Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

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Patrick Jackson: Lecturer
He may be contacted at ptjack@gwu.edu.

Stuart E. Johnson: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Johnson is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Center for Technology and National Security where he specializes in the impact of technology on defense planning and the transformation of US military forces to meet the challenges of the 21st century. He teaches Defense Policy and Program Analysis for the Security Policy Studies Program at the Elliott School. Dr. Johnson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (1966), earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and did post-doctoral research at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, 1971-72. His impressive career time at NATO as principal NATO analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation from 1976 to 1982 and Director of Systems Analysis on the International Staff at NATO Headquarters, where he served until 1985. In 1986 he joined the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University where he became Director of Research in 1990 and served in that position until 1995. Dr. Johnson was appointed Senior Scientist at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College and held that post from 1996 through 1997. He was then selected to be Director of International Defense programs at the RAND Corporation where he served from 1997-2002. He supervised a program of research for OSD and the Joint Staff in the field of defense policy, strategy, and military technology. He directed RAND's program of analytic support to allied ministries of defense where he worked with Central European Ministries of Defense (Poland, Hungary, and Romania). His publications include studies on strategy and force planning, coalition operations with European allies, and the science of command and control. His latest book, New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking was published in April 2003 and is available from the RAND Press. Dr. Johnson can be reached at JohnsonS@ndu.edu.

Murhaf Jouejati:
Murhaf Jouejati is an expert on Middle East affairs with a particular focus on Syrian politics. He has over two decades of experience researching and working on the political, social, and economic aspects of the Middle East. From 2000-02, he was a resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. In 1998-2000, he served as the political advisor to the European Commission Delegation in Damascus and as focal point for several EU-funded regional development programs, including civil society. Before assuming that position, Dr. Jouejati served with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), first as the National Program Officer in Syria where he headed the UNDP's program section, and then as a consultant to the Bureau of Arab States in New York. Between 1981 and 1985, he served as the Information officer of the US-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Washington.

As an advisor to the Syrian delegation to the Middle East peace talks (1991-1994 and in 1998), Dr. Jouejati commands expert knowledge on Syrian foreign policy, a topic he has written on extensively. He has been a frequent guest on NPR's All Things Considered and television news programs such as PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News's Nightline, and others. Hei holds an MA in Arab area studies from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah. He is author of a forthcoming book, Why Assad Did Not Emulate Sadat: An Institutional Perspective.