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Lucas Kello is exploring the implications of offensive cyber weapons for international relations and security. His work involves the design of a conceptual framework for the analysis of deterrence and escalation dynamics in the cyber domain, while his policy research focuses on European and NATO institutional responses to emergent cyber threats.

Kei Koga is concurrently a Japan-U.S. Partnership Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo. His book manuscript, "Transformation of Security-Oriented Institutions," draws extensively from primary sources and field work in Southeast Asia and Africa. He received a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Evelyn Krache Morris received her Ph.D. in the history of U.S. foreign relations from Georgetown University. Her dissertation examined the United States' use of herbicides in South Vietnam under President John F. Kennedy. Her next project is a study of how the global illicit drug trade has influenced U.S. relations with Mexico and Afghanistan.

Henrik Larsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Mr. Larsen's dissertation introduces NATO as a case of Western democracy promotion and examines the link between democracy promotion, national narratives, and economic power.

Noora Lori is an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her work examines how migrant labor impacts the institutional development, regime stability, and political opportunity structures of the Arab Gulf states.

Carlotta Minnella is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She holds first-class honors degrees in Political Science and International Relations, Security Studies, and Diplomacy from the University of Trieste, the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and SIOI in Rome.

Richard Nielsen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His current research explores why some Islamic clerics adopt and endorse the ideology of militant Jihad while most do not.

David Nusbaum has seventeen years of professional experience as a chemical engineer in the nuclear industry. Throughout his career, he has tried to combine his technical background and broad knowledge in chemical and nuclear engineering with more practical, policy-oriented work.

Dianne Pfundstein received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in May 2012, where her dissertation, "Credibility is Not Enough: The United States and Compellent Threats, 1945–2011" was nominated for the Bancroft prize.

Marisa L. Porges served as a counterterrorism policy adviser in the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury and was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy, Marisa is a doctoral candidate at King's College London.