About the Author
Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of
The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of
Debating “Empire” and (with Benedict Anderson)
Mapping the Nation. A member of the
New Left Review editorial board, he teaches Contemporary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and Imagined Communities.