Christopher Daase is Professor of International Organization at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and has held academic appointments at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, the University of Kent at Canturbury, and the University of Munich. In 1996, he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on unconventional warfare, for which he was awarded the Ernst-Reuter Prize in 1997. He is author and editor of numerous books and articles and the former editor of the leading German-language journal on international relations, the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. James W. Davis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Davis holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has published in leading journals on questions of international institutions, foreign policy, military strategy and arms control. A former Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Relations, Davis was a Fellow of the John M. Olin Foundation of Harvard University, Associate Professor at the University of Munich and Visiting Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has served as a member of the Bundestag's commission on foreign military deployments and the German Chancellor's Expert Committee on Germany's image abroad.