Richard Huggins is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, and Jean Monnet Chair of European Political and Social Geography. He has published a number of articles and chapters on globalization, new media and politics, and a number of books including New Media and Politics (with B. Axford; Sage, 2001) and Politics: An Introduction (Routledge, 1997, 2002, 2012). He is currently completing a book on illicit drug policy (Routledge).