Richard W. Maass is Associate Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University, where he also serves as coordinator of the U.S. Foreign Policy and International Relations concentration within the Graduate Program in International Studies. His research and teaching interests broadly span U.S. foreign policy, international security, international law, race and security, and diplomatic history. He is the author of The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion (Cornell University Press, 2020), co-editor of The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues (University of Michigan Press, 2022), and has published research in academic journals including International Security, Texas National Security Review, Diplomatic History, International Studies Perspectives, and Terrorism and Political Violence. He lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife, a Hampton University professor and fellow World Affairs Council board member, their two daughters, and one dog.