Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History and hold the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs in the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an international historian of the modern world, fascinated by the connections between peoples, ideas, and societies. His work focuses on policy-making, governance, social movements, and cultural (mis)understandings. His works include Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama (Simon and Schuster, 2011), American Foreign Relations since 1898 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard, 2007), The Global Revolutions of 1968 (Norton, 2007), and Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (Harvard, 2003).