David Cortright is professor emeritus of the practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Chip Gagnon is a professor of politics at Ithaca College and a regional scholar at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Vincent Intondi is a nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He was most recently a senior lecturer in the International Relations department at Webster University-Leiden in the Netherlands.

Yaro T. Kulchyckyj holds a Doctor of International Affairs and a Masters of International Public Policy degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU-SAIS). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on U.S.

Sabine Mannitz is a research department head and Executive Board member at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/PRIF.

Agnieszka Nimark has been a long-term Visiting Scholar at the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies since 2014. She is also an Associate Senior Researcher (non-resident) in Global Geopolitics and Security at CIDOB – Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain.