Dr Randolph B. Persaud is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington D.C. He works on race and IR, critical political economy, human security, migration, and the Caribbean. Amongst a range of journal articles, he is author of Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy; co-editor of Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations (2018); and Violence and the Third World in International Relations (2019). Dr. Persaud has also co-edited three special issues, the first with R.B.J. Walker – Race and International Relations.

DDr Amy Niang is Associate Professor in International Relations at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco. She has research interests in three broad areas, namely, the history of state formation and related ideas of sovereignty, statehood, stateness and statelessness; Africa’s International Relations; the Geopolitics of the Sahel. She is the author of The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). Her latest book, co-edited with Ismail Rashid, is Researching Peacebuilding in Africa: Reflections on Theory, Fieldwork and Context (Routledge, 2021).