Pierre Asselin is Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University. He is author of A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), winner of the 2003 Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize; Hanoi’s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965 (University of California Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award; and Vietnam’s American War (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His many articles have appeared in journals such as Cold War History, The Journal of Cold War Studies, and Diplomatic History.

Jeffrey James Byrne is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He works on decolonization and revolutionary movements, principally in Africa and the Arab world. He is the author of the award-winning Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently writing a book on the morality of war in anti-colonial liberation struggles.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. His first book, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford University Press, 2012), is an international history of the Palestinian liberation struggle. His next book, The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (HarperCollins, 2018), is a global history of the bloodiest encounters of the Cold War. His articles have appeared in Cold War History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Diplomatic History, and he has published op-eds with The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

Eric Covey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University and former Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Nigeria, where he taught at the University of Abuja. He is the author of Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2019) and is working on a new project that examines literary, legal, and political responses to mercenary force in Nigeria after 1960.

Jeremy Friedman is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at the Harvard Business School. His book Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2015. His current book project, Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, covers the evolution of the socialist project in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from the 1940s to the 1980s and is due to appear with Harvard University Press in 2021. His work has also been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, and Modern China Studies and in media outlets including The Washington Post, The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Moscow Times.

Eric Gettig teaches Latin American studies and international history as Deputy Chair for Western Hemisphere Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State and as Adjunct Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He earned his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2017.

Rafael M. Hernández is the Chief Editor of Temas, Cuba’s leading social sciences journal. He has been Professor at the University of Havana; Director of US Studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre América (a think tank of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee); and a senior research fellow at Havana’s Instituto “Juan Marinello.” His books include U.S.–Cuban Relations in the 1990s (Westview, 1989); Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos (Harvard, 2001); Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society (Florida, 2001); Vietnam, China and Cuba Foreign Policies towards the United States (IDE, 2015); The History of Havana (Palgrave, 2006); and Play Ball! Debating US-Cuban Relations (Routledge, 2015).

Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Professor in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department at Queen’s University in Ontario. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. One of her foci is transnational German cultural and film studies, which featured prominently in her first book, Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She publishes broadly and has garnered substantial research support. Dr. Hosek’s current larger project investigates non/petrocultural urban movement and includes the codirected, award-winning documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories (2015). She created and runs www.LinguaeLive.ca, a free, open-access, student language exchange platform.

Ryan Irwin is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York-Albany and author of Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Mark Atwood Lawrence is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005), The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (Princeton University Press, 2021).

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2018). Mahler studies transnational solidarity movements, with a focus on the Global South. Her book in progress, South-South Solidarities: Racial Capitalism and Political Community from the Americas to the Globe, is supported by a 2020–21 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Michelle D. Paranzino is Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College. She is the author of The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War: A Short History with Documents (Hackett, 2018), and her work has appeared in The International History Review, The Journal of Cold War Studies, and several edited volumes. She is currently working on a book about the War on Drugs and the Reagan administration.

R. Joseph Parrott is Assistant Professor of Transnational and Diplomatic History at The Ohio State University. His publications have appeared in Race & Class, Modern American History, and Radical History Review. He is currently revising a manuscript that considers Portuguese decolonization in Africa as a component in the transformation of the US left and Western engagement with the Global South.