Related Link: http://www.americansecurityproject.orgDr. Evelyn N. Farkas is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Project. In 2008 she served as Executive Director of the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. From April 2001 to April 2008, she served as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, conducting policy and budget oversight of the Department of Defense policy office and military commands including the U.S. Pacific Command, Special Operations Command, Southern Command, Northern Command, and U.S. Forces Korea. Her issue areas included foreign and defense policy in the Asia Pacific region and the Western Hemisphere, worldwide special operations, combating terrorism, foreign military assistance, peace and stability operations, counternarcotics efforts, homeland defense, and export controls. Prior to assuming that position, for four years she was a professor of international relations at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University. She served in Bosnia as a Human Rights Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1996, and as an Election Supervisor in 1997.
Her publications include journal articles and opinion pieces in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, and commentary on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and Voice of America. She is also the author of Fractured States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Ethiopia, and Bosnia in the 1990s (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003 and 2008). Dr. Farkas obtained her MA and Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Security Studies, and Women in International Security Studies. She serves on the advisory board for the Harold Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations, Aspen Institute Socrates Program Advisory Board, and the Campaign Steering Committee for the Center for Business, Government, and Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College. She speaks fluent Hungarian and German, as well as some French, Spanish, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and Hindi.
