Inderjeet Parmar is professor of international politics at City University London, President of the British International Studies Association, and Chair of the AHRC Obama Research Network. He is the author of Special Interests, the State, and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939--1945 and Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939--1945.