
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. She is the author of Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts (forthcoming, Praeger).
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 have one daughter and live in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Selected Publications:
"Clinton Promises Global Push for Abortion Rights," National Review Online, January 15, 2010
"The Quest for Happiness: How the UN's Advocacy of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Undermines Liberty and Opportunity," in Brett D. Schaefer, ed., ConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
"Obama Nominee Wants U.N. Committees Setting U.S. Social Policy" Human Events.com, April 7, 2009
Book Review: "Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, vol.8, no.4 (Winter 2009)
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)
Friday Fax:
UN Aging Report Warns of Dire Effects of Fertility Decline
Chilean Maternal Mortality Study Undercuts Pro-Abortion Claims
New UN Human Rights Treaty on Aging Promoted, Questioned
Top Legal Scholar Warns Abortion Issue Can Divide a Nation
Top Abortion Provider Cashes in on Haiti Crisis, Pro-Life Medics Respond
Secretary Clinton Announces 5-year Funding Push, Including Abortion
Former U.S. UN Ambassador Warns of Hidden Dangers in Copenhagen Deal
New Paper Links UN Promotion of "Safe" Abortion to Maternal Deaths
New Report Says UN Women’s Rights Committee Increased Activism but Nations Remain Unimpressed
New Study Says UN Development Goals Fail to Uphold Human Dignity
Ireland Adopts Lisbon Treaty but Pro-life Guarantees Remain Suspect
UN Official Oversteps Mandate to Back "Gay Pride" Event in Serbia
Legal Scholars React to UN Committee's Homosexual Rights Recommendation
UN Committee Asserts Special Rights for "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity"
New Approach to Abortion Rights at UN: “Motherhood and Apple Pie”
World’s Most Powerful Population Lobby Targets Dominican Pro-Life Reforms
New Report Details Fudged WHO Numbers on Maternal Mortality
Nations Balk at Billion Dollar Global Gender Policing Agency
European Christian Party Abandons Pro-Life and Pro-Family Positions
Pro-Abortion Law Firm Abuses UN Treaties to Badger Brazil on Abortion
Other Friday Faxes
Research:
Six Problems with “Women Deliver:” Why the UN Should Not Change MDG 5

