Scott Williamson is an associate professor of comparative political economy and a tutorial fellow in Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. He studies authoritarian political institutions, popular support for democracy, and attitudes…

Simon Anholt is acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on national image. He coined the term “nation brand” in 1998, a topic on which he has advised over 60 countries, often at the level of Head of State / Head of Government.

Taha Yasin Arslan is a historian of science and deputy director of the Institute for the History of Science at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Türkiye. His research focuses on astronomical instruments from the 13th to 16th centuries in the Islamic…