Ilan Zvi Baron is a lecturer in International Political Theory at Durham University.
Marjaana Jauhola is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK and a researcher in the project ‘Gendered Agency in Crisis Management’ at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland. Her research focuses on feminist politics, heteronormativity and gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia. She can be reached at {[email protected] /[email protected] }.
Nicholas Kitchen is a Fellow of the LSE IDEAS Transatlantic Programme. He received his doctorate in International Relations from the London School of Economics for his research focusing on United States grand strategy debates in the 1990s. He can be contacted at {[email protected] }.
Edward Newman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He was previously Director of Studies in Conflict and Security in the Peace and Governance Programme of the United Nations University where he conducted and managed research on peace and security. His current interests include political violence, civil war, security studies and peacebuilding. His latest books are New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding (co-edited, UNU Press, 2009), and A Crisis of Global Institutions? Multilateralism and International Security (Routledge, 2007).
Dr Diana Panke is a lecturer in Politics at the University College Dublin, Ireland. Her current research focuses on discourses, arguing and bargaining, compliance and legalisation as well as on small states in international negotiations.
Brendan Taylor is Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. He is the author of American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2009) and is presently completing a monograph addressing the great power use of sanctions for the International Institute for Strategic Studies Adelphi series. He can be contacted at {[email protected] }.
William T. Tow is Professor in International Security in the Department of International Relations, Australian National University. He is co-director of ANU projects for the McArthur Foundation's Asia Security Initiative and for the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. His most recent publication is the edited collection Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus? (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2004 and is a former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Research Fellow. He is the author of Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Transformation of Citizenship in Canada and Germany (forthcoming, University of British Columbia Press). His work has appeared in German Politics and Society, the Journal of Historical Sociology, and The Journal of Politics. He can be reached at {[email protected] }.
Amanda Wittman is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her dissertation explores change in organisations by focusing on gender mainstreaming and the barriers it faces as a global policy agenda working within bureaucratic structures. She currently serves as an AmeriCorps*VISTA at Worcester State College in Worcester, MA (USA) and is responsible for the inclusion of experiential, participatory and active learning into the curriculum. She is active in research on educational policy shifts in America, the assessment of service-learning as an effective teaching method, and the role of civic engagement in student leadership development. She has an MS from Oregon State University in Student Services Administration and a BA from Clark University in Government and International Relations.
Howard Williams is Professor in Political Theory at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales. He is the author of Kant's Political Philosophy (Basil Blackwell: Oxford/St. Martin's Press: New York, 1983); Concepts of Ideology (Harvester Wheatsheaf: Brighton/St. Martin's Press: New York, 1988); International Relations in Political Theory (Open University Press: Buckingham and Philadelphia, 1992); Hegel, Heraclitus and Marx's Dialectic International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (Harvester: Hemel Hempstead/St. Martin's Press: New York, 1996); Kant's Critique of Hobbes: Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2003) and he is currently editor of the journal Kantian Review. In 2004 and 2006 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. He can be reached at {[email protected] }.
Marysia Zalewski is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She has published widely in the area of feminist theory, gender and international relations. Recent and current research includes Re-thinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations (co-edited with Jane Parpart), (Zed Press: London, 2008) and Reflecting on International Relations through Feminism (to be published with Routledge).