Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, was the former holder of the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ. He was the Clifford Hackett Visiting Professor at Yale, a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS in Washington, DC, and a Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. Klaus Larres' books include Churchill's Cold War (Yale UP, 2002), Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger and the Threat of a United Europe (Yale UP, 2022), Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs (co-edited; Routledge, 2020), Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics (ed., Routledge, 2022), and many others.

Tobias Hof is a Privatdozent for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and was the Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. His main research interests include the history of terrorism/antiterrorism, fascism, and humanitarianism. He is the author of Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (UTP, 2021) and has published many articles and book chapters on his research interests.