David C Engerman is a scholar of twentieth-century international history and the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. In addition to writing two books on the place of Russia and the USSR in American intellectual and political life, he writes widely on the topic of international development assistance, starting with a co-edited volume, Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War, and most recently a monograph, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India. He is currently working on a one-volume history of international development, tentatively entitled International Development: A History in Eight Crises.