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Vol. 37, N° 3, Sep/Dec, 2015

About the authors

Anna Leander is professor (MSO) at the department of Management Politics and Philosophy of the Copenhagen Business School and professor at IRI PUC Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the Centre for the Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC). She has previously held positions at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, the Hanse-Wissenshaftskolleg, the University of Southern Denmark and the Central European University (Budapest). Her background is in international political sociology. Her current research focuses on the politics of commercial security knowledge. She recently published Commercializing Security in Europe and Business in Global Governance. Her work has also recently appeared in International Political Sociology, the Leiden Journal of International Law and Security Dialogue.

Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in Economics in 1963. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964) and previously taught at Princeton University (1964-1971) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University, University College London, and the Institute of Political Study (Sciences-Po) in Paris. A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he is the author of fifteen books, including most recently Currency Politics: Understanding Monetary Rivalry, published by Princeton University Press in 2015. He has won numerous awards and in 2000 was named Distinguished Scholar of the year by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

David L. Blaney C. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science, Macalester College, USA, writes on the colonialism and the political and social theory of international relations and global political economy. Earlier work in this area includes International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Routledge, 2004) and Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty, and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (Routledge, 2010), both with Naeem Inayatullah. With Arlene Tickner, he has edited, Thinking International Relations Differently (Routledge, 2012) and Claiming the International (Routledge, 2013). His current work, Justifying Suffering, explores the political economy tradition from Adam Smith to neoclassical economics and contemporary rationalist IPE.

Diana Tussie is Investigadora Superior at National Science Council, CONICET, Argentina, one of the few women to have reached the top rank. She heads the Department of International Relations at the Argentine Campus of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). A specialist in the political economy of international trade, she is the author or editor of nineteen books ranging on issues of systemic relevance for developing countries and particularly Latin America such as IMF and World Bank programs. She has written on regional organizations and trade and debt coalitions, which Latin America joined, such as the debtor coalitions of the 1980s and the trade coalitions in the World Trade Organization. Diana is Co-Editor of Global Governance. Her most recent book with Pia Riggirozzi is Post Hegemonic Regionalism: The Case of Latin America. She is presently preparing a volume on summits and governance in comparative perspective.

Eric Helleiner is Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy and Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. His most recent books include Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order (Cornell University Press, 2014) and The Status Quo Crisis: Global Financial Governance after the 2008 Meltdown (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Heloise Weber is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). She researches and publishes on the global politics of development, inequalities and poverty reduction strategies, as well as on theoretical and methodological concerns in the global politics of development. She is the co-editor (with M. T. Berger) of Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development ([2009]/2013) and editor of Politics of Development (Routledge: August 2014). She is co-author (with M.T. Berger) of Rethinking the Third World- International Development and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She is currently working on a book on the global politics of microcredit and poverty. For more details, see: <http://www.polsis.uq.edu.au/hweber>.

Kristian Bondo Hansen is a Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Kristian is part of the Sapere Aude research project ‘Crowd Dynamics in Financial Markets’ funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research. His research revisits and re-examines popular representations of financial markets starting from the late-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the ‘psychologicisation’ of markets and market participants. Forthcoming journal publications include ‘Contrarian Investment Philosophy in the American Stock Market: on investment advice and the crowd conundrum’ in Economy & Society (2015) and ‘Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythm analysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading’ (co-authored w. Christian Borch and Ann-Christina Lange) in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Naeem Inayatullah is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. His work locates the Third World in international relations and global political economy. With David Blaney, he is the co-author of Savage Economics (2010) and International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004). He is the editor of Autobiographical International Relations (2011), and co-editor of Interrogating Imperialism (2006) and The Global Economy as Political Space (1994). Forthcoming work includes: ‘Gigging on the World Stage: Bossa Nova and Afrobeat after De-Reification’ in Contexto Internacional (2016); and, Narrative Global Politics (2016) co-edited with Elizabeth Dauphinee.

Pia Riggirozzi is Associate Professor in Global Politics at the University of Southampton. Her most recent work includes The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism: The Case of Latin America (edited with D. Tussie, Springer, 2012); and ‘Post-neoliberalism in Latin America: Rebuilding and Reclaiming the State after Crisis’ (with J. Grugel, Development and Change 43:1, 2012); Regionalism through social policy: collective action and health diplomacy in South America (Economy and Society, 43:2, 2014) and ‘Regionalism, activism, and rights: New opportunities for health diplomacy in South America’ (Review of International Studies, 41:2, 2015). Pia is currently engaged in a collaborative ESRC DFID funded project that explores regional integration processes and poverty reduction in the South.

Peter Vale is Founding Director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), and Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg. Until 2010 he was the Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics at Rhodes University and holds the title as Emeritus Professor. Vale has been widely published both in South Africa and abroad where his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Relations, International Affairs, Thesis Eleven, the Harvard Journal of International Law, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. In the past two years he has released three co-edited books on South African Intellectual Traditions, Critical Perspectives on post-apartheid South Africa, and the history of Political Science in that country. In 2013, Peter Vale delivered the E.H. Carr Memorial Lecture.

Stefano Guzzini is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Professor of International Relations at PUC-Rio de Janeiro and Professor of Government at Uppsala University. His research focuses on international theory, security studies (ontological security), approaches to foreign policy analysis, as well as on the conceptual analysis and theories of power. More recently, he has also worked on interpretivist methodologies (process tracing and notions of non-efficient causality) and critical geopolitics as applied to Europe. He has published nine books, including The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises (Cambridge UP, 2012), and Power, Realism and Constructivism (Routledge, 2013), winner of the 2014 ISA Theory Section Best Book Award. He currently serves as President of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).

Vineet Thakur is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Vineet is interested in postcolonial approaches to international relations, Indian and South African diplomatic history and disciplinary histories of international relations. His recent work has appeared in International Political Sociology, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Economic and Political Weekly and China Report. He has also recently finished book projects on the ambivalent cosmopolitanism of Jan Smuts and a postcolonial reading of foreign policies of India and South Africa. With Peter Vale and Alexander Davis, he is currently working on a book project tentatively titled ‘Imperialism by Other Means: Liberalism and the making of IR’.


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