Career: Kate Hudson is Head of the Department of Social and Policy Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University. She has been Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament since 2003 and is a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She is Editor of the journal Contemporary Politics (see url below).

Publications include: European Communism Since 1989: Towards a New European Left? 2000, Breaking the South Slav Dream: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia 2003, CND – Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement 2005; several book chapters and numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Division of Social and Political Studies, South Bank University, Room BR 341b, Third Floor, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7815-5747; Fax: +44 (0)20 7815-5799; Email: hudsonk@lsbu.ac.uk ; Website: http://lsbu.ac.uk/ahssps/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13569775.asp/ .