Javier Corrales is professor of political science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the co-author (with Carlos A. Romero) of U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s: Coping with Midlevel Security Threats, and (with Michael Penfold) of Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chávez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela. Mr. Corrales is also the co-editor (with Mario Pecheny) of The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on GLBT Rights, and author of Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s. His research has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Politics, World Development, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, World Policy Journal, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Democracy, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Studies, Current History, and Foreign Policy. Mr. Corrales serves on the editorial board of Latin American Politics and Society and Americas Quarterly. He obtained his PhD in political science from Harvard University.