C. Christine Fair obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2004 and an MA from the Harris School of Public Policy in 1997. Prior to joining the Security Studies Program (SSP) within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, she served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate in USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Her research focuses upon political and military affairs in South Asia.

Her most recent book is titled Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War (forthcoming 2014, OUP).

In addition, she has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books including Cops as Counterinsurgents: Policing Insurgencies edited with Sumit Ganguly (forthcoming 2014, OUP); Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Lyons Press, 2008); Treading Softly on Sacred Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations on Sacred Space edited with Sumit Ganguly (OUP, 2008); The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, 2008); Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance (USIP, 2006); among others and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles covering a range of security issues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Sri Lanka.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women in International Security, International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. (She resigned her membership in protest from the International Institute of Strategic Studies because she did not support the lack of diversity in the organization's activities.)

She serves on the editorial board of Current History, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Asia Policy, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. She is also a senior fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Her publications are available at www.christinefair.net.

Dr. Rollie Lal a Visiting Associate Professor at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, and the author of books on international security. Her books offer insights into terrorism, organized crime, the politics and challenges in the Muslim world, China, India, and Iran, and the countries of Central Asia. Some of her titles include Terrorist Criminal Enterprises, Understanding China and India, Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors, Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities, and the Muslim World After 9/11. Rollie has served as an international security specialist for the RAND Corporation, as a professor for the US Department of Defense, and as a journalist for the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. She is an intrepid traveler to exotic and often dangerous locales, and shares the insights of her fascinating adventures with her readers. She lives in Virginia with her husband Steven and daughter Isis.