Nathan A. Pelcovits is a former professorial lecturer at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies During the 1960s and 1970s, he directed the UN planning office at the Department of State and was the chief officer for planning and administering U.S. participation in UN peacekeeping missions in the Congo, in Cyprus, and on Arab-Israeli fronts. He is the author of Peace-keeping on Arab-Israeli Fronts (Westview).