Amit Julka is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Ashoka University. He received his PhD in Political Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was both a Fellow and Research Associate at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. His research interests include the role of mass common-sense and popular culture in foreign policy, Gramscian theory and South Asian politics. He is currently working on his book, Common Sense Matters: India and the Kashmir Crisis, 1947-50 (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

Manali Kumar is an International Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). She received her PhD in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. Her current research probes the extent to which a state’s national identity and interests change as it becomes constructed as a “rising power.”

Bentley Allan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD in political science from Ohio State University. His research interest include how scientific ideas transform international politics; international relations, organizations, and development; diplomatic history; and normative international theory. He is the author of From Means to Ends: How Scientific Cosmology Transformed International Politics, 1550-2015  (Cambridge, 2018). 

Srdjan Vucetic is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. His research interests involve international hierarchy, international security, and foreign and defence policy analysis. He is the author of The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations (Stanford, 2011) and Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy (McGill-Queen’s, 2021).