Koen van Zon is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht. His research revolves around the historical relation and tensions between the institutions of the European Community and European citizens. He is the author of Heralds of European Democracy: Representation without Politicization in the European Community 1948–68 (Agenda Publishing, 2024). Matthew Broad is an Assistant Professor in History and International Studies in the Institute for History, Leiden University. His research examines the history and politics of European integration since 1945, including non-EU integration, enlargement, Euroscepticism, and Anglo-Nordic relations. His publications include Britain, the Division of Western Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955–63 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 – with Richard T. Griffiths). Aleksandra Komornicka is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. She specializes in the international history of the 20th century, in particular in the history of European integration, business, and the Cold War. She is the author of Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up (Routledge, 2023). Paul Reef is PhD Candidate and Lecturer in International and Political History at Radboud University, Nijmegen. His PhD research explores the transnational history of protest around the Olympic Games and Football World Cup, on which he has published in the Routledge Handbook on Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights (Routledge, 2023). Alessandra Schimmel is Lecturer in International and Political History at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her PhD research at Utrecht University examines the history of consumer representation and activism in the European Community. Jorrit Steehouder is Assistant Professor History of International Relations at Utrecht University. Currently, his research revolves around the economic aspects of European security in the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to dynamics between East, West and Central Europe.
