Dr. Stephen J. Randall has been making a significant contribution to the study of American foreign policy, United States-Latin American relations, and Canadian-American relations for almost twenty years. Dr. Randall's strength as a scholar and historian is apparent in all of his scholarly writing. He has a reputation for balance, judicious analysis, and fairness. His work is consistently based on extensive research in American and non-American sources. All of it is placed in appropriate contexts. Dr. Randall is also a social historian, and works in business history, economic history, and Canadian-Latin American relations. He has been very active in attempting to strengthen Canadian academic relations with Mexico and Latin American countries, and he has worked hard both at McGill University and at The University of Calgary in broadening University contacts with the larger community. Widely praised by both graduate and undergraduate students as an excellent teacher and supervisor, he has a large number of successful Masters and Doctoral students to his credit. Dr. Randall is a scholar of broad national and international reputation, greatly in demand as an author and speaker in Canada, the United States and Latin America, whose opinions on Canadian-American relations, petroleum policy, and American-Latin American relations have been increasingly sought by the scholarly and business community over the last decade.