Associate Professor of European History, Northern Arizona University; Affiliated Scholar, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
I grew up in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 1970s, a place where innovation and change were as ordinary as sunrise and sunset. Yet my study of politics, first in California, then in France, taught me that some of the greatest problems in American society remained unsolved, seemingly a world apart from the rapid technological advances occurring around me. My earliest interest in the history of soc...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
ExpertiseBalkans, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the NIS
Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...
I grew up in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 1970s, a place where innovation and change were as ordinary as sunrise and sunset. Yet my study of politics, first in California, then in France, taught me that some of the greatest problems in American society remained unsolved, seemingly a world apart from the rapid technological advances occurring around me. My earliest interest in the history of soc...
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...