Monika Barthwal-Datta is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics at the School of Public Policy, University College London and a final-year Ph.D candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway College. Her thesis focuses on non-traditional security threats in South Asia and the role of non-state actors.

Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the LSE and Honourary Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Jilin. He is co-author, with Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde, of Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Boulder Co: Lynne Rienner 1998); with Ole Wæver of Regions and Powers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003); and with Lene Hansen of The Evolution of International Security Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009).

Hartmut Behr is Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University (UK). His research specialises in International Political Thought and International Relations Theory, Transnational Security Studies, and Geopolitics. He is the author of Zuwanderungspolitik im Nationalstaat (Wiesbaden, V. S. Verlag 1998), Entterritoriale Politik (Wiesbaden, V. S. Verlag 2004) and War, Peace, and Ethics: A History of International Political Thought and International Relations Theory (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan 2009). He holds a Ph.D from the University of Cologne and a post-doc (‘Habilitation’) from the University of Jena (both Germany); email: hartmut.behr@ncl.ac.uk.

Philip G. Cerny is Professor of Global Political Economy in the Division of Global Affairs and Department of Politics and International Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, USA. He writes on various theoretical aspects of globalisation, and his current and forthcoming publications focus on neoliberalism and pluralism, changing patterns of power and hegemony, deconstructing and reconstructing borders, Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ in world politics and, most recently, the impact of the recent global financial crisis.

Fred Chernoff is Harvey Picker Professor of International Relations and Director of the International Relations Program in the Political Science Department at Colgate University. He is also Visiting Professor of Political Science Yale University. His publications include Theory and Meta Theory in International Relations (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007); The Power of International Theory (London: Routedge, 2005); After Bipolarity: Theories of Cooperation, The Diminishing Threat, and The Future of the Atlantic Alliance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1995);Arms Control and the Arms Race, coedited with Bruce Russett (San Francisco:WH Freeman, 1985).

Felix Ciutǎ is Lecturer in International Relations at University College London, in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. His research draws on hermeneutics and narrative theory, focusing mainly on a contextual reworking of different aspects of IR, including security, alliances, regions and geopolitics. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Contexts of Security and a book on Romania’s security policy after 1990.

Amelia Heath is a doctoral student of Politics at Newcastle University (UK). Her dissertation reassesses the philosophical and historical contributions made by E.H. Carr to political theory and International Relations, and builds upon her previous research at the University of British Columbia in Canada; email: m.a.heath@newcastle.ac.uk.

Huw Macartney has recently completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Nottingham and began a three-year Hallsworth Fellowship in Political Economy at the University of Manchester in January 2009.

Torsten Michel is a Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in International Relations specifically dealing with the intersection of different strands of IR theory and continental philosophy in respect to epistemological and ontological issues. His wider research interests lie with political theory, normative theory and the history of ideas.

Ronald Osborn is a Bannerman Fellow with the Program in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southern California. He has worked with several development and human rights NGOs in Africa and Kosovo. His recent publications include articles in The Journal of Law and Religion, Z Magazine, and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

Ole Wæver is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, and Director of the Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST). He is co-author, with Barry Buzan and Jaap de Wilde, of Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Boulder Co: Lynne Rienner 1998); and with Barry Buzan of Regions and Powers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003); and co-editor with Arlene B. Tickner, of International Relations Scholarship Around the World (London: Routledge, 2009).