le East Politics

Larry Diamond Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution,
Sanford University, and Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy

Andrew P. N. Erdmann
Former Director for Iran, Iraq and Strategic Planning,
National Security Council

Reuel Marc Gerecht
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

David L. Mack
Vice President, The Middle East Institute

Phebe A. Marr
Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace

Hassan Mneimneh
Director, Documentation Program, The Iraq Memory Foundation

Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of International Relations and Anthropology,
Department of International Relations, Boston University

Marina S. Ottaway
Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Judy Van Rest
Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute

Judith S. Yaphe
Distinguished Research Fellow for the Middle East,
Institute for National Strategic Studies,
National Defense University

Strategic Environment

Paul Stares, USIP Secretariat
Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention,
United States Institute of Peace

Jon B. Alterman
Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic &
International Studies

Steven A. Cook
Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

James F. Dobbins
Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center,
RAND Corporation

Hillel Fradkin
Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the
Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute

Chas W. Freeman
Chairman, Projects International and President,
Middle East Policy Council

Geoffrey Kemp
Director, Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center

Daniel C. Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor, Middle East Policy Studies,
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Ellen Laipson
President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center

William B. Quandt
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Professor of Government and
Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, and Nonresident Senior
Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy,
The Brookings Institution

Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development,
Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland,
and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy,
The Brookings Institution

Wayne White
Adjunct Scholar, Public Poli