John O’Sullivan CBE is President and founder of the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary; international editor of Quadrant Magazine in Sydney, Australia; associate editor of the Hungarian Review; a fellow of the National Review Institute; and editor at large of National Review. He is a co-founder and director of Twenty-First Century Initiatives as well as the International Reagan Thatcher Society. Mr. O’Sullivan served as a Special Adviser and speechwriter to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Lady Thatcher. It played a major role in bringing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into NATO.

Editors: Victor Ojakorotu is Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at North-West University (NWU), in South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa, as well as B.Sc. (first-class honors) and M.Sc. degrees in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Ajayi Crowther University in Oyo, Nigeria. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in political science, which he received from the University of Lagos in 2008 and 2017, respectively. His academic specializations include public administration, public policy analysis, development administration, the political sociology of African governance, and environmental politics. From 2018 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at North-West University (NWU). He practiced journalism with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from 2008, rising to the position of Senior Editor/Chief Principal Correspondent, while also reporting/editing on several News Desks subjects including African migration.

Nils A. Haug is a trial lawyer by profession. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, the National Association of Scholars, and a faculty member of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retired from law to focus on writing and teaching, his particular field of interest is the intersection of Western culture with political theory, philosophy, theology, English Literature, ethics, and law. Dr. Haug’s degrees include an M.A. (cum laude) in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Theology (Apologetics). He is the author of Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity (2023) and Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age (2023). His book, Towards the Eternal City – Ancient Jewish Views of Prophecy, will be released in 2024.

Juliette de Marcellus, author and journalist, is a great-great-granddaughter of Sir James Bacon. She has produced this book from his unpublished memoirs. In addition to a lifetime career as journalist and critic, Miss de Marcellus, has edited and overseen the publication of two celebrated anthropological studies, The Atlas of Man and The Atlas of Language, by her father, Count Henri de Marcellus. She is also the author of two satirical works, a novel, The Princess, or the I Love Paris Ball and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Carnegie Hall.

Silvia Amato, Ph.D., is an international author. Her research, currently based on independent study projects, includes doctoral dissertation research centered on international Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Studies, and she received her M.A in International Relations in Taiwan. Her main thematic interests focus on comparative development, regionalism, and environmental dynamics intertwined with local planning designs.

Bradley Mason Gates is a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He holds a B.S. in education from Millersville University, in Pennsylvania, and a MPA in public administration from Golden Gate University, in California. During his career, Brad participated in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada, and later commanded the Marine Corps artillery force in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1985, Brad received the General John A. Lejeune Award for Inspirational Leadership, and in 1987 he received the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. In 1984, Brad attended the 40th Anniversary of survivors of the Saipan suicide attack of 1944, the subject of this book. He subsequently spent almost ten years conducting personal interviews and other research on the attack, including a trip to Saipan in 1992. Brad and his wife Kathy, also a graduate of Millersville University, met while they were students. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Sarita Pandey is Assistant Professor of English at the Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, in Ballia, India. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Allahabad and a degree from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her areas of academic interest include ecofeminism, Indian fiction, gender studies, translation studies, Indic Studies, and theater. She holds a diploma in yoga from Banaras Hindu University.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo received his diploma in architecture with honors from ETSAM Madrid and his master’s with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam before establishing Foreign Office Architects in London in 1993. He started AZPML as a legacy practice of FOA after its dissolution in 2011. He has completed many buildings across multiple typologies (institutional, residential, commercial, transport, and retail) across a wide geography, with projects completed in the UK, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, China, Austria, and Luxemburg. Besides his professional practice, Zaera-Polo was dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2001 to 2006, and of the Princeton School of Architecture, where he was a professor from 2012 to 2021. He has been Visiting Professor at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA, and was a unit master at the Architectural Association in London. He is the author of The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation X, Imminent Commons. Urban Questions for the Near Future/The Expanded City, and The Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces.

Robert R. Reilly has written about classical music for more than 35 years and is the author of Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music. He was the music critic for Crisis magazine for 16 years, and has written for High Fidelity, Musical America, Schwann/Opus, and the American Record Guide. He reviews concerts and operas in the United States and Europe for Ionarts and Seen and Heard International. In his 25 years in government, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House under President Ronald Reagan, and the United States Information Agency. He was also the director of Voice of America. He has published widely on foreign policy and “war of ideas” issues and is the author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, and other books. He is the director of the Westminster Institute in Vienna, Virginia.

Jens F. Laurson received his formative musical experiences at the hands of tapes of the Bach Passions his father made for him, a Haydn audio-biography for kids, and singing Rheinberger Masses as a chorister in Regensburg, Germany. He has branched out since, becoming a musical omnivore. A political scientist by training, and critic and translator by trade, he has written about classical music for the Washington Post, Forbes, the Wiener Zeitung, and ClassicsToday, among other publications. He received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He shares his daily listening diet as @ClassicalCritic on Twitter and Instagram

Jose Martinez, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology (ret.) at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. He is the author of Inequality in American Education: The Entrenchment of a Two-Tiered System; Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education; Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society; and Football in American Society. He has contributed chapters in texts such as Diversity in the Workforce. Dr. Martinez holds degrees in education, history, and psychology, and his doctorate is in sociology. He has taught for over thirty years. The media calls on him regarding social issues, and he was a regular co-host on the PBS program Hispanic Perspectives. He also has held administrative and other positions in agencies at all levels: the federal, state, county, local, and school district.