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James Dobbins

Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation

Expertise: Iraq, Afghanistan, Balkans, Europe, U.S.-Foreign Relations, NATO, trends and issues in international security

Contact: http://www.rand.org/news/experts/dobbins.html

Dr. Joy C. Gordon
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director of Legal Studies Program, Fairfield University

Expertise: Economic Sanctions, Iraq Sanctions, Human Rights, Ethical Issues, International Relations

Email: jgordon@mail.fairfield.edu

Dr. George A. Lopez
Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Expertise: Problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, and gross violations of human rights

Email: George.A.Lopez.1@nd.edu

Dr. Edward Luck
Professor in the Practice of International Affairs
Director of the Center on International Organization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Expertise: Foreign Policy, United Nations Reform, Peacekeeping

Email: ecl2002@columbia.edu

Dr. Johanna Mendelson-Forman
Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security, and Human Rights
United Nations Foundation

Expertise: United Nations, Iraq, Post-conflict Reconstruction

Email: jmendelson-forman@unfoundation.org

Dr. John Ruggie
Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univeristy

Expertise: Foreign Policy, Peacekeeping, United Nations

Email: john_ruggie@harvard.edu