Date and Time
January 19, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

David Palkki is Deputy Director of the National Defense University’s Conflict Records Research Center and co-editor of The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Working of a Tyrant’s Regime, 1978-2001 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), which is based on a review of several thousand audio files (and a smaller number of video files) that U.S.-led forces captured from Saddam Hussein's regime. Palkki is a PhD student in Political Science at UCLA and his dissertation, “Deterring Saddam’s Iraq: Theory and Practice,” draws heavily on the captured Iraqi records. He previously worked as a contractor at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as a military analyst for the U.S. Government. He is a recipient of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s Herbert York Fellowship and the National Science Foundation’s IGERT Associate Fellowship.