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About the Contributors
21 and deployed to the Arabian Gulf, winning the Navy League’s John Paul Jones Award for
Inspirational Leadership. From 2002 to 2004, he commanded the USS Enterprise carrier
strike group, conducting combat operations in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operations Iraqi
Freedom and Enduring Freedom. He commanded U.S. Southern Command and has served as a
strategic and long-range planner on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has served as the executive assistant to the Secretary of the
Navy and the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Stavridis earned
a Ph.D. and MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University,
where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student in 1984. He is also a distinguished
graduate of both the National and Naval war colleges.
John P. Sullivan is a career police officer. He currently serves as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles
Sheriff ’s Department. He is also an adjunct researcher at the Vortex Foundation in Bogotá,
Colombia; senior research fellow in the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism; and senior
fellow with the Small Wars Journal’s El Centro. He is coeditor of Countering Terrorism and
WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network (Routledge, 2006), and Global Biosecurity:
Threats and Responses (Routledge, 2010). He is coauthor of Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency:
A Small Wars Journal–El Centro Anthology (iUniverse, 2011). His current research focus is
the impact of transnational organized crime on sovereignty in Mexico and other countries.
Steven Weber is a specialist in international relations with expertise in international and
national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovation, defense, and
deterrence; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries. Trained in history
and international development at Washington University and medicine and political science at
Stanford, Mr. Weber joined the University of California at Berkeley faculty in 1989. As senior
policy advisor with the Glover Park Group in Washington, DC, he consults with government
agencies, multinational firms, and nongovernmental organizations on foreign policy, risk
analysis, strategy, and forecasting. Mr. Weber’s major publications include The Success of Open
Source (Harvard University Press, April 2004), Cooperation and Discord in U.S.-Soviet Arms
Control (Princeton University Press, 1991), and Globalization and the European Political Economy
(Columbia University Press, 2001) as well as numerous articles and chapters in the areas
of U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of trade and technology, politics of the post–Cold
War world, and European integration. With colleague Bruce Jentleson of Duke University,
Mr. Weber directs the New Era Foreign Policy Project. Their latest publication is The End
of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas (Harvard University Press, 2010).
William F. Wechsler is the deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and
Combating Terrorism. Mr. Wechsler is the primary lead for Defense Department policies,
plans, authorities, and resources related to special operations and irregular warfare, with special
emphasis on counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, unconventional warfare, information
operations, and sensitive special operations. Before taking this position, Mr. Wechsler served
for over 3 years as deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global
Threats. In that role, he focused on integrating law enforcement operations into our military
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