future of europe, and importantly forrest dents of california, the thing long committee for california. he is co-author of a book with nathan "intelligence governance for 291st century a middle way between the west and east." simon is an anthropolicyologist and you'll see how there is a very close tie-in to the subjects we're going discuss. he does work with rand as well as one of our adjunct researchers. he is contributing to our company and best seller here at rand. frank has done more analysis on the causes of political decay, more thinking about the problems plaguing modern liberal democracies than just about anybody i know. nicholas' book contains some of the most intriguing ideas for fixing the breaks in democracies taking ideas as the title suggests from east and