Michael Brzoska is Professor and Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has degrees in both economics and political science, and much of his research focuses on the political economy of security. His past research topics include the arms trade, arms production, military conversion, and conflict analysis. Most recently, he has focused on the links between climate change and security. He has published widely on sanctions, particularly arms embargoes, and led a series of seminars involving diplomats, bureaucrats, and academics in a process to reform UN arms embargoes and travel related sanctions (the “Bonn-Berlin Process“). He can be contacted via email: brzoska@ifsh.de.