George W. Grayson, Associate Scholar, is the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary. He is a senior fellow at CSIS, appears frequently on CNN, and lectures regularly at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State and at universities throughout the U.S. and Mexico. His books and monographs include Mexico’s Struggle with Drugs and Thugs (Foreign Policy Association, 2009), Mexican Messiah (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), Mesías Mexicano (Random House-Mondadori, 2006), Beyond the Mid-term Elections: Mexico Political Outlook: 2003–2006 (CSIS, 2003), Mexico: the Changing of the Guard (Foreign Policy Association, 2001), Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East (University Press of America, 1999), and Mexico: From Corporatism to Pluralism? (Harcourt-Brace, 1998). His next book, Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State, will be brought out in 2009 by Transaction Publications.