About the Author

Dominic Tierney is an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and holds a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a former visiting associate professor at Princeton University, and a former research fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of three other books: FDR and the Spanish Civil War, How We Fight, and Failing to Win, which won the International Studies Association Best Book of the Year Award and was nominated for its Best Book of the Decade Award.