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Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director of ISS, taught a junior seminar in Fall 2007, and again in Spring 2008, on “The Grand Strategies of the British Empire” as part of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. As Lecturer in International Affairs, he taught the core course in the International Relations program, "The Foundations and Evolution of the International System", in Fall 2007 and "The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers" in Spring 2008. He is a regular commentator on contemporary affairs: his comments are collected in his blog. He received his PhD in History in 1999 from Yale, and has published articles in Contemporary British History, Historical Research, and Parliamentary History. He is under contract with Frank Cass for Selling Europe: The Struggle Over European Integration in Britain, 1956-63, a book based on his revised dissertation, which won the Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize from the American Political Science Association in 2000.





Minh A. Luong, Assistant Director of ISS, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, and Lecturer in the School of Management, has taught graduate courses and senior seminars in international relations, negotiations, privacy, and espionage and intelligence. He is the course administrator of ISS's "Studies in Grand Strategy" graduate seminar and director of the Ivy Scholars Program, a summer academic debate and leadership training program for top caliber high school students. For two years he served as International Affairs Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. An ICM-certified crisis management consultant, he has served as an advisor to many international organizations and lectures extensively on business intelligence, industrial espionage, crisis management, and security-related issues. He has published four articles in the annual journal International New Avenues in Crisis Management, has served as an annual guest editor of the argumentation journal Rostrum since 1998, and serves on the editorial board of Argumentation Theory and Performance: The Harvard Journal of Competitive Debate. He serves on the advisory council of the World Affairs Forum. In the past several years, he delivered a nationwide lecture series on weapons of mass destruction, lectured on espionage and economic intelligence at the Diplomatic Academy in London at the University of Westminster, delivered a presentation on financial flow tracking as an effective counterterrorism methodology at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and appears in a new 4-part Schlessinger Media/CBS News Productions documentary titled Terrorism in Our World. He is the author of Espionage: A Real Threat, which warns of the dangers of economic espionage, and which appeared in the October 2003 issue of the business and technology strategy journal Optimize.


Ann Carter-Drier is the Administrator of International Security Studies. Thirty-eight years ago she began her Yale career in the Department of Music and continues to enjoy working in an academic environment. A graduate of the University of Colorado with a degree in Anthropology, she spent some time at the Smithsonian before returning to her home state.










Susan Hennigan is Program Coordinator for International Security Studies. Before coming to ISS, she was the Business Manager of United Nations Studies at Yale and the Managing Editor of The Journal of Conflict Resolution. At UNSY, in addition to her duties as Business Manager, she conducted research for the "The Political Economy of Civil Wars" project. She holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and spent a year at the Free University of Berlin, Germany as a fellow of the German government. Susan and her husband David, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Yale, have one daughter.







Monica Ward is Administrative Assistant for Paul Kennedy and International Security Studies. Before coming to Yale she was a legal secretary for many years. Monica is from New York City, where she attended Hunter College. While at Yale she has enjoyed the auditing perk and frequently takes courses in literature and poetry. Monica is active in local community theater, the Milford Fine Arts Council and Connecticut Audubon. She competes in 5k runs in New Haven & environs and is a volunteer at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven. Monica and her husband Patrick, a retired physicist, have three children and four grandchildren.