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AldenEdward Alden; Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 911," 11/18/08
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AliTariq Ali; Editor, New Left Review: "Pakistan," 9/26/08
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ArquillaJohn Arquilla; Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey: "International Relations in the Information Age," 3/17/03
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AsadTalal Asad; Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York: "Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics," 10/2/08
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BootDaniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies: "National Security in an Age of Sacred Terror," 2/6/06
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Bobbitt Phillip Bobbitt; Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University: "Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century," 5/2/08
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Bodine Barbara Bodine; U.S. Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001): "Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/2/08
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Brahimi Lakhdar Brahimi; UN Special Envoy: "Negotiating," 4/5/05
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CesariJocelyne Cesari; Associate, Middle East Center, Harvard University: "Islam in the West," 12/04/08
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SenSteve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington Post: "The Rise of al Qaeda," 3/15/05
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Constable Pamela Constable; Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post: "Afghanistan and Pakistan," 04/03/08
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FrumDavid Frum; resident fellow, American Interprise Institute: "Foreign Policy Ideas in George W. Bush Administration," 1/20/04

HansonVictor Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution: "Iraq and the Lessons of the Peloponnesian War," 3/14/06
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HassAmira Hass; Columnist, Ha'aretz: "Occupation and Terrorism," 10/24/03
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HolmesStephen Holmes; Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law: "America's Reckless Response To Terror," 2/15/08
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MatlockJosef Joffe; Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit: "The Imperial Temptation of America," 10/22/07
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LeviMichael A. Levi; Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations: "Nuclear Terrorism," 11/27/07
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Lifton Robert Jay Lifton; Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, John Jay College and City University of New York: "Evil, the Self, and Survival," 11/2/99
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Lustick Ian Lustick; Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Coming to Terms with Israel," 3/4/02; and "Trapped in the War on Terror," 5/1/06
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LymanPrinceton Lyman; Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "A Strategic U.S. Approach to Africa," 2/16/06
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RashidJane Mayer; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Values," 8/8/08
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Mearsheimer John Mearsheimer; R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago: "Through the Realist Lens," 4/8/02
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PapeRobert A. Pape; Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago: "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," 2/16/06
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Pipes Daniel Pipes; Director, Middle East Forum: "Militant Islam," 2/10/04
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RashidAhmed Rashid;Author and Journalist: "The Rise of Militant Islam," 3/26/02; and, "Descent into Chaos," 6/12/08
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Richardson Louise Richardson; Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University: "What Terrorists Want," 9/19/07
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SandsPhilippe Sands; Professor of International Law, University College London: "The Rumsfeld Memo and the Betrayal of American Values," 11/18/08
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Scheuer Michael Scheuer; Former Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit: "America and Islam After Iraq," 3/12/08
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Shirk Susan Shirk; Professor and Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California: "Addressing National Security Challenges in the Post-9/11 World" 6/5/08 (with Herbert York)
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SmelserNeil Smelser; University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and fomer Director the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behaviorial Sciences, UCB: "Intellectual Odyssey," 12/6/05
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H.SmithHarold Palmer Smith, Jr., Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Thinking about the 'Unthinkables' in the Post-9/11 World," 1/26/06
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TagubaAntonio M. Taguba; Major General: "Investigating Military Conduct at Abu Ghraib," 2/07/08
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Vest Charles M. Vest; Former President of MIT: "Leading MIT into the 21st Century," 9/12/05
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Waltz Kenneth Waltz; Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University: "Theory and International Politics," 2/10/03
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WilkersonLawrence Wilkerson; Col., U.S. Army (ret.), Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State (2002-2005): ”Vice President Cheney and America's Response to 911,” 04/03/08
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WrightLawrence Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06
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ParsiFrederick Wyle; Esq.: "National Security and the Rule of Law," 12/05/07
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YooJohn Yoo; Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley: "The Shaping of a Legal Response to 9/11," 1/24/08
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York Herbert York; Founding Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California: "Addressing National Security Challenges in the Post-9/11 World" 6/5/08 (with Susan Shirk)
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Farer Anthony Zinni; Former Commander in Chief of the Central Command: "Challenges for U.S. National Security Policy," 4/23/07
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