Mark Nieman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Trinity College, as well as an affiliate of the Data Sciences Institute. His research and teaching focus on international security, political economy, and research design and methods. He is co-author of Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism (University of Michigan Press), and has published peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Journal of Peace Research, and Statistica Sinica, among others.