Security and Defense Experts
President, Scowcroft Group; USAF (Ret.), former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush
As President of The Scowcroft Group and one of the country's leading experts on international policy, Brent Scowcroft provides unparalleled strategic advice and assistance in dealing in the international arena. Brent Scowcroft has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associat...
Associate Professor of Political Science on the Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran
University Professor; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Nancy Sherman holds a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, an M. Litt. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in moral philosophy (1981), where she received Harvard's George Plympton Adams' Prize (1982) for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis in the subject area of History of Philosophy.Nancy served as the Inaugural Holder...
Contributing Writer, Wired.com;
Columnist, BBC Future
Sharon Weinberger is a national security reporter focusing on science and technology issues.She currently writes the Code Red column for BBC Future, and is a contributor to Wired.com's national security blog, Danger Room. She is the author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld (Nation Books, 2006) and co-author of A Nuclear Family Vaca...
Contributing Editor, AOL Defense
Richard Whittle is a writer specializing in military affairs and author of The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Now at work on a history of the Predator, the first modern armed drone, Whittle is available to lecture or conduct interviews on all aspects of “The Drone Revolution.” In 2011, he authored a paper for the Mitchell In...
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz spent more than three decades as a public servant, ambassador and educator, including 24 years in government service under seven U.S. presidents. In addition to three senior positions with the State Department, as Director of Policy Planning, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, he also served in the Defense Department during t...
Journalist and Author/Editor of eight books, most recently editor of "The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are"
Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. She is currently a USIP Senior Fellow-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar.
Her projects explore new trends in the Islamic world--the Arab revolts, the rise of political Islam and the counter-jihad against extremism. She also identifies issues that will define the next decade, when the Middle East’s transformation will be a maj...
Professor Emeritus in International Relations, the London School of Economics
Visiting Scholar, Sigur Center of Asian Studies, Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University
In recent years my work has focused on the inter-actions between politics at global, regional and local levels with particular reference to East Asia. That was the main focus of my book The International Politics of East Asia Since 1945 (2005), which was a revised and updated version of a similar book published ten years previously. The first book explored how the dynamics of politics between the...