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thierry chopin is Head of Research at the Robert Schuman Foundation, Paris/
Brussels. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, and
teaches at Sciences Po, Paris, and at Mines ParisTech. He is associate expert at
Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, and Visiting Fellow
at European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His main research interests are EU legitimacy and democracy, and the relationship between European integration and differentiation. He is the author of several
books on European issues, including Politique européenne: États, pouvoirs et citoyens
de l’Union européenne (with Yves Bertoncini, 2010) and has recently published La
fracture politique de l’Europe: Crise de légitimité et déficit politique (2015). He is co-editor
of Schuman Report on Europe: State of the Union.
manni crone is a senior researcher and academic coordinator at the Danish Institute
for International Studies. Her current research focuses on terrorism and counterterrorism in Europe, the visuals of international security and French domestic and
foreign policy. She is the author of ‘Religion and violence: governing Muslim
militancy through aesthetic assemblages’ (Millennium 43: 1, 2014). alex danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of St
Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for
2014–17. He has written extensively on various aspects of art and violence. Some
of this work is collected in two widely acclaimed volumes of essays: On art and war
and terror (2011) and On good and evil and the grey zone (2016). He is currently working
on a book about the life of the revolutionary René Magritte.
thomas juneau is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses mostly
on the Middle East, in particular on Iran, Yemen, Syria and US foreign policy
in the region. He is also interested in Canadian foreign and defence policy. He
is the author of Squandered opportunity: neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy
(2015) and co-editor of Iranian foreign policy since 2001: alone in the world (with Sam
Razavi, 2013). He has also published articles and book chapters on the Middle East,
International Relations theories and pedagogical methods, notably in International
Studies Perspectives, Middle East Policy and Orbis. Prior to joining the University of
Ottawa, he worked for Canada’s Department of National Defence from 2003 to
2014.
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amir m. kamel is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department and an Associate
Staff Member in the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, both at King’s College
London. His research is concerned with the impact of the economy on politics (and
vice versa), with a specific focus on foreign policies towards the Middle East, and
his latest book is The political economy of EU ties with Iraq and Iran (2015). He has over
three years combined experience of working for various consultancies, NGOs and
providing analysis and expert opinion for various public sector agencies.
christian lequesne is Professor of European and Foreign Politics at Sciences Po,
Paris. He is the former director of CERI, Sciences Po. His work focuses on the
relationship between national politics and European integration, and comparative foreign policies and diplomacy. He is co-editor, with Simon Bulmer, of The
member states of the European Union (2013) and is currently preparing a book on
French diplomats. He has recently published ‘EU foreign policy through the lens
of practice theory: a different approach to the European External Action Service’
(Cooperation and Conflict 50: 3, 2015) and ‘The eurozone crisis and European integration: new intergovernmentalism as a valid theory’ in Sabine Saurugger and Fabien
Terpan, Crisis and institutional change in regional integration (2016).
tim oliver is the Dahrendorf Fellow for Europe–North American relations at
the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a non-resident
fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC. He has
worked in the House of Lords, the European Parliament, the German Institute
for International and Security Affairs (SWP), RAND Corporation, and taught at
the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the London School of Economics and
University College London. His recent publications include ‘To be or not to be in
Europe: is that the question?’ (International Affairs 91: 1, 2015) and ‘Europe’s British
question: the UK–EU relationship in a changing Europe and multipolar world’
(Global Society 29: 3, 2015).
sarah g. phillips is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for International Security
Studies at The University of Sydney and holds two grants from the Australian
Research Council. Her work has been published in African Affairs, Foreign Affairs
and Survival, among other journals, and her most recent book, Yemen and the politics
of permanent crisis (2011), analyses the dynamics of the country’s informal institutions amid rapid political and social change. Her main research interests include
the securitization of development, post-colonial perspectives on International
Relations, and the politics of contemporary state-building and donor aid. She
has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa,
particularly in Yemen, Somaliland, Kenya, Jordan, Pakistan and Oman.
matthew r. h. uttley holds the Chair in Defence Studies at King’s College London.
He has published widely on the historical and contemporary dimensions of UK
defence policy, defence economics and weapons acquisition. His recent publications include ‘The curious incident of Mr Cameron and the United Kingdom
defence budget: a new legacy’ (Political Quarterly 87: 1, 2016), and the Policy Insti-
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tute at King’s report entitled A benefit, not a burden: the security, economic and strategic
value of Britain’s defence industry (2015), both co-authored with Andrew M. Dorman
and Benedict Wilkinson. He has acted as an adviser and expert reviewer for a
number of bodies including the National Audit Office, the European Commission, the Ministry of Defence’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, and
the Economic and Social Research Council, and he is an adjunct professor at the
Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia.
antto vihma is Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International
Affairs, Helsinki, Finland, and a writer/editor for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
He was recently named Adjunct Professor (docent) at the University of Eastern
Finland. He specializes in climate and energy issues in external relations, and
questions of legitimacy and effectiveness of international agreements. His work
has been published in, among other journals, Regulation & Governance, Global
Environmental Politics and Global Change, Peace & Security. He is also the author of
several widely cited policy briefs on climate and energy issues.
yaniv voller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics
and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science, University
of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq: from
insurgency to statehood (2014), as well as articles in journals such as the International
Journal of Middle East Studies, Democratization, Middle East Policy and Political Science
Quarterly. His research interests include: separatist movements, contested sovereignty, insurgency and ideas and ideologies in international politics. His current
research investigates the changing nature of separatist struggles, with a focus on
the Iraqi Kurdish, South Sudanese and the Saharawi cases.
richard g. whitman is currently a Senior Fellow for the UK in a Changing Europe
programme and Visiting Senior Fellow at Chatham House. He is also Director of
the Global Europe Centre and Professor of Politics and International Relations at
the University of Kent. His current research interests include the foreign, security
and defence policies of the EU and the UK, and the governance and future priorities of the EU. His books include The European Union as a global conflict manager:
seeking security through engagement (co-edited with Stefan Wolff, 2012). He is a regular
international media commentator and has given evidence to the UK Parliament
on UK and EU foreign and security issues.
mikael wigell works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. He also currently holds a Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship with the Academy of Finland. His work has been published in Democratization and the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, and he is the
co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Asia Europe Journal, ‘Geoeconomics
in the context of restive regional powers’. He specializes in the EU’s external
relations, the political economy of development, and geostrategic research.
benedict wilkinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s
College London, where he has been based since 2013. He was formerly a lecturer
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in the Defence Studies Department at King’s and Head of Security and CounterTerrorism at the Royal United Services Institute. His recent publications include
‘The curious incident of Mr Cameron and the United Kingdom defence budget: a
new legacy’ (Political Quarterly 87: 1, 2016), and the Policy Institute at King’s report
entitled A benefit, not a burden: the security, economic and strategic value of Britain’s defence
industry (2015), both with Matthew R. H. Uttley and Andrew M. Dorman. In
2016 he was appointed advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on CounterExtremism and has recently finished co-editing a collection of articles on the
thought of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, entitled The art of creating power:
Freedman on strategy (with James Gow, 2016).
michael john williams is Clinical Professor of International Relations and Director
of the International Relations Program at New York University. His most recent
book is Science, law and liberalism in the American way of war: the quest for humanity in
conflict (2015). He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow
of the Inter-University Seminar on the Armed Forces and Senior Associate Scholar
at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington DC. Previously, he
was a Bosch Fellow in the German Ministry of Defense, a Visiting Fellow at
the University of Oxford, and a DAAD Fellow at the Bundeswehr Center for
Military History and Social Science.