Major Fellowship Activities: Clark researched and wrote a long policy paper, A False Sense of Security: The Role of Missile Defense in Counterproliferation Doctrine in light of current Bush Administration policies. She wrote fact sheets and issue briefs about missile defense “Bush Administration Missile Defense Deployment Linked to Preemptive Counterproliferation Policies”; the Bush Administration policy of preemption “The Bush Doctrine: Preemption and Dominance: 4The National Security Strategy of the United States of America,” and “Doctrine of Global Hegemony and Preemption: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.”; Iraq “How We Got Here: Post-Gulf War U.N. Security Council Resolutions Pertaining to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction,” and “War in Iraq: The Implications for Missile Defense”; and the North Korean nuclear program Dealing With the North Korean Nuclear Problem, The North Korean Nuclear Program and Timeline of Major Events in the North Korea Crisis.
She was involved in organizing and handling the participant list for a major policy conference put on by PSR in conjunction with the Center for Defense Information on February 26, 2003. This conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation was held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and drew prominent speakers including foreign government ministers, a member of Congress. The conference addressed concerns about counterproliferation and preemptive war, new weapons systems and their implications for stability and security, the health and environmental consequences of weapons of mass destruction in wartime, the implications of counterproliferation and preemptive war for international legal norms, and the effectiveness of past nonproliferation policies in light of new Administration initiatives. She was also heavily involved in compiling and editing the proceedings from this conference, which are currently being printed in book form and will be distributed to all participants, some legislative offices, and the press. She attended weekly meetings of the Monday Lobby arms control coalition, bi-weekly meetings of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group (NWWG), and monthly meetings of the Nuclear Policy Taskforce. She also attended several hearings of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill pertaining to U.S. domestic response capabilities to WMD terrorism, and a legal hearing pertaining to the Bush Administration’s withdrawal from the ABM Treaty without Congressional consultation. She also attended several press conferences on the Iraq war put on by PSR and others at the National Press Club, and distributed press materials. She attended lectures and documentary showings about the issues she worked on at the Cato Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
She worked with PSR’s Security Program National Field Director to create several factsheets (“Preemptive War, Unilateralism, and a Quest for Empire,” and “Bush Nuclear Policy,”) for a new grassroots campaign entitled “SMART Security.” She created a table of all countries either possessing WMD or who had at one time attempted to acquire WMD, for a PSR booklet on counterproliferation and nuclear weapons. She wrote an op-ed for the North Korea issue that will be sent to PSR members and activists as a sample op-ed to encourage them to contribute to their local papers on this issue. She attended PSR’s program planning retreat, which consisted of a day-long intensive planning meeting where the program members discussed their goals and strategies for the next six months. She assessed and edited the PSR Security program’s web content, including the addition of many resources that had been written years ago. She is working on designing a PSR webpage on missile defense, and conducting extensive research on a variety of issues related to missile defense, including the history of missile defense, weapons in space, technical aspects of missile defense, testing and oversight of the program, international missile defense, and current developments. She will be writing a series of issue briefs on these and related issues.
Current Activities: Dunigan is Director, Strategy, Doctrine, & Resources Program, RAND Arroyo Center at RAND Corporation. She was previously a Senior Political Scientist in the International Security Policy Group at the RAND Corporation where she has worked since 2008. She is engaged in research and writing on a number of national security issues, including security force assistance, military privatization, maritime irregular warfare, and nuclear issues. She received a PhD from Cornell University’s Government Department with a concentration in International Relations and a self-designed minor in Military Studies in 2008 and also co-wrote a book chapter on the use of private military and security companies in warfare. Her dissertation is titled “In the Company of Soldiers: Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness & The Democratic Advantage.” She was the recipient of a U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for the 2007-08 year, which supported her dissertation research and writing. In summer 2006 she worked as a summer associate at the RAND Corporation on a project on deterring nuclear terrorism. She received Cornell’s “Peace Studies Fellowship” for Fall 2006 that enabled her to conduct dissertation field research. In summer 2005 she participated in Columbia University’s “Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy” (SWAMOS), a three-week conference-style workshop held at Cornell, and run by professor from SAIS, Columbia, and the Army War College. She had a short commentary published in an edited volume on the Iraq War that resulted from a conference at Cornell; the book was titled “Partners or Rivals?: European-American Relations After Iraq,” and was published in Italy by Vita e Pensiero publishers (2005). She also wrote an article titled “Deadly Chemicals, Domestic Politics, and Dissent: The Case of Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction and Lessons for Regime Theory” that was published in the Cornell International Review (Spring 2005). She presented an earlier version of this paper at the Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA) Annual Conference in Boston in November 2004. She began her first teaching assistantship, and is teaching three separate sections for the Introduction to International Relations course at Cornell. She received a Foreign Language Areas Studies Scholarship (full tuition, plus a stipend for the year, to study Russian in addition to regular coursework). She authored a paper on the domestic political aspects of Russian chemical weapons demilitarization last semester, and is currently sending it out to political science conferences in hopes of presenting it later in the year. She is a member of the American Political Science Association. After her fellowship, she was hired as a Research Assistant at PSR through July 2003. She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and Women in International Security.