Dr. Charalampos Efstathopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy: India, South Africa and the Doha Development Agenda. His research focuses on Southern middle powers and non-Western approaches to International Relations. His work has recently been published in The International Journal of Human Rights, the Asia-Europe Journal, and the International Journal. He has been awarded the 2023 annual Boyer Prize for the best article published in the?Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Relations.
Dr. Hakan Mehmetcik is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye. He holds a doctorate in political science and international relations from Yildiz Technical University. His research interests include social data science, computational social science, and both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.