The Editors : Michael Keating is Professor of Regional Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He gained his BA at the University of Oxford and Ph.D. at Glasgow College of Technology, and previously taught at the Universities of Strathclyde and Western Ontario. He is the author of numerous books and articles on urban and regional politics and minority nationalism.
James Hughes is Reader in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was awarded a BA (Hons) First Class from Queen's University Belfast, and PhD from the University of London (LSE). He has published widely on the role of elites and regions in post-communist transition, ethnic conflicts and minority issues.