Alex Colás lecturer in international relations, Birkbeck College; author of International civil society: social movements in world politics (Polity)

Andrew Dawson lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Hull and editor of Intergraph: Journal of Dialogic Anthropology; editor (with Allison James and Jenny Hockey) of After writing culture: epistemology and praxis in contemporary anthropology, and (with Nigel Rapport) of Migrants of identity: perceptions of home in a world of movement (Berg 1998)

Beate Jahn senior lecturer in international relations, author of Politik und Moral (1993) and The Cultural Construction of International Relations (Macmillan 2000).

Luke Martell senior lecturer in sociology, author of Ecology and society (Polity 1994) and (with Stephen Driver) New Labour: politics after Thatcherism (Polity 1998). He is the editor, with William Outhwaite, of The sociology of politics (3 vols., Edward Elgar, 1998). He is currently editing a new collection, Social democracy: global and national perspectives.

William Outhwaite professor of sociology, director of the graduate programme in social and political thought, author of Concept formation in social science (Routledge 1983), New philosophies of social science : realism, hermeneutics and critical theory (Macmillan 1987) and Habermas: a critical introduction (Polity 1994).

Kees van der Pijl professor of international relations, author of The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (Verso 1984) and Transnational classes and international relations (Routledge,1998)

Justin Rosenberg reader in international relations, school of African and Asian studies, author of The Empire of Civil Society (Verso 1994) and The Scourge of Globalization (Verso 2000 forthcoming).

Martin Shaw editor, the global site; professor of international relations and politics, school of social sciences. A sociologist, his books include Dialectics of War (Pluto 1988), Post-Military Society (Polity 1991), Global Society and International Relations (Polity 1994, republished here), Civil Society and Media in Global Crises (Pinter 1996), Theory of the Global State (Cambridge University Press 2000) and War and Genocide (Polity, April 2003). Many of Martin Shaw's texts are online at www.martinshaw.org.

Paul Smith professor of media studies, school of cultural and community studies, author of Clint Eastwood :a cultural production (UCL Press 1993) and Millennial Dreams: contemporary culture and capital in the north (Verso 1997)