Geostrategic Gulf: From World Wars to Modern Day
暫譯: 地緣戰略海灣：從世界大戰到現代

Warren Chin has worked in the field of professional military education since 1995. He taught military history at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst (1995-99) before joining King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2000. Here, for five years he organized and ran the academic programme for Army's Initial Command Staff Course for 500 newly promoted majors. From 2007-2014 he was Academic Director at the Royal College of Defence Studies, and was responsible for the delivery of their master's degree in security and Strategy. In 2017 he became the Academic Director on the Higher Command and Staff Course (HCSC) which is attended by the top two percent of the UK military officer corps. Currently, he is Program Chair of Defense and Security at the Rabdan Academy and responsible for the creation and implementation of an undergraduate degree for officer cadets in the UAE armed forces attending Zayed Military University. His principal research interest focuses on the study of warfare, specifically the examination of contemporary military strategy and operations in the post-Cold War era. He is particularly interested in understanding how technology, economics, politics and society are changing the forms of war and the opportunities and challenges these changes create in the conduct of war for both state and non-state actors.

Brandon Friedman is the Director of Research and Senior Researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center (MDC) for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, where he is also a tenured member of the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities. Since 2013 he is the Managing Editor of Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, a journal published by Penn State University Press. Brandon's research has focused on three topics: the history of Saudi nationalism and its effects on social, economic, and political transformation in the kingdom; second, the regional politics of security from the Arab uprisings in 2011 to the Hamas-Israel War; and, third, China's role in the Middle East from end of the Cold War. From 2014 to 2025 Brandon was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). For more than a decade, Brandon has been briefing foreign diplomats, intelligence officials, military officers, non-governmental organizations, and decision-makers on regional security developments. He has also been an active participant in several Track II fora on regional security issues.

Andrew Stewart is a Visiting Professor at Rabdan Academy, a Honorary Professor at the Australian National University and a Visiting Professor in King's College London's School of Security Studies. He was previously Director of Academic Studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies and Principal at the Australian War College. Most recently he was a faculty member at the Royal Danish Defence College. His research covers twentieth century and contemporary conflict and he has published more than thirty-five books, co-edited books, book chapters and peer-reviewed and magazine articles. He is also a trustee for the internationally renowned Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and the Society for Military History. He has worked extensively with the UK Ministry of Defence in a variety of advisory roles, leading engagement and outreach projects across the Sub-Saharan Africa, Baltic and Balkan regions and in the Gulf states, and was previously a Senior Conflict and Stabilisation Adviser within the Stabilisation Unit. Currently, he is Head of Conflict Research at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, the British Army's think-tank.

沃倫·陳自1995年以來一直在專業軍事教育領域工作。他於1995年至1999年在桑赫斯特皇家軍事學院教授軍事歷史，隨後於2000年加入倫敦國王學院的聯合服務指揮與參謀學院。在這裡，他組織並運營了為期五年的學術課程，針對500名新晉升的少校進行陸軍初級指揮參謀課程的教學。從2007年到2014年，他擔任皇家國防研究院的學術主任，負責提供其安全與戰略碩士學位課程。2017年，他成為高級指揮與參謀課程（HCSC）的學術主任，該課程由英國軍官團中前2%的成員參加。目前，他是拉布丹學院的國防與安全項目主任，負責為參加扎耶德軍事大學的阿聯酋武裝部隊軍官學員創建和實施本科學位課程。他的主要研究興趣集中在戰爭研究上，特別是對冷戰後時代當代軍事戰略和行動的考察。他特別感興趣的是理解科技、經濟、政治和社會如何改變戰爭的形式，以及這些變化在國家和非國家行為者的戰爭行為中所創造的機遇和挑戰。

布蘭登·弗里德曼是特拉維夫大學摩西·戴揚中東與非洲研究中心的研究主任和高級研究員，同時也是萊斯特與莎莉·恩廷人文學院的終身教授。自2013年以來，他擔任《布斯坦：中東書評》的主編，該期刊由賓州州立大學出版社出版。布蘭登的研究集中在三個主題上：沙烏地阿拉伯民族主義的歷史及其對王國社會、經濟和政治轉型的影響；其次是從2011年阿拉伯起義到哈馬斯-以色列戰爭的區域安全政治；第三是冷戰結束後中國在中東的角色。從2014年到2025年，布蘭登是外交政策研究所（FPRI）的非駐外高級研究員。十多年來，布蘭登一直在向外國外交官、情報官員、軍事官員、非政府組織和決策者通報區域安全發展。他還積極參與多個關於區域安全問題的二軌論壇。

安德魯·斯圖爾特是拉布丹學院的訪問教授，澳大利亞國立大學的名譽教授，以及倫敦國王學院安全研究學院的訪問教授。他曾擔任皇家國防研究院的學術研究主任和澳大利亞戰爭學院的院長。最近，他是丹麥皇家國防學院的教職成員。他的研究涵蓋20世紀及當代衝突，已出版超過三十五本書籍、合編書籍、書章以及同行評審的文章和雜誌文章。他還是國際知名的利德爾·哈特軍事檔案中心和軍事歷史學會的受託人。他在英國國防部擔任各種顧問角色，廣泛參與與撒哈拉以南非洲、波羅的海和巴爾幹地區及海灣國家的接觸和外展項目，並曾擔任穩定單位的高級衝突與穩定顧問。目前，他是英國陸軍歷史分析與衝突研究中心的衝突研究負責人。