Authors

Antony Best is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936—41 (1995), British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914—1941 (2002) and a number of articles on Anglo-Japanese relations in the inter-war period.

Jussi M. Hanhimaki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, and Finland Distinguished Professor at the Academy of Finland and Tampere University. He is the author (with Odd Arne Westad) of The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eye-Witness Accounts (2003), The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (2004), and United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (2008).

Joseph A. Maiolo is Senior Lecturer in International History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is the author of The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War (1998), editor, with Robert Boyce, of The Origins ofWorld War Two: The Debate Continues (2003), and assistant editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. He is currently working on a study of the global arms race and the origins of the Second World War.

Kirsten E. Schulze is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon (1998), The Arab-Israeli Conflict (1999), The Jews of Lebanon: Between Conflict and Coexistence (2001), The Free Aceh Movement (GAM): Anatomy of a Separatist Organization (2004) and the co-editor of Nationalisms, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights and the Middle East (1996). She has also published numerous articles on the Aceh conflict, radical Islam in Indonesia, the Arab-Israeli conflict, negotiations and reform in the Middle East, and the Northern Ireland peace process.