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  • Contributors

• Richard Arnold is a graduate student at the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas. His research interests include social and organizational pathologies, cultural sovereignty, and policy analysis. Recent research includes "Alpha Ontology and a Pathology of Dominance," which is forthcoming in the Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies.

• J. Samuel Barkin is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Affiliate Faculty of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, at the University of Florida. His most recent book is International Organization: Theories and Institutions (2006).

• Ulrich Brand studied political science and economics in Frankfurt am Main, Buenos Aires and Berlin. He currently teaches Poltical Science at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany. He recently finished his habilitation (second Ph.D. dissertation) titled The Political Form of Globalization: Political Institutions and Social Forces in the Internationalized State. One of his recent book publications (in German) is Counter-Hegemony: Strategies of the Movements for another Globalization (2005).

• Robert Falkner is Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is editor of The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (2006) and serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Relations. His research interests are in international political economy and global environmental politics. During the academic year 2006-07, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

• Christoph Görg studied sociology and political science in Frankfurt am Main and taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Kassel. He currently works as a senior researcher in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle. His last book publication (in German) is Regulation of Societal Relationships with Nature: On a Critical Theory of Ecological Crisis (2003). Ulrich Brand and Görg are going to publish the book Contested Terrains: Conflicts about Genetic Resources and the Internationalization of the State, together with Joachim Hirsch and Markus Wissen (2007).

• Aarti Gupta is Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Politics with the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She is also a Research Fellow of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental [End Page iii] Change Project (IDGEC) of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) and an associate faculty member of the Global Governance Project (glogov.org). Her research interests are in global risk governance and trade-environment linkages.

• Matthew Potoski is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Iowa State University. He is the coauthor of The Voluntary Environmentalists (2006). His research on environmental policy and public sector contract management has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Administration Review, and the Journal of Politics. He is the co-editor of the International Public Management Journal.

• Aseem Prakash is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is the author of Greening the Firm (2000), the coauthor of The Voluntary Environmentalists (2006), and the co-editor of Globalization and Governance (1999), Coping with Globalization (2000) and Responding to Globalization (2000).

• Henrik Selin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, where he conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. On these issues, he has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Prior to his current faculty position, he spent three years as a Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Kyla Tienhaara is a Ph.D. fellow in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a research fellow with the Global Governance Project (glogov.org). Her research addresses the interaction between investment policy and environmental policy, with a particular focus on the developing world.

• Andrew B. Whitford is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He concentrates on research and teaching in organizational studies and public policy, with specific interest in organization theory, models of decision-making and adaptation, and the political control of the bureaucracy. Recent research has appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Politics, British...

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