Thomas J. Butko teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Canada. His primary area of research is in the field of revolutionary or ‘counter-hegemonic’ movements. He has written extensively on political Islam, the ‘anti-globalisation’ movement and terrorism, with articles appearing in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) and Socialism and Democracy. He is in the process of completing a book which aims to survey the historical construction of terrorist discourse from the French Revolution to its current application in the ‘war on terror’.
Antony Field is a doctoral candidate at the University of Warwick. His current research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and is concerned with the degree of continuity and change in the organisation of terrorist groups.
Aidan Hehir is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention after Kosovo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and State-Building: Theory and Practice (edited with Neil Robinson, Routledge, 2007) as well as many journal articles. He is Assistant Editor of The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Richard Jackson is a Reader in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University and the founding editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. He has published widely on the contemporary discourses of terrorism, and his latest co-edited book is Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda (Routledge, 2009).
Laura J. Shepherd is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on gender politics, including feminist theory and feminist international relations theory, as well as security in theory and policy discourse and the politics of representation. Publications include recent articles in Review of International Studies, 34(2) (2008) and International Studies Quarterly, 52(2) (2008). Her monograph entitled Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice, was published by Zed Books in 2008.
Min Tang is a doctoral candidate in political science at Purdue University, USA. His research interests include democratisation, human rights, Asian politics and comparative political economy. His recent publications include ‘The Political Attitudes of Chinese Middle Class towards Democracy’, in the Journal of Chinese Political Science, 14(2) (2009) and ‘Examining the Lagged Effect of Economic Development on Political Democracy: A Panel-VAR Model’, in Democratization, 15(1) (2008).
