Stephen R. Shalom

Political Science Department

William Paterson University
Wayne, New Jersey 07470 USA

Office: Room 443 Raubinger Hall Phone: (973) 720-3433; Fax (973) 720-3477 E-mail: shaloms@wpunj.edu On sabbatical leave Fall 2007-Spring 2008.

Stephen R. Shalom got his Bachelor's degree from M.I.T., his Master's from Northeastern, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University. He began teaching at William Paterson in 1977. He is the author of The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism (1981); Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War (South End Press, 1993); editor of Socialist Visions (South End Press, 1984); and co-editor of The Philippines Reader (South End Press, 1987), Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); author of a text, Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics (Longman, 2003); and editor of Perilous Power: The Middle East &U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar (Paradigm Publishers, 2007). He is on the editorial boards of Critical Asian Studies and New Politics, and writes for Z Magazine and ZNet.

Selected Articles

• Iraq: When Should US Troops Leave?, ZNet, February 5, 2008.

• Interview by Anthony Dimaggio: "Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy," ZNet, June 5, 2007.

• "Middle East Developments," New Politics, vol. 11, no. 2, Winter 2007.

• "America's Next Top Model: The Philippines and the U.S. Empire," (pdf) UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies (paper delivered at Empire and Resistance in United States-Philippines Relations: A Symposium, Los Angeles, Dec. 2, 2006).

• "Lebanon War Question and Answer," ZNet, August 7, 2006.
• "In Search of Economic Justice," New Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2006.

• "Getting Out of Iraq," New Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2006 (with Gilbert Achcar; combines the next two articles).

• "'Strategic Redeployment' vs. 'Out Now'," ZNet, Nov. 29, 2005 (with Gilbert Achcar).

• "On John Murtha's Position," ZNet, Nov. 21, 2005 (with Gilbert Achcar; reposted widely).

• "Parpolity: Political Vision for a Good Society," Revised, ZNet, Nov. 22, 2005.

• "The Anti-War Movement and Iraq," ZNet, May 24, 2005.

• ""The Anti-War Movement and Iraq," (a shortened version of the previous item) New Politics, Summer 2005.

• "Phoenix Rising in Iraq?" ZNet Commentary, Feb. 10, 2005.

• "Political Vision: Making Decisions in a Good Society," Z Magazine, Oct. 2004, pp. 42-48.

• "Election Day 2004," ZNet, Oct. 26, 2004.

• Parpolity Interview (Shalom interviewed by Matt Grinder of Vancouver Coop Radio) ZNet, Sept. 20, 2004

• Down With King George!: A July 4 Quiz, from TomDispatch, July 1, 2004 (pdf version).

• In Defense of Tactical Voting (Sometimes), from New Politics, No. 37, Summer 2004.

• "Where Do We Go From Here? The Anti-War Movement and the Occupation of Iraq," ZNet, April 25, 2004.

• "Making Sense of the Korean Crisis: 12 Questions with Gavan McCormack," Z Magazine, April 2004 (with Mark Selden).
• Continuity and Change in Two Turn-of-the-Century Wars, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian-American Studies, Boston, MA, March 27, 2004.

• A Saddam Chronology, from ZNet, Dec. 15, 2003

• Truth Telling and the Media [audio], an invited reflection during Ramadan for the Asian Network of the BBC, Nov. 14, 2003

• The Philippine Model, ZNet Commentary, Oct. 21, 2003 (footnoted version).
• Iraq White Paper: The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq: A Pattern of Lies and Deception, prepared for NJ Peace Action, Oct. 17, 2003

• After Two Years: Real Dangers and False Solutions in the Age of Terrorism, from ZNet, Sept. 10, 2003

• Review of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism, by Stephen Zunes, from Z Magazine, June 2003

• Post War Iraq Quiz, from ZNet, May 2003

• The United States in the General Assembly, from ZNet, April 22, 2003
• Fahrenheit 451 and the Problem of the US Media, from ZNet, April 22, 2003
• The Battle of Baghdad, ZNet Commentary, April 11, 2003.
• Iraq: War and Democracy, from Z Magazine, April 2003

• Iraq War Quiz, from ZNet, Mar. 26, 2003

• Reject Defeatism...Organize!, from ZNet, Mar. 19, 2003 (with Michael Albert)

• Warmongers' Last Hope, ZNet Commentary, Feb. 22, 2003

• Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing, from ZNet, Oct. 24, 2002 (with Michael Albert)

• 45 Questions and Answers Regarding Intervention in General, 9-11 and Afghanistan One Year Later, and Iraq on the Verge of War, from ZNet, Oct. 8, 2002 (with Michael Albert)

• Conspiracies Or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond, from ZNet, June 2, 2002 (with Michael Albert)

• Background to the Israel-Palestine Crisis, Z Magazine, May 2002 (footnoted version)

• Exile for the Enemy of Peace?, ZNet Commentary, April 3, 2002

• The Crisis in Palestine, ZNet Commentary, April 2, 2002

• Confronting Terrorism and War, from New Politics, Winter 2002

• More Q&A on Terror and War, ZNet, Nov. 15, 2001 (with Mike Albert)
• A 'Just War'?: A Critique of Richard Falk, from ZNet, Oct. 21, 2001

• Five Arguments Against War, ZNet Commentary, Sept. 20, 2001 (with Michael Albert)

• September 11 Talking Points, from ZNet, Sept. 17, 2001 (with Michael Albert)

• Exxon-Mobil in Aceh, ZNet Commentary, June 26, 2001

• The Sinking of the Ehime Maru and U.S. Bases in Okinawa, ZNet Commentary, March 11 2001

• The Palestinian Question, Harper's Magazine, Jan. 2001 (with Alex Shalom)

• Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context, ZNet Commentary, October 10, 2000 (with Alex Shalom)

• The Crash of the Osprey, ZNet Commentary, July 3, 2000

• The Diallo Case, ZNet Commentary, March 4, 2000

• Green Lights and Red Herrings, ZNet Commentary, Feb. 11, 2000

• Humanitarian Intervention, ZNet Commentary, January 14, 2000

• Kosovo, Justice, and Humanitarianism, from New Politics, Winter 2000

• Holiday Song, ZNet Commentary, December 24, 1999

• Timor: Reparations and Responsibility, ZNet Commentary, November 17, 1999 (with Cynthia Peters)

• "Political Correctness" and the "Desert Storm Law", ZNet Commentary, October 13, 1999

• The State of the World, ZNet Commentary, September 14, 1999

• A Just War? from Z Magazine, September 1999

• Another Attack on Affirmative Action, ZNet Commentary, August 14, 1999

• Reflections on NATO and Kosovo, from New Politics, Summer 1999

• Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala, ZNet Commentary, June 21, 1999

• The Milosevic Indictment, ZNet Commentary, May 29, 1999

• The Struggle Against Racial Profiling, ZNet Commentary, May 23, 1999

• Thinking About Affirmative Action, ZNet Commentary, April 11, 1999

• Terrorists and Madmen, ZNet Commentary, March 27, 1999

• You've Come A Long Way, Brother!, ZNet Commentary, March 6, 1999

• "Dubious Data: The Thernstroms on Race in America," Race & Society, vol. 1, no. 2, 1998, pp. 125-157 (available to WPU users only)

• Bases By Another Name: U.S. Military Access in the Philippines, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 29, no. 4, 1997, pp. 78-81

• New Jersey Jokes: Republicans and Democrats in the Garden State, from Z Magazine, July-Aug. 1997

• Affirmative Action Is Needed As Long As Racism Persists, Star Ledger, Jan. 30, 1997

• Review essay of Nick Cullather, Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960 and Nick Cullather, ed., Managing Nationalism: United States National Security Council Documents on the Philippines, 1953-1960 in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 28, nos. 3-4, 1996, pp. 105-11

• The Obliteration of Hiroshima, from New Politics, Summer 1996

• The Rwanda Genocide: The Nightmare That Happened, from Z Magazine, April 1996

• Why the World Bank Can't Lead Us to a Just World Order, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 27, no. 4, Oct.-Dec. 1995

• Dropping Scores, Mathematics Magazine, vol. 68, no. 3, June 1995, pp. 220-23

• VJ-Day: Remembering the Pacific War, from Z Magazine, July-Aug. 1995

• Contract With America Quiz, from Z Magazine, May 1995

• Teaching About Affirmative Action, Transformations, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 37-71

• Gravy Train: Feeding the Pentagon By Feeding Somalia (revised version of article published in Z Magazine, Feb. 1993)

• Rabin, the Fanatics, and Palestinian Rights, The Beacon, Nov. 13, 1995

• Solidarity Forever, The Beacon, Sept. 11, 1995

Syllabi for My Courses, Spring 2007

• POL 110-62, Introduction to Politics.

• POL 240-01, International Relations

• POL 347-01, The Middle East in World Politics.

• Scrambled Muck-A-Mucks

• Sports Stumpers

• Chess Problems

• Bridge Problems