America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO, by Andrew A. Michta (ed.)

 

Contributors

 

Zoltan Barany is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on eastern European politics and ethnic issues. His publications on civilmilitary relations include Soldiers and Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945­1991, as well as articles in scholarly journals such as Armed Forces and Society, Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Political Studies and in numerous edited volumes.

Dale R. Herspring is professor and head of the Department of Political Science at Kansas State University. He is the author or editor of eight books and more than sixty articles. His most recent published work includes Russian CivilMilitary Relations and Requiem for an Army: The Demise of the East German Military.

Sean Kay is an assistant professor of politics and government at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has worked as a specialist on US foreign policy and international relations at the Institute for National Strategic Studies in the US Department of Defense, where he served as an advisor to the US Department of State on NATO enlargement ratification. He is the author of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and editorials in major newspapers dealing with NATO and European security. Most recently, he wrote NATO and the Future of European Security.

Andrew A. Michta is the Mertie Willigar Buckman Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author or coeditor of six books and a number of book chapters and articles on central and eastern European politics. His books on central European security issues include Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944­1988; East Central Europe after the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s; and The Soldier Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism.

Thomas S. Szayna is a national security analyst in RANDıs International Studies Group and associate director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program in RANDıs Arroyo Center. His research concentrates on global conflict issues in the post­Cold War era, peacekeeping and interventions in intrastate strife, military reform in the former communist states, and European security. In addition to numerous journal articles, his recent RAND writings include Intervention in Intrastate Conflict: Implications for the Army in the Post­Cold War Era and East European Military Reform after the Cold War.

 

America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO