HUSSEIN BANAI Doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Brown University and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for International Studies, MIT, USA ROLAND BLEIKER Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia NOÉ CORNAGO Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain MAI'A K. DAVIS CROSS Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USA ANTHONY DEOS is a public relations professional currently based in Minneapolis, USA IVER B. NEUMANN Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Professor in Russian Studies, Oslo University, Norway SAM OKOTH OPONDO Doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA GEOFFREY ALLEN PIGMAN Member of the Faculty in Political Economy at Bennington College, Vermont, USA. Visiting Fellow, Centre for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, USA PAUL SHARP Professor and Head of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA ARNE STRAND was Centre Manager at the Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, from 2007 to 2009 DAVID JOSEPH WELLMAN Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Center for Interreligious Engagement at DePaul University in Chicago, USA GEOFFREY WISEMAN teaches International Relations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA