Bernd W. Kubbig is project director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and adjunct professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Since 1999 he has directed the Internet program on Missile Defense Research International and since 2006 he has coordinated the Multilateral Study Group on the Establishment of a Missile Free Zone in the Middle East and Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East. He specializes in U.S. foreign and security policy, especially on the Middle East, missile defense and space.