David A. Lake is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and taught at UCLA for nine years before coming to UCSD in 1992. Lake has published widely in international relations theory, international political economy, and international security studies. He is presently completing a book on Hierarchy in International Relations: Authority, Sovereignty, and the New Structure of World Politics. 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 (Acting, 2006-2007). He is the Vice President (elect) of the International Studies Association, Program Co-Chair of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, and founding chair of the International Political Economy Society. He is the receipent of the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

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