Post Communist States in the World Community

MARGARITA M. BALMACEDA Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Chair of the Institute of European Studies, University of Toledo JOHN BERRYMAN PhD candidate in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science PIOTR BOLTUC Assistant Professor in Philosophy, St Olaf College, Minnesota HONGCHAN CHUN Associate Professor of Political Science, Pusan National University, Korea LENA JONSON Senior Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm HIROSHI KIMURA Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto ALEXANDER V. KOZHEMIAKIN Assistant Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta LONGIN PASTUSIAK Professor of Political Science, Gdansk University PAUL D. QUINLAN Associate Professor, Department of History, Providence College and a Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University CAROL R. SAIVETZ Fellow, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies SIEGFRIED SCHULTZ Senior Economist, German Institute of Economic Research, Berlin METTE SKAK Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark RAIVO VETIK Associate Professor, Tartu University, Estonia.