PETER R. BECKMAN is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He is the author of World Politics in the Twentieth Century (1984) and co-author of The Nuclear Predicament (2d ed, 1992).FRANCINE D'AMICO is Visiting Research Fellow in the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. She has written on women at war and the combat controversy. She is an officer of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section in the International Studies Association.
