Edward Haley, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies, will serve as a panelist for the discussion Can Foreign Aid Help Win the War on Terror? at noon on Thursday, June 8, in Washington, D.C. The event is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute.
AEI's panel discussion will include topics such as long-term political and economic transformation of the Middle East as a cornerstone of the current administration's national security strategy, and support by the U.S. government of indigenous civil society organizations in countries like Egypt, Pakistan, and Iraq.
Other scheduled speakers include A. Lawrence Chickering, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Emily Vargas-Baron, director of the RISE Institute, who coauthored with Haley the forthcoming book, Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006), detailing "the key role that civil society organizations could play in mitigating the conditions that promote terrorists and terrorism." Also participating in the conference are John Sullivan, executive director of the Center for International Private Enterprise, and Stewart Patrick, research fellow at the Center for Global Development; Vance Serchuk, AEI research Fellow, will moderate.
Haley also has published Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), providing a critical overview of U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, and investigating connections between the foreign policies of all three post-Cold War presidents: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous books and articles on international politics and U.S. foreign policy including After 9/11: The Roles of Civil Society in International Security (2006), and Arms Control and the End of the Cold War: An Oral History of the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (2002).
Haley is Chairman of the International Relations Program at CMC, a senior research associate at the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, and a graduate of Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.