Professor DOUGLAS STUART is the first holder of the J. William and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies at Dickinson College and is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College. He is the author, co-author or editor of ten books, four monographs, and over 30 published articles dealing with international affairs. His areas of research interest include: The history of the U.S. national security bureaucracy; proposals for reform of the U.S. national security bureaucracy; U.S. civil-military relations, and Asia-Pacific security. His publications include Creating the National Security State (Princeton University Press), The Limits of Alliance (with William Tow, Johns Hopkins University Press), and The New US Strategy Towards Asia (editor, with William Tow). A former NATO Fellow and State Department Scholar Diplomat, Professor Stuart has also been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the IISS (London), George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), and the Australian National University (Canberra). He is the recipient of both the Dickinson Distinguished Teaching Award and Dickinson’s Ganoe Prize for Inspirational Teaching. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Professor Stuart is currently the director of a major project sponsored by the Mellon Foundation which is designed to reduce the civil-military “gap” in America by encouraging collaboration between students at seven liberal arts colleges and students at six military education institutions.