Contributors

Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham. Her most recent book is the co-authored World to the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order (Cambridge University Press 2024).

Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Lund, she is also a Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. She holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and a political science diploma from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on human rights, international adjudication, and collective security.

British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and author of Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria (2023). He leads research projects on the impact of violence on urban environments. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New Statesman.

Professor at the University of Alicante, he holds a PhD in Mathematics and has experience in both academia and the private sector. His research centers on convex analysis and optimization algorithms. He has published over 40 papers, coauthored multiple works, and serves as Associate Editor for journals such as TOP and Optimization Letters.

Emerita Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, USA. Her research focuses on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of human rights, sexual violence, and genocide from a feminist perspective. She has authored books and co-edited several volumes. Her recent essays examine the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, the politics of disgust, and Japan’s WWII "comfort" stations.

Dillon Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her previous book, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, won five awards. @robinmbernstein, robinbernsteinphd.com

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for History and Strategy, Hillsdale College. A British historian and prolific author of over 190 books, he has had an esteemed career as a professor of history at the University of Exeter.

Professor of Political Science at Clark University and Director of Research for the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona. He has written extensively on primary elections and campaign finance. An ungated chapter from his most recent book, Reform and Retrenchment is available.

Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Professor at the National University of Tierra del Fuego and Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). She specializes in the study of 20th-century racism in the United States, focusing on white supremacy and its connections to Christianity.

PhD Candidate in Public Governance and Policy at the University of Bologna. Junior Researcher at Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, specializing in Latin American deliberative democracy.

Deputy-Director of the European Children’s Rights Unit and Derby Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on justice, children's rights, and the capabilities approach. A former Newton International Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, he is the author of Childhood in Liberal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London. He is the author of over 20 books on modern China, the most recent of which are 'The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power ' (Yale) and 'The Taiwan Story ' (Penguin Random House).

Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre at the University of Hull, UK. Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). Author of more than 20 books.

Postdoctoral researcher at the UNESCO-PREV Chair, University of Sherbrooke, specializing in the study of radical ideologies.

PhD in History from the Université de Turin, with a specialization in the intersection of religion and politics, and expertise in Albanian historiography.

Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her work centers on the social dimensions of climate change, with a focus on energy-society dynamics. Her research is published in leading journals like Science and Nature. She contributed as a Lead Author to the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report and serves on UNEP’s Expert Foresight Panel. She also led Prairie Urban Farm (2013-2023) and convenes the university’s Climate Action Coalition.

Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asia Institute, and Professor of Law and International Affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University. His work focuses on human rights and constitutionalism in emerging states. Educated at Yale, UC, and Ohio State University.

Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. He is the author and editor of over 50 books, translated in more than a dozen languages. He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education, social science policy and research.

Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College. Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. Her research covers distributive justice, democracy, just war theory, and the ethics of foreign policy, including economic statecraft and espionage.

Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Trento, Italy, her latest book, 'Shaping the Profession: Towards a Genealogy of Professional Ethics,' explores the concept of work and the evolving role of professionals.

Professor of International Politics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He holds dual Ph.Ds from Sciences Po Paris and Waseda University. His research focuses on international justice, security, humanitarian intervention, and geopolitics across multiple regions.

President of the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies, Director of the Center for Political Analysis: Constitution and Federalism, and Full Professor at the Department of Political Science, UQAM, Montreal.

Researcher in peace and development studies at the University of Gothenburg and associate of the authority research group at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law. He writes about human rights, activism, political violence, populism, the liberal order, and transformations of capitalism, among other topics.

Emeritus professor of statistics and operations research at the University of Alicante. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1979. His research spans geometry, optimization, and convex analysis. He has published over 150 papers and several monographs and textbooks. Goberna has also written on mathematics, politics, and education, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal TOP from 2013 to 2016.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and affiliate faculty at the School of Data Science, University of North Carolina Charlotte. His research focuses on mobile media, streaming media, big data, and artificial intelligence. His work has been published in various academic journals.

Lecturer at Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz. He works in the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology writing about postmodern war, cyborgization, artificial intelligence and the viral, among other topics.

Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University, specializing in feminist care ethics, with an emphasis on embodiment, performance, and aesthetics. His work explores the ethics of care and its revolutionary potential, as well as connections to themes like hospitality and precarity. He has authored and edited numerous publications on these topics.

PhD in Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her work focuses on religion and illiberal politics in Europe, with a particular emphasis on Catholicism and anti-gender movements, Polish-German relations, and more recently, illiberal environment and climate politics.

Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. His research interests include comparative political economy, autocratic politics, democratization, and Central Asia. His first book, The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box (University of Michigan Press, 2022) received several academic awards. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Michigan State University.

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, specializing in ecospirituality.

Ph.D., Harvard University. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at McGill University, Canada, holding the William Dawson Chair. She edited 'Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec' (2017) and authored 'Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States' (2020), which won the 2021 Schaff Prize. She also leads TERA (Technology, Ecology, Religion, Art), a collective of scholars and artists.

Principal investigator at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. Leads the DFG-funded project "Sexual Diversity and Human Rights in 21st Century Japan: LGBTQ+ Activisms and Resistance from a Transnational Perspective". Holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies from the University of Sussex, specializing in nationalism, queer politics, and LGBTQ+ issues in Japan.

Dean of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and professor of Political Philosophy, Public Philosophy, and Comparative Politics at Chiba University, Japan. He serves as Director of the Japanese Positive Health Psychology Society and head of the Research Center on Public Affairs. Previously a research fellow at the University of Tokyo and a visiting scholar and Bye-Fellow at Cambridge University, his expertise spans political philosophy, positive psychology, public policy, and comparative thought.

Fulbright Scholar and Chair of Communication Studies at Howard University. He specializes in ICT, intercultural communication, and Afrocentricity. He has authored 18 books and received the NCA Orlando Taylor Distinguished Research Scholar Award (2020). Recent works include Black Lives and Digiculturalism (2021) and Decolonizing Communication Studies (2022).

Faculty Fellow at the University of King’s College, Halifax. She earned her PhD from Queen’s University and has lectured at Carleton University and Heritage CEGEP. She published Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene (2024) and co-edited Unprecedented Conversations: The Political Philosophy of Weil and Hannah Arendt with Bloomsbury (2024). She has also published several chapters and peer-reviewed articles on thinkers including Weil, Arendt, Jean-Luc Marion, Edith Stein, Richard Kearney, Plato, Vivekananda, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, she specializes in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and phenomenology. Her research has focused on phenomenology and epistemology, particularly concerning the embodiment of women of color. She is the author of A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference (2024) and the editor of Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race (2014) and Race as Phenomena: Between Phenomenology and Philosophy of Race (2019).

Ph.D. in Political Philosophy (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres). Associate Researcher at the University of Montreal, specializing in political theory and pluralism. Editor-in-Chief of Politics and Rights Review.

Senior lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam. Former senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2019-2020) with recent visiting positions in Göttingen and Leuven. Author of Windvanen (2009) and Europe Against Revolution (2023), and editor of several volumes including Antiliberal Internationalism (forthcoming) and Atlantic Monarchisms (2024).

Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. His research focuses on American politics and political psychology. His recent book, The Closed Partisan Mind: A New Psychology of American Polarization, is available from Cornell University Press.

Professor of Legal History at the University of Valencia. Educated at the University of Cambridge, Harvard, and Max-Planck Institute. Director of the Institute for Social, Political, and Legal Studies. Former president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. Vice-president of the Universitas Foundation and co-founder of 'Free Thinkers'.

Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck, Department of Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology (Vienna, Austria). Previously, she was a Senior Social Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on anti-discrimination and equality, climate change-related migration and displacement, and human rights in the context of climate change.

Professor at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. An author of several books on feminism and politics, she is active in democratic politics in India. She has translated works across Hindi, Malayalam, and English, receiving the AK Ramanujan Award for translation.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, specializing in moral and political philosophy, ethics of data science, and the history of practical philosophy. He also teaches in the college’s Cornerstone Program. Previously, he held research positions at the University of New Orleans and Wellesley College. He earned his Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His first book, Private Censorship, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Honorary professor at the University of Essex, clinical faculty at Adelphi University, and supervising analyst at the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, he has authored over 35 books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and cultural studies. His X account is @ProfJonMills.

Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. Author of 'People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed U.S.-China Relations during the Cold War' (Cornell University Press, 2024). He earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin.

Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Postgraduate Programme in Law at the Federal University of Pará (Brazil), and Research Associate in the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany).

Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay University). He co-founded and directed the Center for Cultural History of Contemporary Societies. Author of numerous books on the history of books, publishing, and reading, he has been translated into many languages.

Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in political theology and the works of Carl Schmitt.

Professor of Political Philosophy at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, Italy, specializing in 20th-century German philosophy and literature.

Assistant professor of U.S. history at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He authored The Nature of the Religious Right (Cornell University Press, 2022), the first historical account of white conservative evangelicals' opposition to environmental protection. He is currently researching the intersection of religious faith and consumer culture.

Professor of Political Science at Coventry University. Having originally studied neuroscience, he gained a doctorate in Political Science at Oxford University. His most recent book is The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics (CEU Press 2024).

Associate Professor of International Relations and Program Chair at Leiden University. He focuses on international human rights norms, global security, and U.S. foreign policy. His research has earned the 2023 Cecil B. Currey Book Award. He has held research fellowships at Yale, NIAS, and the Max-Planck-Institute.

Professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his law degree from the University of Toronto and PhD from Harvard University. He has authored ten books. In 2022, he received the ASPA Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in Comparative Public Administration. His website is www.alasdairroberts.ca.

Professor of Law at the University of Deusto (Bilbao). He has been vice-rector, dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, and director of the Human Rights Institute. He has advised the Basque Ombudsman, led an NGO for immigrant rights, and participated in Council of Europe missions. His research focuses on integration policies, national conflicts, and minority rights.

Ph.D., Harvard University. Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University, her research focuses on political behavior, employing experiments to explore voter reactions to political emphasis on meat consumption, animal rights, and similar subjects. Recognized as Harvard’s South Asian Woman of the Year in 2022, her work contributes to understanding the nuanced interplay between political advocacy and public response.

Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement (CJE) at the Institute for Justice and a senior attorney. He is the author of the book Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters, published by University of Michigan Press. He has written extensively on state constitutional law, unenumerated rights, judicial review, economic liberty, property rights, international law, and other subjects.

Professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz, specializing in Comparative Politics. Previously affiliated with the University of Münster, University of Osnabrück, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Research interests include comparative political economy, democracy, social and political inequality, voter turnout, and political representation. Served as head of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) from 2018 to 2021.

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. His publications include Democracy despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Professor in Law at North West University, Johannesburg.

Associate Professor and Head of 'Defense and Society' at IRSEM. His research covers military sociology, ethnicity, immigration, and the MENA region. He has authored numerous articles and two books, including Penser la radicalisation djihadiste, winner of the Louis Massignon Prize (2023) and First Book Award from the International Association of French-Speaking Sociologists (2024).

Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and coordinated the Law and Animals doctoral program at the University of Basel. She serves on the advisory board of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and the editorial board of the Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health.

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada, specializing in Nonreligion.

Executive Director of the Center for a Free Cuba. He was a program officer for Latin America Programs at Freedom House. He has testified on human rights issues in Cuba before the U.S. Congress and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC.

Visiting Researcher in Sociology at Boston University. Author of Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals (2013), co-winner of the ASA's History of Sociology Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, and of the widely cited Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (1997). His research interests include political sociology, intellectuals, and culture.

Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Universita’ di Napoli Federico II in Italy. His research interests focus on ELSE (Ethical, Legal, and SocioEconomic) issues arising in the context of AI, human-computer, and human-robot interactions.

Sophie Toupin is a professor at Université Laval, specializing in the intersection of communication studies, information technology, and critical international development.

Associate Professor at the University of Bristol, specializing in Global Childhoods and Welfare. Her research in Ghana and Nigeria explores childhood constructions and children's rights. She has published widely and serves on editorial boards in childhood studies.

Full Professor of Sociology at the School of Law, National University of Córdoba, and tenured researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.

International Relations student specializing in Latin America at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Junior Consultant for the public sector in Development Cooperation.

Permanent Associate Research Professor at Lille University, France. She holds a Ph.D. in Jurilinguistics from Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (1999) and an "Habilitation in Private Law" from Lille University (2015). Her research focuses on legal semiotics, visual studies, legal culture, translation, and discourse. Wagner serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, and co-edits several series on Law and Visual Jurisprudence, gender justice, and legal communication. She is also President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL).

Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Queen Mary, University of London. His most recent book is the co-authored World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order (Cambridge University Press 2024).

Research Scholar in Geography at the University of Connecticut and Senior Fellow (Arctic Security) at the Institute of the North, specializing in Arctic geopolitics, international relations theory, and the tribal foundations of world order. 2020 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Akureyri in Iceland. Author of 11 published monographs and editor of 3 volumes.

Historian of early American religion, Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, and courtesy Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. PhD from Princeton; fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society and Huntington Library. Publications include Heavenly Merchandize (Princeton) and The Opening of the Protestant Mind (Oxford).

Professor at Georgetown University in Communications, Culture, and Technology. Harvard and Johns Hopkins graduate. Author of Measuring Soft Power in International Relations (Rienner 2024), Forging Trust Communities (Johns Hopkins, 2015), and From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand (Stanford, 2009). Dr. Wu’s research reflects solely her views and not those of the US Federal Communications Commission, its members, or staff.

Director of Global Governance at WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at Free University Berlin. Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance and Co-Founder of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies.