Jacob Bercovitch is Professor of International Relations, and Fellow of the Royal Society, at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. His main research interests in the areas of international conflict resolution and mediation. He is former Vice President of the International Studies Association, and the author or editor of 12 books and about 100 articles on these issues. He has held Fellowships from London, Harvard, Georgetown, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His most recent publication is Conflict Management, Security and Third Party Intervention in East Asia, published by Routledge in 2008 Victor Kremenyuk is deputy director of the Institute for USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is also a research associate at IIASA. His areas of interest are international conflict resolution, crisis management, foreign policy, and the negotiation process. He has published more than 100 works in Russian and other languages, and edited both the first and second editions of PIN′s book International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Professor of Conflict Resolution and International Organization at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Practical Negotiator, The 50% Solution, Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse and Ripe for Resolution, editor of The Negotiation Process and Positive Sum, among other books, and co-editor of Diplomacy Games, a recent book in the PIN Series. Prof Zartman is member of the Steering Committee of the (PIN) at (IIASA). He is organizer of the Washington Interest in Negotiations (WIN) Group and was distinguished fellow at the US Institute of Peace. He received his PhD from Yale University and an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University at Louvain.
