Gregory Gleason is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of New Mexico. He is currently serving as a Professor of Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. He is the author of Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (1997) and Markets and Politics in Central Asia (2003).
Renée Jeffery is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006), and Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2007), and editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (forthcoming, 2008).
Asel Kerimbekova is a Dotsent on the Faculty of International Relations of the Kyrgyzstan National University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Svetlana Kozhirova is Associate Professor in the Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Head of US programmes at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. His recent publications include: Nixon (2002); Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and the New Democratic Economics, Historical Journal (2004); and [co-edited with Philip Davies], Right On? Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America (2006).
James A. Piazza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Going Global: Unions and Globalization, in the United States, Sweden and Germany. He has published in several leading journals including Journal of Politics, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Terrorism and Political Violence.
Jens Ringsmore is Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen. He is the author of The Dynamics of Rebellion: The Case of Iraq (2007) and Denmark's Standing in NATO (2007).
Sten Rynning is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Changing Military Doctrine: Presidents and Military Power in the Fifth Republic France (2002) and NATO Reviewed: The Power and Purpose of Transatlantic Cooperation (2005).
Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (2006) and Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (with Caron Gentry, 2007).
