World Affairs Journal - Editorial Board

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	Andrew J. Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1969, later serving in Vietnam, Germany, El Salvador and the Persian Gulf. He received his Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II. His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire, and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including, The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers.
	Peter Collier Peter Collier is a political commentaor, editor, and author of numerous books, including The Kennedys: An American Drama and The Roosevelts: An American Saga.
	Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is the diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times. Prior to joining the Times in 2004, she spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal covering international economics, foreign policy and the war in Iraq. She is the author of The House at Sugar Beach, a memoir about growing up in Liberia, to be published by Simon and Schuster in May 2008.
	Roya Hakakian Roya Hakakian is a fellow at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center. She is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and serves on the board of Refugees International. Hakakian is a contributor to the Persian Literary Review and the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Her memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, was Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year, and Elle magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2004. She is also a recipient of the 2008 Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction. Hakakian came to the United States in 1985 on political asylum.
	Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author of the bestselling book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Born in 1949 in Portsmouth, England, Hitchens received a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970.
	Robert Kagan Robert Kagan is currently based in Brussels. He is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century, was published in the fall of 2006 and was a 2007 Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. His acclaimed book, Of Paradise and Power, was on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and the Washington Post bestseller list for fourteen weeks, and has been translated into more than 25 languages. Dr. Kagan writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and the New Republic. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Policy Planning Staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and holds a Ph.D. in American History from American University.
	Michael Kazin Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He writes about history and politics for a variety of publications, both scholarly and popular. He is the author of four books: A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (with Maurice Isserman), The Populist Persuasion: An American History, and Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. He has also edited, with Joseph McCartin, Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal and the forthcoming Progressive America.
	Joshua Muravchik Joshua Muravchik is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he studies the United Nations, neoconservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush Doctrine. His most recent book is The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward. He is a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion and an adjunct professor at the Institute of World. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University.
	P. J. O’Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. O'Rourke started out writing comedy in the 1970s for The National Lampoon. Later he was a commentator-reporter for Rolling Stone. His new book is Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism. O'Rourke is also the author of Eat the Rich, Parliament of Whores and All the Trouble in the World. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University.
	Ronald Steel Professor Steel teaches American foreign policy at the University of Southern California. In his studies, he combines elements not only of history and political science, but also of sociology, psychology, economics and political anthropology. Steel's interest is reflected in his books on the impact of American relations with other nations, and particularly with Europe, as well as those studies that deal with powerful personalities who have had a determinant influence on policies and events. Three of his books—Pax Americana, The End of Alliance, and Temptations of a Superpower—analyze the forces that have governed American foreign relations since World War II. Three other books—Imperialists and Other Heroes, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, and In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy—are biographical studies of key individuals in American society and politics. He has the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
	Leon Wieseltier Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of The New Republic. He is the author of Nuclear War Nuclear Peace, Against Identity, and Kaddish.