Seyom Brown is John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security Director of Studies at the Tower Center for Political Studies in the Department of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is also a senior adviser to the Security Studies Program at MIT, and has held senior research and policy analysis positions at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and other institutions. He is author of numerous books and articles on foreign policy and international affairs, a contributor to major news o...