Nils Gilman is Senior Practitioner at Monitor 360, a San Francisco based group that helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) .

Jesse Goldhammer is a partner at the Monitor Group and Monitor 360, which helps governments and private sector organizations to undertake strategic, analytic, organizational and institutional transformation. He is the author of The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought (Cornell University Press, 2005).