David M. McCourt is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis. He did his graduate work at the European University Institute, and has held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Sheffield, and New York University, Abu Dhabi. Working at the intersection of International Relations and Political Sociology, he is the author of The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 (Oxford University Press, 2024), The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory (Bristol University Press 22) and is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology (OUP).