Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI, an educational program for senior military officers, government officials and business executives in the national security policy community.
Bennett Ramberg served as a foreign policy analyst and consultant to the US State Department (Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs), US Senate, Nuclear Control Institute, Henry L. Stimson Center, Global Green, and Committee to Bridge the Gap. His academic appointments have included positions at Princeton, Stanford, and UCLA. Ramberg is the author of three books, including Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for The Enemy (University of California Press).
Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University
Robert J. Reardon is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Containing Iran: Strategies for Addressing the Iranian Nuclear Challenge (RAND Corporation, 2012).
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
A former CIA officer, Bruce Riedel focuses on political transition, terrorism and conflict resolution. He was a senior advisor to three U.S. presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues.
Professor of Political Science at Emory University
Dan Reiter is a Professor of Political Science at Emory University and has been an Olin post-doctoral fellow in security studies at Harvard University.
Charles Spittal "Chuck" Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician. He served as the 64th Governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States senator from 1989 until 2001. In 2004, he chaired the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
Michael Rubin is a former Pentagon official whose major research area is the Middle East, with a special focus on Iran, Syria, Arab Politics, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Turkey.
Richard L. Russell is Non-Resident Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies at the Center for the National Interest
Richard L. Russell is Non-Resident Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies at the Center for the National Interest. He previously was an adjunct professor of security studies at Georgetown University and a political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.
Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute
Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
Kori N. Schake is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She blogs regularly for Shadow Government on Foreign Policy and is on the editorial board of Orbis and the board of Centre for European Reform.
Dr. John B. Sheldon is a Marshall Institute Fellow, and a visiting professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
Shen Dingli, a physicist by training, is a professor of international relations at Fudan University. He is the Executive Dean of Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, and Director of Center for American Studies. He is also the founder and director of China's first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University.
