Dr. Charalampos Efstathopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy: India, South Africa and the Doha Development Agenda. His research focuses on Southern middle powers and non-Western approaches to International Relations. His work has recently been published in The International Journal of Human Rights, the Asia-Europe Journal, and the International Journal. He has been awarded the 2023 annual Boyer Prize for the best article published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Relations.Dr. Hakan Mehmetcik is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye. He holds a doctorate in political science and international relations from Yildiz Technical University. His research interests include social data science, computational social science, and both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.