WOJCIECH KOSTECKI is Professor at the Institute for Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He was a founding member of the European Peace Research Association, 1989, and convenor of the East-Europe Commission, International Peace Research Association since 1990. He is the author of Europe after the Cold War: The Security Complex Theory. KATARZYNA ZUKROWSKA is a professor working at the Warsaw School of Economics, (European Programme) and in the Institute of Development and Strategic Studies. Her publications include Conversion in Poland: The Defense Industry and Base Redevelopment (co-author), International Institutions in the Transformation of East Central European Countries and Szerokie Otwarcie. BOGDAN J. GSRALCZYK is Councillor for Press and Political Affairs of the Polish Embassy in Budapest. Previously a Senior Fulbright scholar at the University of California, San Diego and researcher at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. He has published books in Polish, as well as scientific articles in English, Polish and Hungarian.