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Ayfer Altay
Dr. Ayfer Altay, Head of the English and French Division of the Department of Translation and Interpretation of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey is a graduate of the Department of English Language and Literature of Ankara University, and got her MA Degree in English Literature and her Ph.D. in English Literature and Linguistics from the same University. Since 1987, she has been working at the Department of Translation and Interpretation, having been involved in "translation" both professionally and academically. In 1990, after being selected by a series of exams, the Turkish Government sent her to Brussels, for a 6-month traineeship program at EEC. There, she studied EEC Law, its structure, translation of legal texts, and also participated in the translation of the Treaties Establishing the Community into Turkish. Presently she primarily teaches "translation of legal texts" at the Department. She also translates legal texts for Government organisations. Her book "Translation of Legal Texts" was published in January 2003.
Sylvie Bacquet
Sylvie is a graduate from the American Graduate School of International Relations & Diplomacy, Paris, and the University of Essex, Colchester, England. Her research interests have been focused on issues related to International Human Rights Law. In particular: racial discrimination, including Anti-Semitism; freedom of expression and hate speech and religious intolerance in general. Her previous papers include notably: Press Coverage of the Second Intifada: Impressions of Media Bias - An Analysis of the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in France - Freedom of Expression v. Hate Speech: A Contemporary Illustration of the Dilemma. Sylvie is currently working for a Housing Charity in London.
Harold W. Bashor, Editor-in-Chief
Harold received his doctorate in 2004 from the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Paris. More recently, as a research assistant at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University of Montreal, his research interests have been focused on the international context of bilateral air service agreements. His doctoral research focused on the five U.N. Outer Space Treaties (1967-1979), their low level of ratification, and the evolving legal regimes for outer space. Interested in empirical linguistics, he uses textual analysis applications to research international documents and treaties. His previous publications include The Moon Treaty Paradox, Interpretation of the Moon Treaty; International Cooperation in Hostile Environments: An Analytical Concordance of the Antarctic, Moon, and Deep Seabed Treaties; The Role of the Internet in Multilateral Treaty-Making; and Content Analysis of Short, Structured Texts: Treaty Preambles.
Nadia Douch
Nadia received her Masters of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy at the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Paris. Her thesis is entitled: Privatization in Morocco: Comparative approach to the Argentine case. Nadia also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Financial Management from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
Sisira Edirippulige
Sisira Edirippulige received his doctorate from The Universty of Auckland and is currently a lecturer at the Department of International Relations in Kobe Gakuin Unversity, Japan. His research interests include Ethnic Conflict, Global and Regional Security, South Asian Politics, Development and Democratisation and nonproliferation issues. He is also a member of the Asia Pacific Research Center (APRC) at Kobe Gakuin University. His recent publications include the monograph Sri Lanka's Twisted Path to Peace: some domestic and international obstacles to the peace process , RMF, Colombo, 2004.
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California, and is currently Lecturer in Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica. He has also previously taught at Chapman University, San Francisco State University, California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton. The author of over a dozen scholarly articles, his research interests include the determinants of war and terrorism, international relations, Canadian political culture, political economy, and economic and political methodology. He presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the American Review of Political Economy and the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies. He is the Vice-President of the Southern Association of Canadian Studies and has published in the Journal of Peace Research, the American Review of Canadian Studies, and California Policy Choices.
Lawrence Alfred Powell
Lawrence Alfred Powell received his doctorate from M.I.T., and is currently Senior Lecturer in Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology at the University of the West Indies, in Jamaica. He has also previously taught at Purdue University-USA and the University of Auckland-New Zealand. His research interests include political issue framing and 'reality construction' via mass media, the psychology of justice perception, multidimensional visualization of text and perceptual data, cross-cultural survey research techniques, and the social history of twentieth-century American elections, reform movements, and pension policies. He presently serves on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Political Science and the International Bulletin of Political Psychology, and is also founder/director of the Cross-cultural Variations in Distributive Justice Perception (CVDJP) project, an ongoing international survey of citizen attitudes toward equality and social justice, that now has research collaborators at universities in over 20 countries. The latter project is based on a cross-culturally administered, multi-construct questionnaire that explores the 'everyday thinking' of citizens within contemporary world cultures about issues of distributive fairness among different social groups, classes, and interests.