HOWARD J. WIARDA is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on leave), and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Wiarda most recently authored American Foreign Policy, Politics in Iberia, The Democratic Revolution, and Introduction to Comparative Politics. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he also served as lead consultant to the National Bipartisan (Kissinger) Commission on Central America, as a member of a presidential task force on foreign assistance, and as an advisor to several government agencies and presidents.