William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Rogers Chair of Political Science Emeritus at Indiana University and Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.  He is a former President of the International Studies Association and twice Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Quarterly.

Thomas J. Volgy is professor of political science at the University of Arizona and former director of the International Studies Association. He has published over 80 articles and books focused on interstate conflict, status issues in international politics, and comparative regional analysis.

Comparative Regional Analysis in an Era of Heightened Regional Salience.- Sources of Peace and Conflict Within Regions.- Whose Status Quo Is It, Anyway? Regions, Hierarchies, and Satisfaction*.- Asymmetric Rivals, State Capacity, and Regional Peace.- Regional Variation in Strategic Positional Rivalries.- Regions of Rivalry: Dominance Vacuums and Rivalry Prevalence.- Societal Heterogeneity, Weak States and Internal Conflict: Evaluating One Avenue to Territorial Peace and Instability.- Petroleum, Petrostates and Interstate Conflict: How Strong Are Some of the Relationships?.- Sources of Order Within Regions.- In Search of Common Grounds: A Preliminary Ordering of the Study of Regional Orders.- Intra-regional Trade and Regional Exposure to the Global Economy: Implications for Cooperation and Conflict.- States, Nations and Great-Power Expansion in their Neighborhood: Explaining the Russian War against Ukraine.- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Comparing Regional Peace in the Caucasus and Central Asia.- Impact of the Rise of Eurasia on Grand Strategy for the 21st Century.