John Rennie Short is a Professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research interests include cities, urban environmentalism, and geopolitics. He has published widely in a range of journals and is the author of 50 books. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and Spanish. His essays have appeared in Associated Press, Business Insider, Citiscope, City Metric, Market Watch, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, Quartz, Salon, Slate, Time, US News and World Report, Washington Post, and World Economic Forum.