Carlos Roa is the Director of the Keystone Initiative at the Danube Institute, where he is also a Visiting Fellow. He is likewise an Associate Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. He is the former executive editor of The National Interest, and remains a contributing editor of the publication.   Charles Yockey is a legal policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, a Budapest Fellow of the Hungary Foundation, and a Visiting Researcher at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Center for International Law. He is also a member of the International Institute for Security Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and the Bretton Woods Committee. In August 2025, he will matriculate to Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar.   Ibrahim Mammadov is a Researcher at the Danube Institute. Previously, he was a Young Scholar at the Institute for Development and Diplomacy at ADA University.