STRATEGIC

Acknowledgments
RAND Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Michael
D. Rich conceived the Strategic Rethink project and has supported it
through the research phase and the production of the six associated
volumes. The authors particularly wish to thank Rita Hauser and the
Hauser Foundation for supporting and sustaining our efforts.
As with most RAND projects, Strategic Rethink incorporates the
thinking and work of a range of RAND staff and contributions by
numerous individuals in the policy community. The authors of the
previous volumes in this series have also contributed generously to
this one. We thank Hans Binnendijk, Michael S. Chase, Ryan Henry,
Seth G. Jones, F. Stephen Larrabee, Andrew Liepman, Jeffrey Martini,
David Ochmanek, Charles P. Ries, James T. Quinlivan, and the late
Edward L. Warner.
Special appreciation is due to Ambassador James Dobbins, the
primary author of the first volume in the series, Choices for America in a
Turbulent World, for his leadership, insights, and substantive contributions.
We also thank Bruce Jones, Michael J. Mazarr, and Andrew Parasiliti
for their insightful and constructive comments on the manuscript.
We are grateful to the many other friends and colleagues
who have contributed to our thinking about the many and complex
issues related to international relations and U.S. engagement
in the world: Lillian Ablon, Lina Andrews, Robert Bozick, Nicholas
Burger, Christopher S. Chivvis, William Courtney, Kim Cragin,
Chester A. Crocker, Daniel M. Gerstein, David C. Gompert,
Adam R. Grissom, Jennifer Kavanagh, Krishna B. Kumar,
Charles Hill, Brian Michael Jenkins, the late Andrew Kohut,
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