Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of numerous articles in international political theory and of Practical Judgement in International Political Theory: Selected Essays (2010), Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (2002), and International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches (1992). He is also editor of Political Restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives (1994) and co-editor (with Terry Nardin and N. J. Rengger) of International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Greeks to the First World War (2002). His textbook, Understanding International Relations (2009), is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese.
Sujatha Byravan works on science, technology, and development. She is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Development Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, where she focuses on climate change adaptation. She also works independently on biotechnology policy, innovation, gender, and science and sustainability. She was previously President, Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Director, Fellows Programme, LEAD International, London.
Thomas E. Doyle, II is currently Visiting Lecturer at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Doyle earned his Ph.D. (2010) in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation is titled “Moral Dilemmas: Acquiring Nuclear Weapons in the Second Nuclear Age.”
Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, and Lurie-Murdoch Senior Research Fellow in Global Ethics at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is Past Chair (2008–2010) of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association. Her publications include Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’ (2008) and Tragedy and International Relations (edited with Richard Ned Lebow, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book entitled Who Is Responsible? Institutional Moral Agency and International Relations.
John Kelsay is Distinguished Research Professor (Religion) and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University. He also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. His articles and books focus on comparative religious ethics, particularly with respect to Christian and Muslim perspectives on war. His most recent book is Arguing the Just War in Islam (2007).
Rekha Nath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama and a visiting lecturer of philosophy at the University of Melbourne. She has previously taught at the University of Auckland and been a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. She recently completed her Ph.D., entitled “What's Wrong with Global Inequality: A Social Egalitarian Account,” at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics based at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent publication is the chapter “Global Institutionalism and Justice” in Questioning Cosmopolitanism (2010). Her central research and teaching interests are in political philosophy and ethics.
Sudhir Chella Rajan is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was previously Senior Fellow at the Tellus Institute, Boston, where he led the Global Politics and Institutions Program. His interests are in the broad areas of environment and political theory, particularly in the context of climate change and national energy and transport policy. He is the author of The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control (1996) and a co-author (with Mayer Hillman and Tina Fawcett) of The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe (2007).
