dr. raldolf, who uses these volumes? who reads these? >> guest: well, first of all, there's an answer to that. a philosophical answer. the real purpose of the volume is to provide the transparency and the accountability that is courted with democracy. if you don't have insight in to what your government is doing in the end, you can't create that kind of understanding and accountability. and there are various proxies. they have changed over time. when the series first started, again, it was primarily an internal audience within the state department as working documents. as the series evolved, i would say that at this point there are several primary audiences. first of all, you have policy makers, really, across the government studying the anteseed end to the issues they are now working. very often they are the same issues either identical or in a sort of similar guise. the educational establishment. when i was at the national defense university, for example, we used the material we find here to teach the upcoming senior leadership of the