Edited by John Baylis, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, James J. Wirtz, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and Jeannie L. Johnson, Director of Center for Anticipatory Intelligence and Associate Professor, Utah State University
  
  
John Baylis is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations and a former Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. Prior to that he was Professor of International Politics and Dean of Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University. He has published more than 20 books and over a hundred chapters and articles. His books include The Makers of Nuclear Strategy, with John Garnett (Pinter, 1991); The Globalization of World Politics, with Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (8th edn, Oxford University Press, 2020); An Introduction to Global Politics, with Steven Lamy, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2016); and The British Nuclear Experience: The Role of Beliefs, Culture and Identity, with Kristan Stoddart (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has a BA, MSc (Econ), PhD, and DLitt from Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities.
    
James J. Wirtz is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the author of Understanding Intelligence Failure (Routledge, 2017). Along with Loch Johnson, he is the editor of Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies (5th edn, Oxford University Press, 2019). He received his PhD from Columbia University.
   
Jeannie L. Johnson is the Founding Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University and an Associate Professor in the Political Science department. She is the author of The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and the co-editor of Crossing Nuclear Thresholds: Leveraging Socio-Cultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Dr Johnson previously worked for the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and the US State Department. She received her doctorate from the University of Reading in 2013.
  
  
Contributors:
Amitav Acharya, American University, USA
Dima Adamsky, IDC Herzliya University, Israel
John Baylis, Swansea University, United Kingdom
John Ferris, University of Calgary, Canada
Sir Lawrence Freedman, King's College London, United Kingdom
John Garnett, formerly at the Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Roger Z. George, Occidental College, USA
Ryan Grauer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Colin S. Gray, formerly at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jiajie He, Fudan University, China
Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jeannie L. Johnson, Utah State University, USA
James D. Kiras, Air University, USA
Rebecca Dawn Lorentz, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ryan C. Maness, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Oriana Skylar Mastro, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Justin Morris, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Stefanie Ortmann, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Columba Peoples, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Michael Sheehan, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Brandon Valeriano, Marine Corps University, USA
C. Dale Walton, Lindenwood University, USA
Nick Whittaker, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School, USA