Margarita Balmaceda, Ph.D., Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Thelen, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien

Dr. Juliane Fürst, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)

Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse, ZOiS and University of Oxford

Ivan Krastev: Explaining Eastern Europe: Imitation and Its Discontents

Thomas Carothers: The End of the Transition Paradigm