Dr. Zachary Paikin is a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels and a non–resident research fellow with the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy, a North American think tank active in both Ottawa and Washington, D.C. He is also chair of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro–Atlantic Security (YGLN). His most recent book (co-edited with Trine Flockhart), Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.