Biographical note

BRET STEPHENS is a foreign-affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor responsible for the international opinion pages at the Wall Street Journal. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary for his writing on U.S. foreign policy and been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was previously editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post and is a regular panelist on the Journalist Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show on Fox News. Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN's flagship international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and the Editor-at-Large of TIME. He is the author of the international bestsellers, The Future of Freedom and The Post-American World. ROBERT KAGAN is a senior fellow of foreign policy at the Brooking Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe and transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund. Foreign Policy and Prospect listed him as one of the world’s “Top 100 Intellectuals.” Kagan served in the U.S State Department as a deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, and was a principal speechwriter to the U.S. secretary of state. He is also the author of several bestselling books on foreign policy, including Dangerous Nation, which won the Lepgold Book Prize and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is the CEO of the New America Foundation, one of America’s largest international affairs think tanks. She is the past dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and served as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department from 2009–2011. She has been named one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers” and is the author and editor of six books, including A New World Order and The Idea That Is America.