Henk van Houtum is a Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography at Radboud University and co-director of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR). He has written extensively on b/ordering and othering, borderism, global mobility inequality, visa regimes, migration policies, the cartography of borders and migration, borderlands, conflicts, cross-border cooperation, nationalism, and the geopolitics of football. His latest book is: Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes. A new cartography of borders and migration (2024): https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/free-the-map/246126/. For further info and publications, see henkvanhoutum.nl/

Costas M. Constantinou is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cyprus with research interests in diplomacy, conflict, international theory, and legal and normative aspects of international relations. Born in Nicosia, he completed his PhD at Lancaster University and taught in the UK at the Universities of Lancaster, Hull and Keele, before returning to Cyprus. He also held visiting posts at Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva. His research received international awards and funding, and published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and publishing houses. For a selection of his publications, see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas-Constantinou-4