ABOUT THE EDITORS

AMBASSADOR ROBERT B. OAKLEY was retired from the Department of State in 1991 after 34 years of diplomatic service. He served as Ambassador to Pakistan, Zaire, and Somalia; Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Assistant to the President for Middle East and South Asia, National Security Council staff; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Affairs. Ambassador Oakley subsequently served Presidents Bush and Clinton as Special Envoy to Somalia during UNITAF and UNISOM II. He is currently directing the Public Security Project as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University.

COLONEL MICHAEL J. DZIEDZIC, U.S. Air Force, is a Senior Military Fellow specializing in peace operations and security affairs in the Western Hemisphere at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at the National War College, served as Air Attache in El Salvador during the implementation of the peace accords, and was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. His writings include Mexico: Converging Challenges and articles on Mexican defense policies, the transnational drug trade, and hemispheric security matters.

ELIOT M. GOLDBERG is Project Manager for the Public Security Project at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. He previously worked on Middle East security issues with Search for Common Ground’s Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East. In 1994-1995 he was a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan, researching the Kingdom’s national security policy.