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Government professor, chair named academic fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

April 18, 2006

For immediate release - April 18, 2006 Contact: Eric Cárdenas (860) 439-2508; eric.cardenas@conncoll.edu

Connecticut College professor named academic fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Professor of Government Bill Rose to travel to Israel to study the threat of terrorism to democracies

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Bill Rose, professor of government and chair of the government department at Connecticut College, has been named a 2006-07 academic fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). As an FDD fellow, he will participate in a 10-day program this summer focusing on the threat of terrorism to democracies. The 2006 program, which will be conducted in Israel, includes lectures by academics, diplomats and intelligence officials from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States. It also includes field trips to military, police and immigration facilities throughout Israel. The goal of the program is to educate participants about terrorism and how democratic states combat the threat.

Rose specializes in international politics, ethnic conflict, international terrorism, post-Cold War and post-9/11 challenges for U.S. foreign policy and United Nations peacekeeping. He co-authored the college text The Role of the United States in a Changing World: Choices for the 21st Century (Brown University Press, 1991).

Journal articles include "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict: Some New Hypotheses," in the Summer 2000 issue of Security Studies; and "Sudan's Islamic Revolutions as a Cause of Foreign Intervention in Its Wars: Insights from Balance of Threat Theory," co-authored with Connecticut College alumna Eliza Van Dusen in Civil Wars (Autumn 2002). His current research project, co-authored with Connecticut College student Rysia Murphy is titled "State Responses to International Terrorism: Insights from Offense-Defense Theory." Israel will be a major case study in this project. Rose is currently offering a course titled "Research Seminar on International Terrorism."

"I'm pleased to participate in the FDD Academic Fellows Program, as it will help in my teaching and research projects," Rose said.

Rose is also a consultant to Brown University's Choices in the 21st Century Education Project, and is a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, the International Studies Association, the Sudan Studies Association and the Council on Undergraduate Research.

FDD is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., that seeks to educate Americans about the terrorist threat to democracies worldwide. It was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. Its board of directors includes Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes Inc., former ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Jack Kemp, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 42 states and 41 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 84-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.

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Editor: Rose lives in Cranston, R.I.

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