Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate,representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president,he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election,which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński,known as Zbig,was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar,Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations,standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman,while elements of liberal idealism have also been identified in his outlook. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission.
Paul Henry Nitze was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense,U.S. Secretary of the Navy,and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 and the co-founder of Team B. He helped shape U.S. Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Robert L. Gallucci is an American academic and diplomat,who formerly worked as president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He previously served as dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University,from 1996 to June 2009. Prior to his appointment in 1996,for over two decades he had served in various governmental and international agencies,including the Department of State and the United Nations.
David M. Lampton is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and former Chairman of The Asia Foundation.
Robert David English is an American academic,author,historian,and international relations scholar who specializes in the history and politics of contemporary Eastern Europe,the USSR,and Russia. He is an associate professor of International Foreign Policy and Defense Analysis at the University of Southern California School of International Relations.
Richard Kevin Betts is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who centers on U.S. foreign policy. He is currently the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science,former director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,and former director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Patrick Mendis is an educator,diplomat,author,and executive in government service in the United States. A former American diplomat and military professor during the Clinton,Bush,and Obama administrations,he held various positions in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture,Defense,Energy,and State. He was appointed twice as a commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the State Department by the Obama administration. His appointment to the UNESCO Commission ended during the Trump administration when the White House withdrew from the UN agency.
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies (CSS). From 2005 to early 2007 he was a deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity,he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. From 2001 to 2005,Levitt served the Institute as founding director of its Terrorism Research Program,which was established in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Previously,he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counter-terrorism operations at the FBI,focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. During his FBI service,Levitt participated as a team member in a number of crisis situations,including the terrorist threat surrounding the turn of the millennium and the September 11 attacks.
Adam M. Garfinkle is an American historian and political scientist and the founding editor of The American Interest,a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State. Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both of President George W. Bush's Secretaries of State,Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest in 2005. Francis Fukuyama,Eliot Cohen,Zbigniew Brzezinski,Josef Joffe,and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership.
Helmut Sonnenfeldt,also known as Hal Sonnenfeldt,was an American foreign policy expert. He was known as Kissinger’s Kissinger for his philosophical affinity with and influence on Henry A. Kissinger,the architect of American foreign policy in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute or CACI was founded in 1996 by S. Frederick Starr,a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has served as vice president of Tulane University and as president of Oberlin College (1983–1994) and the Aspen Institute. He has advised three U.S. presidents on Russian/Eurasian affairs and chaired an external advisory panel on U.S. government-sponsored research on the region,organized and co-authored the first strategic assessment of Central Asia,the Caucasus and Afghanistan for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1999,and was involved in the drafting of recent U.S. legislation affecting the region.
Thomas O. Melia currently serves as Washington director at PEN America. Previously,he served in the Obama Administration as USAID's assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia (2015–2017) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights and Labor,at the United States Department of State (2010–2015). Melia previously served as executive director of Democracy International,an organization that designs,implements,and evaluates democracy and governance programs around the world. Melia also served as the deputy executive director of Freedom House,a human rights organization.
Christopher Ashley Ford is an American lawyer and government official who served from January 2018 until January 2021 as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. He was nominated to that position by President Donald Trump,and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on December 21,2017. After October 21,2019,Ford also,by delegation from Secretary of State Michael Pompeo,performed the duties of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security until his resignation from the Department of State on January 8,2021.
The Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) is an American research center based at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington,D.C.,United States. The Institute,referred to as FPI,is housed in the Benjamin T. Rome building on the Embassy Row in Washington,D.C. FPI organizes research initiatives and study groups,and hosts leaders from around the world as resident or non-resident fellows in fields including international policy,business,journalism,and academia.
Arnold Oscar Wolfers was a Swiss-American lawyer,economist,historian,and international relations scholar,most known for his work at Yale University and for being a pioneer of classical international relations realism.
The Foreign Affairs Policy Board is an advisory board that provides independent advice and opinion to the Secretary of State,the Deputy Secretary of State,and the Director of Policy Planning on matters concerning U.S. foreign policy. The Board reviews and assesses global threats and opportunities,trends that implicate core national security interests,tools and capacities of the civilian foreign affairs agencies,and priorities and strategic frameworks for U.S. foreign policy. The Board meets in a plenary session several times a year at the U.S. Department of State in the Harry S. Truman Building.
Arthur Doak Barnett,known as A. Doak Barnett,was an American journalist,political scientist,and public figure who wrote about the domestic politics and the foreign relations of China and United States-China relations. He published more than 20 academic and public interest books and edited still others. Barnett's parents were missionaries in China,and Barnett used his Chinese language ability while travelling widely in China as a journalist before 1949. He grounded his journalism and his scholarship in exact detail and clear language. Starting in the 1950s,when there were no formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China,he organized public outreach programs and lobbied the United States government to put those relations on a new basis.
