John A. Agnew is Professor of Geography at UCLA, and a former president of the Association of American Geographers (2008-9). He was awarded the Distinguished Scholarship Award by the Association of American Geographers in 2006, and in 2007 was awarded the UCLA Award in Distinguished Teaching.

Recently published books include Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), The Geography of the World Economy Fifth Edition (Hodder 2008) and with Michael Shin, Berlusconi′s Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008). He is particularly well known for his work in the field of geopolitics, and has written extensively (and to critical acclaim) on political and economic geography.

David Livingstone is Professor of Geography & Intellectual History at Queen′s University, Belfast, and is Vice-President (Research) of the Royal Geographical Society. He has written countless articles for leading academic journals, and numerous books over the last twenty years, the most recent of which is Adam′s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

He was appointed an OBE for his services to Geography and History in 2002.