William Nolte, Director, is a research professor at the School of Public Policy. He is formerly  the director of education and training in the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the chancellor of the National Intelligence University.  Dr. Nolte is a former Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence. He was Director of Training, Chief of Legislative Affairs and Senior Intelligence Advisor at the National Security Agency. Dr. Nolte also served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia during the Gulf War. Participating Faculty Include: I.M. Destler is the Director ofInternational Security and Economic Policy at the School of Public Policy. He is a visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE).  His American Trade Politics (third edition, 1995) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Steve Fetter is the Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, where he has been a professor since 1988. His research interests include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear energy and releases of radiation, and climate change and carbon-free energy supply. Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, is the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise.  As the third-ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001, Professor Gansler was responsible for all research and development, acquisition reform, logistics, advance technology, environmental security, defense industry, and numerous other security programs.  Gary LaFree is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a founding member of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland. LaFree is also the Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorisn and Responses to Terrorism (START). William Lahneman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Towson University, Towson, Maryland, and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland School of Public Policy, at American University’s School of International Service, and at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Herb Rabin is a Professor of Electrical Enginnering and Computer Engineering at the University of MAryland. He has served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland since 1983.  John Steinbruner is the director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) at the School of Public Policy. Dr. Steinbruner served for 18 years as Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Stansfield Turner (Admiral, USN, RET.) is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. He served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1977-1981. As such, he headed both the Intelligence Community (composed of all of the foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and the Central Intelligence Agency. Ernest Wilson holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and in the Department of African-American Studies.