Democratic Transition Experts
Founder and Senior Scholar, International Institute of Learning for Social Reconciliation, Guatemala
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on democratic governance, conflict resolution, citizen security and organized crime, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, th...
Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego
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...
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth Greene is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes and democratization, political parties, elections, and voting behavior. Most of his research to date has been on Latin America with a special emphasis on Mexico. His first book, Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Compar...
Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations, University of Jyvaskyla
Rinna Kullaa is an area studies expert for South Eastern Europe and an Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. She completed her postgraduate studies at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford and a doctorate University of Maryland. She works on modern Mediterranean history since the Sec...
Doctoral Habilitation Student, Political Science, Kyiv-Mohyla National University
Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Jeffery M. Paige is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he has served as Director of the Center for Research on Social Organization and was a Founder of the Program for the Comparative Study of Social Transformations. His first book, a comparative study of revolution in Vietnam, Peru and Angola, received the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association....
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Richmond.
Aleksandra Sznajder Lee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Richmond she was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, a lecturer at Yale University’s Department of Political Science, American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellow in East European Studies, and a...