Tore T. Petersen is Professor of Diplomatic History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. He has thought at the University of Minnesota; Southwest University in Marshall, Minnesota as well as several colleges in the Trondheim region before joining the NTNU. He has published extensively on Anglo-American relations in the Middle East. His last book was, The Military Conquest of the Prairie: Native American Resistance, Evasion and Survival, 1865-1890 (2016). He is currently working on a study of American Grand Strategy from Nixon to Trump.