The American Foreign Policy Transition: Barack Obama in Power

Stephen J. Randall, FRSC, PhD (Toronto), is Professor of History and Director of the University of Calgary Institute for United States Policy Research. He served as Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences (1994-2006) at the University of Calgary. He was Special Adviser to the President on the development of the University of Calgary’s Academic Plan. He held previous appointments at McGill University (1974-1989) and the University of Toronto (1971-1974). He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Randall is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of American History, a member of the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review and the Canadian Journal of History. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Washington Center. A specialist in United States foreign policy and Latin American international relations and politics, he holds the Grand Cross, Order of Merit from the Presidency of Colombia. Dr. Randall has served with the United Nations, Organization of American States and Carter Center in international election supervision in the Caribbean, Latin America and Southeast Asia. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of a number of books, including: The Diplomacy of Modernization: The United States and Colombia, 1920-1940 (1977); United States Foreign Oil Policy (1984); Hegemony and Interdependence: Colombia and the United States (1992); Ambivalent Allies: Canada and the United States (1994, 1996, 2002, with John H. Thompson); Canada and Latin America (1992, with Mark O. Dickerson); Federalism and the New World Order (1994, with Roger Gibbins); An International History of the Caribbean Basin (1998, with Graeme S. Mount); North America Without Borders (1992, with Herman Konrad); NAFTA in Transition (1995, with Herman Konrad). His latest book is United States foreign oil policy since World War I. (2005). The 4th edition of Ambivalent Allies will be published in 2007 as will the authorized biography of Alfonso López Michelsen, President of Colombia (1974-1978) by Villegas Editores in Bogotá.