Contributors

Morten Brænder is an associate professor of political science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and head of military research at the King Frederik Center for Public Leadership. He has published numerous articles on military motivation, values, and leadership and is currently serving as secretary for the European Research Association of Military and Society (ERGOMAS).

Christina C. Gregory is an assistant professor of political science at Lamar University. Her research interests include civil-military relations, military reconstruction, and gender.

Vilhelm Stefan Holsting, Commander Senior Grade (Navy), PhD, MA in adult education, is an active-duty officer and director of the Institute for Leadership and Organization at the Royal Danish Defence College. He has contributed to a number of research articles and books regarding military leadership, senior officership, and the military profession.

Dipin Kaur is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, India. Her research focuses on ethnicity and state strategy in the shadow of political violence, with a regional focus on South Asia and the British Empire. Her work is published in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Text, Oxford Intersections, and the Routledge Handbooks Collection.

Harlan Kefalas is an adjunct professor in the College of Business and Technology at Webster University. He retired with over twenty-two years of active military service.

Christian Lindke is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He currently teaches at Boise State University and his primary research interests include political polarization and parenting & politics.

Carlotta Minnella is a research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Fiesole. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of IR theory, foreign policy analysis, and social psychology.

Rohan Mukherjee is an assistant professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press).

Terence Nicholas is an assistant professor in the Wargaming Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College. He has a PhD in international relations from Salve Regina University, Massachusetts, in defense and strategic studies from the US Naval War College, Massachusetts, in international affairs from Brooklyn College, and a BA in history from Fordham University. His research focus areas have been on international relations dynamics of the maritime commons, specifically in the Indo-Pacific region. The views expressed here are those of Terence Nicholas alone and do not necessarily represent the views, policies, or positions of the US Department of Defense or its components, to include the Department of the Navy and the US Naval War College.

Valeria Rosato (PhD, Sociology) is a lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Roma Tre. She has published numerous books and journal articles on organized violence, security, and peace processes.