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Contributors Robert Ayson is Senior Fellow in The Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre where he directs the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program. He has held official positions in New Zealand with the External Assessments Bureau and the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade parliamentary select committee, and academic positions at the University of Waikato and Massey University. Dr Ayson is the author of Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science, published by Frank Cass in 2004, and co-editor (with Desmond Ball) of Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, published by Allen & Unwin in 2006. His research interests include strategic concepts, Asia-Pacific security, Australasian strategic policies and nuclear proliferation issues. Coral Bell is a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. She has held postings in the Diplomatic Service and as Professor of International Politics at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are mainly in crisis management and the interaction of strategic, economic and diplomatic factors in international politics, especially as they affect US and Australian foreign policies. Her articles have appeared in a number of leading international journals, such as Foreign Affairs, The National Interest and The American Interest. Recent publications have included Living with Giants: Finding Australia's place in a more complex world and A World Out of Balance: American Power and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century. She also contributed `The International System and Changing Strategic Norms' in (eds) R. Ayson and D. Ball, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific and authored The End of the Vasco da Gama Era: The next landscape of world politics, published by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and Longueville Media in December 2007. Mary Bull was married to Hedley Bull soon after both graduated from the University of Sydney. Her scholarly interests have been in the field of African studies, and she worked for a time with Professor Marjorie Perham, as well as raising three children. Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, is a British military historian, former Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Howard served during the Second World War, was twice wounded and won a Military Cross at Salerno. He helped found the Department of War Studies and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was knighted in 1986 and was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2002 and to the Order of Merit in 2005. He is an vii Remembering Hedley authority on Carl von Clausewitz, including as co-editor and translator (with Peter Paret) of Carl von Clausewitz, On War and as author of Clausewitz. Other publications include Disengagement in Europe; Studies in War and Peace; The Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of Two World Wars; War in European History; Soldiers and Governments: Nine Studies in Civil Military Relations; Strategic Deception in World War II; The Lessons of History; The Invention of Peace; The First World War; and, in 2007, Liberation or Catastrophe?: Reflections on the History of the 20th Century. His autobiography, entitled Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace, was published by Continuum International Publishing Group in 2006. Renée Jeffrey joined the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in International Politics in July 2007. She was previously a lecturer in International Relations in the Politics Program at La Trobe University. Jeffery was awarded her BA(Hons) from the University of New South Wales and her PhD in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews. Her research interests include international ethics, international relations theory, international law, the history of international thought, and religion and international politics. Jeffery's publications include Hugo Grotius in International Thought and Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror. Jeffery is also the editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in May 2008. Bruce Miller, an Emeritus Professor of The Australian National University, was its Professor of International Relations from 1962 to 1987 and before that Professor of Politics at Leicester University in the United Kingdom. He had a distinguished career both in academia and in Australian public life, serving on, amongst other organisations, the Australian Research Grants Committee, the Australian Commission for UNESCO (twice) and the Australian Population and Immigration Council. His intellectual interests ranged widely, with its core, at least in publication, centering on Australia in the Commonwealth and in the wider world. His more than a dozen books included The Politics of the Third World; Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition; The EEC and Australia; The World of States; Ideology and Foreign Policy; and two highly regarded textbooks for students of political science, Australian Government and Politics, and The Nature of Politics. Robert O'Neill is currently Planning Director of the United States Studies Centre of the University of Sydney. He has been director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College and Chairman of the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in the University of London (1990±96). He is also a board member of the Lowy Institute for International viii Contributors Policy. His research interests focus on war and warfare in the past and present, and ways of resolving international tensions. While Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University (1970±82), he wrote the Official History of Australia's role in the Korean War and he is also the former Armed Services Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1970±2001). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1978 and awarded an Order of Australia in 1988. Adam Watson was an international relations theorist and researcher. Alongside Hedley Bull, Martin Wight, Herbert Butterfield, and others, he was one of the founding members of the English school of international relations theory. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1937. After retiring early, he entered academia, first at The Australian National University, at the invitation of Hedley Bull, and then in the United States, where he was Professor of International Studies at the University of Virginia. In the late 1950s, he was instrumental in facilitating the funding of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and became a member, attending when he was in the United Kingdom, and later becoming its third chairman, in succession to Butterfield and Wight. He was instrumental in the production (co-edited with Hedley Bull) of The Expansion of International Society, a key international relations text. He wrote numerous other publications, including The Nature and Problems of the Third World; The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative Historical Analysis; The Limits of Independence; International Relations and the Practice of Hegemony; and Diplomacy: the Dialogue between States. Adam Watson died on 24 August 2007, the same year that Routledge published his final volume, Hegemony & History. ix.