Christian Barry is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the Australian National University. He is author (with Sanjay Reddy) of International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (Columbia University Press, 2008). His work has appeared in publications such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ethics and International Affairs, International Affairs, Metaphilosophy, and Social Research. He is currently working on book (with Gerhard Øverland) on the distinction between doing and allowing harm.

Shannon Brincat is a PhD candidate in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. His thesis research focuses on the question of emancipation in Critical International Theory. He is also exploring the potential for an open-dialectical method for world politics in future publications. His publications include Death to Tyrants: The Political Philosophy of Tyrannicide – Part I, Journal of International Political Theory, 4:2 (2008), pp. 212–240 and Death to Tyrants: Self-Defence, Human Rights and Tyrannicide – Part II, Journal of International Political Theory, 5:1 (2009), pp. 75–93.

Harry D. Gould has a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University (2004) and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He has recently completed a manuscript on international punishment, has published in International Legal Theory and numerous edited volumes.

Sebastian Kaempf is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Officer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland (UQ). His general research interests include the relationship between ethics and the laws of war, American warfare, asymmetric conflicts, peacekeeping, and the impact of new media technology on contemporary security. He has published an article on ‘Violence and Victory: guerrilla warfare, “authentic self-affirmation” and the overthrow of the colonial state’ in Third World Quarterly. He is also author of Waging War in the New Media Age: Images as Strategic Weapons and the Ethics of contemporary Warfare, in Glen Creeber and Roston Martin (eds), Digital Culture: Understanding New Media (Berkshire: Open University Press, 2009).

Nava Löwenheim is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She holds a PhD. in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her PhD dissertation dealt with the unique phenomenon of asking for forgiveness in international politics. She was a visiting scholar at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. In addition to academic research, she has practical research experience. In the years 2000–2003, she worked as a researcher at the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) Research and Information Centre.

Touko Piiparinen currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research in Helsinki. He is author of The Transformation of UN Conflict Management: Producing Images of Genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and Beyond (Routledge, 2009). He is on leave of absence from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, where he has been previously posted in the Unit for UN Affairs and as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He graduated as PhD from the Department of International Politics of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in November 2005. His area of expertise includes conflict management, humanitarian intervention, and peacebuilding. He has applied Critical Realism and Critical Theory in various sectors of security studies and International Relations.

Jason Ralph is Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds. He is author of Defending the Society of States. Why the United States opposes the International Criminal Court and its Vision of World Society (Oxford University Press, 2007), and recipient of ESRC Grant RES0-000-22-3252, ‘Law, War and the State of the American Exception’. You can engage with this project by visiting http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~iisjgr/

Oliver P. Richmond is a Professor in the School of IR, University of St. Andrews, and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. His publications include Peace in IR Theory (Routledge, 2008), The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005) and Maintaining Order, Making Peace (Palgrave 2002). He can be contacted at opr@st-andrews.ac.uk .

Maria Stern is an Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University and Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. She is the author of Naming Security-Constructing Identity (Manchester University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Peter Sutch is the Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International Relations at Cardiff University. He is the author of Ethics, Justice and International Relations (Routledge, 2001); IR: The Basics (Routledge, 2007); An Introduction to Political Thought (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and of a number of articles for journals including the Review of International Studies. He is currently writing a book on International Law and International Justice for EUP.

Laura Valentini is a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her main research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy. She is currently developing a coercion-based account of the conditions of applicability of principles of justice to the international arena and exploring different characterisations of the distinction between justice and assistance. Besides global justice, she is interested in the relation between ideal normative theory and non-ideal circumstances, and in the nature and status of constructivist approaches to justification. Recent publications include, On the Apparent Paradox of Ideal Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming, 2009); On the Meta-Ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G.A. Cohen's ‘Facts and Principles’ (with Miriam Ronzoni), Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 7:4 (2008), pp. 403–22.

Marysia Zalewski is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She has published widely in the areas of gender and International Relations and feminist theory. She is currently completing a monograph on the relationship between feminism and International Relations.