Mark T. Berger is Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California). He is the author of The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (2004); editor of From Nation-Building to State-Building (2007); co-editor (with Douglas A. Borer) of The Long War: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States (2008; forthcoming). He is also co-author (with Heloise Weber) of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (2008: forthcoming) and author of The American Ascendancy and the Fate of Nations: Empires, Nation-States and Changing Global Orders, (2009: forthcoming).
David Bewley-Taylor is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department in the American Studies Department at Swansea University. His monograph, The United States and International Drug Control, 1909–1997, was reprinted in paperback edition by Continuum of London.
Nicholas Dujmovic has been a CIA staff historian since 2005. A frequent contributor to Studies in Intelligence, he also serves on that journal's editorial board. He is also the compiler and editor of The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence, a book of quotations about intelligence published by Yale University Press in 2004 under the pseudonym Charles C. Lathrop.
Shannon Mollie Epps is a 2007 political science graduate from Brigham Young University who is now employed in Washington, DC.
Frederick P. Hitz worked for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 as an operations officer, from 1978 to 1982 as a legislative counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and from 1990 to 1998 as the first statutory inspector general of the CIA. He is now affiliated with both Princeton University and the University of Virginia. His book, The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage (published by Knopf in 2004), uses spy fiction to illustrate various aspects of the intelligence profession.
Loch K. Johnson is the US co-editor of this journal and Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He recently edited the five-volume Strategic Intelligence: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government published by Praeger.
Charles McCarry worked as clandestine intelligence officer with the CIA from 1958 to 1967. After retirement from the Agency, he has written 11 popular novels, all but one of them about intelligence. Nine of his spy novels have focused on a single fictional family involved in espionage. He is also the author of other non-fiction works.
Stan A. Taylor writes occasionally on intelligence matters in this journal. He is a Research Associate at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1976 to 1985 as a staff member or consultant. He is the co-author of America the Vincible: U.S. Foreign Policy for the Twenty-first Century, a Pearson book now in its third edition.