Tanja A. Börzel: Professor of Political Science and Chair for European Integration, Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. She earned her PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and taught at Humboldt University zu Berlin, University of Heidelberg, and Harvard University. Prof. Dr. Börzel is director of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS); she is also the head of the Berlin Center for European Studies. Her most recent publications include Effective Governance Under Anarchy. Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood, with Thomas Risse (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Why Noncompliance. The Politics of Law in the European Union (Cornell University Press, 2021); The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Conceptions, Components, and Tensions, co-edited with Johannes Gerschewski, and Michael Zürn (Oxford University Press, 2024); and Polarization and Deep Contestations: The Liberal Script in the United States, co-edited with Thomas Risse, Stephanie Anderson, and Jean Garrison (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Edward D. Mansfield: Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books and more than one hundred articles in the area of international political economy, international security, and international organizations. He is Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former program co-chair of the American Political Science Association.

Jeffrey T. Checkel: Professor and Chair in International Politics, European University Institute. Checkel's research interests include international relations theory (domestic-international linkages; international institutions; constructivism; governance; philosophies of social science), conflict studies (civil war), European integration (Europeanization, identity) and qualitative methods (theory-practice-ethics of processual methods; bridging positivist-interpretive techniques). He is the author of four books from Cambridge, including European Identity (co-edited with Peter J. Katzenstein, 2009); Transnational Dynamics of Civil War (edited, 2013); and Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (co-edited with Andrew Bennett, 2015).

Stefanie Walter: Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Center for Crisis Competence at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on international political economy, international organizations, and European integration. Current projects examine the backlash against globalization and challenges to international cooperation. She is the author of Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and co-author of The Politics of Bad Options. Why the Eurozone’s Problems have been so Difficult to Resolve (Oxford University Press, 2020).