The author wishes to thank Dr. Andreas Theophanous, director of the Research and Development Center, for his invitation and financial support to speak at the conference. He also thanks the MIT Security Studies Program for its support and those who gave comments on the paper.

The author is a PhD candidate in the Security Studies Program in the Department of Political Science at MIT and an associate fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Tufts University and worked for Congressman Ratchford, the Center for Defense Information, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Brookings Institution before starting graduate school. He has published and spoken on peacekeeping, internal conflict, collective security, the U.S. intervention in Panama, and SDI contracting. In the course of researching his dissertation, Transparency and Security Regimes: A Study of Concert of Europe Crisis Management and United Nations Peacekeeping, the author spent a month visiting UNFICYP on almost a daily basis to conduct interviews and learn about UNFICYP's operations. The author is grateful to UNFICYP for its cooperation.