James M. Scott is Herman Brown Chair and Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. He specializes in foreign policy analysis and international relations, with particular emphasis on U.S. foreign policymaking. He is author or editor of two scholarly books, two scholarly edited volumes, 10 editions of two successful textbooks, 46 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and essays in highly reputable outlets, and more than 100 review essays, chapters, conference papers and other works. He is a two-time winner of the Klingberg Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper at the ISA Midwest Annual Meeting and the recipient of the 2012 Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar from the International Studies Association-Midwest. From 2005- 2014 he was director of the Democracy, Interdependence and World Politics Summer Research Program, a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates. He has been president of both the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association and the International Studies Association-Midwest, and he served as associate editor of Foreign Policy Analysis from 2009-2015, and co-editor of Political Research Quarterly from 2015-2018.