Stephen Zunes, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist and senior analyst, is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author, along with Jacob Mundy, of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict...
Janine Wedel is an anthropologist, author, and professor of international commerce and policy at George Mason University. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Thomas Turner is a professor of political science at the National University of Rwanda.
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Wayne Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy where he directs the Cuba Program and is a contributor to the National Security Program.
Mark Sedra is an academic policy analyst from Waterloo, Canada. He is a research scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Dr. Barnett R. Rubin is Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University, where he directs the Afghanistan Regional program.
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistanti journalist and author of books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
Lora Lumpe is the legislative representative on conventional weapons at Friends Committee on National Legislation and a coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs.