Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy

About the Authors

About the Authors Nick Bisley (PhD, London School of Economics) is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Graduate Program in Diplomacy and Trade in the Graduate School of Business, Monash University, Australia. He is a member of the CouncilforSecurityandCooperationintheAsiaPacificandhasbeeninvolved with the training of senior defense and diplomatic personnel in Britain and Australia. Most recently this involved being Programme Director at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in the Australian Defence College. He is the author of Rethinking Globalization (2007) and The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse (2004), and he has published articles and chapters on a wide range of topics in international relations. His articles have appeared in such journals as International Politics, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Review of International Studies. Dr. Bisley has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and an MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Shahram Chubin (PhD, Columbia University) is Director of Studies and Joint Course Director of the International Training Course in Security Policy at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Born in Iran and educated in Britain and the United States, Dr. Chubin is a Swiss national. Before joining GCSP he taught at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva from 1981 to 1996. He has been Director of Regional Security Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and has been a fellow both at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Chubin has authored numerous publications on Iran and has published widely in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, Daedalus, The Middle East Journal, Survival, and The Washington Quarterly. His recent publications include Iran’s Nuclear Ambition (2006) and Whither Iran? Reform, Domestic Policy and National Security, Adelphi Paper no. 342 (2002). Svante E. Cornell (PhD, Uppsala University) is Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a joint transatlantic research and policy center affiliated with the Paul H. 436 • Strategic Asia 2007–08 Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University and the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. He is Associate Professor of Government at Uppsala University and Assistant Research Professor at SAIS. Previously Dr. Cornell taught at the Royal Swedish Military Academy and in 2002–03 served as Course Chair of Caucasus Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. His main areas of expertise are security issues, statebuilding , and transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus. He is Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst and of the Joint Center’s Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers. Dr. Cornell is the author of four books, including Azerbaijan Since Independence (forthcoming) and Small Nations and Great Powers (2001), as well as co-editor of The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West (with S. Frederick Starr, 2005). His articles have appeared in such journals as World Politics, The Washington Quarterly, Current History, Journal of Democracy, and Europe-Asia Studies. Richard J. Ellings (PhD, University of Washington) is President and Cofounder of The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). He is also Affiliate Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Prior to serving with NBR, from 1986–89, he was Assistant Director and on the faculty of the Jackson School, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. He served as Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate, office of Senator Slade Gorton, in 1984 and 1985. Dr. Ellings is the author of Embargoes and World Power: Lessons from American Foreign Policy (1985); co-author of Private Property and National Security (1991); co-editor (with Aaron Friedberg) of Strategic Asia 2003–04: Fragility and Crisis (2003), Strategic Asia 2002–03: Asian Aftershocks (2002), and Strategic Asia 2001–02: Power and Purpose (2001); co-editor of Korea’s Future and the Great Powers (with Nicholas Eberstadt, 2001) and Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium (with Sheldon Simon, 1996); and the founding editor of the NBR Analysis publication series. He established the Strategic Asia Program and AccessAsia, the national clearinghouse that tracks specialists and their research on Asia. Lorraine Elliott (PhD, Australian National University) is Senior Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the...