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James Denton is the publisher and editor of World Affairs and Demokratizatsiya, and the director of World Affairs Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Heldref, Denton was the director of Freedom House, founded in 1941 by Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie to promote freedom worldwide. In a consulting capacity, he represented Lech Walesa and Prime Ministers Viktor Orban of Hungary and Zoran Djindjic of Serbia; he also consulted to the OSCE, the National Democratic Institute, ABC News, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Denton is the recipient of awards and commendations from the President of Romania and the Prime Minister of Poland for his support of the region’s democratic transition, as well as from the Democratic Opposition of Serbia for his support of its effort to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic.
Denton oversaw the development of the $20 million America at a Crossroads initiative, a 20-hour PBS documentary series that explores the challenges and opportunities America faces in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Crossroads was public television's most-watched series in 2007. Denton served as a Communications and Anti-Submarine warfare officer on a U.S. Navy warship beginning in 1974. Subsequent assignments included teaching Soviet submarine tactics, and serving in a special operations unit, as well as a watch officer at the Command Center for the Commander of the Atlantic Fleet.
Lawrence F. Kaplan is the consulting editor of World Affairs. Previously, he was senior editor at the New Republic, where he wrote about U.S. foreign policy and, from 2004–06, reported from Iraq. Before coming to the New Republic, he was executive editor of the National Interest. He has written about foreign policy for the Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. Kaplan is a graduate of Columbia University, Oxford, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he is currently a Merrill Fellow in Strategic Studies.
Andrew Ivers is the managing editor of World Affairs. He is a graduate of Saint Louis University and Boston College and blogs regularly at thereshimself.com.
Amy Finnerty is the articles editor of World Affairs. A writer and editor in New York, she has been a contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and numerous other publications. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and holds an M.A. in studio art from New York University.
