ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cathal J Nolan is Executive Director of the International History Institute and Associate Professor of History at Boston University He is the author of Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S Foreign Policy (1993), The Longman Guide to World Affairs (1995), the Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations, volumes (2002), the Age of the Wars of Religion, 1000–1650, volumes (2006), and Wars of the Age of Louis XIV (2007) He is also editor of Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the 20th Century (1992), Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimensions of International Affairs (1995; 2nd rev ed., 2004); Notable U.S Ambassadors Since 1775 (1997); Great Power Responsibility in World Affairs (2004); and, with Carl Hodge, the Encyclopedia of U.S Presidents & Foreign Policy (2006) Nolan is currently writing a study of battle and attrition: The Allure of Battle: Delusions of Victory, 1700–1945