Bio

Richard Little is a professor of International Politics at the University of Bristol. He is a previous editor of the Review of International Studies and Chair of the British International Studies Association. He is co-author with Barry Buzan of International Systems in World History (University of Oxford, 2000) which has been translated into Chinese.

Michael Smith is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University. He has published widely in the area of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis and he has co-authored with Mark Webber, Foreign Policy in a Transformed World (2002) and co-edited with Christopher Hill International Relations and the European Union (2005).