Benjamin N. Schiff is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, teaching international relations; international law and organization; Middle East politics; war, weapons, and arms control; and international criminal law. From 2005-6, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He is author of two previous books on international organizations and co-author of a book on South Africa during its transition to democracy. He was Foreign Affairs Officer, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1978-9) and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1982; MA, 1975) and Michigan State University (BA, 1973).