I. Structure
This site is comprised of four primary components: 

A. Information about me–a Short Biography and Selective Curriculum Vitae. These can be accessed from the About This Site menu.

B. Papers and Presentations,  both published and unpublished.  These can be accessed via the Papers and Presentations menu, from links in the Selective Curriculum Vitae, and where relevant from cross-references in the compilation of Ideas and Motifs and Textual Times.  Cross-links will also be provided where technically feasible within individual items.  Wherever possible, papers and presentations are included in full and are available for download.    In some instances, confidentiality (especially in regard to work for the United Nations and the Defense Language Institute) or consent issues limit me to descriptions of the work, or links to a publisher.  Many papers and presentations are prefaced by a  discussion of their background, implications and connection to other topics and papers.  Where relevant and feasible, linkage to current societal developments may be noted and discussed. 

C. Insights and Motifs from the areas of my professional activity, which can be accessed from the Insights and Motifs menu.

D. Textual Times, which presents commentary, in blog format, relating leading ideas, motifs and insights from various areas of my research and analysis to current events and other topics of broad societal interest.  Textual Times accepts comments, with the goal of stimulating reasoned discussion.  Since it is critical in such discussions to avoid emotional appeal, unverifiable claims, ad hominem argument and other non-reason-based forms of argumentation, comments will refereed for the purpose of ensuring a respectful tone and reason-based discourse.

II. Purpose
A. Dissemination and linking of research products.  Some of these are peer-reviewed published research papers, others a variety of working papers, internal reports, drafts, graduate course papers and other formats, as well as conference, invitational and professional development presentations.  Some were completed decades ago, others recently.  Many of the unpublished items were intended originally for publication, but day-to-day work demands (especially intense in my United Nations and Defense Language Institute career phases), changes of institution, or security/confidentiality considerations compelled me to leave their completion or dissemination for another time.  The backlog of topics and projects is such that it may not be feasible to re-engage in original and follow-up research on each of them, to bring each in turn to peer-reviewed publication.  Hence I am resorting to the unusual expedient—at least from a scholarly point of view—of private publication.  The objective is to make the ideas, lines of argumentation and any supporting evidence available for scholars and other interested persons to adopt, adapt, test or follow up, lest they simply lapse.  As the proverb states, the greatest enemy of the good is the better.

B. To provide a vehicle for articulating or exploring numerous leading insights and recurring motifs that have arisen in the course of my work across the range of topics encompassed in this site, including cross-over relevance from one field to the next and, in a number of instances, obvious significance for the assessment of recent social and political developments.  In addition to the Insights and Motifs page and Textual Times, many of these are described or explored in the linked papers and presentations and their annotations in the Papers and Presentations section.