Dr. Robert Dickson Crane was Foreign Policy adviser President Richard Nixon and was the Deputy Director of the National Security Council. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and over 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management. He is one of the four co-founders of think-tank Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also the founding president of the Harvard International Law Society and editor-in-chief of its journal.