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.

Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies and the Chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. She is a regular writer and contributing editor at Ms. magazine. Her book, Abortion Pills: US History and Politics, is available as open access through Amherst College Press.

Associate Professor of politics at Kirklareli University, Turkey, with a PhD from Sussex. Author of books on populism and Turkish politics, his research spans party politics, populism, and clientelism, with articles published in leading journals like Third World Quarterly and Party Politics.

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).

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. He is the co-author of “Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions,” published by Columbia in 2024.

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 African Diaspora Studies at Yale University. Author of Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025).

Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, she focuses on the social impacts of climate change and energy-society relations. She was a Lead Author for the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report, serves on UNEP’s Expert Panel, and founded Prairie Urban Farm (2013–2023). She also leads 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.

Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Her work focuses on international organizations, non-state actors, and transnational activism in global governance. Her 2022 book, Vigilantes Beyond Borders (with Jason Sharman, Princeton University Press), examines NGOs enforcing international human rights and environmental laws.

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.

Associate Professor of EU Law at Lund University, Sweden. She holds a PhD from Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the choice of legal basis in EU constitutional law and, more recently, on the EU's legislation regarding digitalization and the balancing of rights.

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.

Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics, Co-Programme Director of the MSc in Development Management, and Chair of the Decentralization Task Force at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.

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 at the Université Paris 8, France, and Co-Director of the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA). She has conducted extensive research on issues of gender and forced migration and is currently leading a major EU-funded research project entitled Growing Up Across Borders, which examines the experiences of young people in forced migration.

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 Law at Lund University, Sweden, and a Research Coordinator in EU Law. His academic work focuses on EU law, human rights, and digitalization, with numerous publications in these fields.

Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), specializing in transnational advocacy and international organizations. A former Lecturer at the Hertie School in Berlin, she holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Her 2022 book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, examines the influence of digital advocacy on global issues.

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.

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, and author or editor of seventeen books, including It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021) and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022). Webpage : https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton

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

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-author of “Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration”, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2024.

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.

Assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He studies democratic governance and public opinion with a focus on managing immigration and ethnic tensions in high-income countries.

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.

Researcher, teacher, and practitioner specializing in environmental violence, policy, and peacebuilding. Author of Environmental Violence (2022) and co-editor of Environmental Violence Explored (2024), his work spans five continents, addressing sustainable livelihoods, environmental management, and justice through academic and policy publications.

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.

Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Lincoln, author of Violence and Militants (McGill-Queen’s University Press), Editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society (Temple University Press), and Editor-in-Chief of International Social Science Journal (Wiley). Lives in Lincoln, UK, with his husband, Gioacchino.

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.

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.

Lawyer and anthropologist specializing in border technologies. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and is a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, which was a finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards in Nonfiction.

Assistant Professor of Race and Racism and Urban Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was a visiting researcher at Malmö University and received a Pipeline Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to further his research on gentrification, focusing on the experiences of Black Americans and Latinx communities in Boston.

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 of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, she focuses on what she calls the “Third Wittgenstein” explored in Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty. Her works include Hinge Epistemology, Extending Hinge Epistemology, Certainty in Action, Real Gender, and Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty. She is Founding President of the British Wittgenstein Society.

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.

Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, he has authored over thirty books on World War II, air power, and the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. The Bombing War won a Cundill Award in 2014, and Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War 1931-1945 received the Duke of Wellington Medal for military history. His latest book, Why War?, is published by Penguin.

Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Surrey, Guildford (UK. Previously, she had taught Economics at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth and Cardiff Business School and subsequently at the Economics and Finance Department Brunel University in London.

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

Senior researcher in political science at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS). His main research interests are in policies on migration, asylum and borders in the EU.

Dean and Professor of Law at Reykjavik University and Visiting Professor at Université Paris (II), Panthéon-Assas. Member of the Financial Supervisory Board at the Icelandic Central Bank and Ad-Hoc Judge at the EFTA Court, Luxembourg. Former Director of the Internal Market Affairs Directorate at the EFTA Surveillance Authority in Brussels.

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).

Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, former editor of Gender & Society, and author of Gender and Social Movements (2021). Her research focuses on U.S. women’s movements and feminist activism, with recent work exploring music's role in the 1960s-1980s women’s movement.

Director of Lex Academic and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. His authored books include The Things We Do and Why We Do Them, Character and Causation, From Action to Ethics, Real Gender, and Wittgenstein on Other Minds. He is currently working on a book on understanding oneself and others for Yale University Press.

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 Emeritus of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, specializing in the study of mass violence, sociocultural trauma, and memory politics. His books include the award-winning Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (Pennsylvania, 2005) and Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability (Pennsylvania, 2018). Webpage: https://www.uu.nl/staff/trobben.

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.

PhD in Sociology and postdoctoral researcher at the GRABS project, affiliated with the Cresppa and the Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS. She lectures at Sciences Po Paris and specializes in migration, refugees, gender, and survival strategies.

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 of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. He specializes in environmental literature and existential risk, with recent books including What Is Extinction? (2023) and Calamity Theory (2021), co-authored with Derek Woods.

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).

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University and Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. A former federal prosecutor, he writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, and the law of evidence. His most recent book is Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy (Harvard University Press 2025).

Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research in business and law explores histories of markets and morality, public and company law, and classical liberal thought. Forthcoming publications by Chan Smith include historical studies of polarization and corruption, and the development of social purpose businesses.

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.

W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, specializing in public discourse, political polarization, political equality, and democratic ethics. Author of over 100 scholarly articles and 16 books, including the trilogy Overdoing Democracy (2019), Sustaining Democracy (2021), and Civic Solitude (2024), all published by Oxford University Press.

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.

Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Helsinki with a doctorate from Oxford. Her research examines ageing societies, intergenerational relationships, and critiques ageing policy paradigms. She has contributed to the development of Grounded Theory and qualitative research. Currently, she leads the ERC-funded LEGACIES project (101094124) on material and environmental legacies.

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.

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).

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).

Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author or editor of forty books that have been published in ten European and Asian languages.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author or editor of over two dozen books and numerous academic articles. His latest book, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2023), was named one of Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2024.