Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, PhD: Professor Reinhardt studies how citizens and policy makers make decisions under uncertainty, and how those decisions affect economic, social, and political development and subsequent policy outcomes. She focuses specifically on resilience, disasters, and international development, asking how public financing can be judiciously allocated to help avert, alleviate, mitigate, and manage disasters and serve vulnerable populations. …

Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on authoritarian politics, development, state building, violent non-state actors and human security. She is the author of many books in these areas including: Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence …

Dr. Lucas Knotter is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Groningen. In his scholarship, he marries expertise in questions of secession and state creation with International Relations theory. He has published on these issues in Ethnopolitics and Review of International Studies, and is currently finalizing a book on classical realism and de facto states with Routledge. He …

Christian Karner is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln (UK). Prior to this, Christian was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He has also been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, and he has spent time as a (senior) visiting researcher at the University of Minnesota, the University …

Prof. Véronique Dimier is a political scientist working on history. She has been formerly Deakin and Marie Curie fellow at St Antony’s college, Oxford University, Fulbright Fellow at NYU University, Braudel Fellow at the European Institute (Firenze), more recently the holder of the Chaire Gutenberg, University of Strabsourg, SAGE. She is currently teaching at the ULB and the College of …

Fernanda Neutel, Ph.D. in Political Science/European Studies and Master degree in International Relations from Leeds University, United Kingdom, is Associate Professor at Lusófona University – Lisboa, Portugal . Her research interests focus on the European Parliament, Political Parties at the European level, European integration, and the future of the European Union. Her main publications include: ‘Pushing the Union Forward? The …

Gorm Harste is associate professor of political science at Aarhus University. He is expert in European state building and his books in includes Law and Intersystemic Communication: Understanding “Structural Coupling” He was born 1955, is a Danish sociologist, political scientist and philosopher. Educated in political science and philosophy from Aarhus University and in European studies from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, …

Patrick Paul Walsh is currently a Full Professor of International Development Studies and an elected member of the Governing Authority in University College Dublin. He is the Director of the UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, Director of the UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development in partnership with UN SDSN, Coordinator of the UCD Ph.D. in Global Human Development which trains …

Alexander Etkind is a senior fellow of European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He is the the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1978 in Psychology and English at Leningrad State University.  In 1998, he defended PhD (Habilitation) in Slavonic Studies/ Cultural History at the University of Helsinki. …

Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Global Europe Centre, at the University of Kent. She is also Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, which she was awarded twice by the European Commission in recognition of her research and teaching excellence. Elena is the first female Professor at the School of Politics at Kent, and an …