Acknowledgments

This book would have been impossible to research and write without the help of some key people at The IFID Centre and York University, in Toronto. I would like to start by acknowledging Anna Abaimova, Alexa Brand, Brandon Walker, and Vlad Kyrychenko, who helped with many aspects of the manuscript preparation and editing. I would also like to thank my colleagues, mentors, and friends—Thomas Salisbury, Huaxiong Huang, Chris Robinson, Virginia Young, David Promislow, Peng Chen, Sid Browne, Steven Posner, and Lowell Aronoff—with whom I have had numerous discussions and productive collaborations over the years. I would also like to thank Gil Weinreich, Mike Orszag, and Francois Gadenne for helping extend the reach and scope of my research work. Also, Jim Boyd, Paula Lowell, Debbie Williams, Monika Grzesiak, and Jovana Shirley deserve special acknowledgment. Additionally, Maxwell Serebryanny was instrumental in creating the second revised edition of this book. Finally, no thank-you is complete without mentioning Edna Diena-Milevsky (my wife), who carefully reviewed the manuscript to make sure I was speaking English at all times.