Simon J Smith Editor

Simon J. Smith is currently an Associate Professor in Security and International Relations (IR) at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Scotland Institute, UK, an Honorary Research Fellow at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Defence Studies.

Carmen Gebhard is aSenior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Defence Studies. Her research interests are inter-organisational cooperation in security and defence, the EU’s external relations, and foreign policy of small states.

Nina Græger is a Senior Research Fellow at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway, and Associate Professor II at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway. Her research interests are security practices; inter-organisational relations; IR; European, transatlantic, and Norwegian security and defence; and military sociology.