Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He is concurrently a nonresident senior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie China. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton-Harvard “China and the World” Program as well as a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford. Professor Kuik’s research focuses on the external policies of small and secondary states, big powers in the Indo-Pacific, Asian security, and international relations.
Álvaro Mendez is the Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Senior Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He is a Full Research Professor at Rey JuanCarlos University in Madrid, working on a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation that focuses on strategies for internationalisation, innovation, and social responsibility. Prof. Mendez is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and a Member of the Colombian Council of Foreign Affairs (CORI). He teaches at LSE, Sciences Po Paris, and Fudan University. He has won numerous teaching awards, such as the IR Departmental Teaching Prize in recognition of his teaching of International Relations at the LSE, and he has contributed to numerous books as an author, co-author, or editor of numerous books.
Gregory T. Chin (PhD, York University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Political Economy at York University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is Co-Director of the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project at Global Policy journal online.