Pinar Bilgin is a professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of The International in Security, Security in the International (Routledge, 2016) and Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective, 2nd ed (Routledge, 2019).
Karen Smith is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and a research fellow at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is the co-editor (with Arlene Tickner) of International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference (Routledge, 2020).