Richard Mansbach is Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University. He is the co-author and editor of many books including, with Yale H. Ferguson, The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976), The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (1988), The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989), Politics: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996) and The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2003).