Sir Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. Professor Robert's is the co-editor of The United Nations Security Council and War (OUP 2008), Documents on the Laws of War (OUP 2000), and Hugo Grotius and International Relations (OUP 1992).

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of eight books of political writing or 'history of the present' which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Throughout the nineteen eighties, he reported and analyzed the emancipation of Central Europe from communism in contributions to the New York Review of Books, the Independent, the Times, and the Spectator.

Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of History at City University of New York.
Mark R. Beissinger is Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in Russian and post-Soviet politics.
Judith Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
April Carter is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University.
Howard Clark is Chair of War Resisters' International and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University.
Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University.
Christina Fink is a Lecturer at the International Sustainable Development Studies
Institute in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Merle Goldman is Professor Emerita at Boston University and Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
Carlos Huneeus is Professor of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile and Executive Director of Corporation CERC.
Stephen Jones is Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. He has written over 50 articles and chapters on Georgian history and politics.
Mark Kramer is Director of the Harvard Cold War Studies Project at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Tom Lodge is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Limerick.
Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University where he teaches European and international history.
Kenneth Maxwell is Director of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a Visiting Professor in the Department of History.
Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
Amado Mendoza is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
Aleksander Smolar is Chairman of the Board of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
Ivan Vejvoda is Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy.
Kieran Williams is Instructor in Politics at Drake University.
Andrew Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London.

"Highly informative compilation of different quests for political, economic, and social change over the past half-century. The great value of Civil Resistance and Power Politics is to provide relatively succinct accounts of these diverse events in such a way as to underline both their differences and their similarities."--New York Review of Books

"Roberts and Garton Ash succeed in their task magnificently. Seldom has a collective work displayed such coordinated research; seldom has the selection of authors been so successful...and seldom have the introductory and concluding essays in an edited work been so effective...indispensable book"--Survival

"This book is a timely reminder that realpolitik is by no means always the best way to consolidate power. And this may prompt a rethink as to the very nature of power itself."--International Affairs

"A book full of thought-provoking stories and arresting statistics...a valuable contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon that history has too often ignored--and a political tactic that looks set to become even more potent in the years ahead." --Sunday Business Post