Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Canada. He is the author and editor of over forty books in areas of globalization and the political economy of development, including The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (2018); Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today (2017, with James Petras); Agrarian Change, Migration and Development (2016, co-authored); and Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization (2016).

James Petras is Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, USA. He is the author of more than sixty-two books published in twenty-nine languages, and over six hundred articles in professional journals that include the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies . He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, and the 2002 Robert Kenny Award for Best Book. His books include The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East (2014); Extractivist Imperialism in the Americas (co-authored, 2014); Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America (2015/2017, co-authored); and The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire (2016).