Jonathan Clarke is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is Managing Partner of the Washington Analysis and Assessment Service and publisher of www.theswoop.net, a weekly newsletter on U.S. foreign policy. Earlier he was a career diplomat in the British Diplomatic Service. Following assignments in Western Europe, Southern Africa, and the United States, he now lives in Washington, D.C. His most recent book is The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing (with Stefan Halper, 2007). In 2004 he published America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (with Stefan Halper).
Mark Evans is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Humanities, Swansea University. Among his publications are the edited volumes Just War Theory: A Reappraisal (2005) and The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (2001), as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals on liberal political theory and international ethics. His current research focuses on just war theory, particularly the concept of jus post bellum.
Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. Educated at Stellenbosch University and the University of Oxford, he has held appointments at Rhodes University, the University of Natal, and the University of Kent. His major publications are Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (2002), Ethics in International Relations: A Constitutive Theory (1996), and Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (1986). His latest book, Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations, was published in 2009.
Alexandra Gheciu is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and Associate Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies. She is the author of Securing Civilization? The EU, NATO, and the OSCE in the Post-9/11 World (2008) and NATO in the “New Europe”: The Politics of International Socialization after the Cold War (2005).
Stefano Recchia is a PhD candidate in political science/international relations at Columbia University. He previously worked as an analyst on postconflict rehabilitation and reconciliation for the United Nations Development Programme in Beirut, Lebanon. He has published several peer-reviewed articles and is the editor, with Nadia Urbinati, of A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations (2009).
Jennifer Welsh is Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st Century (2004), Edmund Burke and International Relations (1995), and a forthcoming book on “sovereignty as responsibility.” Her edited volumes include The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (with Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, and Dominik Zaum, 2008) and Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (2004). In 2006 she was named a Trudeau Fellow, and currently co-directs (with David Rodin) the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict.
Amy Zalman is a senior research strategist in a private sector consulting firm. For over a decade she has worked to support more culturally astute communication between the United States and Middle Eastern audiences in educational, commercial, and national security contexts. She has presented testimony to the U.S. Congress and NATO, and is the author of the policy paper “Countering Violent Extremism: Beyond Words” (2008). She received her doctorate from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, and has served on the faculties of The New School, New York University, and Cornell University.
Dominik Zaum is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author of The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding (2007), coauthor of Selective Security: War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945 (with Adam Roberts, 2008), and coeditor of The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (with Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, and Jennifer Welsh, 2008).
