Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College and a Senior Research Professor at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His most recent books are Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present and Future of Regional Security (2014) and Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century: Theory, History, and Practice (2012). He is co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies.

Joseph Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence University, Oslo. He is author of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 (2010), co-author of An International History of the Twentieth Century (2014), and co-editor of volume II of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). He is co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies.

David Stevenson holds the Stevenson Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 (1996); 1914-1918: the History of the First World War (2004); and With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011). He is currently preparing an international history of the year 1917.

Rudra Chaudhuri, King's College London
Timothy D. Hoyt, U.S. Naval War College
Avi Kober, Bar-Ilan University
Thomas G. Mahnken, U.S. Naval War College
Joseph Maiolo, King's College London
Vojtech Mastny, Columbia University, University of Illinois, Boston University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Study
Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow
Matthew S. Seligmann, Brunel University London
Tai Ming Cheung, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Richard Overy, University of Exeter
Sergey Radchenko, Aberystwyth University
David Stevenson, London School of Economics and Political Science

"[The editors'] collective endeavor offers not only important observations about specific arms races but also new theoretical insights into the phenomena of the arms race itself. This well-conceived collection also contains new details about the major arms competitions that influence how political scientists and historians think about the relationship between arms racing and war."--H-Net