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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2023

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Nick Bernards is associate professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. He is author of A Critical History of Poverty Finance (2022) and The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work (2018).

Adam Branch is professor of international politics at the University of Cambridge, where he was director of the Centre of African Studies until 2022. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was senior research fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala, Uganda. He is the author of Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda and Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (with Zachariah Mampilly), and an editor of the African Arguments book series.

Liana Minkova is a junior research fellow at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the university. Her research interests include questions of environmental justice, criminal responsibility in international law, and the development of international legal norms. She is the author of Responsibility on Trial: Liability Standards in International Law (2023).

Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a deputy undersecretary of state, and won distinguished service awards from all three agencies. His books include The Future of Power (2011); The Power Game: A Washington Novel (2004); and Do Morals Matter? (2020). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy.

Joan Rohlfing is the president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Before joining NTI, she held senior positions with the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton administration. In 1999–2000, after the nuclear tests in India and Pakistan, Rohlfing served at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, where she advised the ambassador on nuclear security issues. Rohlfing has also served as a professional staff member of the House Armed Services Committee and in the Strategic Forces Policy Office at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she began her career.

Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and co-director and senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University. Sagan is the author of, among other works, Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security (1989); The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (1993); and, with co-author Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: An Enduring Debate (2012).

Sharon K. Weiner is associate professor in the School of International Relations at American University. Her research, teaching, and policy engagement are at the intersection of organizational politics and U.S. national security. Her current work focuses on the theory, practice, and social construction of deterrence, the politics of U.S. nuclear weapon modernization programs, and larger issues of civil-military relations. Her most recent book, Managing the Military: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Civil-Military Relations (2022), analyzes the power of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman to help or hinder the president's ability to implement their defense policy preferences.