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 ofMandarins 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 ofThe Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought(Cornell University Press, 2005).