DAVID ABSHIRE is President and founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and in his long public career has served variously as Assistant Secretary of State, Chairman of the U.S. Board of International Broadcasting, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Abshire is the author of several books including The Atlantic Alliance Transformed (1992) and Preventing World War III (1989). Dr. Abshire resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

BROCK BROWER is a writer and journalist and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Esquire, Civilization, Life, and Harper's. His books include Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality (1968), as well as two novels, and on television, he has written for 20/20 and 3-2-1 Contact. Mr. Brower, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University, is currently a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire.

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