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Craig Arceneaux is Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, with expertise in Latin American politics, democratization, and civil-military relations. His most recent publications include Political Struggle in Latin America (Springer 2023) and Democratic Latin America (Routledge 2021). He has contributed to The Other World since its 7th edition, published in 2007.

Anika Leithner is Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include Foreign Policy, Political Psychology, European and Middle Eastern Politics, and Cybersecurity. She specializes in understanding the role of language in politics, primarily in foreign policy decision-making and issue framing.

Sara Lopus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. A demographer by training, she performs interdisciplinary research at the intersection of social, agricultural, and environmental problems, with a focus on the Global South.

Benjamin F. Timms is Professor of Geography at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His research focuses on political ecology, sustainable development, environmental conservation, and land-use and land-cover change in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Shanruo Zhang is a professor at the Department of Political Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, United States. Her research interests include theory and methodology of political culture, Chinese and Confucian political culture, discourse analysis, epistemology and methodology of philosophical hermeneutics and Interpretive Social Science and their application in empirical analysis of political culture and political text.