Vojtech Mastnydirects the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, based at the Center for Security Studies in Zurich and the National Security Archive in Washington. He was NATO's first Manfred Wörner Fellow in 1996. He has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. His latest book,The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years, was the winner of the American Historical Association's 1997 George L. Beer Prize.

Sven G. Holtsmarkis professor at the Norwegian National Defence Educational Centre/Institute for Defence Studies (NDEC/IDS). He directs the Institute's international programmes, and is currently Head of Studies at the NDEC. His has written on the history of Norwegian and Soviet foreign policy and of Nordic communism, includingSoviet-Norwegian relations 1917-1995(1995) andThe diplomacy of the weak: GDR in Norway, 1949-73(2000).

Andreas Wengeris professor of international security policy and director of the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His latest publications includeInternational Relations: From Cold War to the Globalized World(2003) andLiving with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons(1997).