Madeleine O. Hosli is full Professor of International Relations and a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Leiden University. She is also the Director of the two-year advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy. She is Author of The Euro: A ConciseIntroduction to European Monetary Integration (2005) and a Coeditor of Decision-Making in the European Union Before and After the Lisbon Treaty (2015). Her work has appeared in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Review of International Organizations, Governance, Political Studies and Journal of International Relations and Development.

Joren Selleslaghs is the Belgian Consul for Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador since October 2018. He entered the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Diplomat in October 2017 and has worked at the Brussels headquarters (Brexit, Benelux, Consular Affairs) and the Belgian Embassy in Luxemburg as diplomatic Counselor. He graduated cum laude from the College of Europe (MA EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies) and magna cum laude at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (MSc European Studies). He previously worked as a Lecturer and Researcher on the EU and International Relations at Leiden University, and as an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies, UNU-CRIS (Belgium). He also worked as an EU Innovation Consultant at PNO Consultants (the Netherlands), at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, the cabinet of a Belgian Member of the European Parliament, and the External Relations department of the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union. Until October 2017, Joren Selleslaghs was also an external evaluator/expert for the European Commission and member of the Board of Directors of the Europe-Central America Chamber of Commerce. He was the Belgian Youth Ambassador toward the UN in 2011-2012 and also active as a development worker for UNICEF in Tanzania and Central America (2007-2008 and 2012).

Explores the implications of the rapid and fundamental changes in the international/global system

Presents a holistic understanding of the changing nature of the contemporary global system

Presents a solid theoretical foundation to examine and to better understand global political affairs