KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN is a former senior Indian diplomat (Foreign Secretary, i.e., permanent secretary), and former Commonwealth deputy Secretary-General, a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, UK.PETER LYON is Reader Emeritus in International Relations and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He is Editor of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.