James M. Lindsay is the Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs and Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. His books include America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (with Ivo Daalder, 2003), which was awarded the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize, and A Concert of Democracies (with Ivo Daalder, forthcoming). He has contributed to the op-ed pages of The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, among others.

Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He served in the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004, was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998, and served twice as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations. He is the author of Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West (3rd ed., 2004), Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World (2005), and The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East (2008). In 2005, he was listed as one of the top one hundred public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines.

Romina Miorelli is a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has just completed her thesis, “The Discourse in Poverty Reduction Policy in the Argentina of the 1990s.”

Francisco Panizza, a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has written extensively about populism and Latin American politics. He is the author of Latin America after the Washington Consensus: The Rise of the Left (2009), and editor of Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (2005) and a special issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, “Old and New Populism in Latin America” (2000).

Stephen Schlesinger is a Fellow at the Century Foundation and former director of the World Policy Institute. He is the author of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations (2004), coauthor (with Stephen Kinzer) of Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (expanded edition, 1999), and coeditor of Journals 1952– 2000 by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (2007).

David Sussman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His central research interests are ethics, moral psychology, and Kant. His most recent article, “For Badness Sake,” is forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy.

Ruth Wedgwood is the Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of the International Law and Organ-izations Program at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She serves as the U.S. member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva and New York, reviewing the compliance of states parties with the human rights guarantees of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. She is also Vice Chairman of Freedom House, an NGO that promotes democracy abroad.

Jessica Wolfendale is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre f or Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Torture and the Military Profession (2007), and has published extensively on topics including military ethics, torture, terrorism, and moral philosophy.