JOHN BERRYMAN Associate Professor in International Studies at the American Institute for Foreign Study, UK: teaches International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK STEPHEN J. BLANK expert on the Soviet bloc and the post-Soviet world at the Strategic Studies Institute's of the U.S. Army War College, USA AMIT DAS GUPTA Scientific Collaborator in the Institute for Contemporary History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany SANDRA FERNANDES Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Minho, Portugal P. TERRENCE HOPMANN Professor of International Relations; Director of the Conflict Management Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, USA HEIDI KJÆRNET Research Fellow at the Energy Programme of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) MOHIADDIN MESBAHI Professor of International Relations at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FlorIda, USA and the Director of Middle East Studies Centre BERTIL NYGREN Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish National Defence College and at the Department of Political Science, Skholm University, Sweden ALBERTO PRIEGO is currently teaching at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, Spain RICHARD SAKWA Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, UK