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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