The following researchers and commentators are part of the project:
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a senior fellow at the HooverInstitution, Stanford University
Yevgenia Albats, Political Editor of The New Times, Professor Department of Political Science at University – The Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Daniel A. Bell, Professor of Political Philosophy and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Zhiyuan Cui, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School, New York, USA and School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Daniel Drezner, Associate Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
Azar Gat, Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University, Israel
G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA
Johan Lagerkvist, Dr., Research Fellow at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden
Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, UK
Orion A. Lewis, Research Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, USA
Simon Long, Asia editor for The Economist, UK
Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist, UK
Sven Oskarsson, Ph.D., Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
Diana Pinto, Dr., Senior Research Fellow at the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Director of the Voices for the Res Republica project, France
Gideon Rachman, Chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, UK
Susan Shirk, Professor of political science and Director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, USA
Vivienne Shue, Leverhulme Professor and Director, Contemporary China Studies
Programme, Oxford University; Fellow, St. Antony’s College, UK
Jessica C. Teets, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, USA
Shaoguang Wang, Professor of Political Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Zhang Wei-Wei, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Sten Widmalm, Ph.D., Associate Professor Director, Master's Programme in Development Studies Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dali Yang, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, and Director of the East Asian Institute, Singapore
Feng Zhang, China Programme Manager of the Foreign Policy Centre, London, UK
Yongnian Zheng, Professor of Chinese Politics, Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore