Florina Cristiana Matei is a senior lecturer at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, California. She is the co-editor (with Thomas Bruneau) of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations (2012, 2021); (with Halladay) of The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies: Processes, Practices, Cultures (2019); and (with Halladay and Estevez) of The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures (2022).Carolyn Halladay is a historian and a lawyer, who serves as a senior lecturer and academic associate at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, California.