Sandeep Baliga is the John L and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in the MEDS Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Professor Baliga uses game theory and the theory of incentives to study fundamental issues in economics and political science. He is writing a book bringing together much of the game-theoretic research in international relations into one over-encompassing framework. He is currently studying the optimal combination of targeted and comprehensive sanctions to maximize persuasion and factors that might make wars last a long time.