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Dr. Adam Mohamed Ahmed Abdallah
Sudan
Sooni2010@gmail.com
Adam Mohamed Ahmed Abdallah is from Taweela Northern Darfur state, Sudan. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Omdurman Islamic University, and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Strategic Studies at Al-zaiem Alazhari University in Sudan. He previously has served as Post-Graduate Coordinator, Head of the Political Science Department, Deputy Dean of Political Science and Strategic Studies, and Head of the Academic Office of the Faculty at Al-zaiem Alazhari University. In his current position, he is responsible for all of the administrative, financial, and academic activities for Political Science and Strategic Studies. His teaching interests include international relations, political analysis, war and peace studies, human rights, and peace and stability in Sudan. He also supervises student research at different levels (P.S.C., High Diploma , M.S.C., and Ph.D.) within the university
Dr. Edgar Agubamah
Nigeria
edgaragubamah1@yahoo.com
Dr. Edgar Agubamah received his B.A in History, and M.Sc and Ph.D. in International Relations, from the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He is currently a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. Among the courses he teaches are Introduction to International Relations, International Organizations, International Law and Diplomacy, and West African Sub-region. He has participated in several professional conferences at both the national and international levels. He research interests include international organizations, foreign policies, and international law.
Dr. Samir Al-Dalalah
Jordan
samir_dalalah@hotmail.com
Samir Al-Dalalah is a Professor of Law at Al al-Bayt University in Jordan, where he has been teaching Intellectual Property, Civil Law, and other courses since 2003. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from the faculty of law at Hassan II University, Casablanca. Dr. Al-Dalalah has served as vice dean of the Faculty of Law and Head of the Department of Legal Sciences at Al al-Bayt University. He is a member of numerous national and international Councils and higher Committees, including the National Committee for Women's Affairs, and of the Trustees Council of Private Queen Alia College. His areas of interest are approaches to peace in the Middle East, Jordan foreign policy, human rights, and intellectual property; he has published several journal articles and books on these topics. He is a trainer and a legal advisor regarding intellectual property issues in several colleges and universities such as the Higher Institute for Judge Qualification.
Marie Chantal Bagaye
Rwanda
chantalbagaye@yahoo.fr
Marie Chantal Bagaye received her Bachelor's degree from National University of Rwanda in History in 2001, and her Master's in 2006 from University of Tananarive (Madagascar). She is a permanent Lecturer at KIE (Kigali Institute of Education) in the Department of Social Sciences, teaching World Contemporary History, Great Issues of Contemporary Africa, History of International Relations, Media and Society, and Social Studies; she also supervises students' research works (memoires) in socio- political History in order to get their Bachelor's Degree. Her research interests include the political and socio- cultural history of Rwanda., history of international relations, conflict management, and peace building. She is author of various scientific works dealing with the history of settlement of Rwanda, Rwandans' health problems during the colonial period, U.S. foreign policy before the end of the cold war, historical and tourism sites of Rwanda, synthesis of the history of Rwanda, and Rwandan cultural values for community cohesion. She is a History Subject Leader at KIE, and also serves as an active member of a group tasked to develop and to review curriculum for TTCs (Teacher Training Centers) in the country and as a member of TTCs Text Approval Committee. She lives at Kigali and is mother of two teenagers.
Mr. Fathi Bourmecher
Tunisia
fathi.bourmeche@yahoo.com
Fathi Bourmeche holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an M.A. in civilisation from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Manouba, Tunis, and teaches culture studies at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Sfax. He has written two papers: "Evasion as a Form of Deviation in Margaret Thatcher's Speeches during the Falklands War in 1982" and "The Falklands Crisis from Margaret Thatcher's Perspective during and after the War of 1982." He is a member of the Research Unit on Discourse Analysis (GRAD) at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Sfax, and is currently conducting research on Eastern European immigration. He is also interested in ethnic issues, media, elections, political parties and public opinion.
Dr. Rommel Curaming
Brunei Darussalam
rommel.curaming@ubd.edu.bn
Rommel A. Curaming is a Lecturer in History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Australian National University (ANU), respectively. Prior to joining UBD, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NUS, a Visiting Research Fellow under Endeavour Award Australia at La Trobe University, and Assistant Professor at De La Salle University-Manila. His research interests include history and memory of political violence, sociology and politics of knowledge production, state-scholar relations, the politics of the non-political, and the interplay between history and popular culture in Islands Southeast Asia. In joining SUSI, he aims to integrate an understanding of the U.S. and its foreign policy into the analysis of various aspects of Southeast Asian Studies. He also seeks to explore the interplay between the macro-politics of international relations and the micro-politics of knowledge production as exemplified in the development of Southeast Asian Studies, with the hope of generating insights on the nature of the political. He has published articles and reviews in a number of important journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Time and Society, Southeast Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Research, RIMA, Sojourn, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Mandala, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
Ms. Leila Delovarova
Kazakhstan
delovarova@mail.ru
Leila Delovarova is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan, where she teaches courses in international relations, international migration, and regional security. She earned a B.A. in 2002 and an M.A. in International Relations in 2010, both from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Leila's research interests include foreign policy, U.S. policy towards Russia, migration, and regional security in Central Asia.
Dr. Elena Dostanko
Belarus
Dostanko@bsu.by
Elena Dostanko is director of the Center for International Studies, Faculty of International Relations, at Belarusian State University (Belarus, Minsk). She received an M.A. in Sociology and Ph.D. in Political Science from Belarusian State University. She is also currently Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations. She teaches courses on International Organizations, the European Union, and Belarus in International Organizations. Her research interests include multilateralism in international relations and EU Neighborhood Policy; she is the author of a number of publications relating to the EU Eastern widening and the multilateral cooperation of Belarus. She has an international experience of participation in OSCE monitoring missions.
Dr. Geetha Govindasamy
Malaysia
geetha.govindasamy@gmail.com
Geetha Govindasamy is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She earned a M.Phil. degree in Oriental Studies from Queens' College, Cambridge University (UK), and an M.A from the International University of Japan in Niigata. She also is a Research Adjunct at the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University, a Korea Foundation Fellow, and an alumna of the 2007 Women in International Security Summer (WIIS) program. Her thesis, titled The Role of Perceptions in South Korea's security policies towards North Korea, was recently accepted in fulfillment of the requirements for a Ph.D. degree by Monash University, Australia. Her research and publications are predominantly focused on East Asian security, foreign policy, international relations, and regionalism.
Dr. Siret Hürsoy
Turkey
siret.hursoy@ege.edu.tr
Siret Hürsoy is the Director of Ege Strategic Research Centre, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and an Associate Professor at Ege University in İzmir, Turkey. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Eastern Mediterranean University (Northern Cyprus), his M.A. in International Relations and European Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), and his Ph.D. in International Relations and Politics from Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). His research interests are security, defense, peace and conflict studies, foreign policy analysis, democratization, and security sector reform (especially in relation to the EU, NATO, UN, Turkey, Middle East and Cyprus). He is a senior lecturer and teaches full-time at Ege University in the Department of International Relations and part-time at İzmir University of Economics in the Department of International Relations and the European Union. His most recent publications include a book titled Challenges to Peace Operations in the 21st Century (2007), a book chapter on "The Impact of the State on Democratic Consolidation in Turkey" (2012), and articles titled "The Paradox of Modernity in Turkey: Issues in the Transformation of a State" (2012), "Turkey's 'New' Foreign Policy Activism in Regional and Global Spheres: A Special Focus on the Middle East" (forthcoming), and "Changing Style and Substance in Turkish Foreign Policy and Strategic Depth Doctrine" (forthcoming). He is currently doing research on (a) the role of Turkey in the Gulf; and (b) Turkey, the EU and NATO relations in the next decade. He is also the owner and editor of the Ege Strategic Research Journal. In years between 2005 and 2011, he was a member of the Advisory Board in the Strategic Research Centre (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey.
Dr. Khadga K.C.
Nepal
Lovepeace96@gmail.com
Dr. Khadga K.C. received his M.A. degree in Political Science from the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal in 1996, and completed work for his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at Nagasaki University under the Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbusho) program in 2009. He is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He teaches graduate courses on international relations, governance, conflict, peace and development studies, Japan, and the western hemisphere (U.S. affairs). He has published a book, The Institutionalization of Democratic Polity in Nepal, and a number of articles in national and international journals; he also has presented research papers in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, South Korea, and Pakistan. His latest article is titled, "Democratization in Nepal: Rhetoric and Realities" in Lok Raj Bara ed. Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies, Kathmandu: Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies, October, 2011.
Mrs. Minhas Majeed Khan
Pakistan
minhasmaj@upesh.edu.pk
Minhas Majeed Khan received her M.A. degree in International Relations from the University of Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and is writing her Ph.D. thesis on the topic, "Evangelicals' Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy: Its Impact on Pakistan-U.S. Relations (September 2001-November 2007). She is currently a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Peshawar, Among the course she teaches are History of International Relations and Foreign Policies of Neighboring Countries of Pakistan. Her areas of interest include religion; foreign policy decision making, the U.S. and Pakistan; the Pakhtuns; and federally administered tribal areas. She has participated in various national and international conferences, and presented papers in Pakistan, Turkey, and India. She also is a member of the Board of Directors at RIPORT, a regional research institute in Peshawar.
Dr. Anil Kumar P
India
anil.sopanam@gmail.com
Dr. Anil Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, Kerala, India (affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University), where he teaches International Relations to both graduate and undergraduate students. He received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Political Science, University of Kerala. His areas of interest are U.S., China, and South Asian security. He is also interested in state politics and psephological studies. Dr. Anil is the recipient of the TV Paul Award in 2011 for best Ph.D. thesis in International Relations/Political Science, and was a research affiliate in the Institute of Chinese Studies in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He was also a supervisor of the election studies conducted by CNN-IBN, The Hindu, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. His comments on U.S.-India-China relations have appeared in Asianet News Channel and on All India Radio. His publications include a number of research articles dealing with international relations in journals such as Journal of Polity and Society and Journal of Parliamentary Studies.
Dr. Péter Marton
Hungary
pmarton@gmail.com
Dr. Péter Marton received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Corvinus University in Hungary. He has in the past worked as research fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies of the László Teleki Institute and at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, and is currently a lecturer at Corvinus University in Budapest. He is teaching a number of courses, including Foreign Policy Analysis and Security Studies. His research deals with statebuilding, Afghanistan, East-Central Europe, and U.S. foreign policy. He has published a number of research articles and books, including a volume about coalition burden-sharing problems in Afghanistan that was co-edited and co-authored with Nik Hynek (Statebuilding in Afghanistan: Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction, published by Routledge in 2011).
Miss Chanel Nahar
Suriname
chanelnahar@yahoo.com
Ms. Nahar received a M.S. degree in economics from the Anton de Kom University (Suriname) and a M.A. in International Political Economy and Development from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (Netherlands). She is currently a lecturer at the Academy for Journalists and Social Workers in Suriname. Her areas of interest are related to economic globalization, human security, and regionalism.
Dr. Hector Ramirez
Mexico
hector_2093@hotmail.com
Dr. RamÃrez received a B.A. in Economics (2001) and M.A. in North American Studies (2003), with emphasis on economic integration in North America, from the University of the Americas in Puebla Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Essex (UK), with a focus on international political economy in North America. He currently teaches international economics and research methods in the Department of Economics at the State University of Nayarit. His research interests are in the area of comparative economic integration processes: U.S.-Mexico, North America-Northeast Asia, North America-Europe. He is particularly interested in assessing the impact of economic integration on social, political and cultural dimensions.
Mr. Pedro Simba
Angola
psimba76@hotmail.com
Pedro Simba received his B.A. (an Honour Joint Degree Course in Economics and Politics) at London Guildhall University in London, England. He currently serves as a permanent Technical Adviser for the Committee of Economy and Finance, and for the Committee of State Administration and Local Government of the Republic of Angola National Assembly in Luanda. He also provides technical advice for issues relating to Asia, the Middle East, and Ocean; this is within the framework of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation of national and friendship groups among Parliaments around the globe. Further, he is Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations Studies in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola, where he teaches English Language for the recruiters of Angolan diplomats through a process of public competition across the country. His English lecturing mainly focuses on internal and global political issues. He also has worked for the Ministry of the Environment in the Department of Exchange and International Relations Cooperation, Republic of Angola. While in the United Kingdom, he worked for several local and central governments such as Westminster City Hall (in the Planning, Finance and Education Departments). He also has worked for the British Government's Tax Revenue Council.
Dr. Baiq Wardhani
Indonesia
baiq.wardhani@gmail.com
Dr. Baiq Wardhani is a lecturer at the Departement of International Relations of Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia, where she teaches Global Conflict and Human Security; Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Fundamentalism; and Politics and Society of the Pacific. She completed a B.A from Universitas Airlangga (1987), and earned M.A (1996) and Ph.D (2006) degrees from Monash University, Australia. She has attended many international conferences and is author of several books, including Diplomacy and Ethnosecessionism in Post-Suharto Period (2010); Globalisasi dan Konflik Etnis (2010 and 2012); Identitas, Etnik dan Konflik (2011); and Masyarakat, Budaya dan Politik Australia, Timor Leste dan Pasifik Barat Daya (2011). She writes many articles focusing on ethnicity and human security. She also is a chief editor of the nationally accredited journal Global dan Strategi.