Alex Warleigh-Lack is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, London and Associate Fellow at the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies Centre, UNU-CRIS, in Bruges. He is the author or editor of thirteen books and edited volumes, and has published widely on EU politics, EU studies as an academic pursuit, and comparative regional integration.

Nick Robinson is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds. His research interests encapsulate a broad array of interests within the area of public policy and politics including comparative regionalism, the politics of redistribution and an evolving interest in videogames. Recent publications have appeared in a number of journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Comparative European Politics and Journal of Power.

Ben Rosamond is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and founding co-editor of the journal Comparative European Politics. Until the end of 2010 he was Professor and head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively on theories of European integration and the role of ideas in contemporary European political economy.