Editorial Board
The Editor in Chief
Renée Marlin-Bennett
Renée Marlin-Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy (2004) and Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (1993), as well as the editor of Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World (2011). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters. Prof. Marlin-Bennett conducts research on the global politics of science and technology, on embodiment and international relations, and on the nature of power. From 1987 to 2007, she served on the faculty of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University. She earned her doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her B.A. cum laude in international relations from Pomona College.
Editorial Board
Kathryn C. Lavelle
is the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of three books, Money and Banks in the American Political System, Legislating International Organization: The US Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets, and numerous articles and chapters appearing in International Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, International Organization, Review of International Organizations, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Third World Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, International Journal of Political Economy, International Studies Review, Journal of International Affairs and The Columbia Journal of World Business. Among other awards, Lavelle is the recipient of an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars residential fellowship, and Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Toronto. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.
Michelle Benson
is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research focuses on international and civil war, UN peacekeeping, and UN action in conflicts. Her publications include articles in the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research, among others.
