Mark Falcoff is a resident scholar at AEI. He has taught at several major universities, including the Universities of Illinois, Oregon, and California, Los Angeles. Mr. Falcoff was a senior consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, chaired by Henry A. Kissinger. He has worked on the staffs of both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. The author of several books, Mr. Falcoff recently wrote Panama’s Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What It Wants (1998) and A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously (1998). His new book, Cuba the Morning After, will be published by AEI in September. He also writes a monthly AEI newsletter-Latin American Outlook.

Allan Gerson is the director of the War-Peace Transitions Project at the New America Foundation and former resident scholar at AEI. Mr. Gerson was previously a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (1998 to 2000), and professor of international law and transactions at the George Mason University (1992 to 1998). He dealt with issues pertaining to the United Nations Security Council while working for the Justice Department (1985 to 1987), as well as at the United States Mission to the UN (1981 to 1985). Mr. Gerson is also the author of The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology (1991), and Israel, the West Bank & International Law (1978).

Phyllis Kaminsky is the president of Kaminsky Associates, which provides consulting services in international overseas business development, communications strategy, public affairs, and government relations. Ms. Kaminsky is a member of the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University and a commissioner of the Presidential Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. She has led an active career with the United States government, serving at the White House and the United States Information Agency. From 1983 to 1988, Ms. Kaminsky was the director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is professor emeritus at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at AEI. For more than four years she was the U.S. representative to the United Nations and a member of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet and National Security Council. Ambassador Kirkpatrick was the first woman to serve in that office. She was also a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985 to 1990) and the Defense Policy Review Board (1985 to 1993). She chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction (1991 to 1992). Her books include The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State (1990); Legitimacy and Force (1987); and The Reagan Phenomenon (1983).