The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute or think tank in the area of international affairs. Since 1997,its headquarters have been at Arundel House in London.
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999),he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy,Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
William John Lawrence Wallace,Baron Wallace of Saltaire,,is a British academic,writer,and Liberal Democrat politician,who was a Lord in Waiting from 2010 to 2015.
Jennifer Welsh is a Canadian writer,consultant,and professor,specializing in the field of international relations. Welsh has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from the University of Saskatchewan (1987). Welsh was named a Rhodes Scholar (1987) and completed a Master's and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford (1987-1992). From 1999 to 2014,Welsh was a professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford,where she also co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics,Law and Armed Conflict. From 2014 to 2019,Welsh was the chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence),where she directed a five-year European Research Council project on the ethics and law of contemporary armed conflict. Welsh currently works as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University,is the Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and a co-director of the Canadian Research Network on Women Peace and Security. She is also a professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy in Montreal,Quebec,and is a frequent commentator in Canadian media on foreign affairs.
Air Marshal Timothy Garden,Baron Garden,,FRUSI,FCGI was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who later became a university professor and a Liberal Democrat politician.
Jolyon Michael Howorth is a British scholar of French history,European politics and defense policy. He is currently Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Professor Emeritus of European Studies at the University of Bath;and a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,Harvard University. He served as Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (2018–2019). He was Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University (2002–2018). He served as Professor of French Civilization at the University of Bath from 1985 to 2004.
Giannis Valinakis is a Greek politician and university professor. He is the former Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is currently President of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University of Athens,Jean Monnet Professor ad Personam,and a member of the Executive Board of the Centre for European Studies in Brussels.
Ioan Mircea Pașcu is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Romania. He previously served Minister of Defense from 2000 to 2004. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PDSR/PSD),part of the Party of European Socialists.
William Thornton Rickert Fox,generally known as William T. R. Fox,was an American foreign policy professor and international relations theoretician at the Columbia University. He is perhaps mostly known as the coiner of the term "superpower" in 1944. He wrote several books about the foreign policy of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. He was a pioneer in establishing international relations,and the systematic study of statecraft and war,as a major academic discipline. National security policy and an examination of civil-military relations were also focuses of his interests and career. He was the founding director of Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies and held the position from 1951–1976.
Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG was a British diplomat,political scientist,academic and polymath.
Taras Kuzio is a British academic and expert in Ukrainian political,economic and security affairs. He is Professor of Political Science at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Nicholas J. Wheeler is professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series,published by Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association. Wheeler specializes in security studies and has focused his research on the security dilemma and humanitarian intervention.
Professor Richard G. Whitman is an academic,think tank member and media commentator focusing on the European Union's international role and the UK's foreign policy. He is professor of politics and international relations and a member of the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent. He is also an associate fellow at Chatham House.
Abiodun Alao is a Nigerian academic and professor of African studies at King’s College London and the programme director of the African Leadership Centre. He is also the chair of the King’s College London Africa Community of Practice and between December 2013 and August 2015 held a visiting professorship position at the Nigerian Defence Academy,Kaduna,Nigeria. He is the author of A New Narrative for Africa:Voice and Agency,which "examines the perception of Africa in the global system,tracing Africa’s transition from a "problem" to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world."
Felix Sebastian Berenskötter is a German political scientist who specializes in international relations theory,interpretivist approaches,concept analysis,European security,and transatlantic relations. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and the Head of Department of Politics and International Studies,SOAS University of London,and a member of the Governing Board of the European International Studies Association (EISA). Berenskötter serves as on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Security Studies.
Bettina Renz is a German political scientist and Professor of International Security at the School of Politics and International Relations,University of Nottingham. Her major research expertise is post-Soviet Russian security and defence policy,military reform and civil-military relations. Since 2005,Renz has published numerous articles in academic journals describing the background and effects of changes in contemporary Russia's military. She is an editorial board member of the United States Army War College Press.
Marc Lanteigne is a Canadian political scientist originally from Montréal. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Arctic University of Norway,Tromsø,teaching international relations (IR),comparative politics,security studies and comparative political economy. Prior to that,Lanteigne was a Senior Research Associate at Department of East Asian Studies,Ruhr University Bochum,and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University in Auckland. He is Editor-in-Chief of an Arctic news website Over the Circle,a part-time lecturer at Peking University,an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland,Reykjavík,and a member of the board of the UK-based Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI).
Christopher Coker is a British political scientist and political philosopher who has written extensively on all aspects of war. He was Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he had been teaching since 1982 and retired in 2019. Despite being retired from his professorship,Coker is Director of LSE IDEAS,LSE's foreign policy think tank and continues to be a regular participant or consultant in UK and NATO military education and strategic planning circles. He is also the Director of the Rațiu Forum in Romania. He was a NATO Fellow in 1981. He was a member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
Andrew Mumford is a British political scientist,military historian,and Professor of War Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is a member of the EU/NATO Hybrid Threats Centre of Excellence expert pool on security and has consulted the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO. In December 2018,he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the editor of the Bloomsbury book series Studies in Contemporary Warfare.
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is a British political scientist,a military historian,and an expert on War Studies whose research interests include the contemporary history of war,the ethics of war,Cold War politics,terrorism,and Russian foreign policy. She is President of the British International Studies Association (BISA) and she was Chair of the BISA from 2004 to 2006.
