Maxwell A. Cameron is Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, the University of British Columbia. David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and author of 17 books and over 60 peer-reviewed articles. David Gillies is an independent research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is retired from Global Affairs Canada with field postings in Pakistan and Zimbabwe. He has also worked at Rights and Democracy, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the North-South Institute. Dr. Gillies was educated at Oxford and McGill.