Political Islam and U.S. foreign policy

Peter Mandaville is professor of Government and Politics and director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Transnational Muslim Politics: Re-imagining the Umma and has also co-edited several volumes of essays. His research interests include the impact of globalization in the Muslim world, global political development, and post-Western international relations.

John M. Owen is senior fellow at the Miller Center and Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor professor of politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security (Cornell University Press, 1997) and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010 (Princeton University Press, 2010). He is also co-editor of Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (Columbia University Press, 2011).