Sabine Dullin is Professor of History at Sciences Po Paris and a historian of modern Russia and the USSR. She has published on diplomacy, transnational communism and borders.

Étienne Forestier-Peyrat is Assistant Professor of History, Sciences Po Lille. His research focuses on the contemporary history of connections between Eurasia and the Middle East, diplomacy and empire.

Yuexin Rachel Lin is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, University of Exeter. Her research involves imperial conflict and migration in the Russian Far East and Northeast China.

Naoko Shimazu is Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College, and Professor at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is a global historian of Asia.