Caroline Thomas is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Southampton. Her publications include Trade and New Social Issues, edited with Annie Taylor (Routledge, 1998); Globalization and the South, edited with Peter Wilkin (Macmillan, 1997) and The Environment in International Relations, (RIIA, 1992).Robert Went is an economist, currently working as a researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics of the University of Amsterdam andfor The Netherlands Court of Audit.Tony Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University and the author of The Logic of Marx's Capital and Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics.