Assistant professor of international relations at University of Southern California and adjunct member of research staff at Institute for Defense Analyses. Currently working on game-theoretic analyses of nuclear proliferation and the non-proliferation regime.

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 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.

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.

Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.

Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism. Author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, October 2010).

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.

Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching drone strikes and their impact on U.S. foreign policy. His book Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World was released in September 2010.

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.

Scholar of religions and expert on the Middle East. Author of the international bestseller No god but God.

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 the book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010). Contributing author to Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Coauthor of Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).

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.

Concentration chair and visiting professor in the master of science in foreign service program at Georgetown University. Former ambassador-at-large to combat trafficking in persons and deputy assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Assistant professor of international affairs at The New School University. Directing the CFR-sponsored study on the political economy of democratic transitions and writing a book about global economic governance and inclusive growth. Coauthor of the Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment (SERF) Index.

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.

Director of the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Currently authoring a book on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism. Author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, October 2010).

Award-winning author of Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, the critically acclaimed Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century, and Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. Currently conducting research on the regional and global dimensions of Brazil's rise.