We welcome guest-blogger “Elizabeth Saunders”:http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder/. She has just published _Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions_, which you can find “here”:http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=9923 or “here”:http://www.amazon.com/Leaders-War-Presidents-Military-Interventions/dp/0801449227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297200592&sr=8-1. See also “this article”:http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder/transformativechoices.pdf (pdf) for a synopsis of the book’s argument. Elizabeth will be posting about how individual leaders shape foreign policy and what early inferences we can draw from Barack Obama’s response to the protests in Egypt. She is also, I wager, the only political scientist who has a “patent”:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5833660.html for a syringe that helps prevent the spread of HIV. We’re glad to have her aboard.
