Kamil Mahdi is an experienced analyst of Middle Eastern politics and economics, in particular the political economy of oil-exporting countries. Mahdi is secretary of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, researching Iraq's economy, politics and modern history including the politics and economics of sanctions, conflict and occupation. His other interests include economic...

Former TNI director (1993-95), Jochen Hippler is a specialist on the Muslim Middle East (mostly Arab countries) and Central Asian politics (mostly Afghanistan and Pakistan)....

Mariano Aguirre is Senior Advisor on Peacebuilding at the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Colombia. He was before the director of the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution (NOREF), in Oslo....

Boris Kagarlitsky es un conocido comentarista internacional sobre la vida política y social de Rusia. Entre 1990 y 1993, fue diputado del consejo municipal de Moscú, así como miembro de la ejecutiva del Partido Socialista de Rusia, cofundador del Partido del Trabajo y asesor del presidente de la Federación Independiente de Sindicatos de Rusia. Anteriormente, fue estudiante de crítica del arte...

Profesor jubilado de Relaciones Internacionales y Política Mundial de la Universidad de Delhi, Achin Vanaik es miembro activo de la Coalición por el Desarme Nuclear y la Paz (India). Sus libros y escritos se centran en temas que van desde la economía política, la religión, el comunalismo y el secularismo en la India, hasta la política internacional contemporánea y el desarme nuclear.

Tom Reifer is currently Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade union activist. His specialty is the study of large-scale, long-term social change and world-systems analysis. ...