Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Until June 2003 he was director of policy planning for the Department of State where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Previously Haass was vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was also special assistant to President George H. W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council 1989-93. He is the author or editor of ten books in American foreign policy including The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. Martin S. Indyk is the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He served in several senior positions in the U. S. government most recently as ambassador to Israel and assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs and he was also a founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Language: English