"Francis P. Sempa" is the author of "Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century", and has written introductions to Mahan's "The Problem of Asia" and "The Interest of America in International Conditions" and Bullitt's "The Great Globe Itself", all available from Transaction. He is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct professor of political science at Wilkes University.