Mark Lawrence Schrad

Mark Lawrence Schrad is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. His most recent book, Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State (Oxford, 2014) has been translated into Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, and Chinese. He is also the author of The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave (Oxford, 2010).