Career: previous academic positions include Sr McArthur Fellow, Center for Int. and Security Studies, Univ. of Maryland, Professor, Univ. of Southern California, Research Assoc., Columbia Univ., New York; Founding Ed.-in-Chief Defence Analysis (journal); former Ministry of Defence Lecturer in Higher Defence Studies, Univ. of Lancaster, UK, later Reader in Defence and Political Studies, Dept of Politics and Int. Relations, Dir Centre for Defence and Int. Security Studies, Henley, Oxon. –2005, Hon. Professorial Fellow, member Centre Bd and Dir of Studies 2005–; consultant, UK Defence Acad.’s future doctoral programme 2007–; organized int. conf. on European security, the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, Burg Schlaining, Austria, a conf. on future of sea-based air power at Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton; organized two ‘conclaves’, one on global health issues and role of World Health Organization, and the other on Britain’s New Aircraft Carriers 2006; member Eurodéfense, Royal United Services Institute; Founding Ed.-in-Chief int. journal Defense and Security Analysis; Fellow, S African Institute of Int. Affairs

Publications: Taiwanese Defence Reform (co-author) 2006, Business and Security (co-ed.), Taiwan’s Security and Air Power (co-author) 2004, Future North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security (co-author) 2004; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YD, England (office); Tel: (1524) 221585 (office); Tel: 7813-900072 (mobile); Fax: (1524) 221585 (office); Email: m.edmonds@lancaster.ac.uk (office); Email: Martin@haedmonds.freeserve.co.uk ; Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/politics/ (office); Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14751798.asp/ .