HAROON AKRAM-LODHI Teaches Rural Economics and Rural Economic Methodology, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands SHAUN BRESLIN Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK ANDREW GAMBLE Professor of Politics and Joint Director of the Political Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield, UK VEDI R. HADIZ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Singapore, Singapore GRAHAM HARRISON Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK WIL HOUT Associate Professor of World Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands KANISHKA JAYASURIYA Principal Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia HANS OVERSLOOT Teaches Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, Leiden University, and Russian Politics in the Russian Studies Programme, Leiden University, The Netherlands GARRY RODAN Director of the Asia Research Centre and Professor of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University, Australia PATRICIO SILVA Professor of Modern Latin American History, Department of Latin American Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands WILLIAM K. TABB Teaches Political Economy, Economics Department, Queens College, City University of New York, USA BEN THIRKELL-WHITE Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK