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1 Biographies of Contributors 1095 Authors Sinem Acikmese (Turkey) is a research fellow and a PhD candidate at the European Studies Program of Ankara University. She holds a BA in International Relations as well as an MA in European Studies International Relations from Ankara University. As a Jean Monnet scholar, she studied at the European Institute of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) for her MSc degree in European Studies. She is now working on her PhD on Comparative Analysis of European Security through the Lens of the Copenhagen School and Traditional Security Studies. Her selected publications are: Has The Period of Civilian Power Europe Come To An End, in: Ankara Review of European Studies (2002); (Co-author with M. Aydin): Waiting for December 2004: Turkish Blues for the EU, in: The International Spectator (2004); The Underlying Dynamics of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, in: Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs (2004); The Management of Security in EU s New Neighborhood: Union s Tactics Revisited, in: Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs (2006). Address: Ms. Sinem Acikmese, Ankara University, EU Research Center, Cebeci, 06590, Ankara, Turkey. <acikmese@politics.ankara.edu.tr>. Ulrich Albrecht (Germany), professor of Peace and Conflict Studies em., Free University of Berlin ( ). He was born in Leipzig in East Germany where he spent his childhood. He studied engineering at the Technical Universities of Aachen and Stuttgart ( ). He graduated as an aeronautical engineer (Dipl. Ing.) at Stuttgart University where he also received a Dr. phil. degree in political science and economics (1970) with a study on the arms trade. He was a research associate with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London ( ) and in 1972 he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin; where he was a Vice President ( ) and dean of the political science faculty ( ). In 1973 he founded the study group on military policy of the German Pugwash group (VDW). He was chairman of the Council of Peace Researchers of the (now dissolved) German Society for Peace and Conflict Research (DGFK); an adviser and elected as a member of the German Commission of the Council of Churches for International Affairs (since 1975); a consultant to the Department of Disarmament Affairs at the UN HQ in New York ( ); head of planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GDR (1990) after the fall of the Berlin wall and prior to unification where he participated in the 2+4 negotiations; chairman of the Society for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) and a member of the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. His work focused on armament processes, disarmament issues, arms trade, arms technology, conversion studies, security issues in Europe and worldwide, East-West integration, German foreign and defence policy. Among his recent books (see bibliography) are: Die Spezialisten. Die Migration deutscher Wissenschaftler in die UdSSR (1992); The History of the Soviet Armament Industry (1992); (Co-ed. with Ulrike Beisiegel, Reiner Braun, Werner Buckel): Der Griff nach dem atomaren Feuer (1996); (Co-author with Helmut Volger): Lexikon der Internationalen Politik (1997); (Co-ed. with Mary Kaldor, Geneviève Schméder): The End of Military Fordism (1998); Internationale Politik. Einführung in das System internationaler Herrschaft ( ); (Co-ed. with Michael Kalmann, Paul Schäfer): Das Kosovo-Dilemma (2002); (Co-ed. with: Jörg Becker): Medien zwischen Krieg und Frieden (2002); (Co-author): A Human Security Doctrine for Europe. The Barcelona Report of the Study Group on European Capabilities (2004). Address: Prof. Dr. em. Ulrich Albrecht, Paulsenstraße 3-4, Berlin, Germany. <ualbr@zedat.fu-berlin.de>. Website:< forsch.html>. J. F. [Frederik] M. Arends (The Netherlands): retired teacher ( ) of Latin and ancient Greek at Bonaventura College, Leiden (The Netherlands). He studied classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Leiden (MA, 1968) and Heidelberg; was fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) at Wassenaar ( ). Ph.D. from Leiden University (1988). Guest lectures on Plato s Republic at the Free University (V.U.) of Amsterdam ( ) and at Leiden University ( ). Publications on ancient Greek political philosophy include: Die Einheit der Polis. Eine Studie über Platon s Staat. Ph.D. Dissertation (Leiden: Brill, 1988) and the following articles: Could Plato be an Ally against the Decay of Democracy?, in: Boudouris, K. (Ed.): Platonic Political Philosophy and Contemporary Democratic Theory (Athens 1997); Plato as a Problem-Solver. The Unity of the Polis as a Key to the Interpretation of Plato s Republic, in: Ostenfeldt, E.N. (Ed.): Essays on Plato s Republic (Aarhus U.P., 1998); Survival, War and Unity of the Polis in Plato s Statesman, in: Polis 12 (1993): ; The Long March to Plato s Statesman, in: Polis 16 (1999): ; The Long March to Plato s Statesman Continued, in: Polis 18 (2001): ; Plato s Anticipation of a Polis without an Outside: the Transformation of the Outside-Inside Problem, in: Politeia, Politikos, Timaios and Nomoi, in: Boudouris, K. (Ed.): Polis and Cosmopolis: Problems of a Global Era, Vol. II (Athens 2003); Why Socrates came too late for Gorgias epideixis: Plato s Gorgias as political philosophy, in: Erler, M.; Brisson, L. (Eds.): Gorgias Menon; Selected Papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum (Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2007). Address: Dr. J. F. M. Arends, Witte Singel 79, 2311 BP Leiden, The Netherlands. <jfmarends@hotmail.com>. Mustafa Aydin (Turkey): Professor of International Relations at the TOBB-University of Economics and Technology; Director of the International Policy Research Institute (IPRI) of the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), Ankara. He was a Research Fellow at the

2 1096 Authors Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan (1998); UNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, Lancaster University, UK (1999); Fulbright Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002); Alexander S. Onassis Fellow at the University of Athens (2003); and Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003). Among others, he is the author of: Turkish Foreign Policy During the Gulf War (1998); New Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus: Causes of Instability and Predicament (2000); Ten Years After: Turkey s Gulf Policy Revisited (2002); Turkish Foreign Policy. Framework and Analysis (2004); (Ed.): Turkey at the Threshold of the 21 st Century (1998); (Co-ed. with K. Ifantis): Greek-Turkish Relations in the 21 st Century: Escaping from the Security Dilemma in the Aegean (2002); (Co-ed. with C. Erhan); Turkish-American Relations; 200 Years of Divergence and Convergence (2002); (Co-ed. with T.Y. Ismael): Turkey s Foreign Policy in the 21 st Century: A Changing Role in World Politics (2002); Central Asia in Global Politics (in Turkish, 2004): (Co-ed. with K. Ifantis) International Security Today; Understanding Change and Debating Strategy (2006). Address: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydin, TOBB-University of Economics and Technology, Sogutozu Caddesi, No 43, Sogutozu, 06560, Ankara, Turkey. <maydin@etu.edu.tr>. Jon Barnett (Australia) is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Melbourne University, and a New Zealand Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Canterbury. He has a PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Science from the Australian National University. He is a human geographer whose research concerns the impacts of environmental change on social systems. This includes research on climate change, environmental security, and water. His research draws on and contributes to a range of disciplines and fields of study including geography, development studies, environmental studies, and political science. In recent years he has conducted fieldwork in the South Pacific, China, and East Timor. He is the author of The Meaning of Environmental Security (Zed Books). Address: Dr. Jon Barnett, Social and Environmental Enquiry, The University of Melbourne 3010, Victoria, Australia. <jbarn@unimelb.edu.au>. Website: < John Baylis (United Kingdom) PhD, D.Litt., Professor of Politics and International Relations and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University, Wales, UK. He was formerly a Professor in the International Politics Department at Aberystwyth where he was also Dean of Social Sciences. Until recently he was Head of the Politics and International Politics Department at Swansea. He has spent two periods as Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia in 1981 and Brigham Young University in Utah in During the early 1990 s he also spent a period as Academic Adviser to the National Defence College in London. He specializes in the fields of strategic and security studies, international relations and nuclear history. He is the author of more than 20 books, including: (Co-ed. with N. Rengger): Dilemmas of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992); Ambiguity and Deterrence (Oxford University Press, 1995) and (Co-ed. with Steve Smith): The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ). Address: Prof. Dr. John Baylis, Vice-Chancellor s Office, Singleton Park, Swansea. Wales. UK. SA3 8PP. <john.baylis@swansea.ac.uk>. Website: < Navnita Chadha Behera (New Delhi), Professor at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia. See: Biographies of Editors. Alberto Bin (Italy), Dr. is the Head of the Regional Affairs Section in the Political Affairs & Security Policy Division at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. In this capacity, he is responsible for NATO s Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative for the Broader Middle East, as well as for all the countries outside the Euro-Atlantic area including Argentina, Australia, China, Iraq, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Korea. Prior to joining NATO, he was Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, where he held the Chair of international history. He was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Catania, Italy. Prior to that, he spent several years working in the private sector including in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Dr. Bin s undergraduate education was in history at the La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. He received a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has published books and articles on international history, and Mediterranean and Middle East security. Address: Dr. Alberto Bin, Head, Regional Affairs & Mediterranean Dialogue/Istanbul Cooperation Initiative for the Broader Middle East, NATO Political Affairs & Security Policy Division, NATO Headquarters, B-1110 Brussels, Belgium. <bin.alberto@hq.nato.int>. Website: < Sven Biscop (Belgium) obtained his PhD in political sciences from Ghent University in He is a senior research fellow at Egmont The Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, where he focuses on the foreign, security and defence policies of the EU, and is editor in chief of the Institute s journal Studia Diplomatica. He is visiting professor of European security at the College of Europe in Bruges and has lectured at Ghent University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Université de Liège, Renmin University (Beijing) and Carleton University (Ottawa). With the Royal Defence College (Brussels) he co-organizes the Higher Studies in Security and Defence. He is a member of the Executive Academic Board of the EU s European Se-

3 Biographies of Contributors 1097 curity and Defence College. His main publications include Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003), The European Security Strategy A Global Agenda for Positive Power (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005) and (co-editor with Jan Joel Andersson): The EU and the European Security Strategy Forging a Global Europe (London: Routledge, 2007). Address: Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Egmont The Royal Institute for International Relations, Rue de Namur 69, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. <s.biscop@egmontinstitute.be>. Website: < Michael Bothe (Germany), Professor emeritus, Dr.iur. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Hamburg and International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. From 1964 to 1979, he was research assistant/fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International law, Heidelberg, 1968/69 also visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. He obtained two German law degrees (1961, 1966), a diploma of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (1966), a Dr. iur. (1967) and a Habilitation from Heidelberg (1974). He served as Professor of Public Law, in particular international law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Hannover and Frankfurt ( ). He was visiting professor/lecturer at different universities in Europe, the United States and Australia. He directed and coordinated a number of major international research projects, among them the Tacis Project Creation of an Institute of European Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations ( ). He was Vice-President and President, European Environmental Law Association ; President, German Society for International Law He is Chair, Commission for International Humanitarian Law, German Red Cross, and President of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. He also served as counsel in various cases before the International Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court. He is the author of numerous publications on international law and the use of force, international humanitarian law, international, European and comparative environmental law as well as comparative constitutional law, including: (Co-author with Partsch/Solf): New Rules for Victims of Armed Conflicts, Commentary on the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Den Haag/Boston/London 1982); (Co-ed. with Ronzitti/Rosas): The OSCE in the Maintenance of Peace and Security. Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management and Peaceful settlements of Disputes (Den Haag et al. 1997); (Co-ed. with Ronzitti/Rosas): The New Chemical Weapons Convention - Implementation and Prospects (Den Haag et al. 1998); (Ed.): Towards a Better Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (Berlin 2001). Address: Prof. Dr. em. Michael Bothe, Theodor Heuss Str. 6, Bensheim, Germany. <Bothe-Bensheim@t-online.de>. Hans Günter Brauch (Germany): Dr. phil. habil, Privatdozent at the Faculty of Political Science and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin, since 1987 chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS). See: Biographies of Editors. Casey Brown (United States of America), Ph.D., is Associate Research Scientist and Water Team Leader at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. His research focuses on increasing the resilience of water systems to climate variability and change through the use of advanced climate science and hydrologic forecasting, in combination with decision theory and systems analysis. Another area of interest is the role of climate variability, investment and hydrologic risk in poverty reduction and economic development. He is PI and co-pi for several projects in the U.S. and abroad funded by NOAA, the World Bank and other agencies. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Columbia s M.A. in Climate and Society program. Recent publications include Water and Economic Development: the role of variability and a framework for resilience, in: Natural Resources Forum (2006) and Managing Hydroclimatologic Risk to Water Supply with Option Contracts and Reservoir Index Insurance in: Water Resources Research (2007). He obtained his PhD in environmental engineering science as a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Colorado, USA. Address: Dr. Casey Brown, Monell Building, 61 Rt. 9W, Palisades, New York, USA <CaseyB@iri.columbia.edu>. Website: < Michael von Brück (Germany), professor of Religious Studies at the University of Munich. He studied protestant theology, Sanskrit and Indian philosophy ( ), was research student at the University of Rostock ( ) where he obtained a Dr. theol. (1975) and a habilitation (1982). He studied philosophy of the Mahayana-Buddhism at the Gaden Mahayana Monastic University (Karnataka) and in Dharamsala, India and Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh, Zanskar und Sikkim ( ). He was a visiting professor at the universities of Groningen (1978); Harvard Centre for the Study of World Religions, University of California (Santa Barbara) and Claremont College (1980); Hawaii Loa College, University of Hawaii, University of Lancaster (Religious Studies), Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham and Teilhard-Centre ( ); Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Madras (India); He was a Research Fellow at the University of Madras ( ); Hamburg University (1985), postdoctoral fellow at the ecumenical institute of Tübingen University (Prof. Dr. Hans Küng) with a research project on Buddhism and Christianity in dialogue; Visiting Associate Professor in Comparative Religion, Dept. of Religious Studies, Rice University, Houston, Tx. (spring 1988); from he was professor of comparative religion at the University Regensburg and since June 1991 he has been professor for mission and religion at the protestant theological faculty, University of Munich. He published widely in German and English on Buddhism, Hinduism and intercultural dialogue. Among his major books in English are:

4 1098 Authors (Ed.): Authentic Consciousness Hope for the Future (Madras: Gurukul Publications, 1984); (Ed.): Emerging Consciousness for a New Humankind (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 1985); The Unity of Reality. God, God- Experience and Meditation in the Hindu-Christian Dialogue (New York: Paulist Press, 1991); English articles: War and Peace in Hinduism, in: Schmidt-Leukel, P. (Ed.): War and Peace in World Religions (London: SCM Press, 2004): 11 32; Cross-Cultural Understanding and Dialogue: Principles, Methodology and Perspectives ; in: Chakma, Niru; Salahuddin, A.K.M. (Eds.): Inter-religious Dialogue: Chance for Peace (Dhaka: Goethe Institute, 2004); Buddhist Concepts of Consciousness as a Basis for a Global Social Ethics, in: Chappell, D.W. (Ed.): Socially Engaged Spirituality. Essays in Honour of Sulak Sivaraksa on His 70 th Birthday (Bangkok: Sathirakoses, 2003): ; Religious Identity and the Dialogue of Religions Understanding the Social Construction of Alterity, in: Cohen, N.; Heldrich, A. (Eds.): The Three Religions (München: Utz, 2002): ; The Quest for an Ethics in a Cross- Cultural Context, in: Pohl, K.-H.; Müller, A.W. (Eds.): Chinese Ethics in a Global Context. Moral Bases of Contemporary Societies (Leiden: Brill 2002): 3 18; The Contribution of Religious Studies to the Dialogue of the World Religions, in: Koslowski, P. (Ed.): Philosophy Bridging the World Religions (Boston London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003): ; The Buddhist Concepts of Prajna and Karuna in Relation to the Philosophy of Consciousness as Basis for a Global Social Ethics, in: The 11 th International Conference on Buddhist Education and Culture (Taipei: Huafan University Press, 2000): 4 23; Confrontation, Search for Identity and Integration: Historical and Hermeneutical Aspects of Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Sri Lanka, in: Everding, U. (Ed.): Buddhism and Christianity. Interactions between East and West (Colombo: Goethe Institute, 1995): ; Sharing Religious Experience in Hindu-Christian Encounter, in: Gort, J.D.; Vroom, H.; et al (Eds.): On Sharing Religious Experience. Possibilities of Interfaith Mutuality (Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans Publ., 1992): ; Buddhist Shunyata and the Christian Trinity: The Emerging Holistic Paradigm. The Emerging Holistic Paradigma, in: Corless, R.; Knitter, P. (Ed.): Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity (New York: Paulist Press, 1990): Address: Prof. Dr. Michael von Brück, Interfakultärer Studiengang Religionswissenschaft, Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Philosophie der Religionen Europas, Ludwigstraße 31, room 203, München. <relwiss@evtheol.uni-muenchen.de>. Website:< pub/brueckd.php>. Barry Buzan (UK) is a Professor of International Relations at the LSE, and honorary professor at Copenhagen University. From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visting professor at the International University of Japan, and in he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden. He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association , Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association , and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee Since 1999 he has been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004 he is editor of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. His most recent books are: (Co-author with Richard Little): International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000); (Co-author with Ole Wæver): Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003); From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (2004); The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004). Address: Prof. Dr. Barry Buzan, Department of International Relations, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. <b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk>. Website: < uk/>. Liu Cheng (People s Republic of China), Dr., is Associate Professor of History at the History Department of Nanjing University, where his teaching specialization includes modern history and peace studies. He gained his PhD in 2001 for a thesis on the British Labour Party s evolving policies on public ownership. Since 2001, he has been a leader of a British Council-funded programme of academic co-operation between Nanjing University and Coventry University, UK, in the field of peace studies. He was a visiting scholar at Coventry University s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies in 2003, and organizer of a major international symposium on peace studies at Nanjing University in With other colleagues in Nanjing, he is one of the pioneers to introduce peace studies as an academic discipline into Chinese universities and publications. His published works includes five books in Chinese, titles of which in translation are: Clause IV: Public Ownership and British Labour Party (2003); Britain: Transition from Great Power to EU Member-state, (2005) ; Wars and the Negotiations (2005); Peace Studies (2006); The Origin and Development of Social Democracy in Europe (2006). He has published many articles in journals, and is also a prolific translator, having recently published Chinese translations of works by Johan Galtung, Andrew Rigby, David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel. He is a member of the British History Association of China, the World Modern History Association of China and of the International Peace Research Association. Address: Dr. Liu Cheng, Department of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province , China. <liucheng@nju.edu.cn>. Tarun Chhabra (United States) is a doctoral student in international relations at Merton College, University of Ox-

5 Biographies of Contributors 1099 ford. In 2004 and 2005 he worked at the United Nations on the research staff of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He has been awarded Marshall, Clarendon and Fulbright (Russia) scholarships and holds a BA from Stanford University. Address: Tarun Chhabra, Merton College, Oxford, OX1 4JD, U.K. <tchhabra@gmail.com>. Béchir Chourou (Tunisia): Professor International Relations at the University of Tunis-Carthage in Tunisia. See: Biographies of Editors. Kevin P. Clements (New Zealand): is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was Secretary General of International Alert ( ) when he was on the Board of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and past President of the European Peace Building Liaison Office in Brussels. From he was the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University (Virginia, USA) he directed from Prior he was director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra, a senior lecturer in Sociology and Co-ordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University, and a post doctoral fellow at Oxford University. His career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He has been an advisor to the New Zealand, Australian, British, Swedish and Dutch governments on conflict prevention, peace, defence and security issues. He was a member of the New Zealand Government s Defence Committee of Enquiry in From he was President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and from he was President of the IPRA Foundation and from he was Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (AP- PRA). He has been a consultant to non governmental and intergovernmental organizations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues. He has written or edited 6 books and over 150 chapters and articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, preventive diplomacy and development. Address: Prof. Dr. Kevin P. Clements, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia. <k.clements@uq.edu.au>. Website: < Jean-Marc Coicaud (France) heads the United Nations University Office at the United Nations in New York. He was a Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo between 1996 and Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali ( ). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School ), Dr. Coicaud has held appointments as cultural attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, legislative aide with the European Parliament (financial committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris and visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science, law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'etat in Philosophy from the Institut d'etudes Politiques of Paris. He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is the author of: L introuvable democratie autoritaire (1996); Politics and Legitimacy. Contribution to the study of political right and responsibility (2002), also available in Chinese, Japanese, French, Arabic and Spanish. He co-authored: Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), and co-edited: Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (2001), The Legitimacy of International Organizations (2001), The Globalization of Human Rights (2003). Address: United Nations University New York Office, 2 UN Plaza, DC2-2060, New York, New York, , USA. <Coicaud@ony.unu.edu>. Website: < Naresh Dadhich (India), Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, where he has been teaching post graduate classes since Since October 2006 he is Vice Chancellor of Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University at Kota (Rajasthan). He has worked on Gandhism and Peace Studies. His Ph.D. comparing Gandhi and existentialism is one of the earliest studies in comparative literature on Gandhi. He authored six books and numerous articles in scholarly journals, among them: Nonviolence, Peace and Politics:Understanding Gandhi (2003). His is the first book in Hindi on John Rawls's theory of Justice. He is a popular speaker and has travelled extensively in India and abroad for invited lectures. He is a referee for prestigious professional journals in the UK and in Australia and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Peace Education (Taylor & Francis). He was the first Convener from Asia of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association ( ) and he published its newsletter: Peace Building. He received a prestigious Pell Fellowship of Salve Regina University (USA) in Prof. Dadhich was Director of the Center for Gandhian Studies at Rajasthan University ( ) where he launched the publication of Gandhian Studies and organized national and international seminars and conferences. He has popularized Peace Studies and Peace Education in India through conferences, lectures and seminars. At Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University he has introduced a six month certificate one year diploma course on Gandhian Theory of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution or Gandhigiri.

6 1100 Authors Address: prof. Dr. Naresh Dadhich, Vice Chancellor, Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Rawatbhata Road, Kota (Rajasthan) India; Permanent Address: 2-K-12, Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur , India. and: yahoo. com>. Websites: < and; < =Vardhaman_Mahaveer_Open_University&action=edit>. Simon Dalby (Canada) Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver); Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa. His research work concerns critical geopolitics, environmental security and political ecology and increasingly how all these matters link up with contemporary discussions of empire, and modes of urban consumption in the metropoles of the global economy. His articles have appeared in diverse scholarly journals including: Alternatives, Antipode, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Geopolitics, Global Environmental Politics, Intelligence and National Security, Political Geography, Society and Space and Studies in Political Economy. He is author of: Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990) and Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). He is coeditor of: Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge , ) and of The Geopolitics Reader. Address: Prof. Dr. Simon Dalby, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S5B6 Canada. <Simon_Dalby@Carleton.ca>. Website: < Jonathan Dean (United States of America): a former ambassador, is now adviser on Global Security Issues, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). See: Biographies of authors of forewords and preface essays. Juergen Dedring (United States/Germany), since 1996 adjunct professor on global affairs at CUNY, in particular at the Graduate Center and at the City College, as well as at NYU in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He was born in Essen, Germany in 1939, secondary education completed in 1959, studied German, history, political science at the University of Freiburg and at the Free University of Berlin where he obtained the degrees of a Diplom- Politologe (MA equivalent) in 1965; an A.M. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1974 in government at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University and at Dartmouth College; he was a research associate at UNITAR, New York, , and from January 1975 to August 1996 he was a political officer, at the UN Secretariat in New York where he chose early retirement in September He conducted research on international organizations, multilateralism, conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peacemaking; on European studies, including the European Union. Among his numerous writings is a book on: Recent Advances in Peace and Conflict Research. A Critical Survey. A UNITAR Study (Beverly Hills-London: Sage, 1976) and many journal articles and book chapters. His book on the UN Security Council in the 1990s: Resurgence and Renewal was accepted in May 2007 for publication by SUNY Press, Albany, New York, and is expected to be published in spring He is married, lives with his wife in New York, and they have two children. Address: Prof. Dr. Juergen Dedring, Pinto Street, Holliswood, NY 11423, USA. address: <dedring@erols.com>. Website: < =4427&let=D>. Indra de Soysa (PhD) is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Sociology and Political Science (ISS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. He is also Associate at the Center for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is the author of: Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development: Assessing Contours, Correlates, and Concomitants of Globalization (London: Routledge, 2003). His scholarly publications appear in: International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, World Development, Global Environmental Politics, American Sociological Review, and Comparative Sociology, among several others. He is currently researching the effects of the resource curse, the socio-political consequences of cultural diversity, the causes of political violence, and the political outcomes of foreign direct investment (FDI). Address: Prof. Dr. Indra de Soysa, ISS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway. <indra.de.soysa@svt.ntnu.no>. Website:< Jaap H. de Wilde (The Netherlands) is professor in International Relations and World Politics at the University of Groningen (August 2007). From 1995 till 2007 he worked at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente, which he combined with a professorship at the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since Publications include: (Co-ed. with Monica den Boer) The Viability of Human Security: From Concept to Practice (2008); (Co-authored with Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan) Politics of Security (forthcoming); (Co-ed. with André W.M. Gerrits) Aan het slagveld ontsnapt: Over oorlogen die niet plaatsvonden (2000); (Co-authored with Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver) Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998); (Co-authored with Wouter G. Werner) The Endurance of Sovereignty, in: The European Journal for International Relations, 7,3 (2001): ; Flagging Democracy, in: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 17,2 (2004): ; Orwellian Risks in European Conflict Prevention Discourse, in: Global Society, 20,1 (2006): Address: Prof. Dr. Jaap H. de Wilde, Department of IR/IO, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, P.O.Box 716, NL AS Groningen, The Netherlands. <j.h.de.wilde@rug.nl>. Stavros Dimas (Greece) has been European Commissioner for the Environment since November See: Biographies of authors of forewords and preface essays.

7 Biographies of Contributors 1101 Eugenio Diniz (Brazil): Professor, International Relations Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil; MSc (USP) and DSc. (Coppe/UFRJ). He currently chairs the Graduate Program on International Relations at PUC Minas and is the Executive Secretary of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI). Member of the Group for Strategic Studies and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London). Former Intelligence Officer, Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN). Select Publications: (with D. Proença Jr): Política de Defesa no Brasil, uma análise crítica [Defense Policy in Brazil: a critical analysis], 1998; (with D. Proença Jr and Salvador Ghelfi Raza): Guia de Estudos de Estratégia [Guide for the Study of Strategy], 1999; Compreendendo o fenômeno do Terrorismo [Thinking Terrorism Through], in: Brigagão, Clovis; Proença Jr, Domicio (Eds.): Paz e Terrorismo [Peace and Terrorism] (São Paulo: Hucitec, 2005): Address: Prof. Dr. Eugenio Diniz, Av. Itaú, 525, International Relations Program, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. <eudiniz@pucminas.br>. Pál Dunay (Hungary) is faculty member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy. See: Biographies of editors. Sebastian von Einsiedel (Germany) currently works as Political Affairs Officer with the UN Mission in Nepal (UN- MIN). Previously, he served as Special Assistant to the President at the International Peace Academy (IPA), an independent think tank in New York working closely alongside the UN. In 2004 and 2005, he was a member of the research stuff of the UN Secretary-General s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change and subsequently worked on UN reform in the Office of the UN Secretary- General. Prior to joining the UN, he served for two years as Senior Program Officer at IPA on issues related to political violence and statebuilding. He has also worked with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels and as a member of the foreign affairs staff in the German Parliament. He holds Masters degrees in international affairs and political science from Columbia University and the University of Munich. Mr. von Einsiedel has published about UN statebuilding, UN reform as well as Security Council diplomacy. Address: Sebastian Graf von Einsiedel, Political Affairs Officer, UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), Kathmandu, Nepal. Office <einsiedels@un.org>; Personal <seinsiedel@yahoo.com>. Robert Eisen (United States of America) is Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at George Washington University in Washington D.C. He received his B.A. at Yale University in 1983, and his Ph.D. in Jewish thought at Brandeis University in His areas of interest include medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, biblical interpretation, and comparative religion. He is author of two books: Gersonides on Providence, Covenant, and the Chosen People (SUNY Press, 1995) and The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is currently editing a volume for the University of Maryland Press on philosophers and the Bible. He has also begun working on a book dealing with Jewish perspectives on violence and peace. He is active as a consultant on issues of religion and international conflict with a particular interest in fostering better relations between the West and the Islamic world. He has participated in a number of high-level dialogues and consultations in Washington and abroad concerning this issue. He sits on the advisory board of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He has also worked with such organizations as the United Institute of Peace and Initiatives of Change formerly known as Moral Re-Armament. Address: Prof. Dr. Robert Eisen, Dept of Religion, GW University, 2106 G St NW, Washington DC 20052, USA. <robeisen@verizon.net>. Magnus Ekengren (Sweden) PhD, Director EUROSEC (European Security Studies) and Senior Lecturer at the Swedish National Defence College. He was previously Deputy Director at the Policy Planning Unit of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. His main research interest is in the fields of European foreign and security policy and the Europeanization of the nation-state. Recent publications include: The Time of European Governance, Manchester: MUP, 2002; (Co-author with B. Sundelius): Sweden, in: B. Hocking; D. Spence (Eds.): Foreign Ministries in the European Union: Integrating Diplomats (London: Palgrave, 2002); National Foreign Policy Co-ordination: the Swedish EU Presidency, in: H. Sjursen; W. Carlsnaes; B. White (Eds.): Contemporary European Foreign Policy (London: Sage, 2004); The Interface of External and Internal Security in the European Union and in Nordic Policies, in: A. Bailes; G. Herolf; B. Sundelius (Eds.): The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy (Oxford: OUP, 2005); (Co-author with A. Boin; M. Rhinard): The Commission and Crisis Management, in: D. Spence (Ed.): The European Commission (London: John Harper, 2005); (Co-author with K. Engelbrekt): The Impact of Enlargement on EU Actorness: Enhanced Capacity, Weakened Cohesiveness, in: J. Hallenberg; H. Karlsson (Eds.): The New Strategic Triangle: the US, the EU and Russia (London: Routledge, 2005); (Co-ed. with A. Boin; M. Rhinard): Special Issue: Protecting the Union: The Emergence of a New Policy Space, in: Journal of European Integration, 28,5 (December) Address: Dr. Magnus Ekengren, Dept. of Security and Strategic Studies, National Defence College, Drottning Kristinas väg 37, Box , SE Stockholm, Sweden. <magnus.ekengren@fhs.se>. Reinhold Elges (Germany) holds a MA (Political Science, English and American Studies, Journalism and Communication Science) from the University of Potsdam (Germany). His studies focused on conflict and governance issues and especially on post-conflict statebuilding. He is currently with the Sector Programme Crisis Prevention and Conflict Transformation at: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation, GTZ). He was a Fellow of the Postgraduate Programme in Inter-

8 1102 Authors national Affairs of the Robert Bosch Foundation and of the German National Academic Foundation, in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office. He has worked before with the EastWest Institute in Brussels, UNDP in Cambodia, UNDP s Democratic Governance Group in NY, the German Federal Foreign Office, Transparency International, and The Carter Center. His publications include: International Statebuilding - Time to Reconsider, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 34,2 (2005): ; From Dealing with the Past to Future Cooperation: Regional and Global Challenges of Reconciliation, Working Group on Southeast Asia, Berlin/GTZ, 31 January - 2 February 2005; (Co-author with Philipp Krause): Statebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies: Democracy vs. Security?, paper for the 44th Annual ISA Convention in Portland (USA), Address: Reinhold Elges, Katzbachstr 12, Berlin, Germany. <relges@gmx.de>. Wendy L. Foley (Australia): Ph.D., is currently a researcher in the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies where her research interests focus on the Pacific. She lived and worked in the Solomon Islands for seven years between 1979 and Address: Dr. Wendy L. Foley, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia. < w.foley@uq.edu.au >. Website: < Hans van Ginkel (The Netherlands) was Rector of the United Nations University and Under Secretary General of the United Nations ( ). See: Biographies of authors of forewords and preface essays. John Grin (Netherlands) is professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam and scientific director of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research. See: Biographies of editors. Thomaz Guedes da Costa (USA/Brazil): Ph.D., Columbia University. He is an educator, specialized in strategy, international and national security, environmental issues, and curriculum management. Currently, Dr. Costa is a Professor of National Security Affairs, at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. Dr. Costa was an analyst with Brazil s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq ). Early in his career, Dr. Costa worked for the Panama Canal Zone Library, Secretariat of the Organization of the American States (OAS), and for the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer (EMBRAER). He has served ( ) in different functions in the Office of the Brazilian Presidency, Center for Strategic Studies, Secretariat for Strategic Affairs, as an analyst in international security, national defence, strategic planning, and foreign intelligence training. As coordinator, he led the evaluation system of scientific Centers of Excellence (PRONEX ) in Brazil. He taught at the International Relations Department, University of Brasília ( ) and has participated in several international collaborative projects, including with the United Nations Development Program, FLACSO- Woodrow Wilson Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Club of Madrid, and University of West Indies. He has published and lectured extensively in his areas of expertise. Address: Dr. Thomaz Guedes da Costa, 110 Rolling Trace, Falls Church, VA, 22066, USA. <costawork@hotmail.com>. Hassan Hanafi Hassanien (Egypt), Ph.D. in philosophy, Sorbonne, Paris (1966), Professor of philosophy, Cairo University, Secretary General of the Egyptian Philosophical Society since 1976, Vice-president of the Arab Philosophical Society since The author of the huge project: Tradition and Modernism based on: I. Reconstruction of Islamic classical sciences: Theology, philosophy, law, mysticism and scriptural sciences. II. Foundation of the Science of Occidentalism to study the West. III. Theory of Reality as Hermeneutics. Author of 30 books in different languages: French, English, Arabic: Les méthodes d exégèse; L exégèse de la phenomenology; La Phénoménologie de L exégèse; Islam in the modern world, 2 vols.; Cultures and Civilizations, conflict or Dialogue? 2 vols.; The anguish of the scholar and the citizen, 2 vols.; The generations dialogue, From dogma to revolution, 5 vols.; Introduction to Occidentalism. Religion, culture and politics in the Arab world, From transfer to creativity, 9 vols.; From Text to Reality, 2 vols.; The Besiege of Time, 2 vols.; Fichte, philosopher of Resistance, From Manhattan to Baghdad, Roots of Authoritarianism and Horizons of Freedom, Bergson, Philosopher of Life & Mohammad Iqbal, Philosopher of Subjectivity. Address: Prof. Dr. Hassan Hanafi Hassanien, 18 Lusaka St., off Ahmed Fakhry, Nasr City, Region 6, Cairo, 11371, Egypt. <dr_h_hanafi@yahoo.com>. Vilho Harle (Finland): Dr. Soc.Sci. (IR), Professor of International Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Tampere, Finland. Formerly professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere, and of IR at the University of Lapland, and the University of Helsinki. His research has covered various topics in international theory, identity politics, and political geography. His current research focuses on critical theory, and theories and change of the international system. He is the author of several publications including: Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World (Greenwood Press 1998); The Enemy with a Thousand Faces (Praeger 2000); Critical Geopolitics of Northern Europe, in: Geopolitics 8,1, 2003 (Special Issue edited in cooperation with Pami Aalto and Simon Dalby). Address: Prof. Dr. Vilho Harle, Department of Political Science, University of Tampere, FIN University of Tampere, Finland. <vilho.harle@uta.fi>. Ortwin Hennig (Germany), Ambassador, currently Vice President and Head of the Conflict Prevention Program, EastWest Institute. He studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and at the London School of Economics. Until spring 2006 he was Commissioner for Civilian

9 Biographies of Contributors 1103 Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building of the German Federal Foreign Office. In his diplomatic career he specialized in arms control and security policy matters. He held diplomatic posts at the German embassies in Kabul, Afghanistan, and in Moscow, Russia (twice, second time as minister responsible for economic and scientific affairs); he served with the German Representation to the European Union in Brussels and with the German Representation to the OSCE in Vienna. He worked with the Office of the German Federal President as a foreign policy advisor. He is an alumnus of the NATO Defence College, Rome. He has published on arms control and OSCE questions. Address: Amb. Ortwin Hennig, EastWest Institute, Brussels Centre, Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels, Belgium. <ohennig@ewi.info>. Website: < Björn Hettne (Sweden), Professor Emeritus at Padrigu (Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University). From 1990 to 1993 he was Dean of the Social Science Faculty, Göteborg University. From 1996 to 2004 International Relations Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor. He was Co-ordinator of the United Nations University European Perspectives Project ( ) and from Co-ordinator of the UNU/WIDER project on the New Regionalism and the International System; member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) throughout the eighties, and from 1990 to 1993 Vice President of the same. Member of the board of UNRISD until Member of the board of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy. President of the GARNET Research School from Recent publications include: Studies in the New Regionalism, Vol I - V ( , ed. with A. Inotai and O. Sunkel); Från Pax Romana till Pax Americana. Europa och världsordningen (From Pax Romana to Pax Americana: Europe and the World Order, 2005); Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice (2005, ed. with M Farrell and L van Langenhove). Address: Prof. Dr. em. Björn Hettne, School of Global Studies, Göteborg University, Box 700, SE Göteborg, Sweden. <bjorn.hettne@globalstudies.gu.se>. Stefan Hintermeier (Germany): Dipl. Pol., born 1976, Consultant to the board of directors of the faction of the Social Democratic Party in the German Bundestag. His research interests comprise German and European foreign and security policy, theories of international relations as well as education and research policy. His diploma thesis analyzed the international conflict management efforts during the Kosovo Crisis. From 2000 to 2004 he worked for several members of Parliament in the German Bundestag. From 2003 to 2006 he was research associate at the Free University Berlin. Address: Stefan Hintermeier, Mainzer Straße 26A, D Berlin, Germany. <mail@stefan-hintermeier.de>. Gunhild Hoogensen (Norway) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tromsø. Her main research interest is security studies, broadly speaking, and more specifically the relevance and application of the human security concept to the Arctic context and to military education (particularly in the field of civilmilitary cooperation or relations). She leads the Human Security Programme at the University of Tromsø, which includes such projects as the International Polar Year project GAPS (security and oil and gas activity in the Arctic) as well as MENSA (military education and the new security agenda). She is also Academic Coordinator for the Model UN programme and Co-Academic Coordinator (political science) for various masters programs offered to the Norwegian military. Her publications include the following books: International Relations, Security, and Jeremy Bentham (Routledge, 2005) and Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960 (Praeger, 2006), and articles in: Security Dialogue, Canadian Foreign Policy, and International Studies Review. Address: Prof. Dr. Gunhild Hoogensen, Department of Political Science, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway. <gunhildh@sv.uit.no>. Website: < and < Alan Hunter (UK) is currently Associate Director of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies; and also Associate Director of a new Applied Research Centre for Human Security based in Coventry. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds. He has studied and worked in several capacities and locations in Asia, including South India, Hong Kong, Singapore and particularly the PRC, having working relations and projects with Fudan, Nanjing, and Zhejiang Universities. As well as academic research and teaching, he has worked on international educational partnerships, and also has extensive experience of distance learning by both internet-based and flying faculty delivery. He has published in both English and Chinese; books include: Protestantism in Contemporary China (1993); Wild Lily Prairie Fire: China s Road to Democracy (1995); Contemporary China (1999); Peace Studies in the Chinese Century (2006). In Chinese academic journals he has published a series of articles on peace studies, as well as a short sociological study of Chinese Protestantism (1991) and a book discussing nineteenth century Asian responses to colonialism focusing on Swami Vivekananda s writings and visits to the USA (2006). His current research interests include the cultural history of Sino-Indian relations; security issues in contemporary China including internet-based pressure-groups; and the emerging issue of human security. Address: Dr. Alan Hunter, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK. <a.hunter@coventry.ac.uk>. Website: < Heinz Dieter Jopp (Germany), captain, German Navy, Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College, head of