Richard A. Falkenrath
Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness
Experience
Richard A. Falkenrath was Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and a Center faculty affiliate. He was Executive Director of the Belfer Center from 1996-1998. He is principal investigator of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness (a DOJ-funded joint project of the International Security Program and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government) and of the Jeddah Forum project funded out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the author of Shaping Europe's Military Order: The Origins and Consequences of the CFE Treaty (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes. Dr. Falkenrath has been a visiting research fellow at the German Society of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, and the American Economic Association. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King''s College, London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, with degrees in economics and international relations.
Spring 2005
"Correspondence: Sins of Commission? Falkenrath and His Critics"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 29
By Ernest R. May, Faculty Affiliate, International Security Program, Philip D. Zelikow, Former Faculty Affiliate, International Security Program and Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness
Ernest May and Philip Zelikow dispute several points made by Richard Falkenrath in his review of The 9/11 Commission Report. Falkenrath replies to their criticisms.
Winter 2004/05
"The 9/11 Commission Report: A Review Essay"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 29
By Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness
Richard Falkenrath provides a detailed assessment of The 9/11 Commission Report.
Spring 2001
"Problems of Preparedness: U.S. Readiness for a Domestic Terrorist Attack"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 25
By Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness
The author discusses the evolution of the United States’ domestic preparedness program since the mid-1990s. The program, designed to prepare the country for a domestic terrorist attack with chemical or biological weapons, suffers from a variety of difficulties.
1997
Defending the United States Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
Memorandum
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John M. Deutch, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Robert Newman, Fellow and Joseph S. Nye, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations
Unpublished memorandum to the United States Senate
Developing a Basic Research Program for Digital Government: Information, Organizations and Governance
Conference Proceedings
By Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness and Jane Fountain, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the National Center for Digital Government
