Contributors

Harry Bliss received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1941, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1944. He then held teaching positions in med- icine at the University of Illinois, Tufts University, and the University of Vermont while publishing 20 articles in the medical literature. He also practised medi- cine privately, receiving the President’s Award of the Maine Medical Associa- tion for Distinguished Service and the Laureate Award of the Maine Chapter of the American College of Physicians. In 1987 he took an M.A. in Political Sci- ence at , and subsequently became a post-doctoral fellow in the Political Science Department at , where he initiated and completed this project. He is also author (with Bruce Russett) of an article in the November 1998 issue of the Journal of Politics.

Johan De Vree studied ‘General Political and Social Sciences’ at the University of Amsterdam (1960-1967) while serving as an Artillery Officer in the Dutch Army. In 1972 he received his doctorate in Social Science with the dissertation ‘Political Integration: The Formation of Theory and its Problems’ (Mouton, The Hague-Paris, 1972). In 1973 he was appointed Professor of International Rela- tions at Utrecht State University. Since then he has specialised in Mathematical Social Theory. His main publications to date are Foundations of Social and Political Processes (Bilthoven, Prime Press, 1982, 1984) and Order and Disor- ders in the Human Universe: The Foundation of Behavioral and Social Sciences, 3 vols. (Bilthoven, Prime Press, 1990).

Gustaaf Geeraerts, b. 1950, received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He is currently Associate Professor of Interna- tional Relations, director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the same university. Besides that he teaches International Relations Theory at the Brussels School of Interna- tional Studies (University of Kent), the University of Antwerp, and since 1997, as a Visiting Professor, at Nankai University (Tianjin, P.R. China). From 1986 to

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1990 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the State University at Utrecht where he specialised in fundamental research on the dynamics of international political processes. During that period he was also a member of the Board of Lecturers of the Centre for Advanced Research in International Affairs in the Netherlands (CARIAN). His present research interests centre on international rela- tions theory (especially the application of chaos theory in IR), security in Europe and East Asia, and the international relations of Internet. In 1977 he edited the volume Possibilities of Civilian Defence in Western Europe (Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger). His more recent publications in English include ‘Basic Research on War: Theoretical Need and Practical Relevance’, in Bulletin of Peace Pro- posals (1991), ‘Progress and its Problems in the Study of War’, in Res Publica (1991); ‘War, Hypercomplexity, and Computer Simulation’, in Systems Research (1994), (with Anthony Antoine), ‘IT & IS: Identifying the Needs of International Organisations: The Idea of a ‘virtual’ Partnership’, in Pericles Gas- parini-Alves (ed.), Increasing Access to Information Technology for Internation- al Security (New York, United Nations Publications, 1998) and ‘Non-linearity, Chaos and the Prediction of War’, in Global Society (forthcoming). He is at present editing a volume Modelling Complex Phenomena in International Rela- tions.

Joseph M. Grieco (Ph.D., Cornell) is Professor of Political Science at Duke Uni- versity. He is the author of Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade, and Between Dependency and Autonomy: India’s Experience with the International Computer Industry. Articles and notes by him have appeared in Security Studies, Review of International Studies, the Ameri- can Political Science Review, International Organization, the Journal of Poli- tics, and World Politics. His teaching interests include theories of international relations and issues of international political economy. During 1978-1979 he was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University; during 1981-1982 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School; during 1985-1986 he was a German Marshall and a Paul Hen- ri Spaak Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at ; and during 1990-1991 he served with the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the International Monetary Fund as an Interna- tional Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. During the summer of 1994 he was the Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszen- trum Berlin, and in May 1996, 1997, and 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at the Post-Graduate School of Economics and International Relations at the Catholic University of Milan. At present he is conducting research, with support from the National Science Foundation, on the domestic and systemic sources of repeti- tive military challenges in the international system between 1918 and 1994.

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James D. Morrow, b. 1957, received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1982. Currently he is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor (by Courtesy) of Political Science at Stanford University, having previ- ously taught at the and Michigan State University. His research addresses many areas of international politics including the causes of war, crisis bargaining, alliances, and institutional solutions to the problems of international co-operation. His current research addresses international trade and politics, the role of domestic institutions in foreign policy, and the laws of war. In 1994, Dr. Morrow received the Karl Deutsch Award from the Interna- tional Studies Association.

James Lee Ray, b. 1944, received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Univer- sity of Michigan in 1974. He is currently Professor of Political Science at Van- derbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Previously he has held positions at the State University College in Fredonia, New York, the University of New Mex- ico, and Florida State University, where he served as Director of the Internation- al Affairs program from 1985 to 1996. He served on the editorial board of Inter- national Interactions from 1988 to 1991, and is currently on the editorial board of the International Studies Quarterly. His current research interests focus on political forecasts, regime transitions, and the relationship between regime type and interstate conflict. He is the author of an introductory textbook on interna- tional politics, Global Politics, published in its 7th edition in 1998 (Houghton Mifflin). Among his most recent publications are Democracy and International Conflict (University of South Carolina Press, 1995), ‘The Future as Arbiter of Theoretical Controversies: Predictions, Explanations, and the End of the Cold War,’ (with Bruce Russett) in the British Journal of Political Science (1996), ‘The Democratic Path to Peace’ in the Journal of Democracy, (1997), ‘New Tests of Democratic Peace,’ (with John Oneal) Political Research Quarterly, (1997), and ‘Does Democracy Cause Peace?’ in the Annual Review of Political Science (1998). His most recent research deals with the logical construction of multi- variate models, as well as levels of analysis problems as these issues arise in analyses of the relationship between regime types and international conflict.

Thomas Risse, b. 1955, is Joint Chair of International Relations in the Depart- ment of Social and Political Science at the Robert Schuman Centre of the Euro- pean University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has previously taught at the Uni- versity of Konstanz, Germany, as well as in the U.S. at Cornell, Yale, and Stanford Universities, and the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Coop- eration among Democracies. The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) and the editor of Bringing Transnational Relations Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), of (with Richard N. Lebow) of International Relations Theory and the End

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Bruce Russett received his B.A. in Political Economy from in 1956, an M.A. in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge University in 1957, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1961. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, the Free University of Brussels, the University of North Carolina, the Richardson Institute in London, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Tel Aviv, and the University of Tokyo, and is now Dean Acheson Professor of International Rela- tions and Political Science at Yale. He is also Director of United Nations Studies at Yale, and since 1973 has been Editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He has held many grants and fellowships, including eleven from the National Sci- ence Foundation and multiple awards from such institutions as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Society Foundation of Switzerland. The most recent of his twenty-one books are Grasping the Democ- ratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World (1993) and The Once and Future Security Council (1997); in addition he has published over 190 journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. This article is part of a large theoretical and empirical project to be published in due course as The Kantian Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.

Randolph M. Siverson, b. 1940, is Professor of Political Science at the Universi- ty of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 1969. He is the co-author (with Harvey Starr) of The Diffusion of War (University of Michigan Press, 1991) and the editor of Strategic Politicians, Institutions and Foreign Policy (University of Michigan Press, 1998). Among other journals, his papers have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Reso- lution, the European Journal of International Relations. For 1997-98 he was the Senior Fellow of the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

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K. Edward Spiezio received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1987. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Political Science at Cedar Crest College where he serves as Chair of the Department of History and Political Science and as Director of the International Studies Program. His research interests revolve around the multilateral management of international security issues with a particular emphasis on the implications domestic politics hold for international security co-operation among democracies. His most recent publications include ‘Domestic Structures and Collective Security’ Southeastern Political Review (1997) and Beyond Containment: Reconstruc- turing European Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1995). He presently is work- ing on a study entitled: ‘Ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty: Domestic Con- straints on U.S. Participation in a Collective Security Regime.’

Patrick Stouthuysen, b. 1959, is Associate Professor of Political science at the Free University Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. on the basis of a historical analysis of Belgian parliamentary debates on security policy (In de Ban van de Bom, Brussels, VUBPress, 1992). He also published a book on extreme-right wing parties in Europe (Extreem-rechts in na-oorlogs Europa, Brussels, VUBPRESS, 1993 and on Alexis de Tocqueville (Alexis de Tocqueville: Over de democratie in Amerika, Leuven, Acco, 1993). His main fields of interest are democratic the- ory and community development.

Tressa Tabares is a doctoral candidate in the political science at the University of California, Davis. Her co-authored article on international trade appears in the September, 1998 issue of American Political Science Review.

Erich Weede, b. 1942, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bonn, Ger- many. In 1966 he made his diploma in psychology at the University of Ham- burg. In 1970 he received his Ph.D. and in 1975 his Venia Legendi in political science at the University of Mannheim. From 1978 to 1997 he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 1982/83 he was President of the Peace Science Society (International) and in 1985/86 Vice President (International) of the International Studies Association. In fall-winter 1986/87 he was Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Bologna Center of the John Hopkins University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Internation- al Interactions (USA), Journal of Conflict Resolution (USA), and Pacific Focus (Korea). In 1966 Lynne Rienner (Boulder, CO) has published his eighth book Economic Development, Social Order and World Politics (with special empha- sis on War, Freedom, the Rise and Decline of the West, and the Future of East Asia). He contributed about one hundred and fifty papers to a variety of Ameri- can, European, and Asian publications - about half in English and half in Ger- man. His main research topics are deterrence and causes of war, violence,

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