ADVISORY/Experts Available to Discuss Senate Authorization for Bush to Use Military Force Against Iraq.

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TOPIC: In a 77-23 vote, the Senate authorized President Bush to use military force against Iraq if diplomacy fails to diffuse Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons capabilities, according to an article by USA Today. Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the measure in a 296-133 vote. Lawmakers now hope the United Nations Security Council will apply more pressure on Saddam Hussein to disarm and avoid war. Opponents warned that passing the measure is setting a dangerous precedent as they believe there isn't sufficient evidence that Iraq is going to strike against the United States first. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: -0-


Amy Zegart is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy
and Social Research at UCLA. Her research examines issues of foreign
policy, presidential power, organizational effectiveness,
international relations theory and American bureaucracy.
310-825-2455,
[e-mail]

Dr. Daniel Goure is currently the deputy director for Political
Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. At CSIS, Dr. Goure is responsible for analyses of: U.S.
national security policy, U.S. domestic politics and international
policies, industrial planning and defense industrial management, the
future of conflict and warfare, the information revolution, counter
proliferation. He directs analyses of emerging security issues with a
special emphasis on advanced technologies. During his time at CSIS,
Dr. Goure has directed studies on: the merits of modern air and space
power, the future of undersea warfare, the information revolution and
national security, the consolidation of the U.S. defense industrial
base, trends in future U.S. defense budgets, trans-Atlantic defense
industrial cooperation, NATO expansion, U.S.-European nuclear energy
cooperation, U.S. future defense technology investment strategies, the
security dimensions of the global economic competition, and the
applications of non-lethal technologies to modern warfare.
202-775-3242

Professor Dan Reiter, of Emory University, Department of Political
Science, political science, foreign policy, national security policy,
international conflict, alliances and decision-making.
404-727-0111,
404-727-6123 (University PR Phone)

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