Kees van der Pijl is fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and professor emeritus in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. He is best known for his writings on transnational class formation, notably The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (1984, new edition 2012); Transnational Classes and International Relations (1998); Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq (2006), and others. From 2006 to 2009 he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. In 2008 he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize for Nomads, Empires, States (2007), the first volume of a trilogy entitled Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, of which vols. II and III appeared in 2010 and 2014. -- .