Taras Kuzio, BA (Sussex), MA (London), PhD (Birmingham), formerly a senior research fellow at Yale, Toronto and Birmingham, is a Visiting Professor at George Washington University. He is the author of Ukrainian Security Policy (CSIS 1995), Ukraine under Kuchma (Macmillam 1997), Ukraine: State and Nation Building (Routledge 1998), Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence (Macmillan 1994 & 2000), joint author of Politics and Society in Ukraine (Westview 1999), editor of Contemporary Ukraine (M.E. Sharpe 1998), and joint editor of State and Institution Building in Ukraine (St. Martin's Press 1999), Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy (Praeger 2002) and Dilemmas of State-Led Nation Building in Ukraine (Praeger 2002). His articles have appeared in, among other periodicals, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Government and Opposition, Journal of Democracy, Politics, Journal of Political Ideologies, Contemporary Politics, Religion, State and Society, Nationalities Papers, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Ethnicities, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and Armed Forces and Society.