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Many ISP courses are given by the Columbia political science department, one of few in the world with more than one faculty member in security studies. Among them is Richard K. Betts, ISP concentration director and director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies. Before coming to Columbia Betts worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. taught at Harvard and SAIS, and served on staffs of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the National Security Council. He has been director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Security Advisory Panel of the Director of Central Intelligence, and a member of the National Commission on Terrorism. Other professors in the political science department who teach and conduct research primarily or in part in the area of security include Robert Jervis, Jack L. Snyder, Warner R. Schilling, Virginia Page Fortna, Robert Legvold, David A. Baldwin, Helen Milner, Erik Gartzke, and Tanisha Fazal.
Among those who have taught adjunct courses tailored for the ISP program in recent years are people who combine academic backgrounds and publications in public policy with experience in government, the military, and policy analysis institutes. For example, Mark M. Lowenthal (PhD Harvard, formerly deputy assistant secretary of state, senior analyst at the Congressional Research Service, and staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence); Michael O'Hanlon (PhD Princeton, formerly at the Congressional Budget Office, currently at the Brookings Institution); Joseph Collins (PhD Columbia, currently serving in the Department of Defense, formerly at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and career officer in the U.S. Army, including service on the West Point faculty and as assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff); J. Bowyer Bell (PhD Duke, journalist and consultant, and author of numerous books on terrorism); Dov S. Zakheim (DPhil, Oxford, currently under secretary and comptroller, Department of Defense, and formerly president of SPC International, deputy under secretary of defense, and Congressional Budget Office analyst); Mark L. Shulman (PhD Yale, JD Columbia, currently an attorney, formerly on the faculty of the Yale history department); Stuart Johnson (PhD MIT, currently at the RAND Corporation, formerly in the U.S. Defense Department, U.S. mission to NATO, Institute for National Strategic Studies, and Naval War College); Col. Jay Parker (PhD Columbia, USMA faculty, West Point); Sumit Ganguly, Cynthia Roberts, and Donald Zagoria (all on the political science faculty of Hunter College of CUNY, and, respectively, specialists on South Asian security, Russian military policy and European security, and East Asian international politics); Janne E. Nolan (PhD Fletcher School, currently at the Century Fund, formerly at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, staff of Senator Hart and the Brookings Institution); Steven Marks (lecturer at Columbia, formerly with the UN, and research scholar at the Princeton Center of International Studies; currently a professor at Harvard).