Steven Philip Kramer is Professor of History at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. Dr. Kramer has taught contemporary European history and government at the University of New Mexico and Georgetown University, served as a Council of Foreign Relations Fellow in the Department of State, and directed the Face-to-Face program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has also been a John J. McCloy Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown. He has written widely on European politics and culture. His most recent book is Does France Still Count: The French Role in the New Europe (1994).
Professor Kramer received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Irene Kyriakopoulos is Professor of Economics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. Dr. Kyriakopoulos teaches economics of strategy and resources management and directs a course on the political economy of the European Union. She has served as Research Associate on the staff of The Brookings Institution, as a member of the Economics faculty of The George Washington University and as Faculty Fellow at the Office of Personnel Management. Her research interests and activities have focused on defense economics, European integration and the economic dimension of international security. Her latest publication is "Economic Integration as a Model for Security Cooperation," in Reiner K. Huber and Rudolf Avenhaus, eds., Models for Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (1996).
Professor Kyriakopoulos received a B.S. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from The George Washington University.