Clive Jones is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include Soviet Jewish Aliyah (1996), Israel - Challenges to Democracy, Identity and the State (with Emma C. Murphy, Routledge 2002) and International Security in a Global Age (co-editor with Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 2000). His latest book, Britain and the Yemen Civil War 1962-65 will be published in Spring 2004
Ami Pedahzur is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, and the Deputy Chair of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, Israel. His latest books include Political Parties and Terrorist Groups (with Leonard Weinberg, Routledge, 2003), and The Israeli Response to Jewish Extremism and Violence - Defending Democracy (2002). He is also the editor of the E-Extreme Newsletter (the newsletter of the standing group on Extremism and Democracy in the European Consortium of Political Research).