John R. Freeman is the John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his honors are the Morse-Alumni, All-University, and College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Awards at the University of Minnesota. Freeman is the author of Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies, which won the International Studies Association's Quincy Wright Award, and the coauthor of Three Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics. Freeman also edited three volumes of Political Analysis. He has coauthored numerous research articles in academic journals. Many of Freeman's research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation as well as by the Bank Austria Foundation and the Austrian Ministry of Science.