Lina Benabdallah is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations (2020). Her writing has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly, African Studies Quarterly, and in newspapers and magazines such as the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. In the 2023–2024 academic year, Dr. Benabdallah was as a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Center for African Studies and is currently serving as a co-editor of PS: Political Science and Politics. benabdl@wfu.edu
Owen Brown is a visiting assistant professor of global politics in the Department of Politics at Scripps College. His work is located at the intersection of international relations and political theory and focuses on the interconnections between race, colonialism, and global politics. In particular, his research examines the politics of (international) ordering and the role of race and colonialism in shaping the constitution and contestation of orders across a range of contexts. His article, “The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order,” was recently published in International Organization. obrown@scrippscollege.edu
Trine Flockhart is chair of security studies at the Florence School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on international order, NATO, European security, the liberal international order (and the crisis it is going through), transatlantic relations, ontological security, and processes of change and transformation. She is currently leading a project called Anticipating Governance in the Multi-Order World. trine.flockhart@eui.eu
Ian Hurd is professor of political science and director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University. He writes on international politics and law. His latest book is How to Do Things with International Law (2017). ianhurd@northwestern.edu
Jennifer Mitzen is professor of political science at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on international relations theory, historical and critical approaches to security, and global governance. She is the author of Power in Concert: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance (2013) and related articles on the power of public talk and diplomacy. She has also published extensively on ontological security in world politics. mitzen.1@polisci.osu.edu
Benoît Pelopidas is the founding director of the Nuclear Knowledges program at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Nuclear Knowledges is the first scholarly research program in France concentrating on the nuclear phenomenon to refuse funding from both stakeholders in the nuclear weapons enterprise and antinuclear activists, in order to problematize conflicts of interest and their effect on knowledge production. The program offers conceptual innovation and unearths untapped primary sources worldwide to grasp nuclear vulnerabilities and rethink possibilities in the realm of nuclear weapons policies. Pelopidas is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council–funded project NUCLEAR. benoit.pelopidas@sciencespo.fr
Neil Renic is a researcher at the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. He is a specialist on the changing character and regulation of armed conflict, and emerging and evolving military technologies such as armed drones and autonomous weapons. Renic is the author of Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos (2020). In addition to having multiple articles published in Ethics & International Affairs, his work has featured in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Harvard National Security Journal, Survival, International Relations, and the Journal of Military Ethics. neil.renic@ifs.ku.dk
Ayşe Zarakol is professor of international relations at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (2011) and Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (2022). az319@cam.ac.uk
