David A. Lake is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in international relations theory, international political economy, and American foreign policy. Lake's most recent book, Hierarchy in International Relations, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2009. In addition to over fifty scholarly articles, he is the author of Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 (1988) and Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (1999) and co-editor of eight volumes including Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition (2003) and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (2006). Lake has served in numerous administrative posts, including Research Director for International Relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1992-1966 and 2000-2001), co-editor of the journal International Organization (1997-2001), chair of UCSD’s Political Science department (2000-2004), and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at UCSD (2006-present). He is the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society and was and Program Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2007). He was recently nominated as President of the International Studies Association (2010-2011 term). The recipient of the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984.