Bradley S. Klein is a freelance journalist and landscape architecture design consultant. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Massachusetts and taught political theory and international relations for many years before pursuing an award-winning career in journalism. He has held research grants at the Free University of Berlin and the Australian National University and lectured and consulted across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is the author of Strategic Studies and World Order (1994) and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in political and social theory and international relations. He is the author of nine books on golf course landscapes and thousands of articles on golf, sports and culture. His blog www.coronavirusdiaries.net covers everyday politics and culture in the pandemic era.

Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, where he teaches political theory and political economy. He received his PhD from Arizona State University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of the Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations (Ashgate, 2016). He has published articles in such journals as Philosophy and Social Criticism, International Relations Theory, New Political Science, and Polity. He is currently completing a co-authored book (with Joel T. Shelton) entitled The Political Economy of Statecraft.