Carol Wise is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She joined the School of International Relations at USC in 2002 after spending eight years on the Faculty at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. She specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America and Pacific Asia. She has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the region. Professor Wise’s most recent book - Dragonomics: How Latin America is Maximizing (or Missing Out) on China's International Development Strategy (Yale University Press, 2020) - analyzes the rapid and remarkable ties that have developed between China and Latin America since the 1990s. Professor Wise’s other recent publications include The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations in the New Millennium (co-edited with Margaret Myers, Routledge, 2016); "Playing both Side of the Pacific: Latin America's Free Trade Agreements with China," Pacific Affairs (2016); and, "Conceptualizing China-Latin America Relations in the 21st Century," The Pacific Review (2018). Professor Wise held the Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair, Czech Republic, in 2019.