Derick L. Hulme, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He is the author of The Political Olympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the 1980 U.S. Boycott (Praeger, 1990) and Palestinian Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1977: Dynamics of Response (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004). He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.