Max Boot is an American historian and military expert. He has written foreign-affairs editorials for The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He was named one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy.”

 Max Boot usually writes about militaries and wars around the world and is the author of Savage Wars of Peace as well as War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History. He gives lectures at the US Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. He is currently a consultant to the US Department of Defense and a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the US Council on Foreign Relations.

 Paul Kennedy is a British historian who majored in military history. Since 1983, he has lectured at Yale University for nearly four decades. Researching great European powers from the 16th to 20th century, he discovered that the rise and fall of the great powers were determined by the balance of military strength. With this understanding, he predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, the decline of the USA, and the rise of China in the 21st century.

 His book, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” earned him the Wolfson Prize, called the "Nobel Prize in History". He was selected as one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy in 2005 and is a member of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the Founding Director of International Security Studies at Yale University.

 Vinod K. Aggarwal received a PhD in international political economy from Stanford University and is Distinguished Professor and holds the Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in the Department of Political Science; Affiliated Professor at the Haas School of Business; Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); and Fellow in the Public Law and Policy Program at Berkeley Law School, all at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Business and Politics.

 With over 40 years’ worth of experience and knowledge in international politics and economics, Aggarwal has served as an advisor to multinational corporations, governments, and international organizations such as the Mexican government, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, World Trade Organization, OECD, G30, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILO (International Labor Organization), ASEAN, and World Bank.

 He has authored or edited 21 books. He has two forthcoming books: Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies and the Oxford Handbook on Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. He has also published over 160 articles and book chapters.

 Alexis Dudden is professor of history at the University of Connecticut and a world-renowned East Asia historian. She focuses her research in modern Northeast Asia during and after Japanese imperialist rule and has a keen interest in contemporary Northeast Asian relations.

 In 2015, Dudden led 187 historians from around the world to issue a statement opposing the Abe administration’s distortion of history. She was awarded the Manhae Peace Prize in 2015 for her efforts to establish an accurate and just view of history globally. Dudden frequently contributes articles on Japan and Northeast Asia to major American media outlets, including the New York Times. One of her key works is Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.