Marijke Breuning is Associate Professor of Political Science at Truman State University (in Kirksville, MO, USA). Dr. Breuning holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Women and Politics, International Studies Perspectives and other journals. She is the author of Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction (New York: Palgrave, 2007) and, with John T. Ishiyama, Ethnopolitics in the New Europe (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998). She is currently an editor of Foreign Policy Analysis and the Journal of Political Science Education.