İsmet Akça is assistant professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department at Yıldız Technical University (İstanbul, Turkey). His Phd dissertation is entitled “Militarism, Capitalism and the State: Putting the Military in its Place in Turkey”. His research areas covers social and political theory with a spefic focus on theories of state; political sociology of Turkey, specifically conducting research on the state, militarisation in political and economic spheres, capitalist socio-political transformation, and the politics of neoliberalism.
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Paul Amar serves as Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program with appointments in Global Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies and Middle East Studies. Prof. Amar is a political scientist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.
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Evren Balta Paker received her degrees from Columbia University and CUNY-Graduate Center (New York, USA). She is currently teaching at Yildiz University where she has also served as a board member of the Global Studies Center. She has received grants from Mellon Foundation, American Association for University Women, and Kennan Institute. Her research and scholarly concerns deal with civil wars, internal security practices, para-military organisations, state centralisation, and human rights in conflict-ridden socities. She has completed a manuscript (co-edited with ismet Akça) on National Security, Military, and the State in Turkey: 1908-2008.
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Dr. Victoria Basham is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol and an associate of the Centre for International and Security Studies, York University. Her research explores the politics of militarization, identity, (in)security and the everyday. She has recently published articles on the negotiation of subjectivity in the British military and is now developing work on torture and military identity, on subjectivity, governmentality and surveillance and on resisting militarization. She is currently a consultant at the Open University, working on a project entitled 'Governing through the Future' with Dr Claudia Aradau. She is also a member of the C.A.S.E. Collective
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Dr. Peter Custers (www.petercusters.nl) has a long record of engagement with the thematic of militarism, both as an activist and as a researcher/theoretician. In the 1980s, he was an active participant in the Dutch peace movement against the threat of nuclear war. He helped coordinate the activities of a small coalition advocating civil disobedience and non-cooperation (Bonk). Subsequently, he did sustained research into the political economy of arms’ production, which research amongst others has resulted in the comprehensive theoretical study ‘Questioning Globalized Militarism. Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory’ (Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, India/Merlin Press, London, United Kingdom, 2007) . During the last one and a half years he has been based at the International Institute for Asian Studies (I.I.A.S.), Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Dr. Peter Custers (www.petercusters.nl) has a long record of engagement with the thematic of militarism, both as an activist and as a researcher/theoretician. In the 1980s, he was an active participant in the Dutch peace movement against the threat of nuclear war. He helped coordinate the activities of a small coalition advocating civil disobedience and non-cooperation (Bonk). Subsequently, he did sustained research into the political economy of arms’ production, which research amongst others has resulted in the comprehensive theoretical study ‘Questioning Globalized Militarism. Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory’ (Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, India/Merlin Press, London, United Kingdom, 2007) . During the last one and a half years he has been based at the International Institute for Asian Studies (I.I.A.S.), Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Stuart Gordon is an academic in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy. He is also a Research Fellow at Reading University and a member of the Board of International Advisers to Liverpool Hope University’s Centre for War and Peace Studies. He is currently the programme director for the Academy’s ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of Stabilisation Operations Programme’ and a part of a research project, based in Tuft’s University’s Feinstein Center, that is exploring the use of development assistance in conflict environments. He specialises in the politics of conflict.
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Dr. Alison Howell is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her research cuts across the fields of critical security studies, global governance, and the history and sociology of medicine and health in order to interrogate how psychology and psychiatry are increasingly being used as tools for governing ‘unruly’ populations in global politics. She is presently working on publishing a book based on her PhD thesis, Madness in International Relations: Therapeutic Interventions and the Global Governance of Disorder(s), which considers how mental health policies are deployed on the bodies of suspected terrorists, post-conflict populations, and soldiers. Currently, she is conducting research on the growth of new mental health policies and practices in Iraq.
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Spyridon N. Litsas is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Macedonia (Greece). He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Durham. He has published various articles in reputable Greek and international journals. His main academic interests lies within the field of International Relations Theory, Turkish Politics and Foreign Affairs, Middle East and Islam, War Theory. At the moment he is working on his first monograph, about War Theory and Rationalism.
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Bryan Mabee is Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His research is focused on the interaction between war, security and political development from the perspective of international relations. His current work examines the interconnections between globalisation and security; the relationship between war, statebuilding and security in the United States; and private violence and the political economy of security. He has recently completed a book on the globalisation of security.
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Dr. Naison Ngoma is the Head of the African Security Sector Governance Programme at the Institute for Security in Pretoria. He has taught international relations, research methodology and security related subjects served at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa in the post of Expert on Post-conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building. Dr. Ngoma has published works on civil-military relations; defence management; post-conflict reconstruction and security sector reform. Among some of his recent works, is a book entitled "Prospects of a Security Community in Southern Africa".
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Iraklis Oikonomou is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and a researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently working on a post-doctoral research project funded by the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies programme, studying the emergence and contradictions of an EU space policy for security and military purposes. His main research interests are EU armaments policy and the political economy of European Security and Defence Policy.
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Yoram Peri is Founder of the Rothschild-Caesarea School of Communication, and the Head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society, in Tel Aviv University, where he is a Professor of Political Sociology and Communication. He was the political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Israeli daily, Davar. At present he is a visitor professor at the center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington DC. Prof. Peri has published five books and dozens of scholarly articles in books and academic journals, as well as editorials, commentaries and op-ed articles. His latest book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy (2006), was recognized as one of the "best of the best" by the Association of American University Presses, the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association. His previous book, Brothers at War: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Culture War in Israel (2005), received the Prime Minister's Prize, and was named as the best book in social sciences for 2006 by the Israeli Political Science Association. In 2004 Stanford University Press published his book Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel, and his first book Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics (1983) is still consider a must book for the understanding of Civil-Military relations in Israel. A frequent commentator on radio and television, Prof. Peri has served as Chair of the Association of Editors of Israeli Dailies and has lectured at universities and research centers in more than one dozen countries, including Harvard University and Dartmouth College, USA, Sciences-Po in Paris France, and others.
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Martin Shaw is currently Research Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of International Relations and Politics from 1995 to 2008. He was previously a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Durham (1970-72), and then Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull (1972-95). His work has focused on the sociology of global politics, war and genocide. His books include Marxism and Social Science, London: Pluto, 1975; Dialectics of War, London: Pluto, 1988; Post-Military Society, Cambridge: Polity, 1991; Global Society and International Relations, Cambridge: Polity, 1994; Civil Society and Media in Global Crises, London: Pinter, 1996; Theory of the Global State, Cambridge University Press, 2000 and War and Genocide, Cambridge: Polity, 2003, The New Western Way of War, Cambridge: Polity, 2005, and What is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity, 2007. His personal website is www.martinshaw.org and he is contributes a monthly column to www.opendemocracy.net
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Nicola Short is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University (Canada) and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex for the 2009 Summer Term. Her current research examines the political economy of inequality and difference in world affairs from the perspective of Gramscian political theory. Dr. Short is the author of The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala (Palgrave: 2007). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MA in Peace Research from the University of Bradford.
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Frank Slijper (1970) works at the Dutch Campaign against Arms Trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and has been a researcher and campaigner on arms trade issues since he graduated in 1993 as an economist (international economic relations) on Dutch military procurement and offset policies. His most recent English publications include From Venus to Mars – the European Union’s steps towards the militarisation of space (TNI, 2008); Project Butter Factory - Henk Slebos and the A.Q. Khan nuclear network (TNI, 2007) and The Emerging EU Military-Industrial Complex (TNI, 2005). For more on the Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade: http://www.stoparmstrade.org/
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Nicola Short is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University (Canada) and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex for the 2009 Summer Term. Her current research examines the political economy of inequality and difference in world affairs from the perspective of Gramscian political theory. Dr. Short is the author of The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala (Palgrave: 2007). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MA in Peace Research from the University of Bradford.
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Frank Slijper (1970) works at the Dutch Campaign against Arms Trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and has been a researcher and campaigner on arms trade issues since he graduated in 1993 as an economist (international economic relations) on Dutch military procurement and offset policies. His most recent English publications include From Venus to Mars – the European Union’s steps towards the militarisation of space (TNI, 2008); Project Butter Factory - Henk Slebos and the A.Q. Khan nuclear network (TNI, 2007) and The Emerging EU Military-Industrial Complex (TNI, 2005). For more on the Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade: http://www.stoparmstrade.org/
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Anna Stavrianakis is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her main research areas are the arms trade and military globalisation; and NGOs and global civil society. She is currently working on a book on NGO activity in relation to the arms trade, to be published by Zed Books.
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