ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM  

Governance, Arms Control
And Security in the Middle East

Convenor:  Dr. Jeffrey S. Morton

 
“U.S. National Security Strategy and Mid-East Policy.”
Dr. John H. Johns, Brigadier General, USA (Retired)
Dr. John H. Johns served as a combat arms officer in the Army for over 26 years, retiring as a brigadier general in 1978.  After retirement from active duty, Dr. Johns continued to serve in the Department of Defense until retirement in 1995.  He served four years as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Career SES 5) before becoming a Professor of Political Science at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair.  Dr. Johns has an undergraduate degree in economics and political science from the University of Alabama.  He has masters degrees from Vanderbilt (psychology) and George Washington University (international affairs) and a Ph.D. from American University (sociology).  He is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, The National War College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

“American Civil-Military Relations”
Colonel William Locke Hauser , USA (Retired)
A career U.S. Army officer (1954-79) before entering business, Colonel Hauser remains involved with the military as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society, and as a sometime consultant on officer development to the Department of Defense and to the armed forces committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.  A graduate of West Point, he later taught there, as well as a term as a Fulbright-Hays exchange fellow at the University of Singapore.  He served with troops in the U.S., Germany, Korea and Vietnam, holding Battalion command in combat in Vietnam and brigade command in Germany.  During general-staff service in the Pentagon, he participated in major studies on officer and NCO professional development; he was a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

“Dealing with Mid-East Weapons of Mass Destructions”
Jeffrey S. Morton
Professor Morton holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught since 1994.  The author of three books and more than a dozen journal articles, Jeffrey Morton holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of South Carolina.