Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

Former deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq under George W. Bush. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. Current work focuses on American foreign policy writ large as well as China, Russia, the Middle East, South Asia, and geoeconomics. Editor of Iran: The Nuclear Challenge.

Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.). Former commander of Air Force Global Strike Command. Previously defense attaché to Moscow and director for nuclear policy and arms control on the National Security Council staff. Current work examines the nuclear arms control policies of the United States and the other nuclear weapons states.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Former ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for policy toward the states of the former Soviet Union. Directed the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do.

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

PhD candidate in political science at Harvard University. Current research focuses on institutional responses to nuclear threats, including arms control agreements and the nonproliferation regime.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

Author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Colonel in the U.S. Air Force that has commanded at the squadron and wing levels. Career F-15E weapons systems officer. Currently researching U.S. national security policy in Asia and the impact of U.S. rebalancing in the region.

Author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world.

Colonel in the U.S. Air Force that has commanded at the squadron and wing levels. Career F-15E weapons systems officer. Currently researching U.S. national security policy in Asia and the impact of U.S. rebalancing in the region.

Award-winning author, historian, and military strategist. Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power and War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Finishing Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, which will be released by W.W. Norton & Co. in January 2013.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Award-winning writer, and editor of the scholarly journal International Finance. His most recent book, Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, which earned him the 2010 Hayek Book Prize, analyzes the historical relationship between money and national sovereignty and its importance in understanding contemporary globalization.

Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.

Journalist and researcher focusing on U.S. foreign policy, international development, women and economic development, and global entrepreneurship. Contributing editor-at-large at Newsweek/Daily Beast and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (HarperCollins, 2011), about a young woman whose business supported her family and her community during the Taliban years.