Faculty Expert Profile
Courses Taught
FYSE 1084: Writers and Politics in Central Europe
INTL 0454: Leadership, Politics and Psychology
PSCI 0227: Soviet and Russian Politics
PSCI 0228: East European Politics
PSCI 0408: US Relations with Russia and East/Central Europe
PSCI 0424: Comparative Democratization
PSCI 0454: Leadership: Politics and Personality
ID 082: Settling Accounts: How New Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes
Research Interests
Comparative Democratization
Russian and European Politics
Transitional Justice
Ethnic Conflict
Leadership
Recent Publications
“Letter from Prague: A Tale of Two Vaclavs,” European Affairs, nos. 2-3, Summer/Fall 2007, http://www.europeanaffairs.org/index.html;
“Did the Charter 77 Movement Bring an End to Communism?” New England Review, Volume 28, Number 2 / 2007
"K zásadním reformám vládu donutí jedině krize" (“Only a Crisis Will Force the Government to Enact Real Reforms”), Hospodářské noviny, 11 May 2006
"American Constitution" and "International Telecommunication Union" (co-author) in the World's Most Enduring Institutions,Booz Allen Hamilton, December 2004.
"O zacatku globalniho informacniho veku a demokratizaci medii," ("The Dawn of the Global Information Age and the Democratization of Media,") in Karel Hvizdala, Moc a nemoc medii (The Power and the Sickness of the Media) Prague: Dokoran, 2003
Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic and Security Systems.Edited with Ronald D. Liebowitz. Boulder: Westview Press; published online by Questia Media America, Inc. (www.questia.com <http://www.questia.com>), 2003
"The Czech Republic's First Decade, " Journal of Democracy, No. 2, April 2003, Vol. 14
"Vaclav Havel jako politicky vudce," (Vaclav Havel as a Political Leader), Hospodarske noviny, February 5, 2003
"The End of the Czech Press?" (review article), Foreign Policy, January/February 2003; also selected for inclusion in the Arabic edition of Foreign Policy, January/February 2003
"Ani Klaus, ani Zeman," ("Neither Klaus nor Zeman"), Mlada fronta dnes,J anuary 15, 2003
"Bushova doktrina se rozsiruje," ("Bush's Doctrine is Expanding"), Mlada fronta dnes, January 31, 2002
Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution, co-edited and co-translated (with Allison Stanger), Foreword by Vaclav Havel, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000