© 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Predoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. He thanks Ahsan Butt, Jennifer Dixon, Brendan Green, Sheena Greitens, Jennifer Keister, Christopher Layne, Lindsey O'Rourke, Barry Posen, Miranda Priebe, and Joseph Torigian for suggestions on earlier drafts.

Michael Beckley

Michael Beckley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University and an International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. He would like to thank Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth for their helpful comments on earlier drafts.