Michael J. Mazarr was a senior fellow and director of the New Millennium Project at CSIS from 1995 to 1999, and editor of CSIS's flagship journal, the Washington Quarterly. Dr. Mazarr has worked on Capitol Hill as a defense and foreign policy aide and speech writer to U.S. representative Dave McCurdy. He has contributed numerous essays to journals and newspapers, edited seven anthologies, authored several policy reports, and written seven books.