Biographical note

JUDITH ARMSTRONG Senior Associate, Department of Germanic Studies and Russian, University of Melbourne URSULA J.VAN BEEK Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa JACK BIELASIAK Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington ROUMEN D.DASKALOV Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Sofia University, Bulgaria MICHAL ILLNER Director, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic RAINER LINDNER NEIL MELVIN Lecturer in Russian and Central Asian Politics, University of Leeds DANIEL N. NELSON Professor of International Studies, Old Dominion University, Virginia, and President, Global Concepts, Inc. GRIGORY NEMIRIA Director, Graduate Programme, Kiev Mohyla Academy, Ukraine VALENTIN PESCHANSKII Leading Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences JOHN RUSSELL Head, Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford ARPAD SZAKOLCZAI Assistant Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence KRZYSTZTOF ZIELKE Fellow, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw