Thomas W. Zeiler is a Professor of History and Director of the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT, Globalization and the American Century, and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II (OUP, 2010). He served as the President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and as editor of its journal, Diplomatic History.