Juliet Kaarbo is Professor of International Relations with a Chair in Foreign Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on leadership and decision-making, group dynamics, foreign policy analysis, parliamentary political systems, and national roles.  Recent research includes work on domestic role contestation, Turkish leaders, Trump and China, and leaders’ personality change and foreign policy.

Ryan Beasley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, specializing in Foreign Policy Theory and Political Psychology.  His research focuses on role theory, dissonance, perceptual legitimacy, group decision-making, and coalition cabinets. Recent publications include work on time and foreign policy, Brexit and time, dissonance and foreign policy mistakes, and the psychology of democratic peace.

Kai Oppermann is Professor of International Politics at the Chemnitz University of Technology. His research centres on the domestic sources of foreign policy and international politics with a particular focus on British and German foreign policy. Recent publications include work on narrative constructions of foreign policy success and failure, the allocation of foreign ministries in coalition governments and the changing discourse of German foreign policy.