GENEVIEVE LESTER is completing her doctorate in political science at University of California, Berkeley. Her areas of interest are international relations, security, and foreign policy, with an emphasis on intelligence and decision-making. In addition to her work with Georgetown, Genevieve is Graduate Fellow at the University of California center in Washington DC and adjunct research staff at the RAND Corporation. Prior to her doctoral studies she was a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)-U.S., where she participated in a joint IISS/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory project on the integration of risk analysis and security policy. Before her work with IISS, Genevieve was an editor of the British academic journal, International Affairs, based at Chatham House in London and a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University in Berlin.