Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity , and The New Old World . He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review . Peter Gowan (1946-2009) taught international relations for many years at London Metropolitan University. He was the author of The Global Gamble and A Calculus of Power , co-editor of The Question of Europe , cofounder of the journal Labour Focus on Eastern Europe , and a longstanding member of the editorial board of New Left Review --who published an interview with Peter Gowan along with an obituary in Sept-Oct 2009. Guy Standing is director of the Socio-Economic Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He directed the ILO's technical programme in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s and was an advisor to the South African government in 1995-96. He has written extensively on labour market and social policy issues. Göran Therborn holds the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and is editor and author of Inequalities of the World , Asia and Europe in Globalization , Between Sex and Power and From Marxism to Post Marxism?.