Seyom Brown has been a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Harvard University�s Belfer Center, the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, and the American Security Project and has served in the Department of State and the Department of Defense. He has held distinguished chairs in international politics at Brandeis University and Southern Methodist University and has also taught at Harvard University; Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles; the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of numerous books on foreign policy and international relations, including Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States and New Forces, Old Forces, and the Future of World Politics.