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  • Contributors

• Charlotte Bretherton is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her most recent publications are "Ecocentric Identity and Transformatory Politics," International Journal of Peace Studies 6 (2) and "Gender Mainstreaming and EU Enlargement: Swimming against the tide?" Journal of European Public Policy 8 (1), both published in 2001.

• Robert Falkner is Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Associate Fellow of the Sustainable Development Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research interests are in global environmental governance and international political economy. He is co-editor, with Christoph Bail and Helen Marquard, of The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development? (2002), and is currently working on international trade and biotechnology regulation.

• Lucy H. Ford is Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include "The WTO, Social Movements and Global Environmental Management," Environmental Politics, 8 (1), 1999 (with Mark Williams), and "Social Movements and the Globalisation of Environmental Governance," IDS Bulletin 30 (3), 1999.

• Peter Hough is Lecturer in Political and International Studies at Middlesex University. He is author of The Global Politics of Pesticides: Forging Consensus form Conflicting Interests (1998) and of the forthcoming book, Understanding Global Security (2003).

• David Humphreys is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy at The Open University. He is author of Forest Politics: The Evolution of International Cooperation (1996) and was a "resource person" to the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development. He co-edited (with Alan Thomas and Susan Carr) and contributed to Environmental Policies and NGO Influence: Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (2001).

• Peter Newell is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He is author of Climate for Change: Non-state Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse (2000); co-author, with W. Grant and D. Matthews, of The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000); and coeditor, with S. Rai and A. Scott, of Development and the Challenge of Globalization (2002). He is currently researching issues of corporate accountability and regulation and the politics of GMO regulation. [End Page iii]

• Matthew Paterson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He is author of Global Warming and Global Politics (1996) and Understanding Global Environmental Politics (2003), as well as many articles and book chapters on these subjects. He is currently working on cars and global environmental politics. He is an Associate Editor of Global Environmental Politics.

• Lloyd Pettiford is Acting Head of Department for International Studies and Principal Lecturer in International Relations at The Nottingham Trent University. His most recent academic publications include, with Jill Steans, International Relations: Perspectives and Themes, (2001), "When is a Realist not a Realist? Stories Knudsen Doesn't Tell," Security Dialogue, 32 (3), 2001, and with Roy Smith, "Implementing Environmental Policy in Small Island States Post-Rio," International Journal of Politics and Ethics, 1 (4), 2002. He is currently working on a number of books covering the foreign policies of great powers and a history of terrorism.

• Roy Smith is Principal Lecturer in International Relations at The Nottingham Trent University, where he is also Co-Director of The Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies. He is the co-author, with Chris McMurray, of Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Change and Health (2001). He has also contributed articles to Security Dialogue, The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics and The International Journal of Politics and Ethics. His main area of research is small island states, especially of the Pacific region.

• John Vogler is Professor of International Relations at Keele University and Chair of the British International Studies Association Environment Working Group. He has written a comparative analysis of regimes in The Global Commons: Environmental and Technological Governance (2000) and has edited and contributed to Environment Working Group publications, with Mark Imber, The Environment and International Relations (1996); and with Alan Russell, The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures (2000). A current major interest is the emergence of the European Union as a global actor, and he has co-authored, with Charlotte Bretherton, a book with this title (1999), as well as writing a number of...

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