Jeffry A. Frieden is professor of government at Harvard University. His books include "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery"; "World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions"; "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century "(all Norton); and "Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985" (Princeton).
David A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.