​Mikhail Suslov is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a former researcher at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. He specialises in and teaches Russian (intellectual) history, political ideology, geopolitics, Russian Orthodox Church, contemporary Russian politics and society, and history of Eastern and Southern Europe.

Marek Čejka is Associate Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, a former assistant at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, and a former researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Middle East and Maghreb regions, the relationship between religion and politics, ideologies in the Middle East including Arab nationalism, (radical) Islamism, and Christian fundamentalism.

Đorđević Vladimir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Western Balkans, Europeanisation, democratisation, nationalism, and security-related agendas of the said region.