The contributors to The Strategic Triangle are historians and political scientists from all three countries. Helga Haftendorn is university professor emerita of International Relations at the Free University of Berlin and former director of its Center on Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies. Georges-Henri Soutou is professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Stephen F. Szabo is professor of European studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Samuel F. Wells, Jr., is associate director and director of West European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.