About the Authors
Paul Berman, a writer in residence at New York University, is the author of Terror and Liberalism and, most recently, Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath.
Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard, and a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-at-large of National Review, is the author most recently of Last Call for Blackford Oakes, a novel (Harcourt).
Eliot A. Cohen is Robert E. Osgood professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins and the author of among other books, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime.
Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard, a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
Aaron L. Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, served in the office of the Vice President from 2003 to 2005 as deputy assistant for national-security affairs and director of policy planning.
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz professor of international political economy and director of the international development program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard.
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author most recently of A War Like No Other (Random House).
Owen Harries, formerly the editor of the quarterly National Interest, is a senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, both in Sydney, Australia.
Mark Helprin is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and distinguished visiting fellow at Hillsdale College. His most recent book is Freddy and Fredericka, a novel (Penguin).
Daniel Henninger is deputy editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.
Stanley Hoffmann is the Buttenwieser university professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Gulliver Unbound (2004) and the forthcoming Violence and Anarchy.
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of Die Zeit (Hamburg) and Abramowitz fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His new book, Überpower: America's Imperial Temptation, is being brought out by W.W. Norton.
Paul Johnson, the British historian, is the author of Modern Times, A History of the American People, and, most recently, George Washington: The Founding Father (HarperCollins), among many other books.
Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, recently edited The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (Har
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