Jeffry A. Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. A specialist on the politics of international financial relations, he is also coauthor, with Menzie Chinn, of Lost Decades, a history of the 2008 financial crisis. David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is, most recently, the author of Hierarchy in International Relations. His other books include Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century and Power, Protection and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939. In addition, he is co-editor of 10 volumes and author of over 80 articles and book chapters on international relations, international political economy, and American foreign policy. He is Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UCSD. In 2013, he received the UCSD's Chancellor's Associates Awards for Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. J. Lawrence Broz (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He studies the institutions that regulate national and international monetary and financial relations: central banks, exchange rate regimes, and international financial institutions. He is the author of International Origins of the Federal Reserve System (1997) and a series of articles on the congressional politics of financing the International Monetary Fund.