Zachary Selden received his Ph.D. from the University of California – Los Angeles in 1996. He is the author of Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy (Praeger, 1999), Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy (University of Michigan Press, 2016), as well as articles in Contemporary Economic Policy, National Security Studies Quarterly, Policy Review and Problems of Post Communism. Until December 2006, Zachary Selden was the Director of the Defence and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly based in Brussels, Belgium. From 2000 to 2003 he was the International Affairs Analyst in the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office. Prior to that he was the Research Director for Emerging Threats at Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C
