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Janice Jayes teaches history at the Illinois State University. She is interested in how culture shapes understanding of national security issues and options. She previously taught at Al Akhawayn in Morocco, American University of Cairo, and American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan. She is the author of The Illusionof Ignorance (2011) on U.S.-Mexican relations and currently writes for the Publici, the Newspaper of the Independent Media Center of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.