Advisory Board
Co-chair Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, and was recently named a Meigs Professor, the University of Georgia's highest teaching honor. He was also instrumental in founding the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He has served on the Senate and House committees on intelligence and on foreign affairs and has been a consultant to the National Security Council, the U.S. State Department, and the Senate Subcommittee on Separation of Powers.
Johnson, a national authority on intelligence gathering, has been calling for reform in the nation's intelligence-gathering services for years. He was introduced to the field while serving as an aide to the late Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, who chaired a 16-month Senate investigation of the U.S. intelligence community in 1975-76. Since then Johnson has conducted numerous interviews with intelligence professionals and other government officials, sifting through declassified documents and serving as a White House staff aide with responsibilities for intelligence oversight.
He is the author of three books, A Season of Inquiry, the winner of the 1986 Certificate of Distinction of the National Intelligence Study Center, America As a World Power (1991), and Secret Agencies (1996).
Co-chair Paul Wilkinson is Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews. Prior to his appointment at St Andrews in 1989 he was Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen 1979-1989. He was visiting Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1979 as well as in 1998 and is Honorary Fellow of University of Wales, Swansea.
His publications include Political Terrorism (1974); Terrorism and the Liberal State (1977/1986); The New Fascists (1981/1983); Contemporary Research on Terrorism (as co-editor, 1987); Aviation Terrorism and Security (as co-editor, 1999) and Terrorism versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response (2001). He co-authored, with Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Yukio Satoh, Addressing The New International Terrorism; Prevention, Intervention and Multilateral Co-operation, a report to the Trilateral Commission (May 2003). He is co-editor of the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence, and is currently director of a research project funded by the ESRC, on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. He served as Adviser to Lord Lloyd of Berwick's Inquiry into Legislation Against Terrorism, and authored volume two, the "Research Report for the Inquiry" (1996). He has forthcoming titles with Palgrave and Oxford.
Anthony Cordesman is currently the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and co-director of its Middle East Program. He is also a military analyst for ABC, and a Professor of National Security Studies at Georgetown. He directs the CSIS Dynamic Net Assessment of the Middle East. He analyzes U.S. strategy and force plans, counter-proliferation issues, arms transfers, and Middle Eastern security, economic, and energy issues. He was the Assistant for National Security to Senator John McCain and a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian. He has served in senior positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the State Department, the Department of Energy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. His posts include: Civilian Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Director of Defense Intelligence Assessment, Director of Policy, Programming, and Analysis in the Department of Energy, Director of Project ISMILAID (the Secretary of Defense's analysis of the lessons of the October War) and as the Secretary of Defense's representative on the Middle East Working Group.
He has also served in numerous overseas posts. He was a member of the U.S. Delegation to NATO, and a Director in the NATO International Staff -- working on Middle Eastern security issues. He has been assigned to posts in Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and West Germany. He has acted as an advisor to the Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe, and has traveled extensively in the Gulf and North Africa.
Professor Cordesman has written and lectured extensively on the Middle East and the Gulf, the U.S. and Soviet military balance, NATO, Nuclear strategy, U.S. forces and defense budgets, and the lessons of war. He has completed recent books on the military lessons of the Gulf War, the Arab-Israeli military balance and the peace process, and a six-volume net assessment of the Gulf. His books include the Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability (Westview, 1982), The Gulf and the West (Westview, 1989), a four volume series Lessons of Modern War (Westview, 1990-1995), Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East and Southwest Asia (Brassey's, 1991), After The Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East (Westview, 1993), Iran and Iraq: The Threat from the Northern Gulf (Westview, 1994), The Gulf War (Westview, 1995), and Perilous Prospects, the Arab-Israeli Balance and the Peace Process (Westview, 1996).
Professor Cordesman acted as national security analyst for the ABC News during the Gulf War. He has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles, and has often appeared on radio and television. He was formerly the International Editor of the Armed Forces Journal and U.S. Editor of Armed Forces (UK).
Awards he has received include the Distinguished Service Medal from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and two Wilson Fellowships from the Wilson Center at the Smithsonian. He is currently an Honorary Consultant to the Royal United Services Institution.
Thérèse Delpech has been the director for strategic studies at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Paris since 1997. She is also a member of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission and an advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Between 1995 and 1997 she was an advisor for politico-military affairs to the French Prime Minister and earlier served as the deputy director for defense and strategic affairs (nonproliferation) at CEA. Madame Delpech is the author of three books: "Politique du chaos" (2002), "La guerre parfaite" (1998), and "L'héritage nucléaire" (1997), plus numerous articles on strategic issues and defense affairs.
Professor Sir Michael Howard's knowledge of warfare has been gained through experience and study. Born in London in 1922, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Oxford before serving in the British Army in WWII. He served in Churchill's Personal Security Detail before earning a Military Cross at Salerno. He was twice wounded before the end of the war.
After the war, Sir Michael taught at King's College London and was instrumental in creating both the Department of War Studies and the Centre for Military Archives at the College. In 1964, he became the College's, and the country's, first Professor of War Studies. In 1970, he moved to Oxford where he became the Chichele Professor of the History of War and later the Regius Professor of Modern History. He concluded his teaching career at Yale in 1993, as the first Robert A Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History. Knighted in 1986, he is today president emeritus of IISS (of which he was a joint founder), a fellow of the British Academy, and a foreign corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He now lives in West Berkshire where he continues to write, garden, travel and listen to music.
His publications include The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order, The First World War, Strategic Deception in the Second World War, and The Lessons of History.
Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy, USA (Ret.), was the first woman to reach three-star rank in the Army when Congress confirmed her appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. In addition to serving in a variety command and staff positions throughout her career as an intelligence officer, she is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. LTG Kennedy was awarded the Living Legacy Patriot Award in 1998 by the Women's International Center. Since retiring in 2000 she has lectured widely and appeared on television as a military consultant for CNN and NBC and as a guest on Larry King Live and Good Morning America. She is also the author of "Generally Speaking: A Memoir by the First Woman Promoted to Three-Star General in the United States Army." Currently LTG Kennedy chairs First Star, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children.
Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies at Yale University, is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic and strategic issues. He earned his B.S. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. Kennedy holds many honorary degrees and fellowships, including the Royal Historical Society and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines.
Professor Kennedy is the author and editor of 13 books, including Strategy and Diplomacy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The War Plans of the Great Powers and The Realities Behind Diplomacy. His best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which provoked an immense debate in 1988 and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1991 he edited a collection of essays entitled Grand Strategies in War and Peace. His latest book, published simultaneously across the globe, is entitled Preparing for the Twenty-first Century. He helped draft a report for an international commission on "The United Nations in its Second Half-Century," which was prepared for the 50th anniversary UN debate on how to improve the world organization.
Kennedy has also co-edited two large collections of papers relating to contemporary strategic issues, The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Deve?oping World and From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. He is also writing a book on the evolution of ideas about the UN and another on international affairs in the 20th century.
Robert J. O'Neill is among the leading international scholars on strategic studies. He was awarded an undergraduate degree from the University of Melbourne and also graduated from the Royal Military College. He served in the Australian Army from 1955 to 1968 and began his studies in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he earned a doctorate for a thesis on "The German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933-1939" which was published by Cassell (1966).
After serving in Vietnam as a captain with the Royal Australian Regiment, where he was mentioned in dispatches, Dr. O'Neill was appointed to the staff of the Royal Military College of Australia. He is the author of two additional books: "Vietnam Task" (1968) and "General Giap: Politician and Strategist" (1969). He was named a Senior Fellow in International Relations in the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University in 1969 and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in 1971. During his years at the university Dr. O'Neill maintained a major research effort in the field of modern military history, publishing the two-volume official history, "Australia in the Korean War, 1950-53."
Dr. O'Neill was the first person from outside Europe to be named Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London in 1982. He then succeeded Michael Howard as the Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford in 1987. He was the founding Director of the All Souls Foreign Policy Studies Programme and Director of Graduate Studies in the Modern History Faculty. He was United Kingdom Chairman of the International Nuclear History Programme; Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College, University of London; Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London; and Vice President and Chairman of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum. He was also a member of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo Forum on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
He is an Officer in the Order of Australia (1988) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (1978) and the Royal Historical Society (1989).
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Cornell, Ohio State, University of Southern California, Princeton, Columbia, Swarthmore, and University of California at Berkeley. In addition, Dr. Telhami has been an advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and a member of the U.S. delegation to the Trilateral U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee and the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. He also has helped draft several Council on Foreign Relations reports on the Arab-Israeli peace process and Persian Gulf security.
He is the author of "The Stakes: America and the Middle East," "Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U.S, Foreign Policy in an Unjust World," and "Reflections of Hearts and Minds: Media, Opinion and Identity in the Arab World" (forthcoming). His other publications include "Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords," "International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict," and "Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East," plus numerous articles on i?ternational affairs and the Middle East. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the boards of Human Rights Watch, Seeds of Peace, Education for Employment Foundation, and Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam. He has also served on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and is a recipient of the Distinguished International Service Award presented by the University of Maryland.
Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International since 2001, Dr. Zakaria oversees Newsweek’s eight editions throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. His column - on subjects ranging from terrorism, national security and America’s role in the world to the global economy and the rise of China - appears in Newsweek (USA), Newsweek International, and, often, The Washington Post, making it one of the most widely circulated columns of its kind in the world. His award-winning cover stories have included “Why America Scares the World,” “How to Win the Peace” and “Why They Hate Us,” which the Boston Globe said “ought to be mandatory reading in every home in America.”
His international bestseller, The Future of Freedom, is a global analysis of how democracy has changed every aspect of our lives - from economics and technology to politics and social relations. The Washington Post called it “a work of tremendous originality and insight....[It] makes you see the world differently.”
A political analyst for ABC News, Zakaria serves as a regular member of the roundtable on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Indian-born and trained as an academic at Yale and Harvard, Zakaria, at age 28, became the youngest managing editor in the history of Foreign Affairs, the leading journal of international politics and economics. Before joining Foreign Affairs, he ran the “Project on the Changing Security Environment” at Harvard University, where he also taught international politics and economics.
He is co-editor of The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World and author of From Wealth to Power, a provocative examination of America’s role on the world stage that received glowing reviews.
Articulate and engaging, Zakaria has given speeches at home and abroad, from universities to investment conferences to the World Economic Forum at Davos. He captivates audiences with his knowledge of globalization and what it means for countries, individuals and corporations.
He has received many accolades for his work, including the Overseas Press Club Award, the National Press Club’s Edwin Hood Award, two National Magazine Award nominations and the Deadline Club Award for Best Columnist.
Zakaria has written for such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on a variety of programs, including Charlie Rose, BBC World News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Meet the Press.
He is hosting a new television program, Foreign Exchange, which debuts on PBS in 2005.