It takes a village to write a book. In this case, it took a global village. While
working on versions of this book in Ithaca, Istanbul, and Singapore, I have
accrued more debts than I can hope to settle. At the National University of
Singapore, I thank my colleagues in the Political Science Department and
the Faculty of Law for creating the institutional space in which I could bring
this project to its conclusion. The outlines of this work I first developed in
my dissertation at Cornell University. My committee members’ supervision
laid the foundations for my work’s intellectual orientation. The encouragement,
scholarly expectations, and intellectual vivacity of Susan Buck- Morss,
Matthew Evangelista, Jason Frank, and Richard Bensel decisively shaped
my path to becoming a young scholar. Jens David Ohlin, Sidney Tarrow,
Matthew Evangelista, and Muna Ndulo supervised my course of study in
international law at the Cornell Law School.