David Kuehn is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. His research focuses on civil-military relations, democratization, and authoritarianism. He is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of six books and his articles have appeared in journals such as Democratization, the European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, the Journal of Democracy, and Sociological Methods and Research. From 2009 to 2019, he was co-ordinator of the Working Group "Civilian Control of the Military", part of the European Research Groups on Military and Society (ERGOMAS).
Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University and Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University. He previously taught at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). His research interests include civil-military relations, democratization, authoritarianism, and comparative Asian politics. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Democratization and a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and the Sustainable Governance Indicators.