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James G. McGann, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. For the last 20 years he has served as President of McGann Associates, a program and management consulting firm specializing in the challenges facing think tanks, policymakers, international organizations and philanthropic institutions. Over the last 15 years he has taught courses in International Law, International Relations, International Organizations, Comparative Public Policy and Global Knowledge and Policy Networks on a regular basis.

Dr. McGann has served as a consultant and advisor to the World Bank, United Nationas, United States Agency for International Development, Soros, Hewlett and Gates Foundations and foreign governments on the role of nongovernmental, public policy and public engagement organizations in civil society. He has served as the Senior Vice-President for the Executive Council on Foreign Diplomacy, the Public Policy Program Officer for The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Assistant Director of the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and as a Senior Advisor to the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs and the Society for International Development.

Among Dr.McGann’s publications are Competition for Dollars, Scholars and Influence In The Public Policy Research Industry (University Press of America 1995), The International Survey of Think Tanks (FPRI, 1999), Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalyst for Ideas and Action, co-edited with Kent B. Weaver (Transaction Publishers 2000), Comparative Think Tanks, Politics, and Public Policy (Edward Elgar 2005), Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the U.S: Academics, Advisors and Advocates (Routledge, 2007), Think Tanks: Catalysts for Democratization and Market Reform (Forthcoming), Global Trends and Transitions: 2007 Survey of Think Tanks (FPRI 2008) and The Global Go To Think Tanks (FPRI 2008).

Anne Louise Antonoff is an historian from Yale (PhD’06), where she majored in Great Power politics and minored in U.S. diplomatic history, while also studying military history and international relations. A particular interest is the comparative methods of diplomatic history and international relations theory. Her prior training at Princeton included international economics as well as political science. Prior to graduate school, she worked in both business (strategic planning) and government (intelligence). Her languages are German and French. She is currently teaching End of European Empires (HIST 316) and The Balkans in World Politics (HIST 202 601) as well as INTR 390 302. Other courses include The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, 1688-2008 and Europe and the End of the Ottoman Empire. In her spare time she is helping to organize a new program in Strategic Studies.

Andrew Glencross earned a BA in Social and Political Sciences (2000) and an MPhil. in Historical Studies (2002) from Cambridge University. In the interim between those degrees he served as a Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow at Harvard University. In 2007 he completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy where he was subsequently appointed as a post-doctoral fellow. He has taught classes on the politics of European integration, American government and modern political theory. His primary research interest concerns European integration and especially the problems of negotiating state sovereignty and democracy in the EU as compared with the United States.

Bruce Newsome, PhD, earned a BA in War Studies from Kings College London, a MA in Political Science with concentration in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in International and Strategic Studies from the University of Reading. He worked at the RAND Corporation as a policy analyst for nearly five years, then taught at the the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He has taught at the Wharton School, the Universities of Reading (England), MIT, UCSD, USD, the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai, China), Kyung Hee (Seoul, Korea), and Cranfield University. Bruce specializes in the causes and courses of war, military capabilities and performance, terrorism, insurgency, intelligence, security and political risk management, and research and analytical methods. He has published eleven peer-reviewed books or reports and nine articles or book chapters. He is currently writing books on democracies at war and military capabilities.
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