The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy

Alyson J. K. Bailes (United Kingdom) isthe Director of SIPRI. She has served in theBritish Diplomatic Service, most recently asBritish Ambassador to Finland. She spentseveral periods on detachment outside theservice, including two academic sabbaticals,a two-year period with the British Ministry ofDefence, and assignments to the EuropeanUnion and the Western European Union.She has published extensively in internationaljournals on politico-military affairs, Europeanintegration and Central European affairs aswell as on Chinese foreign policy. Her mostrecent SIPRI publication is The EuropeanSecurity Strategy: An Evolutionary History,SIPRI Policy Paper no. 10 (2005).Gunilla Herolf (Sweden) is a senior researchfellow at the Swedish Institute of InternationalAffairs (SIIA). Her research interests are insecurity and defence cooperation in WesternEurope, including the European Union andthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization, inparticular France, Germany and the UnitedKingdom, but also including the Nordiccountries. Her recent publications includeFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom:Cooperation in Times of Turbulence(SIIA, 2004).Bengt Sundelius (Sweden) is the ChiefScientist of the Swedish Emergency ManagementAgency and a professor of governmentat Uppsala University. He is the foundingDirector of the National Centre for CrisisManagement Research and Training(CRISMART) of the Swedish NationalDefence College. He has been Director of theInternational Graduate School of StockholmUniversity, Head of the Security and ForeignPolicy Research Programme of the SwedishInstitute of International Affairs and Directorof Research at the Swedish National DefenceResearch Establishment. He has publishednumerous scholarly articles and books onEuropean security and foreign policy issues,most recently The Politics of Crisis Management:Public Leadership Under Pressure(Cambridge University Press, 2005, withArjen Boin, Paul ’t Hart and Eric Stern)and Protecting the Homeland: EuropeanApproaches to Societal Security and theirImplications for the United States (JohnsHopkins University, Center for TransatlanticRelations, 2006, edited with Daniel Hamiltonand Jesper Grönvall).