Dr. T.V. Paul is C. James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, a Senior Visiting Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Director of the McGill-University of Montreal Joint Research Group in International Security. He received a Faculty of Arts 2005 Award for High Distinction in Research from McGill University, and a Peace Scholar Award from the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1989. Dr. Paul received a B.A. from Kerala University, India, an M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent publications include The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry (Editor, 2005), Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Co-editor and contributor, 2004), and India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (Co-author, 2003).

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Dr. Kurt Campbell is Senior Vice-President and Director of the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Department of Defense as Deputy Assistant Director of Defense, at the White House as Deputy Special Counselor to the President for NAFTA and as a member of the National Security Council staff. Dr. Campbell received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University and a certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia. Dr. Campbell's publications include The Power of Balance: 100 Strategic Insights into the Pacific Century (2003) and To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (Co-author, 2001).

Mr. Martin Walker is Editor of United Press International. He is also a Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New School University. Previously he was a journalist with Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, where he held the positions of Moscow Bureau Chief, United States Bureau Chief, European Editor, and Assistant Editor. He was awarded Britain’s Reporter of the Year Award in 1987. He also is a regular broadcaster on the BBC, National Public Radio, and CNN. Mr. Walker received a B.A. from Oxford University. His most recent publications include The Iraq War (2004), Europe in the 21st Century: Portraits of an Emerging Superpower (Co-author, 2001), and America Reborn: A 20th Century Narrative (2000).

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