Deborah Avant

Deborah Avant

Dr. Deborah Avant is the Director of International Studies and the Center for Research on International and Global Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on civil-military relations, military change, and the politics of controlling...

Carl Conetta

Carl Conetta is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute.

Michael Renner

Michael Renner is a senior researcher and director of the Global Security Project at Worldwatch Institute, a globally focused environmental research organization.

James Nolt

James H. Nolt is campus dean at NYIT Nanjing (China) and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.
Nancy Snow

Nancy Snow

Dr. Nancy Snow is professor emeritus of communications at California State University, Fullerton. She holds lifetime memberships with the Public Diplomacy Council at George Washington University, Fulbright Association, and Public Diplomacy Alumni Association. Reach...
William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, which serves as a resource for journalists, policymakers, and organizations focused on issues of weapons proliferation, military spending, and alternative approaches to...
Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan serves on the Board of the War Resisters League and is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
John Feffer

John Feffer

John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author, most recently, of Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams (Zed Books). He is also the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands...
Adotei Akwei

Adotei Akwei

Adotei Akwei is a Senior Policy Advisor for CARE USA
Joe Volk

Joe Volk

Joe Volk
 served for 20 years as the executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby in the public interest that fields the largest team of registered lobbyists for peace in Washington.
Chris Hellman

Chris Hellman

Chris Hellman is the Communications Liaison for the National Priorities Project. He is an experienced military policy analyst whose work has focused on national security spending, military planning and policy, base closures, major weapons systems, trends in the...
Robert L. Borosage

Robert L. Borosage

Robert L. Borosage is the President of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future. He also is a board member at the Institute for Policy Studies.