Brian Meeks, Kingston, Jamaica, is professor of social and political change at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. He has published nine books and edited collections, including Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory and Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives.
Folke Lindahl is Professor of Political Science, James Madison College, Michigan State University. Lindahl has taught at Oklahoma State University, the University of Hawaii, and York University in Toronto. He has published a monograph on Tocqueville's political theory, articles on political theory in journals in this country and in Sweden, and has received several grants and awards.