CHRISTER JÖNSSON is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. He has been Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and Stanford University. His primary research interests are international negotiation, diplomacy and international cooperation. His publications include Communication in International Bargaining (1990) International Cooperation in Response to AIDS (co-author, 1995) and Diplomacy (co-editor with Richard Langhorne, 2004).MARTIN HALL is a Researcher at Lund University. His main research interests lie in the intersection of International Relations theory and historical sociology. He has published several articles and is currently working on a book project entitled The West: An Essentially Contested Concept.