Professor Pascal Boniface is a political analyst specializing in the domains of international relations, nuclear deterrence and disarmament, European Security, French International Policy and Sport in the International Relations. He is a permanent Professor (maître des conferences) at the “Institut d’Etudes européennes” in the University of Paris-8 where he teaches International Relations. He is the author of over forty books and is a frequent contributor to national and international publications on geopolitics as well as to various national news papers. Boniface is also director of the quarterly journal “La revue internationale et stratégique” since 1991 and editor of the yearbook “L’Année stratégique” (Strategic Yearbook) since 1985. In parallel with he’s teaching activities he is the founding Director of IRIS (Institute for International and Strategic Relations) and gives consultations to the French Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs on strategic issues.

Professor Jean-Marie Bouissou is a specialist of contemporary Japan, he gives particular attention to the economic, political, social and international developments of Japan after the Second World War, to the political economy of the Japanese crisis (1990-2007) and also to the Japanese influence on cultural globalization through its most popular cultural products (Manga). He is a professor at several universities in France among which Sciences Po Paris, University of Rennes and University of Paris 10. He is also a supervisor of the education activities of the European Training Programme Japan. He’s most recent books are: "Le Japon contemporain"(2007), "Après la crise...Les économies asiatiques à la croisée des chemins"(2003) and "Quand les sumos apprennent à danser, la fin du modèle japonais"(2003). Also he is a member of the editorial boards of The Pacific Review, The Open Political Science Journal and Critique internationale and a founding member of the Association Franco-Japonaise de Science Politique, and of the Manga Network.

Professor Robert W Bradnock is a specialist in South Asia whose researches cover various aspects of geopolitics and development, including regional co-operation and the geopolitics of environmental change in South Asia. He began his teaching career at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 1968. Thirty three years later he joined the King’s College where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Geography. He published several books among which we cite: The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs (Taylor and Francis, 2010), South Asia in a Globalising World, (London, Pearson/DARG; edited with G. O. Williams, 2002) and India's Foreign Policy since 1971, (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House,1990). M. Bradknock is a regular broadcaster at the BBC and at American and European radio and TV networks, covering South Asian current affairs.

Professor Michael Cox is a professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is specialized in the politics and power of the United States, in the transatlantic relations and in international terrorism. He is a prolific author and his latest books are: The global 1989 - continuity and change in world politics (Lawson, George and Armbruster, Chris and Cox, Michael, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010), Soft power and US foreign policy: theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives (Parmar, Inderjeet and Cox, Michael, eds., Routledge, London, 2009) and US foreign policy (Cox Michaels and Strokes, Doug, eds., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2008). Moreover, he publishes in numerous academic journals like The British journal of politics and international relations or Political studies review. M. Cox is a member of the Chair of United States Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a former member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium of Political Research.

Mr. Robert Cooper is the author of The Post-Modern State (2002), and implicitly of the doctrine of “new liberal imperialism” that influenced Tony Blair’s thoughts, he is a Senior British diplomat and a former Director-General at the Council of the EU. Mr. Cooper joined the Diplomatic service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970. He worked mainly at the British embassies of Bonn and Tokyo before being nominated as Head of the Policy Planning Staff. Afterwards he was promoted to the position of Deputy Secretary for Defence and Overseas Affairs. Before entering the Council of the EU he was the UK’s Special Representative in Afghanistan. Cooper is currently a member of the steering committee in charge of drafting Catherine Ashton’s proposals for the structure of EU’s European External Action Service.

Professor Christopher Clapham is a specialist in African Studies, particularly interested by Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, but also by Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has a vast teaching experience that he acquired as a lecturer at the Universities of Addis Abba (1966-1967), Manchester (1968-1971) and Lancaster (1989-2002). He currently teaches at the Center of African Studies of the University of Cambridge. His main publications are: Africa and the International System (Cambridge University Press, 2002), African Guerrillas (James Currey, 1998), Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Third World Politics (Croom Helm,1985), etc. Since 1988 he is the editor of the Journal of Modern African Studies published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Tim Dunne is a British scholar educated at Oxford in International Relations. He’s areas of interest are human rights, Britain’s foreign policy, the changing dynamics of world order after 9/11, and global responsibility for the protection of human rights. At the moment he is a Research Director at the University of Queensland but before taking this position he was a professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK. M. Dunne has published several books, we name only he’s last ones: International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (with Milja Kurki, Steve Smith eds., Oxford University Press, 2010), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (with Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield eds., Oxford University Press, 2008), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (with Ken Booth eds., Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002). He also served as editor for well-known academic journals: Review of International Studies, the International Journal of Human Rights, and he currently is editor of the European Journal of International Relations.

Professor Daniel Dormoy chairs the Scientific Board of CERIS. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University Paris-Sud 11 where he teaches International and European Law and is incumbent of the Chaire Jean-Monnet. He’s researches cover mainly humanitarian international law, law of war and law of international organizations. Among he’s published works we name: Réfugiés, immigration clandestine et centres de rétention des immigrés clandestins en droit international (Bruylant, 2008) Perspectives humanitaires entre conflits, droit(s) et action (Editions Bruylant, 2002) and Génocide(s) (Editions Bruylant, 1999). Professor Dormoy is also a member of the Administrative Council of the University Paris-Sud 11 and president of the College d'études internationales and of the Francophone Network of international law (RFDI). He is part of the Reading Committee of the Revue quebequoise de droit international and of the Scientific Board of the Revue belge de droit international.

Professor Mohammad-Reza Djalili is a political analyst focusing on the Middle-East and Central Asia. He’s academic career started at the University of Teheran where he was appointed as Professor in 1970. A decade later he was teaching at the University Paris II and later he became an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He’s books concentrate mainly of the subject of Iran - Histoire de l'Iran contemporain (La Découverte, 2010, co-authored by Thierry Kellner), L'Iran de A à Z (André Versaille éditeur, 2010), Géopolitique de l'Iran (Complexe, 2005), but he also published on the subject of Central Asia - Géopolitique de la nouvelle Asie centrale. De la fin de l'URSS à l'après-11 septembre (Puf, 2001-2003 co-authored by Thierry Kellner), and the region of Caucasus - Le Caucase postsoviétque : la transition dans le conflit (Bruylant, 1995). M. Djalili is a member of the European Consortium for Political Research, of the editing committee of Nouveaux Mondes, and a correspondent to the journal La lettre d’Asie centrale.

Professor Guy Olivier Faure is an expert in the field of International Negotiation. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne University, Paris V, Department of Social Sciences. He is also a visiting professor in a significant number of Universities all over the world. He lectured in various countries in Europe, in the US, in China and Latin America. His works have been received very well by the public and have been translated in nine languages. M. Faure is the author, co-author and editor of a dozen of books and over 50 articles, including: Negotiating with terrorists: strategy tactics and politics (Taylor & Francis Group, 2010, co authored by William Zartman), La Negociation: regards sur sa diversité (Publibook, 2005), How people negotiate: resolving disputes in different cultures (Springer, 2003), etc. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of three major international journals: Negotiation Journal (Harvard, Cambridge); Group Decision and Negotiation (New York); International Negotiation (Washington).

Professor Amelia Hadfield is a Lecturer in European International Relations. She pursued doctoral studies and graduate teaching at the University of Kent Brussels and Vesalius College, as well as extra-academic work in various European institutions. Amelia has taught courses on IR theory, philosophy and methodology, Britain and Europe, European foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, and identity. At the University of Kent, Amelia is the Director of the MA in International Relations. Further afield, Amelia has served as associate fellow with Chatham House, CEPS (Brussels) and the Pan-European Institute (Finland), and taught European foreign policy at Sciences Po Lille in 2008. Amelia is presently the founding Director of Kent’s Energy Analysis Group, serves on the Editorial Board of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and is the UACES Secretary for 2008-10. Amelia’s current areas of research include European foreign policy, and the role of identity in foreign policy formation. Recent publications include ‘Foreign Policy and Dyadic Identities: the Role of the CFSP’, Journal of Geopolitics, Issue 11 (4), 2006, and ‘Janus Advances? An Analysis of EC Development Policy and the 2005 Amended Cotonou Partnership’, European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2007, Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (OUP 2008). Forthcoming publications include a monograph exploring the connections between identity and foreign policy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and a critical introduction to foreign policy (OUP 2009)

Professor Michel Foucher is a French diplomat and an expert in geopolitics he is also a Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. Interested by issues of state and borders and the position of Europe in the world, M. Foucher published widely on these subjects. He’s latest publications are: L’Europe et l’avenir du monde (Odile Jacobs, 2009), L’Europe entre géopolitiques et géographies (Armand Colin, CNED, SEDES, 2009), Nouveaux (dés)équilibres mondiaux (La Documentation Française, 2009), Géopolitique de la Turquie (L’Histoire, 2009). He previously taught at the University Lumière Lyon II, at the Institute of political studies of Lyon and at the Collège d’Europe in Warsaw. He is also a former French ambassador to Latvia and the former head of the Analysis and Forecast Center at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the French Foreign Affairs Council.

Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova is a research specialist in International Political Economy. Her areas of interest cover finance and financial crises, globalisation and governance and her current research focuses on the themes of global financial fragility and crises, the formation of financial and monetary policies, and the process of capitalist evolution in Russia and other FSU countries. She currently teaches at the School of Social Sciences of the City University in London at undergraduate and PG level. She is a former lecturer at the Centre for Global Political Economy of the University of Sussex. Professor Nesvetailova is the author of Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit (Palgrave, 2007) and Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (Pluto, 2010). She is a co-editor of Global Finance in the New Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), International Political Economy: A Reader (Sage, 2007), and author of academic and media articles on finance and political economy.

Professor Klaus Dodds is a visiting fellow at St Cross College, Oxford specializing in geopolitics. His research focuses on the media and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He is currently the Director of the Politics & Environment Research Group (PERG). He edits the Geographical Journal and is a member of several other scientific journals like Geography Compass, Geopolitics and Polar Record. Professor Dodds has authored five books among which we mention: Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007), Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction (Pearson Education, 2005) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris, 2002). He is equally the laureate of the Philip Leverhulme Prize on behalf of his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and human geography.

Professor Sven Biscop is a Senior Research fellow at the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels and a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. His main area of interest is the foreign, security and defence policy of the European Union. He holds the position of Director at the Egmont Institute of Belgium for the Security and Global Governance Programme. Professor Biscop previously taught at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the University of Liège (ULG), and has been a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and Carleton University in Ottawa. His recent publications focus on the European Security Strategy, on which he has published several books: Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership (Ashgate, 2003), The European Security Strategy – A Global Agenda for Positive Power (Ashgate, 2005) and The EU and the European Security Strategy – Forging a Global Europe (Routledge, 2007, co-edited with Jan Joel Andersson). Dr. Biscop is the editor of Studia Diplomatica and the Egmont Papers and is a member of the editorial board of the Internationale Spectator and European Security.

Mr. Ted Whiteside is currently Secretary of the North Atlantic Council, and Director of the NATO Ministerial and Summit Task Force in Brussels. Before taking up his current duties he held the position of Director of the NATO Weapons of Mass Destruction Centre. Mr. Whiteside is responsible for providing the critical link between the private office of the Secretary General and the Delegations of NATO, as well as for coordinating the long term work program of the Council of NATO. He was awarded a Medal by the Governor General of Canada for the negotiations conducted with the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a Graduate of the NATO Defense College, did postgraduate studies in International Politics in Brussels, and holds an M.A. from the University of Montréal and a B.A. from York University.

Professor Stephan Keukeleire is professor in the Institute for International and European Policy (IIEP) in the University of Leuven (KUL). He is  Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration & Foreign Policy, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), Stephan Keukeleire's research focuses on foreign policy analysis in general, and on the foreign policy of the European Union in particular. Within the former, he researches structural foreign policy & traditional foreign policy; structural conflict prevention; foreign policy, human security & societal security; foreign policy & globalization & theoretical approaches towards foreign policy. Within the latter, he analyzes the common foreign & security policy (CFSP) of the EU, European Security & Defense Policy (ESDP/CESDP), EU foreign policy & the first pillar (European Community), EU structural policy & structural conflict prevention, flexibility, directorates & contact groups, and explanations for and deconstructions of EU foreign policy.

His Excellency Reinhard Bettzuege is a visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, he is also the current German Ambassador to Belgium. He started his diplomatic career at the German Embassy in Lisbon, subsequently holding different positions at the German Embassies of London and Belgrade. Ambassador Bettzuege was Deputy Spokesperson, later Head of the Public Information Department of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as Press and PR Adviser to Foreign Ministers Genscher and Kinkel. In 1995 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to NATO. Five years later he was moved to the position of Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the OSCE in Vienna. Reinhard Bettzuege has taught in many academic institutions including at the DSE (German Foundation for Development Policy Berlin) and at the Foreign Office of the Diplomatic Academy in Berlin, the Andrassy University in Budapest, and the Columbia and New York Universities in the US.

Professor Guibourg Delamotte is a recognised expert in Asian and Japanese affairs, and a Fellow Researcher and speaker at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations in Paris. She is also a Fellow Researcher at the Asia Centre and at the Centre de recherche sur le Japon, as well as an Adjunct Fellow at the Temple University Japan. Her main area of interest is Japan and its geopolitical and security issues. Professor Delamotte has an extensive bibliography on Japan, starting with her PhD thesis : Déterminants de la politique de défense et jeux politiques japonais. She has published and co-authored several books including La Politique de défense du Japon (Presse Universitaire de France, 2010), The Constraints to Japan’s National Security : Political and Normative Dimensions (Global Oriental, 2010), Globalization’s impact on threat perception and defence postures in Northeast Asia (Routledge 2009). She is the co-director of La Géopolitique de l’Asie (SEDES, 2007). She has also edited and written several academic reviews on the politics of Japan. Her PhD Thesis has been awarded the Shibusawa-Claudel award in 2008.

Professor Neil Robinson is a Senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Limerick, where he is the course Director of the Bachelor in Politics and International Relations. He is a specialist in the fields of Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author of Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse,(Edward Elgar, 1995), and Russia: a state of uncertainty, (Routledge, 2002), co-author (with Karen Henderson) of Post-communist politics, (Prentice Hall, 1997). He is equally the editor or co-editor of Institutions and political change in Russia, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), (Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice, (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), and (with Todd Landman), The Sage handbook of comparative politics, (London: Sage, 2009). M. Robinson taught previously at the Universities of York and Essex. He is the author of articles in several journals including Soviet Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiay, Review of International Political Economy.

Professor Jacques Rupnik is a former adviser of Vaclav Havel, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po, Paris. He’s fields of research are democratic transition in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, European integration (the enlargement of the EU and neighborhood policies) and nationalism, the demise of federal States and the building of the Nation-States in Eastern Europe. He is a visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) since 1999 where he gives lectures about the EU and its neighbors. He previously held (and still holds) several top academic positions such as executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans and member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is a prolific author and we cite among he’s books : Les banlieues de l'Europe. Les politiques de voisinage de l’Union européenne (Presses de Sciences Po, 2007), L'Europe des Vingt-Cinq. 25 cartes pour un jeu complexe (with Christian Lequesne, Autrement, 2004), Les Européens face à l'élargissement. Perceptions, acteurs, enjeux (Presses de Sciences Po, 2004). Since 2007 he is an adviser at the European Commission. Until 2010 Professor Jacques Rupnik is a Lecturer in Harvard University.

Professor Richard Sawka is a Lecturer of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent. His research interest include the democratic development in Russia, the nature of postcommunism and the global challenges facing the former communist countries. On these subjects he published several books, we only cite his latest: The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair (Oxford University Press, 2009), Russian Politics and Society (Routledge, 2008, 4th edition), Putin: Russia’s Choice (Routledge, 2007, 2nd edition) and The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 (Routledge, 1999). M. Sawka is also an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow, chair of the Advisory Board of the Eurasian Political Studies Network and, since September 2002, a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

Professor Jan Aart Scholte is a Lecturer at PAIS (Politics and International Studies) and a Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. Previously he worked at the University of Sussex, Brighton and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. His areas of interest are the democratic governance of a globalised world, civil society and global governance, and world-historical-sociological perspectives on social change. He published some 100 articles and several books including: Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005), International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993). Also he completed a policy report on IMF Relations with Member Countries: The Civil Society Dimension for the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund for the year 2009. M. Scholte serves on the advisory boards of various institutes and programmes in global(isation) and regional(isation) studies around the world. He is also a former editor of the journal Global Governance (2005-9). He currently is the coordinator of the major international project 'Building Global Democracy'.

Mr. Jamie Patrick Shea is the Director of Policy Planning at NATO, he is also a Lecturer at the Collège d’Europe, Bruges since 2006. His position within the Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO gives him the responsibility of advising and assisting the Secretary General, senior NATO management, and the North Atlantic Council in addressing strategic issues facing the Alliance. M. Shea held different positions within the North Atlantic Alliance including Director of Information and Press and, during the Kosovo conflict, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press. He is a regular lecturer and conference speaker on NATO and European security affairs and on public diplomacy and political communication and lobbying. He has also given lectures at the Brussels School of International Studies, at the University of Kent, at the American University in Washington DC, at the Michigan State University and at the University of Antwerp. Shea was the Director of the Brussels Overseas Study Programme of the American University and held the Chair of Transatlantic Programme of the Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

Professor Philippa Sherrington is a FDTL Project Director and Lecturer at the University of Warwick. Her research areas are the institutional dynamics of the EU, in particular the inter-institutional dialogues between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. Also she is interested in the idea generation and think tanks who work on the EU, and the UK's tense relationship with the EU. Among her books we cite: Understanding European Union Governance and Public Policy, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), The Council of Ministers: political authority in the European Union (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000). She is also a contributor to the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. In 2003 she was awarded the Warwick award for Teaching Excellence, having been nominated by students and colleagues. Professor Shea is an accredited member of the Higher Education Academy, and is a Member of the Reference Group for the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP).

Professor Karen E Smith is a Reader in International Relations and the Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit at the London School Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on European Union foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights and foreign policy. We cite among her publications: ‘The European Union at the Human Rights Council: speaking with one voice but having little influence’, Journal of European public policy, 17 (2), (pp. 224-241, 2010), ‘The EU in the world: future research agendas.’ In: Egan, Michelle and Nugent, Neill and Paterson, William E., (eds.) Research agendas in EU studies: stalking the elephant (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), ‘EU foreign policy and Asia.’ In: Balme, Richard and Bridges, Brian, (eds.) Europe-Asia relations: building multilateralisms (Palgrave, 2008), European Union foreign policy in a changing world (Polity Press, 2008). She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence and a former editor and free-lance journalist. In 2007 Dr Smith was awarded the Anna Lindh award for excellence in research on European foreign and security policy.

Professor Daniel Turp is a Canadian Lecturer and politician. Currently holding the position of Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Montréal, M. Turp has served as MP of the Party Quebecois at the National Assembly of Quebec. He is also the vice-president and president of the Political Commission of the Quebecois Party and a member of its National Executive Council. He was also a visiting Professor at the University of Paris X, ULB (Brussels), University of Geneva, University Paris XI (Paris-Sud) as well as at the International Institute of Human Rights of Strasbourg. Among his publications we cite: The Right to Choose: Essays of Québec's Right to Self-Determination,(Thémis, 2001), La régulation juridique des espaces économiques : interactions GATT/OMC, Union européenne et ALÉNA (with T., Debart, J. Schmidt and V. Nabhan, Centre Jaques-Cartier, 1996), Droit international, canadien et québécois des droits et libertés : notes et documents (with W. Schabas, Yvon Blais, 1998). His areas of research are Public International Law, International and Constitutional Law of the Fundamental Rights and Advanced Constitutional Law.

Professor David Travers is a leading barrister in the three fields of Health and Safety, Environmental Law and Consumer Law. He is a legal advisor to the Professional Conduct Committees of the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council and is an Accredited Mediator. Travers is a former Law Reader at King’s College London, where he also edited the Law School Journal, and a former lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He is member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Harmsworth Scholar), Midland Circuit, PEBA, Food Law Group, Administrative Law Bar Association, and UKELA. M. Travers was a Member of the General Council of the Bar from 1995 to 2000, and a member of the Law Reform Committee and the Bar Services Committee of the Bar Council from 1996 to 1998.

Professor William Zartman is Emeritus Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. He is an expert in conflict resolution and negotiation, crisis management, developing nations and diplomacy for the areas of Africa, Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East. He previously served for more than 20 years as the Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and is also the former director of SAIS Conflict Management and African Studies programs. M. Zartman was a consultant to the U.S. Department of State and the president of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies and of the Middle East Studies Association and the American Institute for Maghreb Studies. He also acquired membership in the International Steering Committee of Processes of International Negotiations Program based in Europe. He is the author of several books among which we cite: Understanding Life in the Borderlands: Boundaries in Depth and in Motion (University of Georgia Press, 2010), Imbalance of Power: U.S. Hegemony and International Order (Lynne Rienner, 2009), Diplomacy Games: Formal Models and International Negotiations, co-editor (Springer, 2007), Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2007).

Professor Charles Zorgbibe is a French jurist and historian specializing in International Relations who taught at the University Paris-I-Pantheonn-Sorbonne. He is a former Rector of the Academy of Aix de Marseille and a former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris-I. M. Zorgbibe is the author of many essays of International Law and Foreign policy, among which a History of the European Union (Albin Michel, 2005), a Political and Constitutional History of France (Ellipses, 2002), a History of NATO (Complexe, 2002) and several biographies including the ones of Mirabeau (Fallois, 2008) and Metternich (Fallois, 2009). He also published a first tome of Paix et guerres en Afrique in 2009 (ed. François Bourin). He is the president of the International Politics Center at Sorbonne and a former head of the Foundation for Defence Studies. He also conducted several reports on the future of the EU and of the UN for the French Ministry of Defense.