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DAVID ALVAREZ teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. His most recent book is Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust

RALPH W. BROWN III serves as an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. He received his M.A. degree in history from James Madison University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1995. He has previously published two scholarly articles concerning the U.S. Army’s ground-level relations with the Soviets in Allied occupied Vienna.

SHLOMO SHPIRO is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Studies and a research fellow of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Formerly an adjutant in the Israeli army, he served tours of duty in Lebanon and the Golan Heights. He was later appointed Head of the Government Ministries Security Unit in East Jerusalem. He graduated from universities in Israel and Britain and taught intelligence studies in Germany and Israel. In the years 1999-2001 he conducted a research project for NATO on improving intelligence cooperation between NATO and Mediterranean countries. He has published widely on intelligence and security.

MÁTÉ SZABÓ is a professor of political science of the University Eötvös Loránd, Department of State and Law, Institute of the Political Science, in Budapest. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at a number of German universities, a visiting fellow of the Netherlands Institute of the Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, and at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is specialized in civil society, social movements, and political protest. He has co-authored and co-edited a number of books and published an article on “Policing Towards Movement and Counter-movement Mobilization” in the Central European Political Science Review.

GERHARD L. WEINBERG is professor emeritus of History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books dealing with the origins and course of World War II, has been involved in issues pertaining to the German archives seized in World War II for over fifty years, and has served as Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association and President of the German Studies Association.