Who We Are

Senior Associate:   Frederick Michael Lorenz JD, LLM  

Frederick “Rick” Lorenz grew up in New York City and obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from Marquette University. He served a career in the US Marine Corps as a judge advocate, retiring as a Colonel in 1998. He obtained an LLM (With Highest Honors) from George Washington University in Land Use Management and Control and practiced environmental/land use law between 1982 and 1991. In 1998-99 he spent a year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in St Petersburg, Russia, teaching courses in international law, environmental law, and US foreign policy. In 2000 he served as a United Nations Legal Affairs officer in Kosovo, working in the UN Civil Administration. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS), University of Washington (UW), and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the UW School of Law until his retirement in 2022. His courses include Water and Security in the Middle East and International Humanitarian Law (the Law of Armed Conflict). He resides with his wife Joan in Tacoma, Washington.

rlorenz [at] internationalresearch [dot] info

Senior Associate: Edward J. Erickson, PhD

Dr. Edward J. “Ed” Erickson is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel commissioned in the field artillery. He also served as a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Turkey. During his career, he served in artillery and general staff assignments in the United States, Europe (three tours in Germany and one tour in Italy), and the Middle East (three tours in Turkey). In the Persian Gulf War of 1991, he served in the Third Armored Division as an artillery battalion operations officer, in Sarajevo in 1995 as a special assistant to the NATO Implementation Force commander, and in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the Fourth Infantry Division as General Raymond Odierno’s political advisor. In 2007-08, Dr. Erickson taught political science at the MOD ministerial training center in Baghdad, Iraq. He has a PhD in history from the University of Leeds in the UK and is recognized as an authority on Turkish military policy, the First World War in the Middle East, and counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century. Dr. Erickson retired as Professor of Military History from the Department of War Studies at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, where he taught The Evolution of Warfare as well as Water Scarcity and Instability in the Middle East and Africa and Ends, Ways and Means: Creative Thinking at Theater Level.

eerickson [at] internationalresearch [dot] info

Turkish 1 Million Lira (Old) Banknote with an image of the Ataturk Dam in Şanlıurfa Province, one of the largest dams in the world.