Author Description

About the Author Dirk Verheyen is associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is coeditor of The Germans and Their Neighbors (Westview Press, 1993), and is currently completing a study entitled Monumental Politics: Identity and Memory in Post-Cold War Berlin. John Fitzmaurice is professor at the Institute of European Studies of the University of Brussels and is administrator in the General Secretariat of the Commission of the European Communities in the Department for Liaison with the European Parliament. Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of six other books, among them Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997) and Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (1998). She has also edited a dozen books, mostly about Eastern Europe and Russia.