Gülnur Aybet is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury and a senior associate member of St. Antony's College, Oxford. She is the author of The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation 1945-1991 and A European Security Architecture after the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy.

Rebecca R. Moore is a professor of political science at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She held a NATO-EAPC Fellowship from 2001 to 2003 and is the author of NATO's New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-Cold War World.