Krisztina Csortea
Managing Editor, Strife Journal
Krisztina is a part-time PhD researcher in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
She received her BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and her MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. After graduating from the LSE, Krisztina joined Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she is now the Deputy Editor of the journal International Affairs. This journal is co-published by Chatham House and Oxford University Press and is a top-five ranked journal in the field based on impact factor.
Krisztina’s research focuses on the Responsibility to Protect. She is particularly interested in prevention and protection under the second pillar of the concept.
Axel Dessein
Incoming Managing Editor, Strife Journal
Axel Dessein is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Grand Strategy (War Studies, King’s College London) and a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust scholarship “Interrogating Visions of a Post-Western World.”
His research focuses on the ideological driving force behind China’s rise. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Oriental Languages and Cultures from Ghent University.
You can follow him on Twitter @AxelDessein.
Marie Blessing Gilbert
Production Manager, Strife Journal
Marie is a MA candidate in the Terrorism, Security, and Society programme at King’s College, London. She completed undergraduate studies previously at KCL and another in the Republic of Ireland.
She has been been a member of An Garda Siochana (the Irish Police Force) in Ireland for the past fifteen years and during this time she has also consulted for international organisations in the area of peace and security. Her main areas of interest are radicalisation and terrorism in Ireland and East Africa.
Nikolai Gourof
Book Reviews Editor, Strife Journal
Nikolai is a historian and a PhD researcher at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Formerly a lawyer and a corporate consultant, he has first-hand knowledge of contemporary Greece and Russia. It is the early modern world, however, that has stolen his heart. His current research focuses on the evolution of the culture and practice of war in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. Additionally, he retains a strong interest in the history of sixteenth-century Russia, and its reception and projection in the post-Soviet world. The treatment of war and history in art, literature and cinema has been a lifelong fascination.