The Contributors

Harold James is a professor of history at Princeton University and the chairman of the editorial board and the editorial committee of World Politics. He is the author, most recently, of The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001).

M. Steven Fish is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (1995) and a coauthor (with Richard Anderson, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder) of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (2001). He studies political regimes, regime change, state-society relations, political parties, and social movements. A recent project aims to offer a quantitative measure of the strength of legislatures in most of the world's major polities, and another seeks to assess regime change in Russia in comparative perspective.

Lowell Dittmer is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and editor of Asian Survey. His most recent works include Informal Politics in East Asia (coeditor, 2000), Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (revised edition, 1997), Chinese Politics under Reform (1993), China's Quest for National Identity (coeditor, 1993), and Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications (1992). He has written widely on various aspects of Chinese domestic and foreign policy.

Daniel Philpott is an assistant professor of political science and a faculty fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideals Shaped Modern International Relations (2001). His current scholarship focuses on reconciliation, transitional justice, and religion in international politics.

Siddharth Chandra is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of articles on wage inequality and economic and political development in Indonesia. His current research focuses on portfolio- theoretic models of democracy.

Douglas Kammen is a Fulbright senior scholar teaching at the National University of East Timor. He is the author of articles on social movements, the military, and rebellion in Indonesia. His current research focuses on land, violence, and political memory in East Timor

Richard N. Rosecrance is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the principal investigator of the ucla Carnegie Project on Globalization, Self-Determination and Terrorism. His is the author of America's Economic Resurgence (1990) and The Rise of the Virtual State: Wealth and Power in the Coming Century (1999), coeditor (with Arthur Stein) of The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy (1993), and editor of The New Great Power Coalition (2000). His French symposium on the Rise of the Virtual State will be published shortly. He is working on a new project on the "outbreak of peace."