Ana Bojinović Fenko is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests include Regionalism studies, (comparative) Analysis of Foreign Policy and EU External Action. She has mostly published articles on regionalism in the Mediterranean (in Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and Mediterranean Politics) and on foreign policy of Slovenia and EU in Western Balkans and in the Mediterranean (in Parliamentary Affairs, Revue d’intégration européenne and Etudes helléniques). She published in many edited books, recently with Zlatko Šabič on foreign policy of Slovenia in The foreign policies of post-Yugoslav states: from Yugoslavia to Europe, edited by S. Keil and B. Stahl (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Kai Oppermann is Reader in Politics at the University of Sussex. He has previously taught at King’s College London, the University of Cologne, Philipps-University Marburg and the Free University Berlin. His research interests focus on the domestic sources of foreign policy and European integration and on British and German foreign policy. In 2010, he won a Marie Curie Fellowship for a research project on European integration referendums. Kai has published in journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, British Journal of Politics and International Relations and Parliamentary Affairs. He is the co-author of a German-language book on Foreign Policy Analysis with Oldenbourg and has recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy on Fiascos in Public Policy and Foreign Policy.

Viatcheslav Morozov is Professor of EU-Russia Studies at the University of Tartu. His current research explores how Russia’s political and social development has been conditioned by the country’s position in the international system. This approach has been laid out in his most recent monograph Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World (Palgrave, 2015), while the comparative dimension is explored, inter alia, in the edited volume Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony (Ashgate, 2013). He is a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia). In 2007–2010, he was a member of the Executive Council of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).

Maria Mälksoo is Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent. She is the author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries (London: Routledge, 2010) and a co-author of Remembering Katyn (Cambridge: Polity, 2012). She has published on liminality in IR, social theoretic perspectives of the EU and NATO’s eastern enlargements, and the conflicts over historical memory between Russia and its former Soviet/East European dependants in International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and in several edited volumes. Her current research focuses on the nexus between transitional justice and foreign policies on the example of post-communist Russia.

James D. Morrow is A.F.K. Organski Collegiate Professor of World Politics and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, both at the University of Michigan, having also taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Stanford University, the University of Rochester, and Michigan State University. His research addresses crisis bargaining, the causes of war, military alliances, arms races, power transition theory, links between international trade and conflict, the role of international institutions, international law, and domestic politics and foreign policy. He is the author of Order within Anarchy, Game Theory for Political Scientists, co-author of The Logic of Political Survival, and author of over thirty articles in refereed journals and another thirty other publications.  Professor Morrow is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association in 1994. He was President of the Peace Science Society in 2008-2009 and has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Hoover Institution.