Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, became the Association's 105th president on August 31 at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Dianne Pinderhughes of the Notre Dame University, APSA's outgoing president, symbolically passed the gavel to Katzenstein at the Association's Business Meeting on August 30. Joining Katzenstein in guiding the Association are four new officers. Eight new members of the council will be elected in an all-member election during the month of October. Details on the results of the election will be available on the web and in the January issue of PS.

APSA President Peter Katzenstein receives the gavel from outgoing president Dianne Pinderhughes.

In 2005, Katzenstein was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein's work addresses issues of political economy, security, and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on the politics of civilizational states on questions of public diplomacy, law, religion, and popular culture; the role of anti-imperial sentiments, including anti-Americanism; regionalism in world politics; and German politics. His APSA responsibilities include serving as secretary of the Association, as a member of the International Committee, co-chairing, with Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, the 1995 Annual Meeting and Program Committee, and serving on various APSA award committees. Katzenstein is the recipient of the 1974 Helen Dwight Reid Award of the APSA for the best dissertation in international relations, of APSA's 1986 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the United States on international affairs, and, together with Nobuo Okawara, of the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.

A full intellectual biography of President Katzenstein appears on page 895.

Assuming the position of president-elect is Henry E. Brady, the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. He is also faculty director of Berkeley's Survey Research Center and the University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA) program. Before Berkeley, Brady taught at Boston University, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. Brady's contributions to APSA include service as vice-president, as treasurer, as a member of the council, as co-chair (with Margaret Weir) of the 2003 Program Committee, and as organizer of panels for the Political Methodology section and the Public Opinion and Voting section. He is past president and a founding member of the Political Methodology Society.

Other 2008–09 officers include:

Vice Presidents: Stephen D. Krasner, Stanford University; Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University; and Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

Secretary: Leonard Wantchekon, New York University