Paula Newberg
   Director

James P. Seevers
   Director of Studies and Training

Howard B. Schaffer
   Senior Counselor

Chester A. Crocker
   James R. Schlesinger Professor

Charles Dolgas
   Director of Publications and Administration

ISD studies the practitioner's craft: how diplomats and other foreign affairs professionals succeed and the lessons to be learned from their successes and failures. Institute programs focus particular attention on the foreign policy process: how decisions are made and implemented.