PEOPLE

Paul Avey is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation examines conventional wars and crises in asymmetric nuclear relationships.

Pierpaolo Barbieri is the author of Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2013). His current project is on informal empire in Latin America, focusing on financial history and U.S.–Latin American relations.

Michal's research interests include international relations theory with a focus on the role of ideas and norms in world politics, international institutions and international organizations, conflict resolution, historical justice and memory, transitional justice, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jessica Blankshain is interested in the organizational economics of the U.S. military and defense establishment.  She is currently a doctoral student in Political Economy and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and also teaches a Harvard College undergraduate course on the Economics of National Security.

Ethan Corbin is a Ph.D. candidate in the International Security Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has published on topics ranging from Syrian foreign policy, peacekeeping operations, and insurgency and counter-insurgency warfare.

Troy Endicott is a National Defense Fellow and lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force with over eighteen years of military service. He recently commanded a space operations support squadron in Colorado and has served in a variety of staff officer positions around the globe with duty in Italy, Iraq, Turkey, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Tytti Erästö has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Tampere University, Finland. Her interests include nonproliferation, nuclear disarmament, Middle East politics, conflict management, and English School theory.

Sven-Eric Fikenscher's research focuses on regional security and arms control in the Middle East, status-seeking in international relations, and India's nuclear policy.

Trevor Findlay is a professor and Director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he holds the William and Jeanie Barton Chair in International Affairs.

Chuck Freilich was Israel's deputy national security adviser. He has published a book on Israeli national security decision-making. His primary areas of expertise are U.S. Middle East policy, Israeli national security policy, and Middle Eastern affairs. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.