Andrew Payne is a departmental lecturer in international relations at the University of Oxford, where he was previously the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations and a William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College. He serves on the board of Chatham House in London.
Payne effectively demonstrates that domestic electoral politics does indeed affect presidential decisions, often decisively. Payne presents the argument in such a systematic and persuasive way that it will be very difficult to read his book and still see the recent American wars in the same light. -- Thomas Alan Schwartz, author of <i>Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography</i>