WOLF-DIETER EBERWEIN is Director of the Working Group of International Relations at the Science Centre for Social Research, Berlin, (WZB), Professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, and Scientific Director of the European Peace University Centre (EPU) in Schlaining, Austria. Recent publications deal with international system order, a German-Polish comparative elite survey on foreign policy and security issues, the relation between natural disasters so-called complex emergencies, i.e. domestic conflict, and conflict prevention. - KARL KAISER is Otto-Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Germany's New Foreign Policy, Volumes 1 and 2, and is co-editor of Institutions and Resources, Russia and the West and Shaping a New International Financial System. AE(00): Assistant Editor: SEBASTIAN BARTSCH