About the Author
Antony J. Blinken is staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The views expressed in this paper are his own and cannot be attributed to the Foreign Relations Committee or any of its members.
Lael Brainard is Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development and the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Economics at Brookings Institution.
Kurt M. Campbell is Co-Founder and CEO of the Center for a New American Security.
Ivo H. Daalder is a Senior Fellow and the Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair at Brookings Institution.
Bruce W. Jentleson is a Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke University.
Michael A. McFaul is Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at Stanford.
James C. O'Brien is a Principal of The Albright Group and Albright Capital Management. Formerly, he was presidential envoy for the Balkins and principal deputy in the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of the Princeton Project on National Security.
Gayle E. Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project, and Director of the International Rights and Responsibilities Program.
James B. Steinberg is Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin.