Education: BA, Humanities, Teesside Polytechnic; MA, International Relations, University of East Anglia; PhD, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Career: Clive Jones is Professor in Middle East Studies and International Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He was previously Senior Lecturer from 1995 to 2000, and before that he was Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1994 to 1995. He is a Fellow of the National Security Studies Centre, University of Haifa, Israel and a member for the Study Group of Intelligence (UK). Clive Jones is co-editor of the journal Civil Wars (see url below).

Honours and awards: Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for Middle East Studies Association 2006

Publications include: Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1996, International Security in a Global Age (co-editor) 2000, Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State (co-author) 2002, Britain and the Yemen Civil War: Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins; Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action 2004, The Al-Aqsa Intifada: Between Terrorism and Civil War (co-editor) 2005; numerous articles in professional journals, including Middle East Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Israel Affairs, Democratization, International Relations, Intelligence and Terrorism, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Civil Wars

Contact details: Address: Botany House 2.04, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, England; Tel: +44 (0)113 343-6842; Fax: +44 (0)113 343-4400; Email: c.a.jones@leeds.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13698249.asp/ .