Career: Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is an Associate Fellow of The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. He is also an Associate Fellow of The Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Professor Breslin is a member of the Garnet Network of Excellence and a Consortium Member of the Network of European Studies Centres in Asia. He is co-editor of The Pacific Review (see url below).

Honours and awards: Honorary Professorial Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Renmin University, Beijing

Publications include: China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State 1996, Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction (co-author, fourth edition) 1998, Mao 1998, Microregionalism and World Order (co-editor) 2002, New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases (co-editor) 2002, China and the Global Political Economy 2007; numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals

Contact details: Address: Room B0.07, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England; Tel: +44 (0)24 7657-2558; Fax: +44 (0)24 7652-4221; Email: shaun.breslin@warwick.ac.uk ; Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/staff/breslin/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09512748.asp/ .