Åsne Kalland Aarstad is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University. Her research focuses on the changing roles and responsibilities of public and private security providers in the context of maritime security governance. She has previously published in The Routledge Handbook on European Security and The Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions: Performance, policy, power. Edith Drieskens is assistant professor of International Relations at Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) at KU Leuven, Belgium. Taking an institutional perspective, her work explores the regional and multilateral dimensions of global governance and looks into the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty in various UN contexts. Her findings have been published in various international journals and edited volumes. She is co-editor of The EU and Effective Multilateralism: Internal and External Reform Practices (Routledge, 2014). Katie Verlin Laatikainen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University, New York. Her research has focused on the intersection of EU and UN multilateralism for the past decade, and she has published widely on the post-Lisbon EU at the UN. Her published books in this area include The Routledge Handbook of the European Union and International Institutions: Performance, Policy and Power (Routledge, 2014) co-edited with Knud Erik Jørgensen and The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (Palgrave 2006) co-edited with Karen E. Smith. She is co-author (with Donald J. Puchala and Roger A. Coate) of United Nations Politics: International Organization in a Divided World (Pearson: 2007). Ben Tonra is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Associate Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. In UCD he teaches, researches and publishes in European foreign, security and defence policy, Irish foreign and security policy and International Relations theory. Outside the university Ben serves on the Royal Irish Academy′s Committee on International Affairs and is the Project Leader for a research programme in EU foreign and security policy at the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin.
