Changes to the editorial team

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The autumn of 2013 brought several changes to Security Dialogue’s editorial team. We are delighted to welcome two new Associate Editors: Anna Stavrianakis from the University of Sussex and Maria Stern from the University of Gothenburg. Anna’s research has focused on the arms trade, militarism and global civil society. She is the author of Taking Aim at the Arms Trade: NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order (Zed, 2010) and co-editor (with Jan Selby) of Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory (Routledge, 2012). Maria is a longstanding contributor to the journal and has been a member of the editorial board since Spring 2013. She has written widely on feminist theory, security studies and research methodology. In 2010, she co-edited (with Joachim Ojendal) a Security Dialogue special issue on ‘The Security–Development Nexus Revisited’. She is the co-editor (with Brooke A. Ackerly and Jacqui True) of Feminist Methodologies in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and the author of Naming Security – Constructing Identity (Manchester University Press, 2005). In addition, I will be taking on the position of Acting Editor for the period 2013–2014, while J. Peter Burgess is on research leave. My own research has explored the political effects of security knowledge and practice, published most recently in The Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown (Routledge, 2011), which was co-authored with Rens van Munster. On behalf of the editorial team, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Pinar Bilgin, who has stepped down from her role as Associate Editor, for her tireless and enthusiastic work for the journal. Pinar’s expertise has really enhanced the quality of the journal, and we are extremely grateful for the time she has given to editorial work and for continuing to be a Security Dialogue friend and editorial board member. We extend a warm welcome to Sarah Pettersen, who will be the journal’s Managing Editor while Marit Moe-Pryce is on leave in 2014. Security Dialogue will continue to publish cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on securityrelated issues. We aim to foster critical agendas that push both theoretical and empirical inquiry into new directions. The journal has increasingly developed collaborative editorial processes, and we would like to foster more collaboration with authors and reviewers, as well as with our readers. We thus welcome any comments or suggestions you may have regarding ways of improving communication, unexplored areas and exciting interdisciplinary developments. Do let us know what you think via email, Twitter or Facebook. On this occasion, we are also pleased to introduce Security Dialogue’s new cover design. We hope you will like the journal’s fresh look.