Mariano Aguirre, Director, Peace Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Stephen Castles, Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, England

Stephanie Donald, School of Media Communication and Culture, Murdoch University, Australia

Stephen Gill, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada

Fred Halliday, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, England

David Held, Department of Government, London School of Economics, England

Mary Kaldor, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, England

Michael Mann, Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Tuomo Melasuo, Research director, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland

William I. Robinson, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA

Hermann Schwengel, Institut für Soziologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Hideaki Shinoda, Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University, Japan

Steve Smith, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales

Achin Vanaik, New Delhi, India

Cynthia Weber, Department of Politics, University of Leeds, England