Emanuel Adler is a Professor of Political Science Emeritus, and the Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the European Academy of Sciences, Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and former editor of International Organization. His books include The Power of Ideology (UC Press 1998), Security Communities (Cambridge 1998, with Michael Barnett); Communitarian International Relations (Routledge 2005), International Practices (Cambridge 2012, with Vincent Pouliot), and World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution (Cambridge 2019). He is also the author of articles such as “Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics,” “Conclusion: Epistemic Communities, World Order, and the Creation of a Reflective Research Program,” and “The Spread of Security Communities: Communities of Practice, Self-Restraint, and NATO’s Post-Cold War Transformation.”

Niklas Bremberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and Associated Senior Researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include international practice theory, diplomacy, climate change and international security, and European foreign and security policy. His research has been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, Global Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and WIREs Climate Change. He co-authored the open access book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent (Elgar Online 2022). He currently leads the research project “Anticipating the future: humanitarian aid in a changing climate” within the Mistra Geopolitics research programme.

Maïka Sondarjee is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include feminist and postcolonial studies, the sociology of international practices, the World Bank, as well as multilateral discourses and institutions. In addition to being a columnist on international issues, she published 13 books and peer-reviewed articles including “A Feminist Critique of International Practices” (International Studies Quarterly 2024), “Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices: NGO Inclusion in World Bank Policymaking” (Global Society 2023) and “We are a Community of Practice, not a Paradigm! How to Meaningfully Integrate Gender and Feminist Approaches in IR Syllabi” (International Studies Perspectives 2022).