Daniel Bray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His research lies at the intersection of International Relations and Political Theory, focusing on Pragmatist approaches to cosmopolitan politics, global governance, and the theory and practice of representative democracy. His current research examines the representation of children and childhood in democratic politics. He is the author of two books, Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: representation and leadership in transnational democracy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and Global Democratic Theory (with Steven Slaughter, Polity, 2015).