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Biographies of Analysts

Dr. Giuseppe Anzera
Giuseppe Anzera is Lecturer of Sociology of International Relations at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. He is the co-author of La Sicurezza Strategica (Strategic Security, Angeli, 2002) and of Geopolitca dell'Acqua (Geopolitics of Water, Guerini, 2003), in addition to a number of articles on international relations. His main areas of research include nuclear and missile proliferation, the dynamics involving states, sovereignty and non-state actors, change in strategic doctrines, security transformations, and evolution of the armed forces.

Dr. Bulent Aras
Bulent Aras, an associate professor of International Relations at Isik University in Istanbul, is an independent political consultant on Turkish and Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process and Turkey (Novascience: 1998), New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position (Frankcass: 2002), Turkey and the Greater Middle East (Tasam: 2004) and co-editor of Oil and Geopolitics in the Caspian Sea Region (Praeger: 1999). He regularly contributes to the Lebanese Daily Star, Al-Ahram Weekly, Kuwait Times, Asia Times, Fars News, and several Turkish newspapers.

D. Shyam Babu
D. Shyam Babu is a Fellow at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in New Delhi. His areas of research include nuclear proliferation, regional security and arms control. He worked for five years as a journalist in India. During 1993-94 he was a Ford Visiting Research Fellow at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chietigj Bajpaee
Chietigj Bajpaee is a Research Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. He has been a Researcher for the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, for Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based public-policy think-tank and a Risk Analyst for a New York-based risk management company. He has a graduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Government from Wesleyan and Oxford Universities.

Yevgeny Bendersky
Yevgeny Bendersky is an editor and a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report. He previously worked as the Legislative Assistant on Foreign Affairs for U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon. His analyses have been printed in Pravda, Asia Times, and an assortment of other publications. He has degrees in political science and English from Brandeis University, and a Masters Degree in Security Studies and Conflict Management from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Dr. Federico Bordonaro
Federico Bordonaro is the managing editor and a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report. He holds a Ph.D. from University La Sorbonne in Paris. He is the co-author of La potenza incompiuta (The Unachieved Power, Rome, Francoangeli 2005). His main expertise is in the new structure of the international system after the Cold War, the European integration process, security and defense issues, and the renewal of geopolitical thought.

Herman J. Cohen
Herman J. Cohen is a retired U.S. diplomat. His most senior positions were Ambassador to Senegal, Africa Director in the National Security Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. He now lectures at Johns Hopkins University and consults for U.S. business in Africa.

Brian Concannon, Jr.
Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq., directs the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, located at http://www.ijdh.org. He formerly worked at the International Lawyers Office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he spent several years prosecuting crimes committed during the 1991-1994 Haitian coup.

Dario Cristiani
Dario Cristiani is an analyst in the fields of international relations, geopolitics and political science. He is a collaborator to Strategic-Road.com and the Italian think-tank Equilibri as a specialist of Middle East political and strategic issues. He is completing a Masters degree in International Politics and Relations at the University of Naples Orientale, from which he received a Bachelor’s degree in International and Diplomatic Relations.

Dr. Sreeradha Datta
Dr. Sreeradha Datta is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Her works include Bangladesh: A Fragile Democracy (New Delhi, 2004), and The Northeast Complexities and its Determinants (New Delhi, 2004). The views expressed are the author's and should not be attributed to any institution or organization.

Dustin Dehéz
Dustin Dehéz is the Director of Northeast African Studies at the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy (D.I.A.S.), and also serves on the Standing Group on Foreign Policy at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He served in the German army and studied Modern History at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. In early 2005, he worked for the spokesmen on Defense of the C.D.U./C.S.U. in the German parliament, Christian Schmidt.

Riccardo Fabiani
Riccardo Fabiani is an M.Phil. candidate in International Relations at the Center of International Studies, University of Cambridge. He is also a contributor to Equilibri.net and the director of Politicaestera.org. His research interests include Africa, with a particular attention to the Maghreb countries, E.U. and Italian foreign policy and the history of the Cold War. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of RomaTre and has studied at the University of Paris 1–Pantheon/Sorbonne, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Jonathan Feiser
Jonathan Feiser is an independent intelligence analyst with a concentration on political Islam and the historical and security developments of the Levant, in addition to being a contributor to the Power and Interest News Report. He has degrees in public policy and American history from Penn State University.

Jephraim P. Gundzik
Jephraim P. Gundzik is president of Condor Advisers, Inc. Condor Advisers has provided investment risk analysis on emerging markets to individual and institutional investors globally since 1995. Condor's clients include the world's largest multinational corporations, mutual funds and hedge funds. Condor's research correctly forecast the devaluations of the Thai baht and Korean won in 1997, Russia's default and devaluation in 1998, Brazil's devaluation in 1999 and Argentina's default and devaluation in 2002. More recently, Condor Advisers research has foreseen the generational change in global geopolitical risk that has driven commodity prices to record highs. Mr. Gundzik has written articles for the Financial Times and is a regular contributor to Asia Times. Condor Advisers is located on the web at http://www.condoradvisers.com.

Dr. Marcel de Haas
Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Marcel de Haas is Senior Research Fellow on military doctrine, strategy, and security policy of N.A.T.O., E.U., Russia and C.I.S., at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague. He maintains a website at http://www.clingendael.nl/cscp/staff/?id=325.

Loro Horta
Loro Horta is an Asian security analyst based in Beijing. He has degrees from Sydney University in Australia and the Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore. He is also a graduate of the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. He is a regular contributor to the Straits Times, Asia Times and the Jakarta Post, and Mr. Horta has been interviewed by ABC Radio Australia, SBS Radio Australia, Singapore National Radio and France Press.

Marcin Kaczmarski
Marcin Kaczmarski is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of International Relations at Warsaw University. His area of study is Russian-American relations after the Cold War, in addition to Russian foreign policy and international security. His analyses have appeared in major publications such as Rzeczpospolita.

Mehmet Kalyoncu
Mehmet Kalyoncu is a graduate student at Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University. His articles and reviews have been published in www.balkanalysis.com, Caspian Business News, Zaman US Daily, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales. His research interests include Turkish foreign policy, ethno-religious politics, and transatlantic relations.

Nicholas A. Kenney
Nicholas A. Kenney is currently living in Jerusalem while working for a non-governmental organization that focuses on conflict resolution. He is a masters candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to starting at Fletcher he practiced law in Boston, focusing mainly on criminal litigation and administrative law. He earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School where he specialized in international law and spent his last semester abroad studying and working in London. He also holds a B.A. in history (concentrating on Modern European and British Empire studies) from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Soeren Kern
Soeren Kern is the Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Kern has served in the United States Air Force and is specialized in U.S.-European defense- and security-related issues. Mr. Kern graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mr. Kern is a citizen of both the United States and of Germany.

P.R. Kumaraswamy
P.R. Kumaraswamy teaches Israeli politics and is an associate professor at the school of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy in New Delhi. His forthcoming book, "Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," will be published by Scarecrow Press later in 2006.

Christopher Len
Christopher Len is Assistant Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly. He is also Coordinator for the Energy and Cooperation Project at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program, a joint research and policy center affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and the Department of Eurasian Studies of Uppsala University in Sweden. He holds Masters degrees from the University of Edinburgh (Philosophy & Politics) in the U.K. and Uppsala University (Peace and Conflict Research) in Sweden.

Samuel Logan
Samuel Logan is currently the Latin American correspondent for the International Relations and Security Network. Mr. Logan specializes in organized crime, black markets, the drug and gun trade, street gangs, insurgencies, U.S. policy in Latin America, energy security, and development. Mr. Logan holds a BA in both Psychology and Spanish and an MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is based in Brazil, prepares a weekly newsletter on politics, energy, and security in South America, and operates the website http://www.samuellogan.com.

Julian Madsen
Julian Madsen is a writer and researcher with al-Jazeera on Middle Eastern affairs. He graduated with a masters degree in International Relations focusing on Middle Eastern Studies. Having extensive knowledge of Arab culture and the political, social and economic landscape, Mr. Madsen has lived in Egypt, Syria and Qatar. His analyses have appeared for the Jane's Information Group, as well as in Strategic Insights, the Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Arena, World Press and RISQ. Mr. Madsen's views expressed in PINR are his own and do not reflect the policy or position of al-Jazeera.

Brian Maher
Brian Maher is an analyst with the Power and Interest News Report. He has a Master's Degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from Southwest Missouri State University. His analyses have been printed by various organizations and publications.

Dr. Mohan Malik
Mohan Malik is a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Malik is the author of Dragon on Terrorism, The Gulf War: Australia's Role and Asian-Pacific Responses, co-editor of Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia, and editor of Australia's Security in the 21st Century (1999), The Future Battlefield, and Asian Defence Policies. He has also written for the International Herald Tribune, The Japan Times, the Australian, among other publications. Dr. Malik has done consultancy work for the Science Applications International Corporation (S.A.I.C.), Australian Department of Defense (Army), and the U.K.-based Jane's Information Group. Dr. Malik's views expressed in PINR are his own and do not reflect the policy or position of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies or the U.S. Department of Defense.

Erich Marquardt
Erich Marquardt's analyses have been printed in the Chicago Tribune, Arabies Trends, Los Alamos Monitor, Times of Central Asia, Asia Times, and an assortment of other publications. His work has been used by various organizations, such as the U.S. Army's Counter-Terrorism training division. He has degrees in political science and English from Purdue University.

José Carlos Matias
José Carlos Matias is a journalist for TDM-Radio, the public service broadcaster of the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. He has been a regular contributor to the newspaper Hoje Macau and the magazine Macau Business. In June 2007, he completed a Masters in European Studies at the Institute of European Studies of Macau of the University of Macau. His thesis focused on the E.U.-China partnership on the Galileo Satellite Navigation System. In addition to E.U.-China relations, he has been studying cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries.

Joel T. Meyer
Joel T. Meyer is a freelance writer who studies international political issues. His analyses have been published in the Taipei Times, the South China Morning Post, and the Asia Times. He most recently worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and has a degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.

Jean-Philippe Miginiac
Jean-Philippe Miginiac is the founder and managing editor at Strategic-Road.com. He worked previously as CEO or CFO in several companies and provides consulting in strategic management. He has a postgraduate degree in Management from the University of Grenoble in France.

Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay
Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. His areas of research include German Foreign Policy, European security and politics, terrorism and radical Islamic movements in the West. He was a Salzburg Seminar Fellow in 2005.

Dr. Harsh V. Pant
Harsh V. Pant is a lecturer in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a masters degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. His research interests include WMD proliferation, U.S. foreign policy, and Asia-Pacific security issues. He has been published on these issues by a number of academic journals and other publications including Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Comparative Strategy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Defence Studies, International Studies, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Security Dialogue, and South Asian Survey. His views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of King's College London.

Aldo Pigoli
Aldo Pigoli is Director of the Africa Program at Landau Network-Centro Volta. His fields of expertise cover African security and defense issues and the privatization of security. He is co-founder of the Italian magazine Equilibri.net and co-author of Il Mestiere della Guerra. Dai mercenari ai manager della sicurezza (Angeli, Milano 2004). He is based in Milan.

Michael Piskur
Michael Piskur is an independent researcher and analyst with a focus on international political economy and energy issues. He has a degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and studied European integration at Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration.

Dr. Sudha Ramachandran
Sudha Ramachandran is an independent researcher and journalist based in Bangalore, India. Her areas of specialization include terrorism and security issues. After her doctoral degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, she worked with an English daily, the Deccan Herald (Bangalore). She has reported from and written about various conflict zones, including Sri Lanka and Kashmir.

Catherine Zara Raymond
Catherine Zara Raymond is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore. She is currently involved in research on maritime terrorism and piracy under the Institute's Maritime Security Program. She is a co-editor and contributing author for the volume "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Maritime Security in the Asia Pacific." She was previously an analyst at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, St. Andrews University, Scotland.

Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray
Bibhu Prasad Routray is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi and is involved in research and documentation activities with regard to conflicts in India's Northeast, left-wing extremism in India and Islamist extremism in Bangladesh. He was also the Director of the Institute's Database and Documentation Center on Conflict & Development (DADC) in India's Northeast at Guwahati in Assam between August 2001 and February 2005. He received his doctoral degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Routray has written extensively in various journals, print media and on the Internet on terrorism, internal security and democracy.

Lora Saalman
Lora Saalman is a Research Associate at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she received her BA in Anthropology, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where she received her MA in International Policy Studies and Nonproliferation. She is fluent in Chinese and French. Her analyses have appeared in the online journals of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Monterey Institute of International Studies and Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The views expressed in her analyses do not necessarily reflect those of the Wisconsin Project.

Emanuela Sardellitti
Emanuela Sardellitti is author of many articles on international relations. Her main areas of research include the political dynamics in African and Middle Eastern states, political Islam and Arab societies. She graduated with a degree in Political Science from the Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome and has two Masters Degrees: Peacekeeping & Security Studies (focusing on terrorism, nuclear proliferation and regional security) and Diplomatic Studies (with the Italian Society for International Organization). She has also served as trainer at the Italian Embassy in Turkey.

Todd M. Walters
Todd M. Walters is a Research Associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he focuses on U.S. alliance relationships and regional security issues in Asia. He has worked previously as a teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University, and as a researcher for the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Tufts in 2004 with a major in classical studies.

Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
Michael A. Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships and is the author of 21 books and numerous scholarly and analytical articles in the fields of general political science and political theory. His analyses have been printed in many publications, and he has been interviewed on programs such as Chicago's National Public Radio.

Adam Wolfe
Adam Wolfe is an editor and a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report. His analyses have been printed in many publications, such as the Asia Times, Young Europeans for Security, and the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He has also spoken on U.S. National Public Radio's Here and Now show. He has a degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Jing-dong Yuan
Jing-dong Yuan is Director of Research for the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Associate Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he teaches Northeast Asian security, Chinese politics, and comparative national security policy. He writes extensively and is the author of over 100 monographs, book chapters, journal articles, and newspaper op-eds, and is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).

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