Confidence Mbang is a legal practitioner based in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. He is legal head of the firm Confidence Mbang Legal (CML) and founder of Morelaw, a legal services advisory in multiple aspects of law. A constitutional law and human rights enthusiast, Mr. Mbang is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) and an appointee to the Special Envoy for West Africa with the International Human Rights Protection Service in the United States. Mr. Mbang has represented young people of the Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency at the Niger Delta Youth Parliament (NDYP). He is an awardee of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), an Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) Ranger, and a member of the Citizens’ Liberties Committee (CLC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

Brian Kaller worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor in the United States before moving to rural Ireland to raise his daughter. There he grew food and raised chickens on a homestead and tried his hand at blacksmithing, basketry, wall-building, knifemaking, woodworking, winemaking, beekeeping, and old methods of food preservation, among other crafts. For 17 years he has written a weekly column on sustainable living for Irish newspapers, which has a strong following and has been reprinted on environmentalist websites, including www.resilience.org. Mr. Kaller has written about traditional life for Mother Earth News, Grit, and The Dallas Morning News. He has also written for The American Conservative, First Things, and Quillette. He has appeared on Ireland’s national television station, RTE, to comment on American politics and has given frequent talks at churches and universities throughout the United States. Mr. Kaller’s experiments with traditional food preservation have been featured on the popular BBC television series QI.

Kakhaber Kalichava received his Ph.D. from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2019, with a focus on recent conflicts in Georgia and their broader international implications. Dr. Kalichava completed an MA thesis examining the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, “The Russo-Georgian War of 2008 in Georgian and English-Language Scholarship: A Survey of Historical, Ethnical, Political, and Legal Aspects of the Conflict,” which was published in 2016. Since 2013, Dr. Kalichava has been a contributing member of the editorial team of the popular Georgian historical magazine Istoriani. He also lectures at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, where he teaches graduate courses, and teaches history and global politics at New School International School of Georgia. A past research scholar of the Erasmus Mundus program in Poland, he has also developed an English-language course designed for the program’s exchange students. Dr. Kalichava also serves as an international examiner for history, global politics, and the extended essay components of the international baccalaureate curriculum.

Dr. John A. Gentry teaches at the School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University. For twelve years, he was an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he mainly worked on economic issues associated with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. For two of those years, he was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. Dr. Gentry is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, with most assignments in special operations and intelligence arenas. Previously, he taught at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and the National Intelligence University. He writes regularly on intelligence and security issues. He is the author of Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences (2023) and about 40 articles and book chapters on intelligence topics. He has an economics background and received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University. Follow him at @gentry_johna.

Gregory Novak received his Ph.D. (2004) from Northern Illinois University, where he studied intellectual history. He has taught religion, history, and philosophy at Olney Friends School in Ohio and Canterbury School in Indiana. He is the author of three novels under his pseudonym, Jay Jordan Hawke. These include: Pukawiss the Outcast (a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2014), A Scout is Brave (Rainbow Award winner in 2015) and Onwaachige the Dreamer. This is his first work of nonfiction.

Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, both in sociology. He is the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, 2005), Do Babies Matter: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox, 2016), and Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever, 2024). Wolfinger is the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.

Gary L. Rose, Ph.D., is Professor of Politics and Scholar in Residence at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. A college instructor for nearly five decades, Professor Rose has authored and edited fifteen books on presidential politics, Constitutional law, and Connecticut’s state and local government. His Constitutional law book, Shaping a Nation (2010), published in English and Chinese, was recommended by the National Association of Scholars for colleges and universities that have common reading programs. Professor Rose’s book, Haywire (2017) meticulously tracked every dimension of the 2016 presidential contest and is one of the most comprehensive and detailed treatments of a presidential election ever written. His acclaimed book The American Presidency Under Siege (1997) was favorably reviewed in the American Political Science Review. In addition to his teaching and writing, Professor Rose provides routine political commentary for national, state and local media. His comments have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Hartford Courant. He has appeared as a political commentator on NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and several local news shows in Connecticut. A recipient of several teaching and scholarship awards, Professor Rose often serves as a speaker for civic and business organizations. In 2011, he was named Connecticut Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Editor: P. V. Laxmiprasad, Ph.D., Department of English, Satavahana University (India)

Dr. Chinyere Rita Agu is Senior Research Fellow and head of the International Law Unit of the Division of International Law and Organisations at the Research and Studies Department at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos State. She is also Chairperson of NIIA’s Linkages and External Relations. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)with honors from Enugu State University of Science & Technology, Master of Laws (LL.M) from Imo State University, in Owerri, Nigeria, and Ph.D. in Law from Abia State University in Uturu, Nigeria. Dr. Agu is also a Facilitator with the Lagos McCarthy Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria and a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity University Lagos. Widely published, she is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch, the Nigerian Society of International Affairs (NSIA), and the Owerre-Ezukala Development Union Women’s’ Wing Lagos, of which she served as President.

Dr. Erameh Nicholas Idris holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations from the University of Ibadan, in Nigeria. His research interests include global politics & security, human rights, human security, mass atrocities, peacekeeping, post-conflict reconstruction, refugee and migration studies, armed conflict, ethnic & genocide Studies, and humanitarian intervention. Dr. Idris is currently Senior Research Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). Before joining NIIA, he taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, where he was Acting Coordinating Head of the department. Dr. Idris has received numerous grants, awards, and scholarships, and has published several articles in prominent international journals and books.

Yonatan Green is an Israeli-American attorney currently serving as a Fellow of the Georgetown University Center for the Constitution in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Israel to parents from the United States and the United Kingdom, Yonatan obtained a degree in Law and Communications from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before qualifying to practice law in Israel and in the State of New York. He has worked in private practice, at the major tech firm Mobileye, and was co-founder and Executive Director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Law & Liberty Forum, inspired by the Federalist Society. His work in English and Hebrew has been published in a variety of academic, popular, and media platforms, and has been cited by the Israeli Supreme Court.