Toby Matthiesen is a Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He was previously a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His first book Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t was published by Stanford University Press in 2013.
Dr. Joshua Rovner of Southern Methodist University where he is the John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair of International Politics and National Security, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of Studies at the Tower Center for Political Studies. Before coming to Southern Methodist University, he was Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College, and he also taught at Columbia University and Williams College. He is the author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011), which won the International Studies Association Best Book Award for security studies, and the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award.
Dr. Crawford’s current research project focuses on the strategy and politics of dividing alliances in the first and second world wars. He is the author of Pivotal Deterrence: Third Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell, 2003), which was the winner of the 2003 Edgar S Furniss Book Award. He is also co-ediotr with Alan J Kuperman on Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).
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