Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual; the co-editor, with Michael Brenes, of Rethinking US World Power: Domestic Histories of US Foreign Relations; and the co-editor, with Nicolas Guilhot, of The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th Century.