Ali Banuazizi is Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program, and Chair of the International Studies Academic Advisory Board at Boston College. He is a past President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and has held academic appointments at Yale University, University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.I.T., and Oxford University.

Robert Bookmiller is Director of International Studies and Associate Professor of Government at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Discovering the Arabian Gulf: Canada’s Evolving Ties with the GCC States (2006) and Engaging Iran: Australian and Canadian Relations with the Islamic Republic (2009) and the co-author (with Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller) of the forthcoming British Journal of Canadian Studies’ article, "Canada and the Human Security Network, 1998-2010: RIP?" He is also the Immediate Past President of the Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS).

Fotini Christia is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She completed her PhD in Public Policy at Harvard University in 2008. Her research interests deal with issues of ethnicity and civil wars and her dissertation addresses the question of civil war alliances. Fotini has done extensive ethnographic and survey research in Afghanistan since 2005. Her current project, on which she is a co-principle investigator is a randomized impact evaluation of a 1.3 billion dollar community driven development program in Afghanistan. The evaluation spans 500 rural communities, across 10 districts in 6 Afghan provinces and more than 15,000 respondents. She has published on policy related matters on Afghanistan in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Rajat Ganguly is is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Studies Programme of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Murdoch University. e has written widely on ethnic conflict and South Asian politics and security. His current research projects focus on insurgency movements and counterinsurgency operations, ethnic secession in world politics, military and non-military approaches to conflict management, and the politics, foreign policy and security of South Asian states particularly India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. His recent publications include articles in Small Wars and Insurgencies (2007), Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (2005), Third World Quarterly (2004), and Asian Studies Review (2001). He is author of Secession in World Politics: Contemporary Dilemmas (forthcoming), Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in India (forthcoming), Dictionary of Ethnic Conflict (forthcoming), and Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: Lessons from South Asia (Sage 1998); co-author of Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension (Longman 2006, 2002, 1998) and Ethnicity and Nation-Building in South Asia, Revised Edition (Sage 2001); and co-editor of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and Southeast Asia: Causes, Dynamics, Solutions (Sage 2003).

Houchang Hassan-Yari is Professor of international relations (military and strategic issues) and head of the Poltics and Economics Department at Royal Military College of Canada.

Ashok Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, and author of a forthcoming book, India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle (Routledge).

Jorge Heine is CIGI Professor of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario.

Florian P. Kühn is Assistant Professor at Helmut Schmidt University: The University of the German Federal Armed Forces Hamburg.

Kim Richard Nossal is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of International Relation at Queen's University.

Roland Paris is Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Paris' writings have appeared in International Security and International Studies Quarterly among others. His book At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict (Cambridge, 2004) won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving Global Order as well as the International Studies Association's prize for best book on multilateralism. He is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding (United Nations University Press 2009) and The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (Routledge 2009).

Julian Schofield (Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor at Concordia University and author of Militarization and War (Palgrave Macmillan 2007). He has done extensive field work in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and has articles in Armed Forces & Society, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Journal of Political and Military Sociology. Julian was a Captain the Canadian army engineers.