Strike Fighter junior officer detailer in the Naval Military Personnel Command; and as an A-7E Corsair II instructor pilot in Attack Squadron 174. Fox has flown over 100 combat sorties, logged over 4,900 flight hours and 1,348 arrested landings on 15 different aircraft carriers. Military awards include the Defense Distin-guished Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal with gold star, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with two gold stars, and the Distinguished Flying Cross with Combat 'V'.

Ambassador Garry Grappo possesses nearly 40 years of diplomatic, public policy, management and leadership experience in a variety of pub-lic, private and nonprofit endeavors. As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the U.S. Depart-ment of State, he served as Envoy and Head of Mission of the Office of the Quartet Representative, the Honorable Mr. Tony Blair, in Jerusalem. He held a number of senior positions in the State Department including Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,

U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and Charge d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ambassador Grappo received numerous State Department awards, including the 2009 Senior Foreign Service Presidential Award for his service as Chief of Mission in Oman.

During his Foreign Service Career, Ambassador Grappo served numerous assignments at the State Department in Washington, D.C. as well as in postings in Nicaragua, Portu-gal, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman (twice), Iraq and Jerusalem. In the latter post, he cov-ered both Israel and the Palestinian West Bank for the Quartet. Upon retiring from the State Department in 2011, Ambassador Grappo joined The Key-stone Center, a public policy and conflict resolution nonprofit, serving as President and CEO through March, 2013. Currently, as CEO and Founder of Equilibrium International Consulting, he provides analysis, guidance and advice on foreign affairs, and writes and speaks frequently on Middle East affairs and foreign policy. Before joining the State Department, Mr. Grappo worked with Bank of America and Cas-tle & Cook (Dole Products Co.) and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force, he was one of a small number of U.S. Govern-ment scientists involved in the development of the mathematical earth model, WGS 84, now used in the Global Positioning System. Ambassador Grappo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the U. S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Science Degree in Geodetic Science and Survey Engi-neering from Purdue University, and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He and his wife Rebecca, a Certified Educational Planner, live in Denver, Colorado.

Professor Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche is a faculty member of Depart of Governmental & International Affairs at USF. He graduated from the Uni-versity of Paris-Sorbonne and the Institute of Advanced International Relations of the Faculty of Law Paris-Pantheon. He was an Intern at the UN, and a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Paris to the US. His main books deal with the Palestine question, interfaith dialogue, and in-ternational terrorism. Professor Hechiche was an International Fellow and NEH Fellow at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He was a

US Fulbright Scholar to the University of Algiers in 2006-2007. As a Laureate of the Paris-Based Foundation Bleustein-Blanchet pour la Vocation, Professor Hechiche remains very involved in Inter-Faith Dialogue for Peace in the Middle East and Jewish-Arab frater-nity.

Ambassador Husain Haqqani served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008-2011 and is widely credited with managing a difficult partnership during a critical phase in the global war on terror-ism. Considered an expert on radical Islamist movements, he is cur-rently Director for South and Central Asia at Hudson Institute in Wash-ington DC. Haqqani also co-edits the journal ‘Current Trends in Islamist ideology.’ Haqqani has been a journalist, academic and diplomat in addition to serving as advisor to four Pakistani Prime Ministers, includ-ing the late Benazir Bhutto. He received Hilal-e-Imtiaz, one of Paki-

stan’s highest civilian honors for public service. His 2005 book Pakistan Between Mosque and Military was acclaimed for explaining the roots of Pakistan’s foreign and domestic policies. His 2013 book Magnificent Delusions: US, Pakistan and an Epic His-tory of Misunderstanding which came out in November 2013 has been described as in the media as “the most clear-eyed history of the US-Pakistan relationship yet published.”

Ambassador Christopher Robert Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver, a position he has held since September 2010. In addition to overseeing the Josef Korbel School, Ambassador Hill is a monthly columnist for Project Syndi-cate and highly sought public speaker and voice in the media on interna-tional affairs. Ambassador Hill is a former career diplomat, a four-time ambassador, nominated by three presidents, whose last post was as Am-bassador to Iraq, April 2009 until August 2010. Prior to Iraq, Hill served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from

2005 until 2009 during which he was also the head of the US delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Earlier, He was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Previously he served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2000-2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-1999) and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998-1999). He also served as a Special Assistant to the President and a Senior Direc-tor on the staff of the National Security Council, 1999-2000. Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Ambassador Hill served tours in Belgrade, Warsaw, Seoul, and Tirana, and on the Department of State's Policy Planning staff and in the Department’s Operation Cen-ter. He received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as a member of the U.S. negotiating team in the Bosnia peace settlement, and was a recipient of the Robert S. Frasure Award for Peace Negotiations for his work on the Kos-ovo crisis. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Hill served as a Peace Corps volunteer where he supervised credit unions in rural Cameroon, West Africa. Am-bassador Hill graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with a B.A. in Eco-nomics. He received a Master's degree from the Naval War College in 1994. He speaks Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian.

Dr. Mohsen Milani is the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. He holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California. He served as chairman of the Department of Government and Interna-tional Affairs at USF from 1998 to 2012, when he helped establish a new Ph.D. program in Governance. He has been recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from USF. He also has served as a research fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and Foscari University (Italy).

Professor Milani has authored more than 60 publications, including many in top peer-reviewed academic and respected journals. His book, The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revo-lution (second edition), has been used as required reading in many universities in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Canada, and Iran. His most recent publications include “Iran’s Strat-egy in the Syrian Civil War” (The Washington Quarterly, Fall 2013), “Will Iran Choose Détente?” (Current History, December 2013), and the following articles in Foreign Af-fairs: “What If at First Rouhani Doesn't Succeed,” “Rouhani's Foreign Policy,” “The Aya-tollah's Game Plan,” “Meet Me in Baghdad,” “Iran’s US Policy,” and “Iran and Saudi Ara-bia Square Off.” Since 2000, he has been invited to 180 conferences and workshops in 25 countries. His advice is solicited by private and governmental entities. He has testified before U.S. Con-gress as a as a subject matter expert.

David Prodger took up his appointment as British Consul General in Miami in August 2014. David has served in a number of roles, both in the UK and overseas, within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) since joining in 1999. His previous post was as Deputy Head of Security Policy in FCO London where his prime responsibility was leading UK European security policy. David has also served as Deputy Head of Mis-sion and Consul General at the British Embassy in Brussels, where he led the political and public diplomacy team. Before that he was Head of the Commercial Team at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires. He has

also held other posts in the FCO covering the Middle East and Latin America. Prior to this he worked in the private sector as a land surveyor, project manager and business devel-opment manager.

Dr. Paul Salem is vice president for policy and research at The Middle East Institute. He focuses on issues of political change, democratic transi-tion, and conflict, with a regional emphasis on the countries of the Levant and Egypt. Salem writes regularly in the Arab and Western press and has been published in numerous journals and newspapers. He is the author of a number of books and reports on the Middle East, including most recently “Broken Orders: The Causes and Consequences of the Arab Upris-ings” (Beirut: Dar Annahar, in Arabic, 2013) and "Iraq's Tangled Foreign Relations” (Beirut: Carnegie Middle East Center Report, December 2013).

Prior to joining MEI, Salem was the founding director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon between 2006 and 2013. From 1999 to 2006, he was director of the Fares Foundation and in 1989 founded and directed the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon's leading public policy think tank.

Among others, he has been interviewed/quoted in, The New York Times, Le Monde, The Economist (UK), Der Spiegel, Radio Israel, Chuo-Koron (Japan), Toronto Star, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Avvenenire (Italy), Rheinischer Merkur (Germany), BBC World TV News, Publico (Portugal), Nepszabadsag (Hungry), Il Riformista (Italy), Globo News (Brazil), CNN, ABC Nightline Live, New Delhi Television, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, To the Point (PBS), Al Jazeera TV, Forbes, CBS News, Fox News, Voice of America, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, Interpress, EurasiaNet, LinkTV, and more than 20 Persian language newspapers.

Dr. Randa Slim is the director of the Initiative for Track II Dialogues at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, and a non-resident fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. She works and publishes on regional and international issues of the Middle East with an emphasis on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq as well as issues of democratization in the Arab region.

A former vice president of the International Institute for Sustained Dia-logue, Slim has also been a senior program advisor at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, guest scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, a program director at Resolve, Inc, and a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.

She has consulted for a number of international and US governmental and private sector organizations. A former member of the Dartmouth Conference US-Russian regional con-flicts taskforce, she has been involved from 1992-2005 in conflict prevention and man-agement activities in Central Asia working in Tajikistan and the Ferghana Valley . Since 2002, Ms. Slim has developed and managed a number of dialogue and peace-building projects in the Middle East. She organized and co-moderated the Arab-American-European Dialogue (2004-2007), and co-moderated a Track 1.5 national reconciliation initiative in Iraq (2006-2009). She is the co-founder of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy, a group of academics and civil society activists from eight Arab countries. Currently, she organizes and moderates the Middle East Dialogue, a regional Track 1.5 initiative focusing on emerging political and security dynamics in the Middle East with a strong emphasis on Syria and Egypt. Slim earned her BS and MA degrees at the American University of Beirut and completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina. She has written for, appeared with, or been cited by: CNN; The New York Times; The Washington Post; Foreign Policy; Foreign Af-fairs; The Huffington Post; Al Ahram English; Al Jazeera English; Al Jazeera Arabic; BBC World Service; France 24; PBS; NPR; Reuters; Voice of America; CBS; Press TV; and Voice of Russia.

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