G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Professor Ikenberry is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the best book in international history and politics. The book has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Chinese. He is currently writing a book entitled: Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, forthcoming). A collection of his essays, entitled Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Polity Press, 2006), has also appeard.

Professor Ikenberry is the author and editor of many other books. He is the co-author of State Power and the World Economy, which was published in 2002 by Norton Press. He has also edited a book entitled American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. (Cornell, 2002) and co-edited The Nation State in Question (Princeton, 2003) which examines the changing capacities and roles of the modern state

Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He concentrates on theories of international relations, issues of international political economy, and problems of international conflict. He is the author of Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade, and Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry; and the co-author (with G. John Ikenberry) of State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy. Articles and notes by him have appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Review of International Studies, the American Political Science Review, International Organization, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics. His teaching interests include theories of international relations and issues of international political economy.