Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Nukhet Sandal
is Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department 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.
Renée Marlin-Bennett
(Editor in Chief 2017-2019) is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy (2004) and Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (1993), as well as the editor of Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World (2011). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters. Prof. Marlin-Bennett conducts research on the global politics of science and technology, on embodiment and international relations, and on the nature of power. From 1987 to 2007, she served on the faculty of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University.
Editorial Board
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.
Soumita Basu
is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the South Asian University, New Delhi. She has published on gender, security and the United Nations in edited volumes as well as journals, including International Affairs, International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Political Science Review, International Studies Perspectives, Politics & Gender, and Security Dialogue. Soumita co-edited, with Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd, the forthcoming volume New Directions on Women, Peace and Security She currently serves on the editorial boards of International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender and Review of International Studies.
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.
Neophytos Loizides
is Professor in International Conflict Analysis and the Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at the University of Kent. He has previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast and Princeton University and held fellowships at the University of Essex and the Kennedy School of Government. Loizides is the author of The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises, Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies, and, with Feargal Cochrane and Thibaud Bodson, Mediating Power-Sharing.
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 Associate 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.
Advisory Board
Mark A. Boyer
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut, and Executive Director, International Studies Association
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Silver Professor, New York University, and Emeritus Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Robert A. Denemark
Chair, Advisory Board for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, and Professor, University of Delaware
Paul F. Diehl
Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science and Associate Provost and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Texas, Dallas
Theo Farrell
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia
Jef Huysmans
Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Patrick James
Dornsife Dean’s Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California
Margaret Keck
Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Jacek Kugler
Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of International Relations, Claremont Graduate University
Craig Murphy
Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Daniel Nexon
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Nicholas Onuf
Professor Emeritus, Florida International University
M. J. Peterson
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Brian Pollins
Associate Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University
Gerald Schneider
Professor, Universität Konstanz
Laura Sjoberg
Associate Professor, University of Florida
Etel Solingen
Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace Studies, University of California, Irvine
Kendall Stiles
Professor, Brigham Young University
William R. Thompson
Distinguished Professor and the Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
J. Anne Tickner
Professor Emerita, University of Southern California, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, American University
Thomas Volgy
Professor, University of Arizona
Former Editors
Michelle Benson
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Harry D. Gould
Florida International University
Kathryn C. Lavelle
Case Western Reserve University
Janice Bially Mattern
Independent Scholar
Cornelia Navari
University of Birmingham, UK
