Nizar Messari is an Associate Professor at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. His main area of expertise is International Relations Theory, whose perspectives he explores in the context of North Africa. His latest publications include “The EU and North Africa, or the Actorness of the Possible,” in EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership – Policies, Instruments and Perceptions, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), a contribution to the forum: Did “America First” Construct America Irrelevant? International Studies Perspectives, 2021, and “Migration” in International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference, (London: Routledge, 2020).
Jonathan Wyrtzen is Associate Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and History at Yale University. His research interests focus on the effects of empire and colonialism, state and non-state forms of political organization, and collective identity formation in North Africa and the Middle East. He is author of Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity (Cornell 2015) and Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia, 2022).
