Experts / Authors
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Alison Pargeter is a Research Fellow at the International Policy Institue, Kings College London. She has published widely on Libya. |
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Hassan Abbas served as the Sub-Divisional Police Chief in the NWFP from 1996-1998, and was the Deputy Director of Investigations in Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau from 1999-2000. Currently, he is a fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and is the author of Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror. |
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Sohail Abdul Nasir is an Islamabad-based journalist. He writes on foreign policy matters, regional security issues and the war on terrorism. |
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Mr. Abedin co-edited Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Actitives (2005). He is an expert on Iran, Iraq and Islamic movements and ideologies. Mr. Abedin makes contributions to numerous publications, including the Beirut-based Daily Star and Asia Times. He gained his MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics in 2000. Mr. Abedin has since worked as a consultant on financial, political and security affairs related to the Middle East. |
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Zachary Abuza is one of the leading scholars on Terrorism in Southeast Asia. He is currently Associate Professor for Political Science and International Relations at Simmons College. |
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Mohammad Ahmad is an independent analyst based in Zarqa, Jordan. |
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Pete Ajemian recently completed graduate studies at the University of St. Andrews. He previously spent time living in Lebanon and has conducted research on terrorism related issues for US law enforcement. |
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Vakhit Akaev is a Doctor of Philosophy and a member correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic. He is also the Chair of Theory and Practice of Social Work at Chechen State University. |
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Murad B. Al-Shishani is a Jordanian-Chechen writer. He has an M.A degree in Political Science specializing in Islamic Movements in Chechnya. He is also author of the book The Islamic Movement in Chechnya and the Chechen-Russian Conflict 1990-2000, Amman, 2001 (in Arabic). He also recently published "Iraqi Resistance: National Liberation vs. Terrorism: A Quantitative Study," November 2005 Iraqi Studies Series, Issue 5, Gulf Research Center-Dubai. |
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Chris Alden, Ph.D., is the Director of the China in Africa Project at SAIIA and author of the book, China in Africa (Zed 2007). |
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Farhana Ali is an Associate International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has done extensive research on jihadist networks and religious extremism. |
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Imtiaz Ali is a Pakistan-based journalist working as a special correspondent for the Washington Post. Before this he was a correspondent for the BBC Pashto Service for about six years. He joined the BBC in 2001, reporting on the U.S. attack on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Before the BBC, he was a print journalist and worked with Pakistan's premier English daily publications, The News and Dawn. Since 9/11, he has reported extensively on the Taliban, militancy in the border regions and Pakistan's military operations against al-Qaeda operatives and their local supporters in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Mr. Ali was a Knight Journalism Fellow at the John S. Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford during 2006-2007. |
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Fadhil Ali is a freelance journalist based in Iraq who specializes in Iraqi insurgent groups. |
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Anes Alic is the Executive Director of ISA Consulting, www.isaintel.com. |
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Kenneth Allen is a Senior Analyst at The CNA Corporation. During his 21-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he was an Assistant Air Force Attaché in China. |
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Feyza Altindag is a specialist in East European and Turkish affairs. |
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Ivar Amundsen is Director of the Chechnya Peace Forum, a human rights organization based in London which seeks to promote the cause of democracy and human rights in Chechnya. |
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Alex An is a retired Colonel in the ROC (Taiwan) Army |
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David An is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at George Washington University, a former Fulbright scholar and China analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. |
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Mr. Martin Andrew retired from the Australian Defence Force after 28 years of service and holds a Masters Degree in Asian Studies. He is currently completing a book on the operational art of the PLA, in addition to completing another book on the police forces of the International Settlement at Shanghai and the Singapore Police Forces in the inter-war period. |
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is the Executive Director of the Georgian NGO Democracy Resources Development Center. He has written extensively on Georgian domestic and foriegn politics. |
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Giuseppe Anzera is Assistant Professor of Sociology of International Politics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He collaborates with the Power and Interest News Report (PINR), an analytical organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. |
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Tariq Mahmud Ashraf is a retired Air Commodore from the Pakistan Air Force. A freelance analyst on South Asian defense and nuclearization issues, he has authored one book and published over 70 papers and articles in journals of repute. |
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Scott Atran is a director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and Professor of anthropology and psychology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion and the organizer of a NATO working group on suicide terrorism. |
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is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). |
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Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). |
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Chietigj Bajpaee is a Research Associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He has been a Researcher for the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), for Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based public-policy think-tank, and a Risk Analyst for a New York-based risk management company. |
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Abdul Hameed Bakier is an intelligence expert on counter-terrorism, crisis management and terrorist-hostage negotiations. He is based in Jordan. |
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Edwin Bakker is on the editorial board of Helsinki Monitor and Vrede & Veiligheid, and secretary general of the executive committee of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee. |
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Migeddorj Batchimeg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia. |
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Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based freelance journalist. He writes a column for the Turkish Daily News and covers defense and security for the U.S. weekly Defense News. He also writes for other western publications. Bekdil was formerly the Ankara correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Ankara bureau chief for the Ankara-based CNBC-e television. |
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Dr. Belokrenitsky is chair of the Near and Middle East Department, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Professor, Institute of International Relations, Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. |
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Benedetta Berti is the Earhart Doctoral fellow at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, where she is specializing in international security studies and Middle Eastern studies. She is also a graduate researcher at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies at Tufts University. |
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Aliy Berzegov is a freelance writer based in New York. |
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Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
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Andrew Black is the Managing Director of Black Watch Global, an intelligence and risk management consultancy headquartered in Washington, DC. |
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Prior to working as Moscow-based independent researcher and journalist, Dr. Sergei Blagov was a newswire reporter. He spent nearly seven years reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, between 1983 and 1997. |
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Dr. Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government. |
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Lt. Col. Dennis Blasko is a former U.S. defense attaché to Beijing |
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Ludo Block is a former Dutch senior police officer and served as the Dutch police liaison officer for Russia and surrounding countries between 1999 and 2004. He is currently writing a PhD on police cooperation in the European Union. |
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Dan Blumenthal is a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and vice chairman of the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. Previously, he was senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. |
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Vladimir Bobrovnikov is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies (Moscow) and teaches anthropology and Arabic in the Russian State University of Humanities and the Moscow State University. He is the author of Custom, Law and Violence Among the North Caucasus Muslims. |
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Federico Bordonaro is a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report, an analytical organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. He holds a Ph.D. from the University La Sorbonne in Paris and is presently based in Rome. |
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Anneli Botha is a senior researcher on terrorism at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Cape Town. |
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Pieter Bottelier is a senior adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to this, he served at the World Bank from 1970-1998 and was the Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Beijing from 1993-1997. |
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Christopher Boucek is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University and a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School. |
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Anouar Boukhars is a specialist on politics of the Muslim world. Dr. Boukhars is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy at Wilberforce University in Ohio. He is also editor of Wilberforce Quarterly Journal. |
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James Brandon is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion in London. He is a former journalist who has reported on Islamic issues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a wide variety of print and broadcast media. He holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. |
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James Briggs is an analyst based in Nigeria. |
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Marc Brody is an independent journalist who specializes in the Caucasus. |
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Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. |
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Rusen Cakir is a senior correspondent for the Turkish daily Vatan and has contributed to various other media outlets, such as Milliyet and CNN-Turk. |
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Dr. John Calabrese teaches U.S. Foreign Policy at American University and serves as book review editor of The Middle East Journal. He is the author of China's Changing Relations with the Middle East (1990) and numerous articles, including "Dragon by the Tail: China's Energy Quandary." |
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Dr. Alicia Campi has a Ph.D. in Mongolian Studies, was involved in the preliminary negotiations to establish bilateral relations in the 1980s, and served as a diplomat in Ulaanbaatar. She has a Mongolian consultancy company (U.S.-Mongolia Advisory Group), and writes and speaks extensively on Mongolian issues. |
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Leah (Kimmerly) Caprice is a Research Analyst at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Mr. Carroll is a former officer in the Clandestine Service of the CIA and currently on the editorial board of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. |
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Peter Chalk is an analyst at RAND specializing in South East Asia, international terrorism and emerging threats. |
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Alfred L. Chan is an associate professor of political science at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada. |
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Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, 2001). |
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Dr. Michael S. Chase is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The views presented in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Naval War College, Department of the Navy, or Department of Defense. |
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Matthew Chebatoris is a freelance analyst and 12-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community. |
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Oksana Chelysheva is the deputy executive manager of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. |
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Zhenzhen Chen is a researcher with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Study. |
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Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego. |
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Yee Wah Chin is Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. Ms. Chin served on the ABA task forces that drafted the 2003 and 2005 ABA Comments on the proposed Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China. She is a member of the OECD Advisory Group on China Investment Policies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce China Industrial Policy Steering Committee. |
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Mr. Frank Ching is a Hong Kong based journalist and commentator. |
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Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political analyst, served in the 1990s as deputy foreign minister and Chairman of the Administration in the Provisional State Council of Chechnya's separatist government. He spent the academic year 2002 to 2003 in Washington as the visiting Galina Starovoitova Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. |
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Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, PhD, is a Geographer and Research Fellow at CNRS (France). He specializes in the geopolitics of illicit drugs with a particular focus on Asia. He produces http://www.geopium.org. |
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Chu Shulong, Ph.D., is currently a professor in political science and international relations at the School of Public Policy and Management, and deputy director, Institute of Strategic Studies of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He was a professor of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Party School, and a senior fellow at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) from 1994 till recently. He is also a council member of Chinese Association for American Studies, CSCAP (Council on Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific) China National Committee, and Association of Sino-US Relations Studies, member of Chinese Society for Pacific Studies and Chinese Association for Taiwanese Studies. |
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Dr. Bernard D. Cole is Professor of International History at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on Pacific strategy, Sino-American relations, and the Chinese military. He is spending the 2004-2005 academic year as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University. |
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Ian Conway manages Helios Global, Inc., an international security consultancy based in the Washington, DC area. |
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Merritt T. (‘Terry’) Cooke, Ph.D., is the Founder and Chairman of GC3 Strategy, an international market development consultancy focused on Greater China and India (www.gc3s.com). His publications and corporate speaking are available at www.terrycooke.com. Previously, Terry Cooke has been a Director of the World Economic Forum and a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Commercial Service. |
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Gordon Corera is the BBC's Security Correspondent |
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Dr. Svante E. Cornell is Deputy Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. |
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Johanna Cox is a Research Associate at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Jeffrey Cozzens is Head of Areté Associates’ Terrorism Studies and Analysis Program, a research-based arm of Areté’s National Security Studies and Analysis Program, and is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. |
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Dr. John C. K. Daly is a Eurasian foreign affairs and defense policy expert for The Jamestown Foundation based in Washington, D.C. |
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Sara Daly is an international policy analyst at RAND. Her research focuses primarily on international terrorism, insurgency, emerging threats, nuclear terrorism, and intelligence issues. |
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Chief Warrant Officer 4 (ret) Thomas S. Davidson II was a Senior Military Intelligence Analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He has extensive experience working on border and security issues. |
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Elizaabeth Van Wie Davis is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) with a focus on Chinese domestic, foreign, and defense policies. She has books on Islam, Oil & Geopolitics: Central Asia Since September 11 (2007), Chinese Perspectives on Sino-American Relations (2000) and China and the Law of the Sea Convention (1995) and her articles appear in journals around the world. The views in this article are personal opinions of the author, and are not official positions of the U.S. Government, U.S. Pacific Command or APCSS. |
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Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He conducted research in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DR Congo for a number of years between 1998 and 2004, and revisited Kigali and Bujumbura in February 2007. He recently attended the second Africa-China-U.S. Trilateral Dialogue in Beijing, a joint effort of the Brenthurst Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. |
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Han Dongfang is the founder and director of China Labour Bulletin, a non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong that seeks to promote workers rights in mainland China |
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John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is an expert on Russia's two wars in Chechnya, nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, and the politics of religion in Russia. |
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Yaron Eisenberg is an associate with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, specializing in terrorism, nuclear proliferation and defense policy issues. He was formerly with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. |
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Joshua Eisenman is the co-editor of “China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century,” and author of the book’s chapter on China's strategy towards Africa (M.E. Sharpe 2006). |
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Andrew S. Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or Department of Defense. |
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Andrew Exum is a Soref fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on contemporary Middle Eastern insurgencies and counter-insurgency strategies. Mr. Exum served in the U.S. Army from 2000 to 2004, leaving active duty as a captain. He was decorated for valor in 2002 while leading a platoon of light infantry in Afghanistan. Subsequently, he led a platoon of Army Rangers into Iraq in 2003 and into Afghanistan in 2004. He lived in Beirut until recently. |
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Riccardo Fabiani is a political analyst on North African affairs for Exclusive Analysis and has previously published for the Power and Interest News Report (PINR) and Equilibri.net. He holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. |
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Christine Fair is the coordinator for South Asia research programs at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) |
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Li Fan is a Research Fellow at the World and China Institute, a private think tank, in Beijing. |
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Ali Farassati obtained his Ph.D. in geopolitics from the University of Paris in France, and is a former professor of political science at Azad Islamic University of Iran. He currently resides in the United States. |
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Dr. Pavel E. Felgenhauer is an independent, Moscow-based defense analyst. |
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Zhu Feng is currently the visiting fellow at the Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Professor Zhu is the director of the International Security Program at the School of International Relations at Peking University. |
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Joseph Ferguson is a consultant for LMI in McLean, VA and an affiliate professor of international relations at the University of Washington. |
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Richard D. Fisher, Jr. was a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and was the managing editor of China Brief. |
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Mr. Benedict F. FitzGerald is an independent political-military consultant with nearly forty years of experience dealing with Middle Eastern, South Asian and Central Asian affairs. His career has included service with the U.S. military and intelligence communities, as well as in the private sector. |
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Duncan Freeman is a writer and consultant based in Brussels specializing in EU-China relations. |
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Gary C. Gambill, a political analyst for Freedom House and adjunct professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent, has published widely on Lebanese and Syrian affairs. He is the former editor of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. |
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John Garver is Professor of International Relations at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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Khalil Gebara is a Lebanese researcher and holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from the University of Exeter (UK) |
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Khwaja Geedar Khan lives in Peshawar and works for various Western humanitarian aid organizations. |
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Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, Dr. Gill focuses primarily on China's domestic transformation, China's regional diplomacy, and US-China relations. |
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Dr. Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He is the author of several articles and papers on Afghanistan, as well as of two books, "War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992" (Georgetown University Press) and "Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency, 2002-7" (Columbia University Press). His next book, "Empires of Mud: War and Warlords in Afghanistan," will appear in 2008. He is currently researching issues of governance in Afghanistan. |
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is a freelance writer based in the United States who specializes in Afghan political and military affairs. |
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Bonnie S. Glaser is a senior associate at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Pacific Forum, CSIS. She is also a consultant to the U.S. government. Glaser writes a quarterly analysis of Sino-U.S. relations for Comparative Connections, an electronic journal published by the Pacific Forum. |
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teaches international relations and administration at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Federalism and Nationalism: the Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR (1991), Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (1996), and Markets and Politics in Central Asia (2003) as well as scholarly articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Asian Perspective and other journals. |
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Joshua Gleis is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and a PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As a researcher at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies, his areas of focus are counterterrorism, counterinsurgencies, and the Middle East. His dissertation explores how to more effectively withdraw from insurgencies. |
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Dr. Paul H.B. Godwin retired as professor of international affairs at the National War College in the summer of 1998, where his teaching and research concentrated on Chinese defense and security policy. Professor Godwin is currently a consultant and serves as a non-resident scholar in the Atlantic Council's Asia-Pacific Program. His most recent publication is "China's Defense Establishment: The Hard Lessons of Incomplete Modernization" in Laurie Burkitt, Andrew Scobell and Larry Wortzel (eds.). |
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Sebastian Gorka is Adjunct Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Program on Terrorism and Security Studies and Executive Director of the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS). |
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Audra K. Grant, PhD, is a political scientist at RAND. Her research focuses on the Middle East, and issues related to the development of political Islam, terrorism, as well as the attitudinal orientations of Middle East publics. Prior to joining RAND, she was an analyst at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence for five years. |
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Stephen Green is Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, London. |
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Christopher Griffin is a research fellow in Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He can be reached at cgriffin@aei.org. |
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Madeleine Gruen is an intelligence analyst and a candidate for a master's degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. |
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Pan Guang is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of Eurasian Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of Middle East Studies. |
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Olivier Guitta is a foreign affairs and counter-terrorism consultant in Washington DC and the founder of the newsletter The Croissant, located at http://www.thecroissant.com. |
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Michael M. Gunter is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee and teaches during the summer at the International University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of five critically praised scholarly books on the Kurdish question, the most recent being Kurdish Historical Dictionary, 2004; The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis, 1999; and The Kurds and the Future of Turkey, 1997. He was a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in International Relations in Turkey and Israel. |
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has covered developments in the former Soviet Union for more than a decade and also carried out journalistic assignments in other parts of the world, including Africa and Latin America. He specializes in Russian domestic and foreign policy. |
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Ms. Haahr is a foreign affairs and counter-terrorism consultant in Washington, D.C. |
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Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program at the Center for Defense Information. |
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Keith Hand is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center. |
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Brian Harding is a research associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow in Indonesia in 2006-2007 |
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Ambassador Paul Hare is the executive director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 1985 to 1988 and as the U.S. Special Representative for the Angolan Peace Process from 1993-1998. From 1988-1989, he also served as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of the Near East and South Asian Affairs of the Department of State. |
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Professor Ahmed S. Hashim is a leading authority on Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian security issues. A member of the United States Naval War College's strategic research department, Hashim recently returned from field research in Iraq. |
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William R. Hawkins is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council. |
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Chris Heffelfinger is an independent researcher affiliated with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is also the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities (Vol I and II, The Jamestown Foundation). |
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Andrew Holt is a Southeast Asia analyst based in Los Angeles. |
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Mr. Hsiao is the Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. |
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Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), and Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, both at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Hsiao is currently Professor of sociology at National Taiwan University and President of the Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies. Dr. Hsiao has served as a national policy advisor to the presidents of Taiwan between 1996 and 2006. His areas of specialization include civil society and new democracies, middle classes in the Asia-Pacific, sustainable development and NGO studies. |
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Dr. Teh-wei Hu is Professor Emeritus of Health Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in China and received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He has been advising the Chinese Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organization on health care financing and tobacco control during the past twenty years and has more than 200 publications in the field. |
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Jing Huang, Ph.D., is visiting professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore |
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Chin-Hao Huang is a Researcher with the Freeman Chair. |
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Frank Hyland served in the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency's Counter-Terrorist Center and the National Counter-Terrorism Center. He has been involved in counter-terrorism work for more than 25 years. Mr. Hyland has taught at both The Johns Hopkins University and the Joint Military Intelligence College and is presently on the faculty of the American Public University System. His career includes an 18-month tour in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of Armenian Terrorism: The Past, The Present, The Prospects published by Westview Press. As the CEO of S&F Enterprises, he is presently a consultant to both private-sector and public-sector clients. |
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Aslan Idar is a freelance journalist based in Nalchik. |
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Masako Ikegami is Professor and Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS) at Stockholm University. She holds Doctor of Sociology from University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in peace & conflict research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include Asian security & confidence building, arms control & disarmament and non-proliferation issues. |
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Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Fellow at the University of London, SOAS. |
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Sydney Irving is an independent journalist based in East Africa. |
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David Isby is a Washington-based author and defense and foreign policy analyst. |
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Noor Huda Ismail is a consultant on the impact of religion on political violence in Southeast Asia. Mr. Ismail has been doing extensive research on jihadist networks and religious extremism. His works have been published in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, YaleGlobal online, the Australian, the Straits Times and the Jakarta Post. |
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is a freelance writer based in Baku. He holds a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and currently works for Cornell Caspian Consulting. The views expressed in this article are solely his own and do not represent the views of this organization. |
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Malcolm James is a consultant dealing with terrorism and energy security issues for an international security organization. He was formerly with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. |
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Dr. N. Janardhan is the editor of Gulf in the Media at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. |
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Gareth Jenkins is a writer and journalist resident in Istanbul, where he has been based for the last 20 years. |
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John Jennings wrote extensively on Afghanistan from 1987-1994 for the Associated Press, the Economist and other publications. He returned to journalism in November 2001 to cover Afghanistan for the Washington Times and also worked as a Dari interpreter for BBC television. |
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Rian Jensen was formerly the Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. |
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You Ji, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in School of Social Science & International Studies at the University of New South Wales. |
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Dr. Wenran Jiang is a professor of political science and director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, and a senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is the editor of the forthcoming book, Fueling the Dragon: China’s Energy Demand and Its Implications for Canada. The views expressed in his publications are his own and do not reflect the institutions with which he is affiliated. He can be reached at: wenran.jiang@ualberta.ca |
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Dr. Jin Xide is a professor and the deputy director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he has been working since 1994. He received his MA in History of Japanese Modern Philosophy from Yan Bian University, and a PhD in Japanese Diplomacy from the University of Tokyo |
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Wilson John is a Senior Fellow with Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India. |
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Gregory D. Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. |
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Javier Jordán (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Granada (Spain). He was a Research Fellow at the Training and Doctrine Command of the Spanish Army and a NATO Research Fellow. He is currently Editor in-Chief of JihadMonitor.org. |
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Roy D. Kamphausen is the Director of the Washington, DC office, and Director of National Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a retired U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer and previously served as a military attache in Beijing, intelligence analyst, as strategic plans officer on the Joint Staff, and as the China Country Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. |
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Dr. Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Pokhran and Beyond, second edition in paper, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003, and Regional Security Structures in Asia, Routledge, London, 2003 among other works on the subcontinent. |
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Saban Kardas is the Chair of the Middle East and Central Asia Conference Committee and a research assistant at Sakarya University. |
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Kazuyo Kato is an associate with Armitage International. |
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Hiro Katsumata, Ph.D., is Research Associate of the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. |
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Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University. His recent publications include, “Osama bin Laden as Transnational Revolutionary Leader,” Current History, February 2002; “Post-Iraq and Beyond: What Can We Expect from Trilateral US/EU/Russian Cooperation in the Greater Middle East Region,” EastWest Institute, March 2004; and “Saudi-Russian Relations Since 9/11,” Problems of Post-Communism, March-April 2004. |
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Dr. Bernd Kaussler holds a MA and PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is currently Assistant Professor in Political Science at James Madison University. As Associate Fellow at the Institute for Iranian Studies at St. Andrews, he is involved in various research projects on contemporary Iranian politics and foreign policy. |
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Thomas E. Kellogg is a Senior Fellow at the China Law Center of Yale Law School and a lecturer-in-law at Yale Law School. |
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Professor David Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. |
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Jason Kelly is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation. |
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Nazery Khalid is a Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia |
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Lydia Khalil recently returned from Iraq where she worked as governance policy advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Prior to that, Lydia was appointed to the White House Office of Homeland Security. She has worked at home and abroad for the U.S. government, international organizations, private companies and think-tanks on a variety of Middle East political and terrorism issues. |
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Afzal Khan is a political and terrorism analyst of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. After many years as a Writer-Editor with the former U.S. Information Agency and as a Terrorism Editor for London-based Jane's Information Group, he is now a contractual writer for the U.S. State Department specializing in the Middle East and South Asia region. |
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Mukhtar A. Khan is a Pashtun journalist based in Washington, D.C., covering the issues of Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions. Since 9/11, he has extensively covered the War on Terror in Pakistan-Afghanistan tribal areas, both for the local and international media, including the BBC, Mail on Sunday, and Voice of America. Before shifting to Washington D.C., Mukhtar closely monitored Pakistan’s tribal areas by paying frequent visits to it and interviewing top Taliban leadership. Currently, he is working on a book on increasing trends of militancy in Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions and its spillover to rest of the world. He is also contributing articles to various local and international publications on terrorism. |
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Massoud Khodabandeh is a former member of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and mainly served in the organization's intelligence/security department. Khodabandeh left the Mojahedin in 1996 and currently lives in the north of England, where he works as a security consultant. |
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Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu teaches courses on international security and Turkish foreign policy in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. |
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Dr. Mikyoung Kim is a Faculty Researcher at Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University in Japan. |
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Dr. Eugene Kogan is currently a guest researcher at the International Institute for Liberal Policy in Vienna. He is a defense industry analyst with expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel and China. |
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Jiri Kominek is a Prague-based independent journalist and consultant who regularly contributes to the Jane's Information Group and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is a specialist in defense, security, and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. |
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Carlo Kopp, Ph.D., is head of capability analysis with the Air Power Australia think tank, and a research fellow in regional military strategy at the Monash Asia Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading authority on Russian and Chinese weapons technology. |
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Victor Korgun is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and Chief of the Afghanistan Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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Panos A. Kostakos is Ph.D candidate and teaching associate in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath. His main research interest is the social embeddedment of organized crime and terrorist networks in the Balkans. He is fluent in Greek, English and French. |
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Asbed Kotchikian is a PhD candidate in political science at Boston University. His areas of interest include the post-Soviet South Caucasus and the Middle East, with a focus on foreign policy, political change and development. |
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Taras Kuzio is Visiting Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. His most recent books are Ukraine-Crimea-Russia. Triangle of Conflict and Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism: New Directions (both by Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007). |
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Reuben Kyama is currently an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University, London. Prior to that, he spent six years working as a journalist in Nairobi where he contributed to the New York Times, Kyodo news agency, Deutsche Welle Radio Service and Kenya's leading daily newspapers, the Nation and the Standard, among other publications. |
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Dr. I-Chung Lai is currently the director of the Office of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan. He is a member of the executive board of the Taiwan Thinktank, a Taipei-based public policy research institute, where he was previously the director of Foreign Policy Studies. The views expressed in this article are the personal observations of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the DPP. |
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Kanchan Lakshman is a Research Fellow for the Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi. |
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Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He has worked in senior editorial positions in international media including Asiaweek newsmagazine, South China Morning Post, and the Asia-Pacific Headquarters of CNN. He is the author of five books on China, including the recently published "Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges." Lam is an Adjunct Professor of China studies at Akita International University, Japan, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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Dr. Marlene Laruelle is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She works on Eurasianism, Russian Nationalism and on the Russia's growing role in Asia. |
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Michael Lauber is CEO of the Liechtenstein Bankers' Association. From 2001 to 2004, he served as the Director of Liechenstein's Financial Intelligence Unit. |
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Dr. Namju Lee is a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and an associate professor in the department of Chinese studies at Sungkonghoe University in South Korea. |
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John Lee is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and Managing Director of Sydney-based research company L21. Dr. Lee is the author of "Will China Fail?" (CIS, 2007). |
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Matthew Levitt, a former FBI counterterrorism analyst, is a senior fellow and Director of Terrorism Studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
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Dr. Philip I. Levy is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2003 to 2005, he was Senior Economist for Trade for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. From 2005 to 2006, he handled international economic issues as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. |
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Dr. Joanna Lewis is the Senior International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. From 2000-2005, Dr. Lewis worked with the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and from 2003-2004 she was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. |
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Li Mingjiang, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. |
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Dr. Nan Li is a visiting senior fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He is the editor of Chinese Civil-Military Relations (Routledge, 2006). |
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Dr. Cheng Li is the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in New York and a Visiting Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Dr. Li is currently conducting research on the 5th generation of leaders, who are expected to emerge during the 17th Party Congress in the fall of 2007. |
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Dr. Brynjar Lia is a research professor at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and the author of a forthcoming biography on Abu Mus'ab al-Suri entitled Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri (London: Hurst & Co Publisher, 2007). See www.hurstpub.co.uk/hurst/bookdetails.asp?book=192. Among his previous books are Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions (London: Routledge, 2005) and The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, 1928-1942 (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1998). |
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Dr. Matthew A. Light is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He conducted field research on the politics of Adygeia in Maikop from May to July 2006 while holding an Independent Advanced Research Opportunity fellowship from IREX. |
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Robyn Lim is Professor of International Relations at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, and the author of "The Geopolitics of East Asia". |
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Mr. Joseph E. Lin is the former Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University East Asian Forum & Review and currently serves as a member of its Board of Advisors. |
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Dr. Chong-Pin Lin is the President of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies and a professor in the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University. He formerly served as Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of National Defense and was the first Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council. He is the author of China’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy (Lexington Books, 1988), and Yizhi Qusheng [Win With Wisdom] (Taipei: Global Defense Magazine Publisher, 2005). |
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Cheng-yi Lin, Ph.D., is the former Chairman of the Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies and currently a Research Fellow in the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica. |
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Toby Lincoln is a researcher in corporate social responsibility and reputations management. He received a Masters in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London |
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Dr. Xingzhu Liu (M.D., Ph.D., MPH) is a principal scientist with Abt Associates Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience in health economics and public health. Prior to joining Abt Associates, Dr. Liu was a Global Leadership Fellow in Health with the World Health Organization, and a professor and director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Health Policy at Shandong University, China. |
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Fu-Kuo Liu, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University. He was 2006-2007 visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings. His research works focuses on regional security, the United States policy in Asia and regionalism in Asia. |
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Christine Loh is the CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent non-profit think tank, which has worked with numerous surveying experts to track public opinion throughout the campaign period. |
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Ahmad Lutfi is a political and terrorism analyst, and a Middle East specialist based in Ottawa, Canada. His background and life in China, Europe, the Middle East and North America provide the basis for his research interests which span state-civil society relations; democratization; human rights; jihad; domestic politics, regional dynamics and international relations of the Middle East; Muslim communities, political Islam; terrorism; and Xinjiang. Ahmad was educated in the UK and China and is interviewed regularly by the international media for his insight into the Middle East and Muslim affairs. Among his publications, his monograph "Blowback: China and the Afghan Arabs" addresses the links between China's involvement in the Afghanistan Jihad and its ongoing struggle to pacify its restive Muslim communities in Xinjiang. |
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Daniel C. Lynch is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Taiwan's Self-Conscious Nation-Building Project and the forthcoming book, The International Dimension of Asian Democratization: "Recentering" Thailand, China, and Taiwan. |
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Mr. Lyons has spent several years as a counterterrorism analyst advising the American government. |
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Dr. Mohan Malik is Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. The views expressed here do not reflect the official policy or position of the Center or the U.S. Department of Defense. |
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James Manicom is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia and edits the Flinders Journal of History and Politics. His dissertation examines maritime territorial disputes between China and Japan and is funded by an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. |
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Yufeng Mao, Ph.D., is a historian of modern China. She researches the history of Muslims in China and Sino-Middle Eastern connections. |
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Ramzy Mardini was Special Assistant on Iranian Studies at the Center for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former Iraq Desk Officer for Political Affairs at the Department of State. He has also served within the Executive Office of the President. |
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is Professor of History and Classics at the University Alberta in Edmonton. He is the author of ten books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) and Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999). |
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Erich Marquardt is an independent researcher affiliated with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He previously was the Program Manager of Global Terrorism Analysis at The Jamestown Foundation. |
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Omid Marzban has worked for Good Morning Afghanistan Radio Station and Radio Free Europe. He is based in Afghanistan. |
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Peter Mattis is a Program Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. The views expressed here are his own, and do not represent NBR. |
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Dr. Andrew McGregor is the director of Aberfoyle International Security in Toronto, Canada. |
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Senior Fellow - Eurasia Program Roger N. McDermott is an honorary senior research associate, department of politics and international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). |
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is a Senior Fellow on Eurasian Military Affairs for the Jamestown Foundation. He specializes in Russian, Central Asian and South Caucasus Security and Military Affairs. He is also an honorary senior research associate, department of politics and international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). |
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Rear Admiral Eric A. McVadon retired after serving at the U.S. embassy in Beijing and has been a consultant on East Asian security affairs for various DoD and intelligence organizations for the past 15 years. He is also the director of Asia-Pacific Studies for the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. His writings on China’s relations with the Koreas include “China’s Military Strategy for the Korean Peninsula” in China’s Military Faces the Future, China’s Foreign Military Relations, and “China’s Goals and Strategies for the Korean Peninsula” in Planning for a Peaceful Korea. |
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Dr. Qingyue Meng (MD, PhD) is a professor of Health Economics at the Center for Health Management and Policy, Shandong University, China. He is also a member of the Ministry of Health’s “Experts Committee on Policy and Management” as well as “Advisory Committee on Tuberculosis Control.” |
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Wangchuk Meston, a researcher with International Campaign for Tibet, is a human rights advocate and has been involved in field research relating to refugees, migration and population transfer in Tibet, including the World Bank project in Qinghai Province. |
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Hayder Mili is an independent researcher specializing in terrorism and security issues in Central Asia and the Caucasus |
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Greg Mills, Ph.D., heads the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, and during 2008 is on secondment to Rwanda as the ‘Strategic Adviser to the President.' |
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Jonathan Mirsky, was the China correspondent of The Observer [London] and East Asia Editor of The Times [London]. In 1989 he was named the British editors' International Journalist of the Year for his reporting from Tiananmen. He lives in London. |
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Professor Georgiy Mirsky is a senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |
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Ronald N. Montaperto recently retired as Dean of Academics at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. He now lives and works as an independent consultant in Washington, D.C. |
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Dr. Cerwyn Moore is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham. |
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Andrea Morigi is a journalist with the Italian daily Libero and the author of the book "Le Multinazionali del Terrore." |
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Dr. Sami Moubayed is a Syrian writer and political analyst. He is the author of many books on Syria including Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 (Cune Press 2005). |
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Hussain Mousavi writes on the Middle East. |
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James P. Muldoon, Jr. is Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark. |
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Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is most recently the author of "La Guerre D'apres," a book about Saudi Arabia published in France by Albin Michel Publishers. |
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Aset Murtazalieva is a reporter for the independent Chechen newspaper Groznensky rabochy. |
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Brigadier Vijai K Nair VSM (retired) is a defense analyst specializing in nuclear strategy formulation and author of two books, including "Nuclear India." |
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Professor M. D. Nalapat is director of the School of Geopolitics of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. |
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Nathan Nankivell is Senior Researcher at the Office of the Special Advisor Policy at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of Canada’s Department of National Defense. |
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Peter Navarro is a business professor at the University of California-Irvine and author of The Coming China Wars (Financial Times). www.peternavarro.com |
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Hamad Nazzal an independent analyst-journalist who has extensive experience reporting from the Middle East for the U.S. government. He is a former writer for Middle Eastern TV Network and Radio Sawa. |
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Daniel Neep is an Associate Fellow with the Middle East & North Africa Programme at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies (RUSI). |
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Naima Nefliasheva has a PhD in history (Candidate of Historical Sciences) and is a docent and senior research fellow in the Center for Civilization and Regional Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Dr. Nefliasheva taught in the State University of Adygeya (Maikop) for over a decade and has published more than 50 articles in scholarly journals and newspapers. She is a specialist in the history and current state of Islam in the North-West Caucasus. |
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is a Russian researcher based in the United States who specializes in Russian and Chinese developments in defense and military reform as well as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). |
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Judit Neurink is editor of the Middle East section at a Dutch daily. Neurink recently published a book on the Iranian terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, entitled “Misled Martyrs.” |
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Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He specializes in Resource-based Conflicts. He may be reached via email: niazit@uwec.edu |
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Magnus Norell, PhD is Director of the Center for the Study of Low-intensity Conflicts and Terrorism (CLIENT) and a Senior Analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. |
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Senior Fellow - Terrorism Program Dr. Evgenii Novikov, an expert on Islam and on the politics and economics of the Persian Gulf region. Born in Kyrgyzstan of Russian parents, Dr. Novikov received his Master's degree in Business and Foreign Trade in the Gulf States from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and his PhD in the politics and economy of Arabic countries from the Moscow Institute of Social Sciences. He also has extensive practical experience in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf region. As an elite Soviet expert on Islamic affairs, his responsibilities over the years ranged from instruction in the theory and practice of socialism to students from Islamic countries to advising Arab leaders on political affairs, international relations and trade issues. His official duties as a representative of the Soviet Communist Party's International Department provided Dr. Novikov with the opportunity to establish close personal and working relationships with many high-ranking officials in Islamic republics, including Yemen, Iraq and Kuwait. Following his defection to the United States in 1988, Dr. Novikov served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College and of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, where he instructed pro-democracy leaders of the then newly independent nations of Central Asia. |
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Fredrick Nzwili is a journalist writing on political, social and religious developments from Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Most of his writing involves attempts at providing the religious dimension of new developments. He is a graduate of Sociology and Literature from the University of Nairobi. He also hold a post-graduate diploma in Mass Communication (Journalism) from the University of Nairobi, School of Journalism. |
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Guido Olimpio is security correspondent for Corriere della Sera and has been a researcher on international terrorism for the past 20 years. |
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Akpobibibo Onduku holds a PhD in Peace Studies specializing in International Politics and Security Studies from the University of Bradford, UK and Masters in Law in Intercultural Human Rights from the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami. He has researched extensively on peace and security and worked at the grassroots level in peace education through community programs in the crisis-ridden and oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria. |
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Matthew Oresman is the Director of the China-Eurasia Forum and has published widely on China-Central Asia relations. More detailed recommendations of how the United States can cooperate with China in Central Asia will be published in the May edition of the CEF Monthly, available online at www.chinaeurasia.org. |
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Shaun Overton is an independent analyst specializing in the Arab World. He has just returned from nine months of research in Yemen. |
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Dr. Keun-Wook Paik is a London-based specialist on Sino-Russian oil and gas relations and is currently an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He is the author of “Gas and Oil in Northeast Asia” and co-author of “China Natural Gas Report. He is currently working on book project titled “Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation.” |
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Emil Pain is Director of the Center of Ethnopolitical Studies in Moscow. |
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Jagannath P. Panda is a researcher from the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India, where he studies Chinese Military affairs and Sino-Indian Relations. |
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Raffaello Pantucci is a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He is also the London correspondent for HS Today, a magazine looking at Homeland Security issues (www.hstoday.us), and writes on terrorism issues for newspapers, magazines and journals on both sides of the Atlantic. Before joining IISS in 2006, he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington for three and a half years. |
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Alison Pargeter is a Research Fellow at the International Policy Institue, Kings College London. |
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Yuan Peng is Deputy Director at the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations and former Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution. |
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Sebastien Peyrouse is a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Scholar at the Institute for International and Strategic Research (Paris, France). He is the author or editor of five books on Central Asia and is currently working on Central Asia-China relations. |
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Carlos Mauricio Pineda Cruz, a former Salvadoran Diplomat who has been posted in Venezuela and Mexico, is currently studying at Oxford University’s Latin American Center. |
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Andrei Piontkovsky, director of the Center for Strategic Research in Moscow, has written extensively on Chechnya. |
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Michaela Pohl, Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College, has written extensively about post-Soviet politics and ethnic relations. |
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Kevin Pollpeter is China Program Manager at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Jeffrey Pool is a freelance consultant, specializing in security and terrorism issues in the Middle East. He is a former U.S. Army linguist, having received his diploma in Arabic from the Defense Language Institute in 1996. In 2003, Pool was selected as a Rotary World Peace Fellow to study conflict and security issues. This led him to pursue a Masters in International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, which he completed in July 2005. Fluent in Arabic and French, Mr. Pool received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Middle East Studies from Portland State University. He also has an extensive background in Information Technology, which benefits his research on cyber-warfare and Jihadist groups operating online. |
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Dr. Geoff D. Porter is the North Africa analyst with Eurasia Group, a consulting firm that advises corporate, financial services and government clients on political risks in emerging markets. He is a fluent Arabic and French speaker who travels frequently throughout North Africa and has previously lived in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt for extended periods. |
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Samir Ranjan Pradhan, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher in the GCC Economics and Gulf-Asia Program at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai. He has authored several publications on Gulf-Asia relations and important among them is “Chindia and GCC: Emerging Interdependence and Implications for Regional Integration,” Gulf-Asia Research Bulletin, May 2008, Gulf Research Center. |
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Mr. Preiss is chief investment strategist for CFC Securities in Hong Kong, and a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China, the Chinese central bank. |
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Colonel Susan M. Puska (retired) is a former U.S. Army Attache. She currently works for Defense Group, Inc., in Washington, D.C. |
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Chris Quillen is a former analyst in the Counter-Terrorist Center at the Central Intelligence Agency. |
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Babak Rahimi received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Dr. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace from 2005-2006, where he conducted research on Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Shiite politics in post-Baathist Iraq. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature, Program for the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego. |
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Waliullah Rahmani is the Executive Director of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies (KCSS), a newly established Kabul-based think-tank that provides analysis and research from the Afghan perspective on the region with Afghanistan as its primary focus. Mr. Rahmani is the Editor in Chief of Kabul Direct monthly. Before joining the KCSS he was employed by RFE/RL. An expert on Afghanistan, Iran and Islamic movements, Mr. Rahmani has written for a variety of Western publications. |
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Dr. William Ratliff is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow at the Independent Institute. |
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Kent Regens is a Financial Consultant with RBC Dain Rauscher. He attended the University of Edinburgh where he received an MSc in International and European Politics in 2005. |
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Thomas Renard is a consultant and expert on terrorism and insurgencies. He is a frequent contributor to Terrorism Focus and Terrorism Monitor and an occasional collaborator with Le Soir, the main French-speaking newspaper in Belgium. Some of his other collaborations include French-speaking journals Défense et Sécurité Internationale (DSI) and Les Cahiers du RMES. He has also launched his own blog: Le Front Asymétrique (http://lefrontasymetrique.blogspot.com). Mr. Renard holds a MA in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University; and a MA in Journalism and a BA in Political Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. |
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John Reuter is a Fulbright scholar living in Ukraine. |
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Shelley Rigger is the Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. She is the author of two books on Taiwan politics, "Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy" and "From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party." |
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Ann Robertson is also managing editor of the journal Problems of Post-Communism. She has over a decade of experience in scholarly publishing and has worked on numerous books, articles, and conference papers. Dr. Robertson has a Ph.D. in political science and an MA in Russian and East European Studies from the George Washington University, where she is also an adjunct professor of international affairs. |
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David Romano is an assistant professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. He is the author of "The Kurdish Nationalist Movement" (2006, Cambridge University Press), in addition to numerous articles on Middle East politics, the Kurdish issue, forced migration, and globalization. He has spent several years conducting field research in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. |
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Mikhail Roshchin is a Senior Research Analyst at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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Jonathan Ross-Harrington is an analyst for the Intelligence and Terrorism Analysis Group at Applied Marine Technologies Inc (AMTI) and a specialist in Asia-Pacific security and counter-terrorism. He was formerly with the Center for Study for Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University, Scotland. |
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Morris Rossabi is the author of Khubilai Khan and numerous other books on China and Mongolia. His latest book, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (University of California Press, 2005) focuses on developments in Mongolia since the collapse of communism in 1990. |
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Igor Rotar is Central Asia correspondent for Forum 18 News Service |
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Animesh Roul is the Executive Director of Research at the New Delhi-based Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict (SSPC). |
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Dr. Denny Roy is an Asian security analyst based in Honolulu. |
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Giray Sadik received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia. Dr. Sadik's research interests include U.S.-Turkish relations, transatlantic relations, foreign policy-domestic politics interaction, public opinion, and international counter-terrorism cooperation. |
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Syed Saleem Shahzad is the Karachi bureau chief for Asia Times. |
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Ambassador Peter Yoshiyasu Sato served as the Japanese Ambassador to Beijing from 1995 to 1998. He is currently the vice president of Japan-China Friendship Association and serves as an advisor to the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Shiseido Co. |
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Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He previously served as the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies |
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Julie Sawyer is a Research Assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
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Senior Fellow - Terrorism Program Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in 2004. He served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. He is the once anonymous author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror; his most recent book is Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. Dr. Scheuer is a Senior Fellow with The Jamestown Foundation. |
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Charles Schmitz is a specialist on Yemen and Arab political economy at Towson University, Baltimore, MD. |
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Stephen Schwartz is a frequent commentator on terrorism and related issues in national periodicals and websites. He is also the author of nine books on political history, the most recent being The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror (Doubleday Anchor paperback). |
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Dr. Andrew Scobell is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He was previously Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College both located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the author of China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and other publications. The views expressed here are the author’s own. They do not reflect the policies or positions of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or U.S. Army. |
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Kevin C. Scott is the Center Administrator of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. |
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Mohammad Shehzad is an independent researcher in Pakistan with years of experience reporting on jihadi groups. |
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Shen Dingli is a professor and Director of Center for American Studies at Fudan University. He is also the Executive Dean of Fudan’s Institute of International Studies. He has a Ph.D. in physics and did arms control post-doc at Princeton University from 1989-1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow (1997) and advise the UN Secretary General for strategic planning (2002). |
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Dr. Yitzhak Shichor is Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science at the University of Haifa, and Senior Fellow, the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. |
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Erich Shih is currently the Washington Bureau Chief of TVBS Network, a leading cable news channel in Taiwan. From 2003-2004, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution. |
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Victor Shih is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. His areas of expertise are Chinese political economy, banking reforms, and privatization. |
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During his 37 years at the Department of State, David Shinn served as Desk Officer for Somalia, Djibouti, and assistant for Ethiopia, State Department coordinator for Somalia during the U.S. intervention, Director of East and Horn of African Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, and Ambassador to Ethiopia. He is now an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. |
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Shin Shoji graduated from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He currently works as the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Analyst for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)’s Washington DC bureau. |
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Stephen Shue is Senior Researcher of Boodc, a knowledge-based advisory firm in China |
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Sharif Shuja is Research Associate in the Global Terrorism Research Unit at Monash University in Australia. |
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Pascale Combelles Siegel is a Virginia-based independent defense consultant specializing in perception management. |
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Julie Sirrs was the editor of the Terrorism Monitor. Prior to that, she was an analyst focusing on Central and South Asia for the Defense Intelligence Agency. |
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Thomas M. Skypek is a Washington-based defense analyst who specializes in military transformation, deterrence and U.S. defense policy. He has supported research and analysis efforts for the Departments of Defense, Energy and Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a Masters degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University. The views expressed herein are exclusively those of the authors and do not represent those of the U.S. Department of Defense, SAIC or any other organization. |
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Andrei Smirnov is an independent journalist covering the North Caucasus. He is based in Russia. |
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Anthony L. Smith is an Associate Research Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government. |
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Dr. Anton Smitsendonk is currently commissioner for Thailand and Indonesia in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and was previously Ambassador of the Netherlands to China and later to the OECD in Paris. From 1990-1998 he led the Académie Diplomatique Internationale de Paris, a working group of official and non-official political figures from several countries on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. His primary research areas include: Chinese and European diplomacy, Chinese financial markets, trade and investment opportunities, and relations with the ICC. |
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Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate with The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS. The views expressed here are personal views. He can be reached at ssnyder@asiafound-dc.org. |
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is a senior fellow and long-time senior analyst with the Jamestown Foundation. He was formerly a senior research analyst with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, and is a specialist in the non-Russian former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts. |
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Camilla T. N. Soerensen is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently a visiting research fellow in the China Studies program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. |
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John Solomon is Head of Terrorism Research for World-Check, a provider of structured risk-related intelligence. He was formerly with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. |
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Dan Southerland is the Vice President of Programming and Executive Editor of Radio Free Asia (RFA). Prior to joining RFA, he was The Washington Post's bureau chief in Beijing from 1985 to 1990. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1990 for his coverage of Tiananmen and an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship in 1990-91. |
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Trevor Stanley researches Islamic terrorism. He is the Editor of Perspectives on World History and Current Events <http://www.pwhce.org/> |
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Harvey Stockwin has been reporting and analysing Asian developments since 1955. Currently he broadcasts a weekly 15-minute talk "Reflections From Asia" for Radio Television Hong Kong, contributes to the Japan Times, and is the East Asia correspondent of The Times Of India. |
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Dr. Ian Storey is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. |
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Sadia Sulaiman is a research analyst in World-Check's Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit where she specializes on sub-state groups active in South and Central Asia. A native of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan, she previously worked as a Research Fellow on strategic issues for the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan, and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. |
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Ruslanbek Sultanov is a freelance writer based in Chechnya who covers the security and human rights situation inside Chechnya. |
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Mr. Steven Y. Sun is currently the head China analyst for G7 Group, a Washington-based political and economic research and advisory firm. |
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Mr. Swift is a doctoral candidate in the Center of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His current research interests include the evolution of asymmetric warfare and the relationships between subnational and transnational Islamic insurgencies. Mr. Swift was formerly an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and subsequently served as an aide to former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. A frequent writer on human rights, foreign policy and defense issues, Mr. Swift has appeared as a commentator for broadcast media throughout the United States, Europe and former Soviet Union. |
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Dr. Sykiyanen is a professor at the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |
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Michael Taarnby is a research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies with a specialization in political and militant Islamism. |
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Muhammad Tahir is a Prague-based journalist and analyst, specializing in Afghan/Iran and Central Asian affairs, and is author of Illegal Dating: A Journey into the Private Life of Iran. |
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Tiina Tarvainen is a researcher at the Research Group for Conflicts and Terrorism at the University of Turku, Finland. |
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Ian Taylor is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. |
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Donald Temple is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation specializing in national security. |
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Dr Eric Teo Chu Cheow, a business consultant and strategist based in Singapore, is also Council Secretary of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). |
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Drew Thompson is the Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, DC. He was formerly the National Director of the China-MSD HIV/AIDS Partnership in Beijing and the Assistant Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). |
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Chris Thompson is the research and administrative manager at the Brenthurst Foundation. |
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Levi Tillemann is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and an associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Levi is currently writing a dissertation on energy security in Northeast Asia. |
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John Tkacik is Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation |
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John Tkacik is Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. |
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Fatima Tlisova is a Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Tlisova is an independent journalist from the North Caucasus. She has worked for ten years as a correspondent for a number of independent Russian papers as wells and international media, including the Associated Press, "Novaya Gazeta", RFE/RL, BBC and has also served as chief of the North Caucasian bureau of the Russian news agency Regnum. Fatima is a regular writer for IWPR (London) and for the Jamestown Foundation (Washington DC). In her reports and analyses Tlisova has covered how Russian official policy has undermined human rights and exacerbated problems of the North Caucasus region. Fatima's work has receiving the Rory Peck award and the German Zeit-Stiftung award for her professional and brave reporting on the conflict in the North Caucasus and her efforts to help fellow journalists. |
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Igor Torbakov is a freelance journalist and researcher who specializes in CIS political affairs. He holds an MA in History from Moscow State University and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He was Research Scholar at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1988-1997; a Visiting Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 1995, and a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, New York, 2000. He is now based in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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Jacob Townsend is a research analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and has been a consultant on border control to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. |
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Dr. Sergei Troush is the Senior Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is specializing in China's foreign and domestic politics, China's energy and security strategy, and Russian policy in Asia Pacific. |
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JianJun (Kevin) Tu (jjtu@mkja.ca) is a Vancouver-based senior energy and environmental consultant, and a research associate of the Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre. |
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Paul Tumelty is a researcher specializing in the Russian North Caucasus, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He holds an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow and a BA War Studies, King's College, London. |
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Dr. Jennifer L. Turner has directed the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. In addition to editing the yearly publication, the China Environment Series (www.wilsoncenter.org/cef), she has recently begun a new China Environmental Health project with Western Kentucky University, focusing on health challenges in karst water regions and coal emissions in Anhui Province. |
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Stephen Ulph is a Senior Fellow with The Jamestown Foundation. One of the preeminent analysts of the Islamic world, Mr. Ulph specializes in the economic and political developments of the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder and former editor of the Terrorism Security Monitor and former editor and analyst of Islamic Affairs for Jane's Information Group. |
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Emrullah Uslu is a Turkish terrorism expert and currently a PhD candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Utah. He worked as a policy analyst for the Turkish National Police's counter-terrorism headquarters for more than six years. Mr. Uslu has taught courses on terrorism and political violence. His recent articles, "Turkey's Kurdish Problem: Steps Toward a Solution" was published in the February 2007 issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; "From Local Hizbullah to Global Terror: The Transformation of Militant Islam in Turkey" was published in the spring 2007 issue of Middle East Policy; and "Ulusalcilik: The Neo-nationalist Resurgence in Turkey" was published in the spring 2008 issue of Turkish Studies. Mr. Uslu regularly contributes to the Istanbul-based English daily Today's Zaman and Turkish daily Taraf. |
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Lawrence A. Uzzell is a senior Jamestown Foundation fellow who opened Jamestown's Moscow office in 1992. A specialist in the former Soviet Union since 1989, a Yale graduate and widely published in the American, British and Russian media, Uzzell is President of International Religious Freedom Watch (formerly Keston USA). |
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Anar Valiyev holds Ph.D. in Urban and Public Affairs from University of Louisville in Kentucky. His areas of interest include urban terrorism, public policy of post-Soviet countries, governance and democracy. |
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Daan van der Schriek is a freelance journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has covered Central Asia and the Caucasus for several years. He holds an MASc in Central Asian Politics from SOAS in London and an MA in Russian and Russian Studies at the University of Amsterdam. |
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Willem van Kemenade is a visiting senior fellow with The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, specializing in China’s global strategic relations. |
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is an editor with BBC Monitoring in Kyiv. |
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Dr. Alexei Vassiliev is Director of the Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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Dr. Mairbek Vatchagaev is the author of the book, "Chechnya in the 19th Century Caucasian Wars." |
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Dan Verton is the Founder of Homeland Security Television, an award-winning journalist, and author of five books, including The Insider: A True Story and Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003). He can be contacted at editor@danverton.com. |
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Lorenzo Vidino is an analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Jebsen Center at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of the book, "Al-Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad" (Prometheus Books). |
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Laurent Vinatier is an expert on the Chechen conflict, Russia and Central Asia. A Ph.D. candidate at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he is author of L'islamisme en Asie centrale. |
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Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the Iraq website http://www.historiae.org. His books include "Basra, The Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq" (2005) and, edited with Gareth Stansfield, "An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?" (2007). |
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Mr. von Pfeil is chairman and CEO of Commercial Economics in Hong Kong. |
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Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Eric Watkins, who writes on oil, shipping and terrorism, is the first Western person ever allowed to reside in Yemen as a foreign correspondent. Altogether, he lived some 20 years in the Red Sea region, including Saudi Arabia (1981-88), Yemen (1989-94) and Cyprus (2000-04). On the recommendation of the desert explorer Wilfred Thesiger, Watkins was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1989 for his contributions to knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula. Watkins holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at San Diego, and is writing a book documenting the impact of trade on Yemeni history. |
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Cynthia Watson is a Professor at the National War College. The views expressed in this article are those of Cynthia Watson, not those of the National War College, Institute for National Strategic Studies or any U.S. Government agency. |
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Carl Anthony Wege is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Coastal Georgia Community College in Brunswick, Georgia. He has published articles on the Abu Nidal Organization, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Hezbollah and Syrian and Iranian Intelligence Organizations. He also teaches a terrorism course for Armstrong Atlantic State University. |
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Wang Wei-fang is the Counselor of Research at the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission in Taiwan. She is also Assistant Professor at Lung-hwa University. |
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Dr. Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Director of Program Management at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. |
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Bestman Wellington is a Nigerian journalist, a small arms researcher and an analyst based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in the Niger Delta. |
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Robert Wesley is a terrorism analyst specializing in emerging trends in Islamist militancy and weapons of mass destruction. |
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Sunguta West is an independent journalist based in Nairobi. |
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David G. Wiencek is President of International Security Group, Inc., and co-editor of Asian Security Handbook: Terrorism and the New Security Environment (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005). |
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Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is assistant professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. |
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Jaushieh Joseph Wu is a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He previously served in the Taiwan government in 2002-2008 as Deputy Secretary-General to the President, Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, and Taiwan’s official representative to the United States. |
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Chen Yali is the Editor-in-Chief of Washington Observer, an independent Chinese-language weekly magazine on American foreign policy and politics based in Washington DC. |
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Alan Yang, Ph.D., is the grantee of Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2007) at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His areas of specialization include international relations theory, Asia-Pacific regionalism and ASEAN study. |
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Marat Yermukanov is a journalist working for the Russian-language private newspaper "Panorama Nedely" in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, and is also a regional correspondent for the Almaty-based national weekly "Panorama." |
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Michael Young is opinion editor at the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon, and a contributing editor at Reason magazine in the U.S. He is a regular contributor to Reason, Slate, and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and other publications in Lebanon, the U.S. and Europe. |
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Cathy Young is a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. |
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Yu Maochun, Ph.D., is Professor of East Asia and Military History at the US Naval Academy. Views expressed are his own. |
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Jing-dong Yuan, Ph.D., is Director of Research for the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Policy Studies. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Lynne Rienner, 2003). |
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Rahimullah Yusufzai is Resident Editor of The News International, a daily newspaper in Peshawar. |
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Chris Zambelis is an associate with Helios Global, Inc., a risk analysis firm based in the Washington, DC area. He specializes in Middle East politics. He is a regular contributor to a number of publications, where he writes on Middle East politics, political Islam, international security, and related issues. He has lived and worked in the Middle East, East Europe and the former Yugoslavia, and Latin America. He is a graduate of New York University and holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. The opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect the position of Helios Global, Inc. He can be reached at czambelis@heliosglobalinc.com. |
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Catherine Zara Raymond is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
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Arnold Zeitlin is the Managing Director at Editorial Research & Reporting Associates (ERRA) and Visiting Professor for the Department of Journalism at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. |
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Mr. Zhang Xuegang is an Associate Professor in China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He specializes in Southeast Asian security studies and China-U.S.-ASEAN trilateral relations. His recent publications and papers are Sea-lane Security and International Cooperation (co-edited, CICIR Publishing House, January 2005); Southeast Asia: Gateway to Stability (China Security, World Security Institute, Vol 3 No. 2, Spring 2007); Retrospect and Prospect for China-ASEAN Relations (Contemporary International Relations,CICIR,No.1,2007). |
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Dr. Sherifa Zuhur is Research Professor of Islamic and Regional Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. She is also the Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Diasporic Studies. The views expressed here are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. |
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Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan is a security policy analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) and a lecturer at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. He is an expert on the Turkish military and the PKK. |
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