Michael Busch is a doctoral student in International Relations at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. In addition, he is a research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, a 2008-09 fellow at the Center for Humanities, and lectures on International Political Economy at the City College of New York, where he is also project coordinator for the Colin Powell Center for Polict Studies. He has written on international politics for numerous newspapers and journals, including Foreign Policy in Focus, World Politics Review, and the Whitehead Journal for Dilpomacy and International Affairs.