Christopher M. Faulkner is an assistant professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Eurasia Program.

Raphael Parens is a fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Eurasia and Africa Programs and a senior fellow at the Delphi Global Research Center.

Colin P. Clarke is the executive director of the Soufan Center, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism-The Hague, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.