Persons Interviewed

In addition to conversations with and among the advisory committee, the following people were generous enough to share their time and ideas in interviews for this project, for which we are grateful:
 
Richard Armitage, Armitage International and former Deputy Secretary of State
 
Rick Barton, CSIS and former Director of the Office of Transition Initiatives at USAID
 
Peter Beinart, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
 
Dennis Blair, National Bureau of Asian Research and former CINCPAC
 
Nick Burns, Harvard and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
 
Derek Chollet, Center for a New American Security
 
Lorne Craner, IRI and former Asst Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)
 
Chet Crocker, Georgetown and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
 
Patrick Cronin, National Defense University and former assistant administrator at USAID
 
Jim Dobbins, RAND and former Assistant Secretary of State for Europe
 
Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs
 
Georges Fauriol, International Republican Institute (IRI)
 
Michele Flournoy, Center for a New American Security and former Deputy Asst Secretary of Defense
 
Carl Gershman, NED and former Senior Counselor to the U.S. Representative to the UN
 
Marc Grossman, Cohen Group and former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
 
Richard Haass, CFR and former Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State
 
Barbara Haig, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
 
Morton Halperin, Open Society Policy Center and former Director of Policy Planning at State
 
Lee Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson Center and former Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
 
Francois Heisbourg, Director, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and Chairman, IISS
 
Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post
 
Masafumi Ishii, Embassy of Japan
 
Stephen Krasner, Stanford and former Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State
 
Jim Lindsay, University of Texas at Austin
 
Barry Lowenkron, MacArthur Foundation and former Assistant Secretary of State for DRL
 
Jim Mann, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
 
Jessica Mathews, Carnegie Endowment and former deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
 
Marwan Muasher, World Bank and former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan
 
Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
 
Joseph Nye, Harvard and former Assistant Secretary of Defense
 
Marc Plattner, Journal of Democracy at NED
 
Thomas Pickering, Hills & Company and former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
 
Bruce Russett, Yale University
 
David Sanger, The New York Times
 
Brent Scowcroft, Scowcroft Group and former National Security Advisor
 
Jim Steinberg, U of Texas at Austin and former Deputy National Security Advisor
 
Strobe Talbott, Brookings and former Deputy Secretary of State
 
Karsten Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation in the German Foreign Office
 
Karin Von Hippel, CSIS
 
Ken Wollack, National Democratic Institute
 
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
 
Phil Zelikow, University of Virginia and former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State