Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century: 37 (De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences, 37)

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Holger Janusch is a Professor of International Relations with a special focus on US foreign and security policy at the Department of the Intelligence Services at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany and as a guest professor at the Andrássy University in Budapest, Hungary. He also was a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. His research focus is on power in IR theory, international negotiations, and US foreign and trade policy.

Witold Mucha is an interim Professor of Political Economy with a special focus on the international political economy of the Global South at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. Previously, he worked as researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) and the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He also was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and the School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Before joining academia he has been engaged in development cooperation in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. His research focus is on international relations and peace and conflict studies.

Julia Schwanholz is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her expertise lies in parliaments, democracy, and public policy research with an emphasis on digital transformation. She represented interim professorships for democracy research as well as comparative politics and ethics in politics at several German Universities. She has held research assignments in Australia (University of Melbourne; Monash University, Melbourne; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane), in France (Sciences Po, Paris), in the Netherlands (University of Groningen), in Sweden (Lund University), and in Germany at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG, Berlin).

Alexander Reichwein is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and PostDoc Researcher at the Department of Political Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany. He is also a co-speaker of the research section Norms and Changes in Global Politics at the Gießen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS). Amongst others, he was a Guest Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Alex is doing research on the Intellectual History of the Discipline (I)nternational (R)elations (in particular the European 20th Century theoretical traditions in IR), on the Varieties of Realism in IR and in Foreign Policy Analysis, and on Humanitarian Interventions and the Responsibility to Protect (in particular the misuse of norms by states). Alex holds a PhD in Political Science from the Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis on Hans J. Morgenthau’s liberal and normative Realism (2014).

Daniel Lorberg is science manager, consultant and political economist. Currently he is advisor to the presidency of the University of Fine Arts Essen. Among other positions, he was a Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences Berlin, general director and director of economics and social sciences at Solar Decathlon Europe, the largest international sustainability competition, lecturer and management director at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and founding manager of the IST University of Management. He is an author and editor of various publications in the field of economics and politics and has been a lecturer and visiting scholar at universities in Germany and around the world, including the United States, China, South Africa, and Hungary. His research focuses on change and stability in the relationships between business, government, and society.