Robert Rotberg is Professor and Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and President of the World Peace Foundation. He was Professor of Political Science and History at MIT; Academic Vice President at Tufts; President of Lafayette College; and a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Panel on Africa, 2003-04. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, including Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa (2002). His most recent book is China into Africa: Aid, Trade, and Influence (2008).