Peter Breiner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Max Weber and Democratic Politics (1996), Cornell University Press and numerous articles on Weber, Mannheim, and German political theory, along with articles on Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. He is working on a book entitled Political Equality: Movement and Countermovement, in which he argues that the tension between liberal rights and Schumpeterian democracy leads to a constant and unending struggle over political equality much like the Polanyi’s recurrent movement and countermovement between the market and democracy.

Archie Brown is Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (2020), The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age (2014) and The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009). He has been Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale, the University of Connecticut, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 1991) and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003.

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia is Professor at Rutgers University – State University of New Jersey (School of Public Affairs, and Division of Global Affairs). She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris. She has been Visiting Chaired Professor at Northwestern University and the University of Central European University, EU-US Fulbright Transatlantic Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, and Visiting Professor at New York University (NYU) and at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Her main recent publications include Frontiers of Fears: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, 2012); How Does It Feel to Be a Threat? Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, NYU Series, 2015); and Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Andrew Lawrence (Wits School of Governance, Wits University) has written extensively on energy and climate politics, comparative and global political economy, and worker and employer collective action, with recent articles in Competition and Change, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and Review of International Political Economy. His most recent books are South Africa’s Energy Transition (Palgrave, 2020) and Employer and Worker Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His current book project is on reworking global governance under conditions of climate crisis.

Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory at King’s College London and Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of almost fifty books on international relations, comparative politics, political theory, history, classics, and philosophy of science. He has recently published his first novel and a book of short stories. Lebow is a fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of many book awards and honorary degrees.

Ludvig Norman is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the institutions of the European Union, democratic theory, and social science methodology. He is the author of the book The Mechanisms of Institutional Conflict in the European Union. His recent works have appeared in Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies and Cooperation and Conflict.

Paul Petzschmann is Senior Lecturer and Director of European Studies at Carleton College, Minnesota. He has been a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His interests are in modern American and European political and administrative thought, especially in the politics of economic emergency. He has published in Public Administration, contributed to multiple edited volumes, and is working on a book on the American Public Administration Clearinghouse (PACH) as a transatlantic network of administrative knowledge.

Douglas Webber is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the international business school, INSEAD. He has been a guest professor at the University of California Berkeley, a visiting fellow at Monash University (Melbourne) and the Australian National University (Canberra), and a Jean Monnet Fellow and Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He has published extensively on issues of German politics and foreign policy, Franco-German relations, EU politics, and European and Asian regional political integration. His most recent book is European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union (Red Globe Press/Macmillan).