Mark Beeson is professor of international politics at the University of Western Australia. Before rejoining UWA in 2015, he taught at Murdoch, Griffith, and Queensland universities in Australia; and in the U.K. at the universities of York and Birmingham, where he was also head of department. He has also held visiting positions at universities in the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China, and Hong Kong. His work is centered on the politics, economics, and security of the broadly conceived Asia Pacific region. He has written over two hundred articles and book chapters. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, the latest of which are Rethinking Global Governance and Environmental Populism: The Politics of Survival in the Anthropocene (both published in 2019). He is currently the research chair of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the founding editor of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific book series. mark.beeson@uwa.edu.au
Michael Doyle is university professor at Columbia University, with appointments in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Law School, and the Department of Political Science. He is also a senior fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and director of its Migration Network Project. md2221@columbia.edu
Toni Erskine is professor of international politics and director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University (ANU). She is also co-editor of International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy; associate fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge; and one of the chief investigators on the Humanising Machine Intelligence research project funded by Grand Challenges at ANU. She is chair of the 2020 Oceanic Conference on International Studies. Her research interests include the moral agency and responsibility of formal organizations in world politics (such as states, transnational corporations, and intergovernmental organizations); the ethics of war; the responsibility to protect (RtoP); cosmopolitan theories and their critics; and new technologies in relation to organized violence (particularly with respect to artificial intelligence). toni.erskine@anu.edu.au
Huiyun Feng is senior lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations and deputy director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Australia. She was a former Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace. Her publications have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, the Pacific Review, International Politics, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Asian Perspective. She is the author of Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War (2007) and the coauthor of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific (with Kai He, 2013) and How China Sees the World: Insights from China's International Relations Scholars (with Kai He and Xiaojun Li, 2019). She is a co-editor of China's Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap” (with Kai He, 2020). huiyun.feng@griffith.edu.au
Trine Flockhart is professor of international relations and co-director of the Center for War Studies in the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the founder and president of Women in International Security (WIIS) in Denmark. Her research focuses on international order, the liberal international order (and its crisis), NATO and transatlantic relations, and major processes of change and transformation. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Review of International Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, and European Journal of International Relations. flockhart@sam.sdu.dk
Kai He is professor of international relations in the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Australia. He is also visiting chair professor of international relations in the Zhou Enlai School of Government at Nankai University in China (2018–2021) and an Australian Research Council (ARC) future fellow (2017–2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009–2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise (2009) and China's Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War (2016); and coauthor of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (with Huiyun Feng, 2013) and How China Sees the World: Insights from China's International Relations Scholars (with Huiyun Feng and Xiaojun Li, 2019). He is a co-editor of China's Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap” (with Huiyun Feng, 2020). k.he@griffith.edu.au
David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in international relations theory and international political economy and served as the elected president of the American Political Science Association (2016–2017) and president of the International Studies Association (2010–2011). Lake was also the co-editor of the journal International Organization (1997–2001) and the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society (2005–2012). The recipient of UCSD Chancellor's Associates Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (2013), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. dlake@ucsd.edu
Cian O'Driscoll is a reader in international relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. O'Driscoll's research interests lie at the intersection of normative IR theory and the history of political thought. He has published extensively on the ethics of war and, more specifically, the just war tradition. His most recent book, Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War, was published in 2019 by Oxford University Press. O'Driscoll is an Independent Scholar Research Foundation fellow and a former chair of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association. cian.odriscoll@anu.edu.au
Ş. İlgü Özler is an associate professor of political science and international relations at State University of New York New Paltz. She is the founder and director of the SUNY Global Engagement Program in New York City. Her previous research focuses on civic engagement as it relates to political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and social movements. She has conducted research in Turkey, Mexico, and Chile. Her most recent work focuses on human rights and global governance at the United Nations. Her publications have appeared in various academic journals, including Sociological Perspectives, Ethics & International Affairs, Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, Journal of Civil Society, Democratization, Latin American Perspectives, Global Environmental Politics, Mexican Studies, and Turkish Studies. Her teaching has incorporated innovative experiential learning in courses related to the United Nations and global engagement through civil society organizations. She has been active in the United Nations Association and Amnesty International in various capacities. She served as an officer on the board of Amnesty International USA (2017–2020), focusing especially on global strategic planning and policy work. Özler received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003). ozleri@newpaltz.edu
T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the president of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2016 to 2017. Paul is the author or editor of twenty books and over seventy-five scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of international relations, international security, and South Asia. He is the author of the books Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (2013); Globalization and the National Security State (with Norran P. Ripsman, 2010); The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2009); India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (with Baldev Raj Nayar, 2002); Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (2000); and Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (1994). Paul currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series South Asia in World Affairs. t.paul@mcgill.ca
Elie Peltz is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School. Following undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked on foreign affairs and peacebuilding projects at the Kettering Foundation. Peltz later served as an aide to Congressman Jerrold Nadler, contributing to the congressman's foreign and domestic policy portfolios. ehp2123@columbia.edu
Anders Wivel is professor with special responsibilities in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include power politics, small-state foreign policy, and European and Scandinavian politics. His recent publications include articles in European Security, International Studies Review, and Global Affairs, as well as two books: The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics (2018, co-edited with Peter Nedergaard) and International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (2019, co-edited with T. V. Paul). aw@ifs.ku.dk