Stephan Hensell, Senior Researcher, Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen,Klaus Schlichte, Professor of International Relations and World Society, Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen Stephan Hensell is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He has held positions as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford and has done field research in Georgia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, and Belgium. His research interests include state theory, civil wars, armed groups, international organizations, and EU politics. Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen. With an interest in global political sociology, Schlichte carried out research in Senegal, Mali, Serbia, France and Uganda and taught at Science-Po, Paris, the University of Washington, Seattle, the OECD Academy in Bishkek, and at several German universities. Apart from numerous works in German, he is the author of In the Shadow of Violence: The Politics of Armed Groups (Campus, Frankfurt/Main, 2009), and the co-editor of The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past (Cambridge University Press, 2023).