Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University. His book Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel won the ISA’s Quincy Wright award. His other major books include Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order (Columbia University Press, 1998); Security Communities, which he coedited with Emanuel Adler; Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda; Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics with Martha Finnemore; and The Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism.
Emily Cochran Bech is a PhD candidate in political science at Columbia University specializing in the politics of religious minorities in Europe.
Il Hyun Cho is assistant professor of political science at Cleveland State University. He has conducted field research in China, Japan, and South Korea, and has written about national missile defense and the North Korean missile program. His current research projects include global rogues and regional orders, the politics of nuclear restraint, national identity politics in democracies, East Asian regionalism, and religious politics in East Asia. He has held fellowships and research affiliations at Yonsei University, Seoul; the University of Tokyo; and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is an international political theorist and assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University. She is interested in the history of the modern category of religion and its demarcation from politics and law. Central to her research interests are the politics of religious difference, religious pluralism, and religious freedom and their legal management and regulation at the global level. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations and coeditor of Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age.
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, president of the American Political Science Association (2008–9), and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor of more than thirty books and monographs and over one hundred articles and book chapters. Recent books include: Beyond Paradigms: Analytical Eclecticism in World Politics; Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives; Religion in an Expanding Europe, coedited with Timothy A. Byrnes; and Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency.
Daniel H. Nexon is an assistant professor and the codirector of undergraduate studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change.
Daniel Philpott is associate professor of political science and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is a senior associate at the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy in Washington, D.C. His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations and he is the editor of The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice. He also trains political and religious leaders in reconciliation in Burundi and the broader Great Lakes region of Africa under the auspices of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.
Timothy Samuel Shah is an adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Shah’s research and expertise is in the areas of religion and foreign policy, religion and the theory and practice of democracy, global democratization, Third World religion and politics, South Asia, and religion and domestic politics. He is also a senior research scholar at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University; a principal researcher at the Religion in Global Politics Project at Harvard University; and a research director at the Project on Evangelicalism and Democracy in the Global South. Formerly, he was Senior Fellow for Religion and World Affairs at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His books include Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War, coauthored with Edward D. Mansfield; From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict; Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition; and The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Monica Duffy Toft is associate professor of public policy and director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was a research intern at the RAND Corporation and served in the U.S. Army. Toft is director of the Belfer Center’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, which was established with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. She is the author of three books: The Geography of Ethnic Violence, Securing the Peace, and an edited volume, The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty.