Contributors of Articles

Tongdong Bai is the Dongfang Chair Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University in China, and a Global Professor of Law at NYU's Law School. He has two books published in English: China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom (Zed Books, 2012), and Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (Princeton University Press, 2019).

Kirill M. Bumin is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Bumin specializes in post-communist and Middle East politics, with particular neefocus on political transitions, ethnic conflict, and comparative judicial politics.

M. Gordon Byrd is a PhD student at East Carolina University.

Luis Cabrera is Associate Professor of Political Science at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He has published widely on individual rights and related issues. His most recent monograph is The Humble Cosmopolitan: Rights, Diversity and Trans-State Democracy (Oxford UP, 2020), which focuses in part on the democratic and moral theory of B.R. Ambedkar.

Joel Day (Ph.D., Denver, 2015) is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for Public Diplomacy and Lecturer in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego.

Kostanca Dhima is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University.

Matt Golder is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.

Motti Inbari is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Inbari focuses his research on Jewish fundamentalism mostly in Israel, but also in the United States and Europe. He is the author of four books, his latest is The Making of Modern Jewish Identify: Ideological Change and Religious Conversion (Routledge, 2019).

Bill McCormick, SJ is a visiting assistant professor at Saint Louis University. His work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory, the History of Political Thought, and The Thomist. He has a forthcoming book on Aquinas.

Simon Otjes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University and Researcher Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties of Groningen University. His research examines political parties, voters, interest groups and parliaments. He has previously published in the American Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics among others.

Adam Tyson's research interests include comparative political transitions in East and Southeast Asia, vigilantism and political violence, democratic engagement, and state-society relations. He published recently in Contemporary Southeast Asia, The China Quarterly, and Critical Asian Studies. His monograph Decentralization and Adat Revivalism in Indonesia: The Politics of Becoming Indigenous was published by Routledge in 2010, and his latest edited book, The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore, was published by Routledge in 2018.