Dr. Glenn Diesen is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University. He studied international relations, Russian foreign policy, and security institutions in the European post-Cold War security architecture. His PhD thesis was on 'Inter-democratic security institutions and the security dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the Cold War', which addressed the ideational and institutional influence on the rationality of EU and NATO decision-makers from a neoclassical realist perspective.