1 It has been a privilege and a pleasure to have been the custodians of the Review over the last five years. We thank all those who submitted articles to the Review, all of our referees without whom the job of the editorial team would be literally impossible and all of those at Cambridge University Press who work with such tireless efficiency to produce the journal. And we wish the new team every good fortune during their tenure.

2 The 2007 special issue later published as Rengger, Nicholas and Thirkell-White, Ben (eds), Critical International Relations Theory After twenty Five Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar .

3 The 2008 special issue, later published as Richmond, Oliver, Watson, Alison and Constantinou, Costas (eds), Global Communications and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)Google Scholar .

4 The 2009 special issue later published as Fawn, Rick (ed.), Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar .