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Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Political Science Emeritus, taught at the University of Buffalo from 1964 to 2017. His academic specializations include African politics, the roles of armed forces in politics, and human rights. His teaching awards have come from Political Science students, the Undergraduate Student Association, and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Bernard Boëne was educated in Paris (Sorbonne and Sciences Po). A professor of sociology specializing in military action, martial institutions and civil-military relations in comparative perspective, he spent most of his career at France’s military academy, Saint-Cyr, where he ended up as Director general for academic affairs and research (and as such helped engineer the school’s 2002 major reform of Army officer education and training).

Dr. Paul R. Camacho retired from the University of Massachusetts in 2010 His most recent work, “Soft Power: The Turkish Effort in Somalia”, appears in the Turkish Journal, the GLOBAL, in 2015. He has been conducting research on Somalia and was a participant in the April 2014 National Conference on Internal Security in Mogadishu.

Reuven Gal served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a combat infantry officer and later as the IDF’s Chief Psychologist. He retired with the rank of Colonel. While in the service, he earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California—Berkley. Since then he has led an active career in public service and in the academy.

Robert Mandel is Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College. He has published thirteen books and over 40 journal articles and book chapters in the field of security and conflict studies. He has testified before the United States Congress, and he has extensive experience working in government intelligence. He has just finished a new book manuscript tentatively entitled ""The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection."

Dr. Boubacar N’DIAYE is a Professor of Pan-African Studies and Political Science at The College of Wooster, Ohio. He is a widely published author specializing in civil-military relations and security. His most recent work pertains to military affairs in African politics, Pan-Africanism, and the democratization project in Africa.

Anna Simons is a Professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Prior to teaching at NPS she was both an assistant and then an associate professor of anthropology at UCLA, as well as chair of the Masters in African Area Studies Program. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and an A.B. from Harvard College.

Leonard Wong is a research professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. His research focuses on the human and organizational dimensions of the military and includes topics such as leadership development and the military profession.

Gerhard Kümmel is a German political scientist and military sociologist. He is a research director at the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences at the German Armed Forces and Chairman of the Working Group on Military and Social Sciences. Kummel studied from 1985 to 1991 political science, sociology and history at the University of Marburg (MA).

Rebecca L. Schiff received her doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. Her recent publications include The Military and Domestic Politics: A Concordance Theory of Civil–Military Relations, New York: Routledge, 2009; ‘‘Concordance Theory, Targeted Partnership, and Counterinsurgency Strategy,’’ Armed Forces & Society 38, 2 (April 2012).

Joseph Soeters is a professor of management and organization studies at the Netherlands Defense Academy and Tilburg University.

James Griffith served 35 years in the active component and reserve component of the Army and, most recently, as an Army research psychologist assigned to the National Guard Bureau to study factors placing soldiers at risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and so on. His 50þ peer-reviewed publications have examined recruitment, retention, and readiness of reserve soldiers, and now, their adaptation