Alison Pargeter is a Research Fellow at the International Policy Institue, Kings College London. She has published widely on Libya...

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...

Sohail Abdul Nasir is an Islamabad-based journalist. He writes on foreign policy matters, regional security issues and the war on terrorism...

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...

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...

Mohammad Ahmad is an independent analyst based in Zarqa, Jordan...

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...

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...

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)...

Fadhil Ali is a freelance journalist based in Iraq who specializes in Iraqi insurgent groups...

Farhana Ali is an Associate International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has done extensive research on jihadist networks and religious extremism...

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...

Anes Alic is the Executive Director of ISA Consulting, www.isaintel.com...

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...

Feyza Altindag is a specialist in East European and Turkish affairs...

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...

Mr. Martin Andrew retired from the Australian Defence Force after 28 years of service and holds a Masters Degree in Asian Studies...

Zaal Anjaparidze is the Executive Director of the Georgian NGO Democracy Resources Development Center. He has written extensively on Georgian domestic and foriegn politics...

Giuseppe Anzera is Assistant Professor of Sociology of International Politics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome...

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...

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...

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Ashot Azatian is an analyst on Eurasia for The Jamestown Foundation...

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)...

Chietigj Bajpaee is a Research Associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC...

Abdul Hameed Bakier is an intelligence expert on counter-terrorism, crisis management and terrorist-hostage negotiations. He also is an English-Arabic-Chechen translator. He is based in Jordan...

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...

Migeddorj Batchimeg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia...

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...

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...

Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...

Andrew Black is the Managing Director of Black Watch Global, an intelligence and risk management consultancy headquartered in Washington, DC...

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...

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...

Lt. Col. Dennis Blasko is a former U.S...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anneli Botha is a senior researcher on terrorism at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Cape Town...

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...

Christopher Boucek is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University and a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School...

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...

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...

James Briggs is an analyst based in Nigeria...

Marc Brody is an independent journalist who specializes in the Caucasus...

Aleksandr Buzgalin is a doctor of economics and a professor at Moscow State University. He is a leader of Russia's Democratic Socialist Movement...

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Peter Chalk is an analyst at RAND specializing in South East Asia, international terrorism and emerging threats...

Alfred L. Chan is an associate professor of political science at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, 2001)...

Yihong Chang is the military analyst of Kanwa Information Center in Canada and an Asian correspondent for Jane's Defense Weekly...

Dr. Michael S. Chase is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island...

Matthew Chebatoris is a freelance analyst and 12-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community...

Oksana Chelysheva is the deputy executive manager of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society...

Zhenzhen Chen is a researcher with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Study...

Arkady Cherepansky is a former senior Belarusan diplomat. He now lives in the United States...

Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego...

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...

Mr. Frank Ching is a Hong Kong based journalist and commentator...

Elena Chinyaeva, who holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University, is a writer with the leading Russian political weekly Kommersant-Vlast...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kenneth Conboy is the deputy director of the Asian Studies Centre, a Washington based think tank, has travelled extensively in Southeast Asia and is the author of "Elite 33, South-East Asian Special Forces...

Ian Conway manages Helios Global, Inc., an international security consultancy based in the Washington, DC area...

Dr. Merritt T. (“Terry”) Cooke is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA. He is also Founder and CEO of GC3 Strategy, an international consultancy/investment firm focusing on China and India (www.gc3s.com)...

Gordon Corera is the BBC's Security Correspondent

Dr. Svante E. Cornell is Deputy Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Johns Hopkins University-SAIS...

Johanna Cox is a Research Associate at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis...

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...

Dr. John C. K. Daly is a Eurasian foreign affairs and defense policy expert for The Jamestown Foundation based in Washington, D.C...

Sara Daly is an international policy analyst at RAND. Her research focuses primarily on international terrorism, insurgency, emerging threats, nuclear terrorism, and intelligence issues...

Wang Dan was a prominent student leader in the June 4, 1989 Democracy Movement and spent nine years in jail for his political activism. Exiled to the United States in 1998, Wang is currently a PhD student in history at Harvard University...

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...

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...

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...

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

June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of political science at the University of Miami...

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...

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC...

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)...

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...

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...

Christine Fair is the coordinator for South Asia research programs at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)

Li Fan is a Research Fellow at the World and China Institute, a private think tank, in Beijing...

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...

Dr. Pavel E. Felgenhauer is an independent, Moscow-based defense analyst...

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...

Joseph Ferguson is currently at Princeton University. He was the director of Northeast Asia Studies at The National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, Washington...

Richard D. Fisher, Jr. was a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and was the managing editor of China Brief...

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...

Stephen Foye is the editor of the Eurasian Daily Monitor as well as a long time contributor to Jamestown publications. He specializes in Russian security and foreign policy issues...

Duncan Freeman is a writer and consultant based in Brussels specializing in EU-China relations...

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...

John Garver is Professor of International Relations at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology...

Khalil Gebara is a Lebanese researcher and holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from the University of Exeter (UK)

Khwaja Geedar Khan lives in Peshawar and works for various Western humanitarian aid organizations...

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...

Danny Gittings is the Asian Wall Street Journal's deputy editorial page editor...

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics...

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...

Gregory Gleason teaches international relations and administration at the University of New Mexico...

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...

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...

Marshall I. Goldman is the Davis Professor of Russian Economics at Wellesley College and the Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University...

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)...

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...

Stephen Green is Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, London...

Christopher Griffin is a research fellow in Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He can be reached at cgriffin@aei.org...

Madeleine Gruen is an intelligence analyst and a candidate for a master's degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs...

Dr...

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...

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...

Charles Gurin 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...

Ms. Haahr is a foreign affairs and counter-terrorism consultant in Washington, D.C...

Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program at the Center for Defense Information...

Keith Hand is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center...

Brian Harding is a Research Associate for Improving the Nation's Security Decisions Project...

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...

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...

William R. Hawkins is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council...

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)...

Dale R. Herspring is a political science professor at Kansas State University and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations...

Andrew Holt is a Southeast Asia analyst based in Los Angeles...

Mr. Howard is the President of the Jamestown Foundation...

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...

Mr. Hsiao is the Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation...

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...

Chin-Hao Huang is a Researcher with the Freeman Chair...

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...

Aslan Idar is a freelance journalist based in Nalchik...

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...

Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Fellow at the University of London, SOAS...

Sydney Irving is an independent journalist based in East Africa...

David Isby is a Washington-based author and defense and foreign policy analyst...

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...

Fariz Ismailzade 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...

Dr. N. Janardhan is the editor of Gulf in the Media at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates...

Shanaka Jayasekara is a Research Assistant at the Macquarie University Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) in Sydney, Australia...

Gareth Jenkins is a writer and journalist resident in Istanbul, where he has been based for the last 20 years...

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...

Rian Jensen was formerly the Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation...

Dr. You Ji is Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the University of New South Wales...

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...

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...

Wilson John is a Senior Fellow with Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India...

Gregory D. Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...

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...

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...

Dr. Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario...

Kazuyo Kato is an associate with Armitage International...

Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University...

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...

Thomas Kellogg is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center...

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...

Professor David Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore...

Jason Kelly is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation...

Nazery Khalid is a Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia

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...

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...

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...

Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu teaches courses on international security and Turkish foreign policy in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey...

Dr. Mikyoung Kim is a Faculty Researcher at Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University in Japan...

Leah Kimmerly is a Research Analyst at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis...

Mikhail Kochkin is a postgraduate in linguistic studies and a volunteer with "Eurocontact" NGO in Volgograd...

Dr. Eugene Kogan is currently a guest researcher at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He is a defense industry analyst with expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel and China...

Andrei Kolganov is a doctor of economics and a senior research fellow at Moscow State University...

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...

Harry Kopp is executive editor of Russia and Eurasia Review...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Reuben Kyama is currently an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University, London...

Dr. I-Chung Lai is currently the director of the Office of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan...

Kanchan Lakshman is a Research Fellow for the Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi...

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...

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...

Michael Lauber is CEO of the Liechtenstein Bankers' Association. From 2001 to 2004, he served as the Director of Liechenstein's Financial Intelligence Unit...

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...

Matthew Levitt, a former FBI counterterrorism analyst, is a senior fellow and Director of Terrorism Studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

Robyn Lim is Professor of International Relations at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, and the author of "The Geopolitics of East Asia"...

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...

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...

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...

Toby Lincoln is a researcher in corporate social responsibility and reputations management...

Dimon Liu is an independent commentator living in Washington...

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...

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...

Dr. Christine Loh is the founder and CEO of the independent, non-profit think tank Civic Exchange...

Ahmad Lutfi is a political and terrorism analyst, and a Middle East specialist based in Ottawa, Canada...

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...

Mr. Lyons has spent several years as a counterterrorism analyst advising the American government...

Zaira Magomedova a correspondent of the Novoye Delo weekly in Makhachkala, Dagestan...

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...

Ilya Malyakin founded the Volga Information Agency in 1991 and remains its chief editor to this day. He also works as an independent regional expert with the Moscow-based International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies...

Yufeng Mao is a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University. She is currently researching Sino-Arab relations...

Erica Marat is a Research Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. She specializes in organized crime, military institutions, and state-building in post-colonial states, with a special interest in the Central Asian region...

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...

David R. Marples 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...

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...

Dr. Michael E. Marti is a senior research professor in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the National Defense University...

Omid Marzban has worked for Good Morning Afghanistan Radio Station and Radio Free Europe. He is based in Afghanistan...

Peter Mattis is a Program Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. The views expressed here are his ow