Mohammad Eslami is a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Science at the European University Institute in Italy. He was a researcher at the Research Centre for Political Science (CICP) at the University of Minho in Portugal, where he investigated Iran’s Ballistic Missile and Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Programs. He was also a research fellow of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy led by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His research interests primarily relate to international security, arms control, nuclear proliferation, and Middle East studies. He has published in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Global Policy, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Spanish Journal of Political Science, Journal of Asian Security, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament and contributed to several edited volumes published by Springer and Palgrave Macmillan, among others. ORCID: 0000-0003-0283-1839
Lauro Borges is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His concentrations are international relations and comparative politics. His research interests are international security, U.S.-China great-power rivalry, offense-defense theory, and airpower. He has published in Review of International Studies, International Politics , as well as in the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies.