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1740 Authorsinternational theory, identity politics, and political geography.His current research focuses on critical theory, multidisciplinarityin IR, and the English School of IR and its applicationto the study of traditions and practice of Finnishforeign and security politics. He is the author of severalpublications including: Ideas of Social Order in the AncientWorld (Greenwood Press 1998), The Enemy with a ThousandFaces (Praeger 2000), and “Critical Geopolitics ofNorthern Europe”, Geopolitics 8,1, 2003 (Special Issue editedin cooperation with Pami Aalto and Simon Dalby).Address: Prof. Dr. Vilho Harle, Department of Political Science,University of Tampere, FIN-33014 University of Tampere,Finland.Email: Paul G. Harris (Hong Kong) is Chair Professor of EnvironmentalStudies in the Department of Science and EnvironmentalStudies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.From 2000 to 2009 he taught at Lingnan University, HongKong, where he was Professor of International and EnvironmentalStudies, Director of the Centre for Asian PacificStudies, Director of the Environmental Studies Programme,and Director of the Project on Environmental Change andForeign Policy. During the 1990s he was a faculty memberat universities in Britain and the United States. His researchon global environmental politics, foreign policy and internationalethics has been published widely in academic journals.His books include Climate Change and AmericanForeign Policy (New York: St. Martin's Press/London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2000); International Equity and GlobalEnvironmental Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001); The Environment,International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy(Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2001), InternationalEnvironmental Cooperation (Boulder: UniversityPress of Colorado, 2002); Global Warming and East Asia(London: Routledge, 2003); Confronting EnvironmentalChange in East and Southeast Asia (Tokyo: United NationsUniversity Press/London: Earthscan, 2005), Europe andGlobal Climate Change (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,2007); The Global Politics of AIDS, co-edited with PatriciaD. Siplon (London: Lynne Rienner, 2007); EnvironmentalChange and Foreign Policy (London Routledge, 2009), ClimateChange and Foreign Policy (London: Routledge,2009), and World Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2010).Address: Prof. Paul G. Harris, Department of Science andEnvironmental Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education,Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.Email: .Bassam Ossama Hayek (Jordan), Assistant Professor atPrincess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Directorof the Eco-tech Park, Royal Scientific Society (RSS) andan independent consultant for environment & sustainability.He has Ph.D. in chemical engineer, University of Swansea(UK) in 1994. He started his career in 1994 as a researcherin the environment field at the RSS and served asthe director of the Environment Research Centre of RSS(2000–2009). He has experience in the treatment of domesticand industrial wastewater; environmental assessment;hazardous waste management and control. He hasexecuted and supervised research projects and studies onthe treatment of wastewater, industrial audits (pollutionprevention and waste minimization and cleaner production),environmental assessment, and hazardous materialsmanagement. He participated as a member in nationalcommittees, contributed in establishing the Master Programin Environmental Technology and Management atPrincess Sumaya University, the Cleaner Production Unitand the Biosafety Unit at RSS, and most recently initiatedthe Eco-tech Park project to assist Jordanian enterprisesand communities in adopting clean technologies and soundenvironmental practices in addition to working independentlyon water and environment governance. He has writtenand supervised or co-authored 22 publications of scientificpapers and technical reports, including: EnvironmentSector in Jordan; Key Issues for Environmental Risk Assessment,International Risk Management Meeting, Italy2001; Environmental and Economic Improvement throughImplementation of Cleaner Production in Hospitality Sectorin Jordan: Case Studies in Four Hotels (2008), ParticipativeIrrigation Water Management in the Jordan Valley(2010). He supervised the following studies: EnvironmentalImpact Assessment for Gas Transmission Project(2004); Environmental Impact Assessment for KemiraArab Potash Co. (2000); Water Pollution Crises Management;A Case Study on Cryptosporidium Outbreak inMunshiyat Bani Hassan - Jordan, report submitted to theMinistry of Health, Jordan (November 2007) and draftedbylaws related to irrigation water management (2010).Address: Prof. Dr. Bassam Hayek, Director, Eco-tech Park,Royal Scientific Society, P.O. Box 1438, Al Jubeiha 11941,Amman, Jordan.Email: and .Website: .Thomas Heberer is Chair Professor of East Asian Politicsat the Institute of Political Science and the Institute of EastAsian Studies at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany.His research focuses on political, social and institutionalchange, nationalities policies, environmental policies andcorruption in China. He has worked as a translator andreader with the Foreign Language Press in China from 1977-81. Since 1981 he is on a yearly basis conducting field researchin China for 2-3 months. He is a member of the AdvisoryBoard of the Europe-China Academic Network ofthe European Commission. Among his recent book publicationsare: Rural China Economic and Social Change inthe Late Twentieth Century, Armonk/London (Sharpe)2006; (with C. Derichs, ed.), The Power of Ideas - IntellectualInput and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia,Copenhagen (NIAS Press) 2006; Thomas Heberer/Anja D.Senz, China’s Significance in International Politics. Domesticand external developments and action potentials. GermanDevelopment Institute, Bonn 2007; Doing Business inRural China: Liangshan’s New Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Seattle/London(University of Washington Press) 2007; (withG. Schubert), Politcal participation and regime legitimacy inthe PR of China, vol. 1: the urban space, Wiesbaden (VerlagSozialwissenschaften) 2008 and vol. 2: the rural space (both