JEAN-PIERRE CASSARINO Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy MICHELA CECCORULLI Researcher at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War and a fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy SØREN VON DOSENRODE Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Administration at Aalborg University, Denmark PATRICK HOLDEN Lecturer in International Relations at the Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, UK EKATERINA KOLDUNOVA Deputy Dean of the School of Political Affairs, Moscow State University of International Relations, Russia ELENA LAZAROU Assistant Professor at the Center for International Relations of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil PATRICK LEBLOND Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada ERIC MOSINGER is a PhD candidate at the University of California Irvine, USA DIMPHO MOTSAMAI Researcher in the Africa Conflict Prevention Program (ACPP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa MZUKISI QOBO Political risk and international relations consultant MARIO TELÒ Vice-President of the Institute of European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium NATHALIE TOCCI Deputy Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy WOLFGANG ZANK Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark