David Skidmore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Drake University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and taught at Hamilton College and the University of Notre Dame before arriving at Drake in 1989. While on leave from Drake during the 1996-97 academic year, he taught courses at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. Has has also travelled to Hong Kong, Thailand, London, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Brazil. Skidmore currently serves as Director of the International Relations program, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Coordinator of the First Year Seminar Program and Director of the Drake Curriculum. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of American foreign policy, international political economy, international relations theory and Latin American politics. Skidmore is the author of Reversing Course: Carterís Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and the Failure of Reform (Vanderbilt University Press, 1996), co-author (with Thomas Lairson) of International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 2nd edition, 1997), editor of Contested Social Orders and International Politics (Vanderbilt University Press, 1997) and co-editor (with Valerie Hudson) of The Limits of State Autonomy: Societal Groups and Foreign Policy Formulation (Westview Press, 1993). He has published articles in Political Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, International Studies Notes, Pacifica Review, Global Society and the Mershon International Studies Review . Skidmore's personal web page is located at: http://www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/personalwebpage/Skidpage.html