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...
Norman Birnbaum

Norman Birnbaum

Dr. Norman Birnbaum is Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and a member of the editorial board of The Nation. His writings include The Crisis of Industrial Society, Toward A Critical Sociology, and After Progress: American Social Reform And European...
Ira Shorr

Ira Shorr

Ira Shorr is a retired expert on U.S. nuclear policy and the health and environmental effects of nuclear materials. He is the former National Field Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Joe Stork

Joe Stork

Joe Stork is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division. He has written numerous books and widely published articles on the Middle East.

Tom Barry

Tom Barry is a Senior Policy Analyst and Americas Policy Program Fellow at the Center for International Policy.
Ben Manski

Ben Manski

Ben Manski is an advocate, scholar, lawyer, entrepreneur and public speaker who has been committed to building a U.S. democracy movement since the early 1990s. He is president of the Liberty Tree Foundation, a strategy center he founded in 2004, and a co-founder of...
Marcus Raskin

Marcus Raskin

Marc was the director of IPS’s Paths for the 21st Century Project. This includes producing a multi-volume book examining international organizations and politics, reviewing what we have learned from the 20th century of an emancipatory and liberatory nature to serve as...

Barbara Hatch-Rosenberg

Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg is a research professor of molecular biology at the State University of New York. She is the chair of the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) Working Group on Biological Weapons.
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.