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

 

Jon R. Lindsay ✉
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His research explores the role of emerging technology in global security. He is the author of Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell, 2025) and of  Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell, 2020), the co-author with Erik Gartzke of Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics (Oxford, 2024), and editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford, 2019) and of China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford, 2015). His latest book project is "The Odyssey of AI: The Wrath of Technology and the Return of Humanity."

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).

Michael Poznansky ✉
U.S. Naval War College

Michael Poznansky is an Associate Professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department and a core faculty member in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University Pittsburgh. Poznansky is the author of Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2025) and In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020). He has held fellowships with the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College, and the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Rupal Mehta ✉
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Rupal N. Mehta is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently a Faculty Fellow with the Nebraska Strategic Research Institute and a Research Collaborator at the Center for Peace and Security Studies (cPASS) at the University of California, San Diego. She also serves as a consultant for the Director’s Strategic Resilience Initiative in the National Security and International Studies Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a consultant for the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction for the U.S. Department of State. Previously, she was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow in the Belfer Center's International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Managing Editor

Jason Klocek ✉
University of Nottingham

Jason Klocek is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is also a Senior Researcher at the United States Institute of Peace and a Faculty Affiliate of the University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Religion and Society and. Prior to joining SPIR, Jason held an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He received the American Political Science Association's 2019 Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics. He holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University. He served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Turkmenistan from 2003-2005.

Jason's research and teaching interests primarily lie at the intersection of political violence and repression, with particular attention to the role of religion. His current book project explores how counterinsurgents construe and respond to religious rebellions with an empirical focus on British insurgency wars during the early postwar period. He has also written on the determinants of minority discrimination, religious violence, the military chaplaincy, interfaith dialogue, relational peace, intersectional stereotyping in political decision making, and religion during the Covid-19 pandemic.