Kenneth Morrison is Professor of Modern Southeast European History at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Montenegro: A Modern History (2009), Sarajevo's Holiday Inn: On the Frontline of Politics and War (2016) and, with Elizabeth Roberts, The Sandzak: A History (2013). He has written extensively on the modern history of the Balkans. He has published numerous scholarly articles in edited books and journals and he has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Balkan Insight, New Eastern Europe, IHS Global, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Intelligence Digest and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has been an external advisor to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was, in 2017, appointed Specialist Adviser on Balkan politics for the House of Lords International Relations Select Committee. Vesko Garcevic is Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA. He has extensive experience in working within international organisations as an ambassador.

He is the former Montenegrin Ambassador to NATO in Brussels and to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Vienna. He has testified before the US Congress and the European Parliament about Russian involvement in the Balkans and is a regular contributor to Balkan Insight. Garcevic has cooperated within the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) on several regional projects.