James Bohman is Danforth Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is author of Democracy across Borders (MIT Press, 2007); Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity and Democracy (MIT Press, 1996) and New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy (MIT Press, 1991). He is currently working on a book on cosmopolitan aspects of republican political theory.

James Brassett is RCUK Fellow and Associate Professor of International Political Economy in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick. He is author of Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax (Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, 2010).

Garrett Wallace Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Global Political Theory and Global Ethics in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. His interests include Kantian political and legal theory, cosmopolitanism, global governance and issues lying at the interface between political and international relations theory. He has recently published Grounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and co-edited The Cosmopolitanism Reader (Polity, 2010) with David Held.

André Bächtiger is senior assistant at the University of Bern. His research focuses on deliberation, democratisation in the less developed world, and global constitutionalism. He is co-author of Deliberative Politics in Action (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-editor of the two special issues of Acta Politica (40:1 and 40:2) on Empirical Approaches to Deliberative Democracy.

Eva Erman is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Stockholm University. She is the author of Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions (Ashgate, 2005) and the author and editor of Legitimacy Beyond the State? Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors (Palgrave 2010). Erman has published articles on democratic theory, discourse ethics, human rights and global governance in journals such as Political Theory, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Ethics & International Affairs. Moreover, she is the chief editor of Ethics & Global Politics.

Randall Germain is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University (Canada), and currently also Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is the author of The International Organization of Credit: states and global finance in the world-economy (Cambridge University Press, 1997), the editor of Globalization and Its Critics: perspectives from political economy (Palgrave, 2000) and the co-editor (with Michael Kenny) of The Idea of Global Civil Society: politics and ethics in a globalizing era (Routledge, 2005).

Richard Higgott is Professor of Politics and International Studies and Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick. Some recent publications include (ed. with Shan Breslin) The International Relations of the Asia Pacific (Sage, 2010), 4 volumes and papers in 2009 in Business and Politics, Global Governance and The Review of International Political Economy. He is editor of The Pacific Review and in 2007 directed the first Warwick Commission into The Future of the Multilateral Trade Regime.

Kristine Häglund is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her research has covered issues such as the dilemmas of democratisation in countries emerging from violent conflict, the importance of trust in peace negotiation processes, and the role of international actors in dealing with crises in war-torn societies. She recently published the book Peace Negotiations in the Shadow of Violence (2008, Martinus Nijhoff).

Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs is a Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. She holds a MSc in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (1999) and a MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics and Political Science (2000). She is currently a guest researcher at ACCORD (the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes) in Durban, South Africa. Her research interests include non-state actors in civil wars, rebel-to-party transformations, conflict resolution processes, and post-conflict democratisation.

Karolina Milewicz is Senior Researcher at the World Trade Institute and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern. In her dissertation Premises and Promises of International Law she explored empirically states’ international legal commitment. Her research focuses on global constitutionalism, international cooperation, global democracy, and international organisations. She can be contacted at {karolina.milewicz@wti.org } or {karolina.milewicz@ipw.unibe.ch }.

Peter Newell is Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia and ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow. He has published widely on the politics and political economy of environmental governance, including the books Governing Climate Change (Routledge, 2010); Climate Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2010); The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2005) and Climate for Change (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Environment and Development and Global Environmental Change as well as being a trustee of the NGO One World Trust.

Arne Nothdurft is Senior Researcher at the Department of Biometrics and Information Science of the Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. His research focuses on applied regression modelling and spatial statistics.

Phil Orchard is a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations at the University of Queensland. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia and is a former Canadian Department of National Defence Security and Defence Forum Post-Doctoral Fellow. He also served as the Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons. His research focuses on the origins and evolution of state policy towards protecting the displaced. He can be reached at {p.orchard@uq.edu.au} .

Roland Paris is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.

Hannes Peltonen is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University. He received his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Recently he has addressed issues related to grave humanitarian crises, rights, responsibilities, and the international community. In his work, Peltonen integrates aspects of international politics and international law as well as ethics by engaging both practical and theoretical aspects of these fields. His latest publication appeared in Peace Forum (December 2009) and he has another article forthcoming in the Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2010). He can be reached at {hpeltonen@khu.ac.kr }.

Andrew Phillips is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. He received his PhD from Cornell University, and was previously a lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He can be contacted at {andrew.phillips@anu.edu.au }.

Jonathan Wright is Emeritus Professor in International Relations at Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Christ Church. His publications include ‘Gustav Stresemann: Weimar’s Greatest Statesman’ (Oxford University Press, 2002) and ‘Germany and the Origins of the Second World War’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

William Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published a wide range of articles in the field of contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on the topics of deliberative democracy, civil disobedience, and cosmopolitanism.