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North America

In-house editorial staff

Tom Wales

Senior Editor, North America
Earned a PhD with a dissertation focusing on the Anglo-American intelligence relationship in 2005. Contributing author of The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War (Routledge, 2006). Worked as an analyst for Chase Manhattan in the City of London. Holds a degree in history from Harvard (magna cum laude, 1999).

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Dr Nigel Bowles

Deputy Principal and Fellow in Politics, St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Widely-published specialist on US government bureaucracy and presidential politics. Books include The Government and Politics of the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998) and Nixon's Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics (Texas A&M, 2005).

Dr Desmond King

Professor of Politics, St John's College, University of Oxford
Research interests in comparative public policy, labour market policy, education and federalism. Publications include Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP, 1997) and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP, 2004).

Dr Trevor McCrisken

Associate Professor in American Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Visiting Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Research interests in US foreign policy, US-Iraq relations, the politics of US nuclear strategy, and the US missile defence system. Author of American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974 (Palgrave, 2003).

Dr Jennifer Welsh

Lecturer in International Relations and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford
Former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A member of the Banff Forum, the Pacific Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Current research interests include Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention, and the prospects for North American integration.