On the Editors

Hans Günter Brauch (Germany): Dr. phil. habil, Privatdozent at the Faculty of Political Science and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin, since 1987 chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), an international non-profit scientific society. He was guest professor of international relations at the universities of Frankfurt on Main, Leipzig and Greifswald and at the Teachers Training College in Erfurt. From 1976-1989 he was research associate at Heidelberg and Stuttgart universities, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford University and he was also teaching at the universities of Darmstadt, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Heidelberg. He holds a Dr. phil. degree from Heidelberg University and a habilitation from the Free University of Berlin.

Publications: He has published more than 30 books and 20 research reports in English and German on security, armament, climate, energy and migration policies and since the 1970s two edited books and many articles on confidence building measures in several countries in English and German. Books in English: (Co-ed. with D.L. Clark): Decisiomaking for Arms Limitation - Assessments and Prospects (1983); (Ed.): Star Wars and European Defence - Implications for Europe: Perceptions and Assessments (1987); (Co-author with R. Bulkeley): The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and World Security (1988); (Ed.): Military Technology, Armaments Dynamics and Disarmament (1989); (Co-ed. with R. Kennedy): Alternative Conventional Defense Postures in the European Theater, Vol. 1: The Military Balance and Domestic Constraints (1990); Vol. 2: Political Change in Europe: Military Strategy and Technology (1992); Vol. 3: Military Alternatives for Europe after the Cold War (1993); (Co-ed. with H.J. v.d. Graaf, J. Grin and W. Smit): Controlling the Development and Spread of Military Technology (1992); (Co-ed. with Antonio Marquina): Confidence Building and Partnership in the Western Mediterranean. Tasks for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Avoidance (1994).

Postal address: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach, Germany
Electronic address:brauch@afes-press.de  http://www.afes-press.de
 

Antonio Marquina (Spain): PhD, since 1985 professor of international relations at Complutense University in Madrid (CUM), founder and director of the Research Unit on Security and Cooperation (UNISCI) at CUM. He has been the director of 14 research projects on European, Mediterranean, North African and Caucasus security and on Spanish foreign and security policy. From 1996 to 1997 he was the first president of STRADEMED, a network of research institutes working on security, defence and development issues in the Mediterranean.

Publications: He is the author, editor and co-author of 72 books and reports on these issues in English and Spanish, among them several on CBMs in the Mediterranean. Books on Mediterranean security issues include: (Ed): El Flanco Sur de la OTAN, 1993; (Ed.): El Maghreb. Cooperación, Concertación y Desafíos, 1993; (Coed): Nuclear Non-proliferation and the Mediterranean, 1994; (Co-ed. with H.G. Brauch): Confidence Building and Partnership in the Western Mediterranean. Tasks for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Avoidance, 1994; (Ed): Confidence Building and Partnership in the Western Mediterranean. Issues and Policies for the 1995 Conference, 1995; (Ed.): Elites and Change in the Mediterranean, 1997; (Ed.): Flujos Migratorios Norteafricanos Hacia La Union Europea. Asociacion y Diplomacia Preventiva, 1997; (Ed.): Mutual Perceptions in the Mediterranean, 1998.

Postal address: Prof. Dr. Antonio Marquina, UNISCI, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, Departmento de Estudios Internationales, Universidad Complutense, Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Madrid
Electronic address: marioant@cps.ucm.es  <http://www.ucm.es>.
 

Abdelwahab Biad (Algeria): doctor of law from Grenoble university, since 1994 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, University of Rouen in France where he is a member of the Center for Research and Study on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; Assistant Professor of International Relations, Institute of Law, University of Annaba (1987-1994) where he chaired the scientific council of the institute and headed the research unit on human rights and humanitarian law. He was a visiting fellow at UNIDIR (1988) and at the ICRC in Geneva (1992) and at the Hague Academy of International Law. With Luc Reychler he is a co-convenor of the IPRA Study Group on conflict resolution and peace building.

Publications: He is the author of 32 book chapters and articles in English and French. Publications on Mediterranean issues include: “Les pays non-alignés et la sécurité en Mediterranée”, in: Sécurité, désarmement et le flanc sud de l’Alliance atlantique. Cahier de l’Observatoire stratégique Méditerranéen No. 1 (1986): 79-87; “The Role of Border Problems in North African Peace and Security”, in: Disarmament, 1993; “The Maghreb and the Gulf War”, in: E. Boulding (Ed.): Building Peace in the Middle East: Challenges for States and Civil Society, 1994; “Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean: A Southern Viewpoint”, in: R. Aliboni, G. Joffe, T. Niblock (Eds.): Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region, 1996; “Les possibilités du désarmement en Méditerranée”, in: A. Marquina (Ed.): Elites and Change in the Mediterranean, 1997; “Conflict Prevention in the Euro-Med Partnership. Challenges and Prospects”, in: The International Spectator, 34,2, 1999.

Postal address: Prof. Dr. Abdelwahab Biad, Faculté de Droit, des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion, Université de Rouen, Boulevard Siegfried, F-76821 Mont Saint Aignan, Cedex, France
Electronic address: Abdelwahab.Biad@univ-rouen.fr  <http://www.credho.org>