Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, and Research Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Natasha Tusikov is Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University in Toronto and a visiting fellow with the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

Jan Aart Scholte is Chair of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.