Johan Bergenäs is the deputy director of the Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries initiative. His areas of expertise include the nexus between security and economic development, public-private sector partnerships, technology applications for security and development capacity building, and the security and defense industry. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, he worked for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, analyzing regional and international proliferation issues and trends. Before that, he was a member of Oxfam America's humanitarian policy and communications teams, covering development and conflict issues in the Middle East and Africa. Bergenäs has also been a reporter and freelance journalist for numerous publications, covering a wide range of international and US domestic issues, including presidential politics.
Benjamin Bonin is a graduate research associate at Sandia National Laboratories, where he provides research and analytical support for international technical outreach programs on nuclear security and nonproliferation. He holds a master's degree in political science, and is currently a PhD candidate in political science at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include proliferation challenges in the Middle East, the implications of global nuclear energy expansion, and US foreign policy on nonproliferation and arms control.
David A. Cooper is professor and chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University and has held prior faculty associations with National Defense University, American University, and Georgetown University. He served for nearly two decades in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, including as director of nonproliferation policy and director of strategic arms control policy.
C. Christine Fair is an assistant professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining Georgetown, she served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate with the United States Institute of Peace. Her research focuses on political and military affairs in South Asia. She has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles covering a range of security issues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on numerous editorial boards. Fair has a PhD from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization from the University of Chicago.
Brian Finlay is the managing director of the Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries initiative, which looks for innovative international responses—at the international, national, and regional levels—and for smart public-private partnerships to mitigate transnational security threats and ameliorate development challenges. Prior to joining Stimson in January 2005, he served four years as executive director of a lobbying and media campaign focused on counterterrorism issues. He also worked as a senior researcher at the Brookings Institution, and as a program officer at the Century Foundation. Finlay was a project manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control/Health Canada, and worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He sits on the advisory board of Trojan Defense, LLC, and is a member of the Board of Directors of iMMAP, a humanitarian information management organization.
Andrew Futter is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester where he specializes in contemporary nuclear strategy and nonproliferation issues. He is the co-convener of the British International Studies Association's Global Nuclear Order working group, and policy editor for International Studies Today. He has published on ballistic missile defense and nuclear disarmament, US nuclear policy under President Barack Obama, the future of NATO tactical nuclear weapons, and the changing nature of nuclear deterrence. His most recent book, Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy: Normalisation and Acceptance after the Cold War, will be published by Routledge later this year.
Matthew S. Gratias is provost's PhD fellow in politics and international relations at the University of Southern California. From 2002–08, he was an intelligence analyst and crypto-linguist with the US intelligence community, focusing on Iranian military affairs. His research interests include Iranian and Shi'a political thought, nuclear proliferation, the role of nuclear weapons in democratic transitions, and comparative authoritarianism.
Patrick Homan is a doctoral candidate in political science at Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, arms control and nonproliferation, US foreign policy, and Latin American politics. He completed a master's degree in international affairs at American University's School of International Service and received a bachelor's degree in political science and history from Illinois Wesleyan University. In the fall of 2013, he will start his position as an assistant professor of political science at Dominican University in River Forest, IL.
Jacques E. C. Hymans is associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California and a member of the Nonproliferation Review's editorial board. He has published two books on nuclear proliferation, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as numerous articles on the subject.
Karl Kaltenthaler is professor of political science and director of research at the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. He has published several articles on public attitudes toward terrorism and international politics in such journals as Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and the European Journal of Political Research among others. He received his PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis.
Anton Khlopkov is director of the Moscow-based Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) and editor-in-chief of the journal Nuclear Club. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Previously, he worked for the Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center), including as executive director, and was a visiting fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). He is the author of the monograph Iran's Nuclear Program in Russian-American Relations (2001). He also co-authored the monographs Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East (2012); At the Nuclear Threshold: The Lessons of North Korea and Iran for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (2007).
William Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at Flagler College. He has authored four books on electoral politics, including an examination of the Tea Party's impact on the 2010 US elections, scholarly debates in public administration, redistricting, and the 2012 Republican nomination process. He has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals related to public opinion, campaign strategy, public policy analysis, and pedagogy. Journals include International Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Political Science Education, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Early Childhood Research & Practice. He has a PhD in Public Administration and Urban Studies from the University of Akron.
Dr. Amir Mohagheghi is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He currently provides strategic guidance for regional security programs in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. His responsibilities include cooperative regional programs that cover a wide spectrum of security issues where science and technology can play a constructive role.
Tanya Ogilvie-White is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), specializing in international security, nonproliferation, and disarmament. She is a trustee of the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies, a member of the New Zealand branch of the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, an international partner of the Fissile Materials Working Group, and associate editor of the US-based academic journal, Asian Security. Before joining ASPI in October 2012, she was a research fellow for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, a senior lecturer in foreign policy and international organizations at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a research fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Southampton. Her recent books include Slaying the Nuclear Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century (University of Georgia Press, 2012), and On Nuclear Deterrence: The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan (Routledge, 2011).
Henry Sokolski is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Arlington, Virginia, and teaches at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. Mr. Sokolski previously served as a legislative aide in the US Senate on nuclear and defense issues, as a full-time consultant on proliferation issues in the Office of Net Assessment in the Department of Defense, as deputy for nonproliferation policy under then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, as a member of the CIA's Senior Advisory Group, and as a member of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism and of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. His latest book is Nuclear Nonproliferation: Moving Beyond Pretense (Arlington VA: The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 2012).
Arturo C. Sotomayor is an assistant professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. His areas of interest include civil-military relations in Latin America, UN peacekeeping participation by South American countries, Latin American comparative foreign policy, and international organizations. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University in 2004. His publications have appeared in Security Studies, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Latin American Politics and Society, Hemisphere, and other edited volumes.
Dr. Michael Yaffe is distinguished professor of strategic studies and former academic dean at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University. Throughout the 1990s, he served on the US delegation to the Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group of the Middle East Peace Process.
Benjamin Zala is the director of the Sustainable Security Programme at the Oxford Research Group and a PhD candidate in international relations at the University of Birmingham. He is also the editorial assistant for the academic journal Civil Wars (published by Routledge). His PhD research examines the concept of polarity in International Relations (IR) theory focusing on ways of dealing with perceptions of power transitions and their effects. He has published on nuclear proliferation, IR theory, and non-traditional security issues in journals such as Security Challenges, Cooperation & Conflict, and the RUSI Journal.