The Contributors

Joanne Gowa is a professor of politics at Princeton University. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window (1983), Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade (1994), and Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace (1999). She can be contacted at jgowa@princeton.edu.

Soo Yeon Kim is an assistant professor of government and politics and a faculty affiliate at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland. She is currently at work on a book about the impact of the GATT/WTO on international trade. She can be contacted at skim@gvpt.umd.edu.

Jon Hovi is a professor of political science at the University of Oslo and at CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research—Oslo). He is the author of Games, Threats and Treaties: Understanding Commitments in International Relations (1998) and coeditor of Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance (2005, with Olav S. Stokke and Geir Ulfstein). He is currently working on compliance and participation in climate cooperation. He can be contacted at jon.hovi@stv.uio.no.

Robert Huseby is a research fellow in political science and an associate member of the Ethics Programme at the University of Oslo. He is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis in international ethics. He can be contacted at robert.huseby@stv.uio.no.

Detlef F. Sprinz is a senior fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and teaches political science at the University of Potsdam. He is the coeditor of International Relations and Global Climate Change (2001, with Urs Luterbacher) and Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations (2004, with Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias). His current work considers long-term policy issues, the evaluation of public policy, and climate policy. He can be contacted at dsprinz@pik-potsdam.de.

Phyllis Dininio is an affiliate scholar at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center of American University and a consultant to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations. Her books and monographs include the USAID Handbook for Fighting Corruption (1998), the World Bank's Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption (coeditor, 2006), and The Political Economy of East German Privatization (1999). She is currently examining corruption in the education sector, the integrity system in the U.S., and the institutional framework for transparency in service delivery. She can be contacted at pdininio@worldnet.att.net.

Robert Orttung is an associate research professor at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center of American University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His books include: (coedited with Andreas Wenger and Jeronim Perovic), Russian Business Power: The Role of Business in Russian Foreign Relations (forthcoming); (coedited with Peter Reddaway) The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal Regional Relations, 2 volumes (2003 and 2005), The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation: A Guide to Politics, Policies, and Leaders (2000); (with Laura Belin) Russia's 1995 Parliamentary Elections: The Battle for the Duma (1997); and From Leningrad to St. Petersburg: Democratization in a Russian City (1995). He is currently working on projects examining the connections between organized crime and terrorism in Russia and transparency in the Russian energy sector. He can be contacted at rorttung@worldnet.att.net.

Jeffrey F. Timmons is a professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is currently working on a book about the origins and nature of fiscal contracts. He can be contacted at jtimmons@itam.mx.