ANDREW GAMBLEnbsp;is Professor and Head of Department of Politics atnbsp;University of Cambridge. His many books includeBritain in Decline, The Free Economy and the Strong StateandBetween Europe and Americaalso published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association in 2005.ROB PENHALLURICK is Head of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.