Editorial Board

Nukhet Sandal

Nukhet Sandal is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University. Her research focuses on religion, peace and conflict studies, and international relations theory. She is the author of Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation and, with Jonathan Fox, Religion and International Relations Theory. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters. At the International Studies Association, Sandal served as the Chair of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration as well as the Religion and International Relations sections. She was also the program co-chair of the 2019 Annual Convention in Toronto. 

Victor Asal

is the director of the Center for Policy Research and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Rockefeller College, University at Albany SUNY. His key areas of research focus on the choices of violence by nonstate actors, the causes of political discrimination by states against different groups, and the use of simulations in pedagogy. From 2015 to 2019 Asal was chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Asal is a research associate of the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center) at the University of Maryland. He has been involved in research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. His research has been published in, among other titles, the Journal of Politics, International Organization, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Studies in Terrorism and Conflict, The Journal of Peace Research. He also currently serves as the editor of the Journal of Political Science Education.

Gilbert M. Khadiagala

is the Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely on African politics, foreign policy, security, mediation, conflict resolution, and governance. He is the recent editor of War and Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region and author of Regional Cooperation on Democratization and Conflict Management in Africa, and How Can Democratic Peace Work in Southern Africa? Trends and Trajectories after the Decade of Hope.

Nalanda Roy

is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies and the Coordinator of the Asian Studies program at Georgia Southern University. She is the Certified Diversity Executive, and the Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellow at GSU. Dr. Roy is the recipient of the Dr. Saba Jallow Inclusion Champion award, the Award of Excellence and Georgia Southern’s Women in Research Soar, and the Campus Museum of Service Award for creating the An Integral History: Asian Studies Digital Archive at GSU.

She is the author of several books including Bitter Moments:The Story of Indonesian Fragmentation, The South China Sea Disputes: Past, Present, and Future, Exploring the Tripod: Immigration, Security, and Economy in the Post-9/11, Navigating Uncertainty in the South China Sea Disputes: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World: Case Studies from India, Poland, and Turkey. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Roy served as the section program chair for International Studies Association’s South Asia in World Politics.

Dr. Roy serves as a visiting scholar with the Center for Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University. She was appointed as the Adjunct Professor, FORE School of Management, New Delhi, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in India. Dr. Roy has served on the board of directors with the City of Savannah and worked for the Greater Savannah International Alliance (GSIA) as the Chair of the Asian committee.

Cintia Quiliconi

is an associate professor at the International Studies and communication Department of the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). Her research focuses on Latin American political economy, international trade, regionalism, BRICS, and sustainable development. She has published several articles on those topics, among them: “IPE Beyond Western Paradigms: China, Africa, and Latin America in Comparative Perspective” (with M. Deciancio) in The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy and “Competitive Diffusion of Trade Agreements in Latin America” in International Studies Review. Together with Stephen Kingah, Quiliconi edited Global and Regional Leadership of BRICS Countries.

Matthew Weinert

is a Professor at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on the human security, human rights, and human dignity dimensions of world order. He is the author of Democratic Sovereignty: Authority, State, and Legitimacy in a Globalizing Age and Making Human: World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently writing a book on cultural heritage, cultural rights, and human security.