Graham M Smith teaches in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. His research explores the relationship between human and political ontology. His publications include 'Into Cerberus' Lair: Bringing the Idea of Security to Light' in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2005), and he has recently co-edited a special issue on 'Friendship in Politics' for Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy with Preston King (2007).
Stéphane Courtois is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. His research interests are in moral philosophy and political theory. He is particularly interested in all the issues related to nationalism, cosmopolitanism, deliberative democracy and multiculturalism. Among his recent publications are 'Habermas's Epistemic Conception of Democracy: Some Reactions to McCarthy's Objections', Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2004, 'Démocratie délibérative et sécession', Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2004, 'Are Multiculturalist Theories Victims of the Cultural Essentialism Fallacy?', Human Affairs, 2005, and 'Genetic Engineering, Moral Autonomy, and Equal Treatment', The Monist, 2006.
Ricardo Camargo Brito is a doctoral student in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His dissertation builds on the idea of the possibility of a critique of ideology for a post-modern time. His previous published work includes 'The "Social" from the Concept of Illusion in Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli and Bacon' in Cinta de Moebio (in Spanish), Vol. 28, 2007, and 'Reflections on the Determination of the True and the Ideological within the Theory of Ideology' in Revista de Ciencia Política (in Spanish), Vol. 25, No. 2, 2005.
William Smith is a Lecturer in politics at the University of Dundee, UK. His research is in contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on deliberative democracy, civil disobedience and international political thinking. He has published articles in Res Publica, International Politics, Constellations and the European Journal of Social Theory.
Elizabeth Frazer is Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford and Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford. Her publications include Problems of Communitarian Politics (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is currently engaged in a number of projects on citizenship education, and on the relationship between ethics and politics, of which work with Kimberly Hutchings on violence is one element.
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Her publications include Kant, Critique and Politics (Routledge, 1996), International Political Theory (Sage, 1999), Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (Polity, 2003). She is currently working on a book on conceptions of time in theories of world politics (forthcoming with Manchester University Press, 2008), as well as doing work in feminist international ethics and (with Elizabeth Frazer) on the treatment of violence in Western political thought.
