Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Ph.D. (1998, Amsterdam) is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands. He is also Research Fellow at the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIPE), The Hague and Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), University of Amsterdam.Henk Houweling, Ph.D. (1986, Leiden) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. His fields of interests are history and theory of International Relations.