Biographical note

PAUL W. DRAKE is Dean of the Division of Social Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA PETER GOUREVITCH is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA NILS JACOBSEN is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA JOSEPH L. LOVE is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of the University's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies MARCO PALACIOS is Rector of the National University of Colombia, USA FRANCES STEWART is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford, UK and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity at the University's Department for International Development, Queen Elizabeth House LAURENCE WHITEHEAD is Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK and Director of the University's Mexican Studies Centre NGAIRE WOODS is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Director of Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, University of Oxford, UK