Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research / Director, International Organizations Research Group
Susan Fink Yoshihara is C-FAM Vice President
for Research and Director of the International Organizations Research Group (IORG). Her research interests include intervention, human rights, and humanitarianism in international law and politics.
Before joining C-FAM, Susan was on the faculty at the U.S. Naval War College where she taught national security decision making and international relations. In her twenty-year career as a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, she held the rank of Commander, led combat logistics and search and rescue units in the Pacific and Persian Gulf, advised the Atlantic Fleet commander, and worked for the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade as a White House Fellow. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received her Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She and her husband Toshi live in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Selected Publications:
Book Review: "Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, vol.8, no.4 (Forthcoming Winter 2008)
Book Review: "Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, vol.8, no. 3 (Autumn 2008)
"How to Think About the Responsibility to Protect," First Things online, 16 June 2008
"The False Choice Between Development and Daughters," The Human Life Review, vol.33, no.3 (Summer 2007)
"Rights by Stealth: the Role of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies in the Campaign for an International Right to Abortion," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, vol.7,no.1 (Spring 2007)
“Kosovo,” in Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, Derek Reveron and Jeffrey Murer, eds. (New York: Routlege, 2006)
“The Trouble with Mixed Motives: Debating the Political, Legal, and Moral Dimensions of Intervention,” Naval War College Review Vol. LVII, No.3/4 (Summer/Autumn 2004)
Publications :
Friday Fax
Pro-life Coalition at UN Delivers 437,000 Signatures in Support of Unborn and Family
Top German Officials Intervene to Defeat Traditional Marriage in California
Funcionarios alemanes superiores Intervenga para derrotar Unión tradicional en California
New UN Document Promotes Controversial "Right" to Health
Top UN Official Applauds Plummeting Births, Calls for Protection of Sodomy
New Book Exposes Eugenics Mandate in Reproductive Rights Agenda
New Book Cites US and UN-Manufactured Scares over Population Growth
New Book Exposes Eugenics Mandate in Reproductive Rights Agenda
Fertility Decline Could Cause Global Security Crisis, New Study Says
Leader of “Pro-Life Nation” Honored by Holy See at UN
Pro-Life Congressmen Thwart US Support for UN Abortion Initiative
Pope's UN Address Urges Proper Understanding of Human Rights, UN Role
New Kosovo Constitution Threatens Unborn Children and the Traditional Family
Conference ONU illustra le strategie per internazionalizzare il diritto all'aborto
UN Conference Lays Out Strategy for International Abortion Rights
Abortion is the Focus of First Day of UN Conference on Maternal Mortality
World Congress of Families Pledges Solidarity with Europe
New Article Spurs Controversial Debate About Crisis of Global Health, Failure of WHO
The Pope, the President and the Prime Minister Who Changed the World
UN Adopts Disabilities Treaty, Many States Reiterate Rejection of Abortion
Research:
Six Problems with “Women Deliver:” Why the UN Should Not Change MDG 5
