Shahram Akbarzadeh is Professor of Asian Politics (Middle East & Central Asia) and Deputy Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Luca Anceschi is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University and Research Associate at the LTU Centre for Dialogue. Charles W. Dunne is a scholar with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Michele Dunne is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor of the online journal, the Arab Reform Bulletin. Touqir Hussain is a former senior diplomat from Pakistan who has served as Ambassador to Japan, Spain, and Brazil. He also held senior positions in the Pakistani Foreign Office. Christian Koch is the Director of International Studies at the Gulf Research Center located in Dubai, UAE. Thomas W. Lippman, former Middle East bureau chief of The Washington Post, is an adjunct senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute. William Maley assumed the position of Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University in 2003. Ken Menkhaus is Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, where he has taught since 1991. Beverley Milton-Edwards is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's UniversityBelfast, Northern Ireland. Paul A. Williams is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Yahia H. Zoubir is Professor of International Studies, and Director of Research in Geopolitics at Euromed Management, Marseille School of Management.