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  • The Contributors

Jennifer L. Tobin is an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University. She is currently writing about the domestic effects of bilateral investment treaties and the political economy of multilateral aid flows. She can be reached at jlt58@georgetown.edu.

Marc L. Busch is an associate professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is currently writing about the politics of tariff overhang and trade protectionism. He can be reached at mlb66@georgetown.edu.

Valerie J. Bunce is a professor of government and international studies at Cornell University. She is currently completing a book manuscript with Sharon Wolchik, tentatively entitled, "Democratizing Elections, U.S. Democracy Assistance, and International Diffusion: Electoral Stability and Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia." She can be reached at vjb2@cornell.edu.

Sharon L. Wolchik is a professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. She is currently completing a book manuscript with Valerie Bunce, tentatively entitled, "Democratizing Elections, U.S. Democracy Assistance, and International Diffusion: Electoral Stability and Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia." She can be reached at wolchik@gwu.edu.

Lars-Erik Cederman is a professor of international conflict research at ETH Zürich. He is the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (1997), the editor of Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension (2001), and coeditor (with Mathias Albert and Alexander Wendt) of Systems Theories of World Politics (forthcoming). He can be reached at lcederman@ethz.ch.

Andreas Wimmer is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research aims to understand the dynamics of nation-state formation, ethnic boundary making, and political conflict from a comparative perspective. His latest book is Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflicts (2002). He can be reached at awimmer@soc.ucla.edu.

Brian Min is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research examines the provision of public goods and services using high-resolution satellite imagery and GIS technologies, particularly in the developing world. He can be reached at bmin@ucla.edu.

James Mahoney is a professor of political science and sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (2010) and coeditor (with Kathleen Thelen) of Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (2010). He can be reached at james-mahoney@northwestern.edu.

Tuong Vu is an assistant professor of comparative politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He authored Paths to Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia (2010), and coedited (with Erik Kuhonta and Dan Slater) Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis (2008) and (with Wasana Wong-surawat) Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture (2010). He can be reached at vhtuong@yahoo.com. [End Page ii]

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