Steven W. Hook is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Kent State University. He is author, most recently, of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power (2nd ed., 2008). He is also co-author, with John Spanier, of American Foreign Policy since World War II (17th ed., 2007) and National Interest and Foreign Aid (1995); and editor of Comparative Foreign Policy: Adaptation Strategies of the Great and Emerging Powers (2002) and Foreign Aid toward the Millennium (1996). Hook, a recipient of his university's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007, is a past president of the Foreign Policy Analysis sections of the International Studies Association and the American… Political Science Association.Christopher M. Jones is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Professor Jones is coauthor, with Eugene R. Wittkopf, of American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process (7th ed., 2008) and co-editor, with Eugene R. Wittkopf, of The Future of American Foreign Policy (3rd ed., 1999). Professor Jones is the recipient of three university-wide teaching awards and serves as president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association.