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Biographies of Contributors 1757Email: .Website: .Jürgen Scheffran (Germany) is Professor at the Institute forGeography and head of the Research Group ClimateChange and Security (CLISEC) in the KlimaCampus ExcellenceInitiative of Hamburg University, Germany. Untilsummer 2009 he held positions at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): in the Program in ArmsControl, Disarmament and International Security, the Departmentsof Political Science and Atmospheric Sciences,and the Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research. After hisPhD in physics at Marburg University he worked at TechnicalUniversity of Darmstadt, the Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research, and as Visiting Professor at the Universityof Paris (Sorbonne). His research and teachinginterests include: energy security, climate change and sustainabledevelopment; complex systems analysis and modelling;technology assessment and international security. Heserved as advisor to the United Nations, the TechnologyAssessment Bureau of the German Parliament, the FederalEnvironmental Agency, and he took part in the Germandelegation to the climate negotiations in New Delhi in2002 (COP-8). Recent projects include CLISEC, the ConflictSpaceproject, the Renewable Energy Initiative and relatedprojects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,the Energy Biosciences Institute and the EnvironmentalCouncil at UIUC. He is co-editor of the INESAP InformationBulletin, and of the journal Global Responsibility andWissenschaft und Frieden. Recent books include: (co-ed.with Khanna, M.; Zilberman, D.): Handbook of BioenergyEconomics and Policy (Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer, 2010);(co.ed. with Kropp, J.): Advanced Methods for DecisionMaking and Risk Management in Sustainability Science(New York: Nova Science, 2007); (co-authors Datan, M.,Hill, F., Ware, A.) Securing Our Survival (Cambridge: IPP-NW, 2007): (co-ed. with Billari, F., Fent, T., Prskawetz, A.);Agent-Based Computational Modelling in Demography,Economic and Environmental Sciences” (Heidelber-Berlin:Springer/Physica, 2006).Address: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Research Group ClimateChange and Security (CLISEC), Institut für Geographie,KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg, Zentrum fürMarine und Atmosphärenwissenschaften, Bundesstrasse 53,D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.E-Mail: .Web: .Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Germany) has been Directorof the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)since its foundation in 1992. See biographies of authors offorewords and preface essays.Jenniver Sehring (Germany), Dr., is Assistant Professor atthe Institute of Political Science at the University of Würzburg.She studied Political Science and Social Anthropologyat the University of Mainz. She was research assistant at theCenter for International Development and EnvironmentalResearch (ZEU) at the University of Giessen (2002-2006)and at the Institute of Political Science of the University ofHagen (2006-2008). In 2008, she obtained her PhD with athesis on water institutional reform in Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan. Recent publications include: The Politics ofWater Institutional Reform in Neopatrimonial States. AComparative Analysis of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (Wiesbaden:VS Verlag, 2009); “Path dependencies and institutionalbricolage in post-Soviet water governance”, in: WaterAlternatives 2, 1 (2009): 61-81; “Irrigation Reform in Kyrgyzstanand Tajikistan”, in: Irrigation and Drainage Systems,21,3–4 (2007): 277–290; “Die Aralsee-Katastrophe.Ein Nachruf auf das Krisenmanagement”, in: Osteuropa,57,8-9 (2007): 497–510; (co-authored with E. Giese): “Konflikteums Wasser. Nutzungskonkurrenz in Zentralasien”, in:Osteuropa, 57,8–9 (2007): 483–495; “Gebrochene Verträge.Multilaterale Abkommen zu Flüssen in Zentralasien”, in:WeltTrends, 15,57 (2007): 66–78.Address: Dr. Jenniver Sehring, University of Würzburg,Institute of Political Science, Wittelsbacherplatz 1, 97070Würzburg, Germany.Email: .Website: .Sybil Seitzinger (USA/Sweden) is the Executive Director ofthe International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)in Stockholm, Sweden. She moved to IGBP after leavingher position as Director of the Rutgers/NOAA CMER Program,Rutgers University and has been a visiting Professorat Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciencessince 1994. She received her Ph.D. from the Universityof Rhode Island School of Oceanography, and thenworked as Senior Scientist and Curator at the Academy ofNatural Sciences of Philadelphia. She has been a memberof the IGBP Scientific Committee since 2003, and her areasof expertise include biogeochemistry, nutrient dynamics,and land/atmosphere/ocean interactions.Address: Prof. Dr. Sybil Seitzinger, IGBP Secretariat, RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, SE-114 18 Stockholm, Sweden.Email: .Website: .Gamal M. Selim (Canada/Egypt), PhD Candidate and SessionalInstructor in the Department of Political Science atthe University of Calgary (Canada); Lecturer in the Departmentof Political Science at Suez Canal University (Egypt).He obtained his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science fromthe American University in Cairo in 2000 and 2005 respectively.His research interests include theories of internationalrelations, democratization, arms control and non-proliferation,and Middle East politics. He received a ‘DoctoralResearch Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’ (2009); a joint initiative from The SimonsFoundation and the International Security Research andOutreach Programme (ISROP) of Foreign Affairs and InternationalTrade Canada. He has published: “The Arabs andCentral Asian Republics”, in: The State of the Arab World:the 11 th Arab National Conference (Beirut: Center for ArabUnity Studies, 2002). He also participated in a number of
1758 Authorsscholarly conferences in Canada. His conference papers include“Continuity and Change in the U.S. Arms ControlPolicy in the Middle East in the Post-Cold War Order”(2009), presented at a special consultation held by ForeignAffairs and International Trade Canada; “Western ReformInitiatives in the Arab World in the Post-September 2001Era” (2008), presented at the conference on The MuslimWorld and the West, co-sponsored by the Universities ofVictoria and Calgary, and “Arms Control in the MiddleEast: Motivations and Constraints” (2007), presented at theconference on Middle Eastern and African Studies, sponsoredby the University of Alberta.Address: Mr. Gamal M. Selim, Department of Political Science,University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary,Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4.Email: .Mohammad El-Sayed Selim (Egypt/Kuwait), Professor ofPolitical Science at Kuwait University. He obtained a Ph.D.in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada in1979. He majored in foreign policy analysis, theories of internationalrelations and Euro-Mediterranean relations. Hetaught at Cairo University, the American University inCairo, King Saud University, the United Arab Emirates University,and Kuwait University. He established the Centrefor Asian Studies in Cairo University and served as its firstdirector (1995-2003). He published books and articles in Arabicand English in scholarly journals on issues related toforeign policy analysis, Arab-Asian and Euro-Mediterraneanrelations. He also represented the Government of Egypt inworld and Asian forums. Among his major books are: Non-Alignment in a Changing World (1983); Relations AmongMuslim States (1991); Mediterraneanism: a New Dimensionin Egypt’s Foreign Policy (1995); Foreign Policy Analysis(1998); The Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company:A Study in Decision Making (2002); (Co-ed.):Security and Environment in the Mediterranean, and authorof “Conceptualizing Security by Arab Mashreq Countries”,(2003); The Development of International Politics inthe Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2008), He haspublished a number of academic papers on Euro-Mediterraneanrelations such as, “Egypt and the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership: Strategic Choice or Adaptive mechanism,” in:Mediterranean Politics (1997); “Weapons of Mass Destructionin the Euro-Mediterranean World: An Arab Perspective”,in: Mediterranean Politics (2000); “The environmentin the 2002 Arab Human Development Report: A critique”,in Arab Studies Quarterly (Spring 2004); “Globalizationand the Social Sciences”, in: Journal of Social Sciences,Kuwait University (2006); “The Environmental Risksand strategies in the GCC States” (2007), Tohuko University,Japan. He has recently translated Daisaki Ikeda andMajid Tehranian: Global Civilization, A Buddhist-IslamicDialogue, into Arabic .The translation was published by theNational Center for Translation, Higher Council for Culture,Cairo, 2010. He has also delivered the Keynote addressentitled, “The Interchange of Civilizations in theMediterranean area,” at the conference of the Institute forMediterranean Studies of Pusan University of Foreign Studies,April 2010.Address: Prof. Dr. Mohammad El-Sayed Selim, Dept ofPolitical Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kuwait University,P.O. Box 68168, Kefan, Kuwait.Email: .Anja D. Senz is holding an M.A. for Political Science, Sociologyand Anthropology at the University of Trier, Germany.She studied Chinese at Zhongshan University inGuangzhou (P.R.China). Currently she is lecturer at the Instituteof Political Science and the Institute of East AsianStudies at University of Duisburg-Essen and executive directorof the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr. As a researchfellow she contributed to two research projects atthe University of Duisburg-Essen one on participation andvillage elections in China (funded by the DFG) and theother one on an international comparison on village governance(funded by the EU). Her research focus is institutionalchange and stability in China and in her PhD thesisshe analysed decision-making processes in Chinese villages.She has field research and working experience in PR China,Hong Kong, Korea, India and Nepal. She is Co-editor ofthe China Companion, a comprehensive source for researchon the Politics, International Relations and PoliticalEconomy of contemporary China, (www.thechinacompanion.eu).Among her recent publications are: (co-author withHeberer, Thomas): “Reform, Demokratisierung, Stabilitätoder Kollaps? Literaturbericht zur Entwicklung des chinesischenHerrschaftssystems”, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift,50,2 (2009): 306-326; “Vier Demokratien für China'sDörfer?”, in: Das neue China, 2 (2008): 19-22; (co-authorwith Heberer, Thomas): China’s Significance in InternationalPolitics. Domestic and External Developments andAction Potentials (Bonn: German Development Institute,2007).Address: Ms. Anja D. Senz, University of Duisburg-Essen,Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr, Bismarckstr. 120,47057 Duisburg.Email: .Website: .Alexander Sergunin (Russia) is Professor of the Departmentof International Relations Theory and History,School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University.Until 2008 he was a chair of the Department of InternationalRelations and Political Science, NizhnyNovgorod Linguistic University. He holds Ph. D. in generalhistory from Moscow State University (1985) and a habilitationin political science from St. Petersburg State University(1994). The fields of his research are: IR theory, securitystudies, Russian foreign policy-making, Russia’s security policiesin the CIS space and Europe, federalism and regionalismin post-Soviet Russia. His most recent book-length publicationsinclude: Russia's Policy on Europe: Decision-Making Mechanism (Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny NovgorodLinguistic University Press, 2007); International Relationsin Post-Soviet Russia: Trends and Problems (NizhnyNovgorod: Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University Press,2007); (co-authored with Pertti Joenniemi): Russia and EuropeanUnion’s Northern Dimension: Clash or Encounter
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