LIONEL CLIFFE is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds where he has worked for 10 years. He is a specialist in international politics and political economy, with special emphasis on developing countries and the relations of the west towards them. He is Deputy Director of the Leeds Centre for Democratisation Studies and has done much research on the 'third wave of democratisation'. MAUREEN RAMSAY is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds where she has worked since 1992. Before this she was Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Her focus on aspects of social justice. She has written two books Human Needs and the Market (Avebury 1992) and What's Wrong with Liberalism (Leicester University Press 1997) as well as several articles.