HANS G\NTER BRAUCH (Germany): Privatdozent at the Free University of Berlin, chairman of AFES-PRESS. He was guest professor at the universities of Frankfurt on Main, Leipzig and Greifswald. He has published more than thirty books and twenty research reports in English and German on issues of security and armament policy, climate, energy and migration policies. - ANTONIO MARQUINA (Spain): Professor of International Relations at Complutense University in Madrid, director of UNISCI and of fourteen research projects; author, editor and co-author of seventy-two books and reports in English and Spanish. From 1996 to 1997 he was the first president of STRADEMED, a network on security, defence and development issues in the Mediterranean. - ABDELWAHAB BIAD (Algeria/France): Associate Professor, University of Rouen in France. Assistant Professor of International Relations, University Annada (1987-1994), visiting fellow at UNIDIR (1988), at the ICRC in Geneva (1992) and at the Hague Academy of International Law. He is the author of thirty-two book chapters and articles in English and French. - PETER LIOTTA (USA): Professor, US Naval War College; previous assignments to Greece (1993-1996) and Yugoslavia (1988-1989). A language editor, his work has been translated into Bosnian, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Japanese, Macedonian, Serbo-Croat, and Spanish.