Alex Burns is Research Facilitation & Development Manager in Victoria University's Office for Research, and a PhD candidate at Monash University's School of Political and Social Inquiry. His research focuses on strategic culture and counterterrorism studies. He has published on the role of technology and globalization in modern security studies.
Renato Cruz De Castro is Senior Professor in the Department of International Studies and the holder of the Charles Lui Chi Keung Professional Chair in China Studies at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and former US State Department ASEAN Research Fellow. De Castro has written numerous journal articles on Philippines Politico-Military affairs and security policies in the Asia-Pacific.
Ben Eltham is Research Fellow at Deakin University's Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. He completed his PhD in Australian public policy at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. In addition to his academic research, he works as a journalist covering Australian politics and government for a number of publications, including New Matilda and the Guardian Australia.
David G. Haglund is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on transatlantic and North American security relations, and he recently completed a monograph entitled People in Motion: Ethnic Diasporas and the Evolution of the Canada–US Security Community, from the Civil War to Today. He is the author of numerous monographs, journal articles and book chapters, and was co-editor of International Journal from 2003 until 2013.
Brice F. Harris holds a PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Reading, and is Associate Director of the Office of Economic Development and Engagement at the University of West Florida. Past professional experiences include postings in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Executive Office of the Governor of Florida, and has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member for the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He is the author of America, Technology, and Strategic Culture: A Clausewitzian Assessment (Routledge, 2008).
Jiyul Kim is Visiting Professor of History at Oberlin College. A former US Army Colonel and Director of Asian Studies and Coordinator for Regional Studies at the US Army War College, he has published on military affairs, Asia policy, history, and archaeology and is the author of Cultural Dimensions of Strategy and Policy (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009). He holds BAs in anthropology and biology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in regional studies East Asia from Harvard University, and is in All-But-Dissertation status in history and East Asian languages at Harvard.
Jeffrey Lantis is Professor of Political Science at the College of Wooster. His research specializations include international security, norms, strategic culture, nuclear nonproliferation, and comparative foreign and security policy analysis. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia, Lantis is the author of recent books, including United States Foreign Policy in Action (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and The Life and Death of International Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2009), and is co-editor of Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on State Behavior, 2nd edition (CQ Press, 2013).
Andrew Oros is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Oros holds a PhD from Columbia University, and is a specialist in international and comparative politics of East Asia. He is author of Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice (Stanford University Press, 2008), co-author of Global Security Watch: Japan (Praeger Press, 2010), and has written numerous articles on Japanese politics and East Asian security.
Andrew Scobell is a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation and Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University. He was formerly Associate Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College. He is the author (with Andrew J. Nathan) of China's Search for Security (Columbia University Press, 2012) and China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003), among other publications.