KARIN AGGESTAM Research Assistant, University of Kent DAVID ARMSTRONG Professor of Politics, University of Durham MARTIN BELL Centre of Diplomatic Studies, University of Leicester G. R. BERRIDGE Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester RAYMOND COHEN Professor and head of the Department of International Relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem NADIA GALLO Research Assistant, Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester BRIAN HOCKING Professor in International Relations and Director of the Centre for International and European studies at Coventry University CHRISTER JÖNSSON Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden JOVAN KURBALIJA Head of Information Technology and Diplomacy, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta HELEN LEIGH-PHIPPARD Lecturer in International Relations in University of Sussex PAUL W. MEERTS Deputy-Director, Netherlands Institute of International Relations FRANÇOISE MENGIN Researcher at the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris MARIE MULLER Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria GARY D. RAWNSLEY Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Nottingham. NADIM N. ROUHANA Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston