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About the Editor and Contributors:

Graham Allison is the founding dean of Harvard University's modern John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration.

Reza Aslan is a writer, scholar of religions, and regular commentator on the religion and politics of the Middle East. His most recent book is No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.

Ronald D. Asmus is executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels, Belgium. He serve as deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs in the second Clinton administration.

Daniel Benjamin is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and coauthor, with Steven Simon, of The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. From 1994 to 1999, he served on the National Security Council staff.

James R. Blaker is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, former advisor to joint chiefs of staff vice chairman William Owens, and vice president of Science Applications International Corporation.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. He is also founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, and codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Edward Gresser is director of the Trade and Global Markets Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a contributing editor to Blueprint. Between 1998 and 2001, he served as policy advisor to the U.S. trade representative.

Rachel Kleinfeld is an executive director of the Truman National Security Project. She consults for private and nonprofit organizations on bioterrorism, homeland security, and building police and legal institutions abroad. She is a Rhodes Scholar and holds an M. Phil. in International Relations from St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a B.A. from Yale University.

Will Marshall is president and a founder of the Progressive Policy Institute. After working on Capitol Hill and in U.S. Senate campaigns, he helped to launch the Democratic Leadership Council, where he served as policy director. He is editor of Building the Bridge: Ten Big Ideas to Transform America and coeditor of Mandate for Change and The AmeriCorps Experiment and the Future of National Service. Formerly a newspaper reporter with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he is a member of the District of Columbia's Public Charter School Board.

Jan Mazurek is director of the Progressive Policy Institute's Energy and Environment Project, and a contributing editor to Blueprint.

Michael McFaul is director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law at Stanford University, where he is also the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and associate professor of political science. He is also a nonresident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Steven J. Nider is director of foreign and security studies at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a contributing editor to Blueprint. He is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project and serves on the advisory board of Securing America's Future Energy.

Kenneth M. Pollack is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has served as director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council and as a Persian military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, and Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991.

Jeremy Rosner is partner and senior vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a political polling and strategy firm. From 1993 to 1994, he served as special assistant to President Clinton on the NSC staff, running the NSC's speechwriting and legislative affairs offices; and from 1997 to 1998 served as special adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Albright, leading the effort to obtain congressional and public support for the accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to NATO. He is the author of The New Tug-of-War: Congress, the Executive Branch, and National Security.

David J. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, LLC. He is author of Running theWorld: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, and served as deputy undersecretary of commerce during the Clinton administration.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and author of A New World Order.

Stephen J. Solarz is president of Solarz Associates and senior counselor at APCO Worldwide. He represented Brooklyn's 13th Congressional District for eighteen years, serving on the U.S. House of Representatives International Affairs Committee, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Subcommittee on Africa.

Matthew Spence is an executive director of the Truman National Security Project. He has been a lecturer in International Relations at St. Johns College, Oxford University, and a fellow at the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, a B.A. and. M.A. from Stanford University, and is now completing his J.D. at Yale Law School.

Melissa Tryon is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is a Rhodes Scholar, a West Point graduate, and a member of the Truman Security Forum.

 

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