Oliver Daddow is Reader in International Politics at the University of Leicester. His research interests are in interpretivist international relations, British foreign policy and discourse analysis: he is the author of New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown s Logic of History (Manchester University Press, 2011) and Britain and Europe since 1945: Historiographical Perspectives on Integration (Manchester University Press, 2004). He edited Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain s Second Application to Join the EEC (Frank Cass, 2003). With Jamie Gaskarth he co-edited British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and with Mark Bevir and Ian Hall he co-edited Interpreting Global Security (Routledge, 2013). He has written book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles across his research interests, including in International Affairs, Political Quarterly, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Review of International Studies.

Mark Bevir is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include The Making of British Socialism (2011), Democratic Governance (2010) and Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World edited with Frank Trentmann (2004, 2007).