Hideaki Shinoda is Professor at Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, ROLES University of Tokyo. He obtained a Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). After working as Part-Time Teacher at LSE and Keele University, he took Research Fellow position at the Institute for Peace Science of Hiroshima University, where he became Associate Professor. Then, he took the current position at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2013. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge University (2000), and at the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University (2002). He was Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court (2017). He is author of many books and articles including Partnership Peace Operations: UN and Regional Organizations in Multiple Layers of International Security (Routledge, 2024).Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuyev is Professor of Sociology and Sociology Department Chair at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute [KPI]. His career highlights include Professor of Sociology and Sociology Department Chair, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (2013–present), Visiting Scholar at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University (USA), University of Tokyo (Japan), St. John's College (Oxford University, UK), and others. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of KPI Journal of Sociology, Political Science, and Law (2013-present), and Executive Director of the Center for Comparative Politics, a Ukrainian non-governmental think tank (1993-1999). His areas of specialties are history of sociology, historical sociology, contemporary sociological theory, sociology of development and modernization, political sociology, conflict resolution. He also has published some teaching manuals and 75 textbooks and articles.
