Editorial Team

 

Editor-in-Chief

Ron Hassner ✉
University of California, Berkeley

Ron E. Hassner is a Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the role of ideas, practices and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence.  His published work focuses on territorial disputes, religion in the military, conflicts over holy places, the pervasive role of religion on the modern battlefield, and the politics of torture. He is editor of the Cornell University Press book series "Religion and Conflict". In 2023, the Religion and International Relations section of the International Studies Association recognized Ron’s work with a Distinguished Scholar Award. Later that year, he received an Outstanding Scholar Award from the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

Ron is the author of Anatomy of Torture (Cornell University Press, 2022), Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell University Press, 2016), and War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell, 2009). He is the editor of Religion and International Relations (with Isaac Svensson, Sage, 2016), and Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge, 2013).

Associate Editors

 

Fiona B. Adamson ✉
SOAS University of London

Fiona B. Adamson is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London as well as an affiliate faculty member of the QEII Academy at Chatham House in London. Fiona’s research focuses on migration and security, diaspora politics, and the transnational dimensions of violent conflict. She was previously co-editor of the Routledge Security Governance book series and has been on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, the European Journal of International Relations, and Nationalities Papers and Diaspora Studies.

Seva Gunitsky ✉
University of Toronto

Seva Gunitsky is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research examines how international forces like war and globalization shape democracy and domestic reforms. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2017), selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of 2017.

Janet Lewis ✉
George Washington University

Janet Lewis is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her research focuses on political violence and intergroup conflict. Janet is the author of How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond (Cambridge University Press 2020), which won annual Best Book awards from the International Studies Association, the Conflict Research Society, and the African Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

Roseanne McManus ✉
Penn State University

Roseanne McManus is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University. She is the author of Statements of Resolve: Achieving Coercive Credibility in International Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won the ISA Foreign Policy Analysis section best book award and was recognized as runner-up for the APSA Conflict Processes section best book award. Roseanne’s research focuses primarily on signaling and credibility in the context of international conflict. Earlier in her career, Roseanne was a Senior Analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Andrew Phillips ✉
University of Queensland

Andrew Phillips is Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies and Deputy Director of the Graduate Centre in Governance and International Affairs at the University of Queensland. He is the author of War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and How the East Was Won: ‘Barbarian’ Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021), and he is coauthor, with Jason Sharman, of International Order in Diversity: War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which received the Francesco Guicciardini prize for best book in Historical International Relations from the International Studies Association and the Jervis-Schroeder Best Book prize from the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, and of Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2020). He is also coeditor, with Christian Reus-Smit, of Culture and Order in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which won the best edited book prize from the International Studies Association's Theory section.

Nicholas Miller ✉
Dartmouth College

Nicholas Miller is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy (Cornell University Press, 2018), which is based on his dissertation which won the Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best dissertation in international relations, law, and politics, and the Kenneth N. Waltz Prize for the best dissertation in international security and arms control, both from the American Political Science Association. Nick’s research focuses primarily on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Managing Editor

Lauren Barden-Hair ✉
University of California, Berkeley

Lauren Barden-Hair is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her research interests include alliance politics, foreign policy analysis, and foreign meddling in domestic politics.