Ankit Panda is Associate Editor of The Diplomat. He tweets @nktpnd.

Franz-Stefan Gady is an Associate Editor with The Diplomat.

Dr Greg Austin is a Professorial Fellow with the EastWest Institute in New York and a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales (Canberra).

Prashanth Parameswaran is Associate Editor at The Diplomat based in Washington, D.C., where he writes mostly on Southeast Asia and Asian security affairs.

Van Jackson is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.