Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Acknowledgments

Kimberly Marten Zisk

1997

Acknowledgments

A great many organizations and individuals helped make the research and writing of this book possible, and many people gave me helpful criticism and advice along the way.

I am grateful beyond measure for a two-year fellowship from the Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, which played a crucial role in getting this project off the ground. It gave me both time away from other responsibilities and the chance to spend an inspiring year at Harvard University attending seminars, auditing classes, reading the political economy literature, and making research contacts. Two workshops for SSRC/MacArthur fellows also introduced me to a supportive scholarly community whose suggestions and ideas helped to shape my research agenda.

Special thanks go to Samuel P. Huntington, director of Harvard's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, who provided me with a vibrant academic home during the first year of my project and went out of his way to include me in various Olin activities. I benefited from my interaction with all the members of the Olin Institute community and especially from Olin's joint project with the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which issued the official invitation for my research trip to Russia and allowed me to present my work in progress to a lively audience of Russian diplomatic students and professionals. Bruce Porter and David Rivera were especially helpful in Moscow.

I am grateful to Timothy Colton, who as director of Harvard's Russian Research Center made me feel welcome even though I was not an official member of that community, and to Celeste Wallander, who included me in her Olin Foundation-sponsored project on Russian foreign policy after the cold war and was (as always) a supportive colleague and good friend.

A generous grant from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research provided me with graduate research assistants for a year, allowed me to spend three months in Russia doing field research, and also paid for research visits to Stanford University, the University of Birmingham, and the Library of Congress.

I owe an immense debt to the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and especially to David Holloway, who as its codirector gave me office space for a month, access to a large library of files on current events in the Russian defense industry, and, perhaps most important, the opportunity to accompany a CISAC team on visits to four defense enterprises in the Moscow region in September 1994. I am grateful for the encouragement and assistance provided by all the members of the CISAC defense conversion project, including (among others) David Bernstein, Susan Gates, Michael McFaul, Elaine Naugle, and Tova Perlmutter.

I wrote this book while a faculty member at the Ohio State University. I am thankful for the research support I received during the years I was there from the Graduate School, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (and its dean, Randall Ripley), and the Political Science Department (and its chair, Paul Allen Beck), the Mershon Center, and the Slavic Center. The Mershon Center, first under the direction of Charles F. Hermann and later under Richard K. Herrmann and then R. Ned Lebow, provided me with a quiet office and the resources necessary for completion of the manuscript. Several members of the Political Science faculty gave me useful criticism on my work in progress, and my thanks go to Rick Herrmann, Kevin O'Brien, and the members of the Junior Faculty Seminar. Tanya Charlick-Paley, Ted Lehmann, Sharon Shible, and Courtney Smith provided able research assistance, and I owe an additional note of thanks to Sharon for being my courageous and steadfast research companion in Russia. I especially appreciate Margaret G. Hermann's kindness during my OSU years.

I am grateful to Julian Cooper, who allowed me to use the resources of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies library at the University of Birmingham, and to Jared Ingersoll-Casey, who as the Slavic librarian at Ohio State helped me get access to the sources I needed. A special note of appreciation goes to Helen Sullivan, Slavic librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who kindly faxed me articles from newspaper issues unavailable elsewhere. I am also grateful to all those Russians who remain off the record, who helped me to arrange meetings or find sources or agreed to be interviewed by me.

Along the way I received advice and criticism from a wide variety of scholars, and in addition to all those mentioned above, I am particularly grateful to Marianne Afanasieva, Eva Busza, Jeff Checkel, Elena Denezhkina, Matthew Evangelista, Clifford Gaddy, Ethan Kapstein, Peter Katzenstein, Jeffrey Knopf, James Richter, Randall Stone, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss for their input on pieces of the project in progress. Special thanks go to those who read and critiqued the entire manuscript as various drafts became available, especially Eileen Crumm, Peter Almquist, and David Holloway.

Kate Wittenberg has been a marvelous editor, and I greatly appreciate the encouragement, advice, and enthusiasm she has provided for this project at Columbia University Press. I am also grateful to Jack Snyder for his advice and vote of confidence and to Sarah St. Onge for copyediting.

I am thankful to my brother-in-law Stephen Zisk and his wife, Veronica McClure, who showed their incredible generosity by giving me a roof over my head during the year I was in Boston. As always, I am indebted to my husband, Matt, who has encouraged my independence and perseverance with love and understanding. This book is dedicated to my parents, Lynette and Gordon Marten, whose love and generosity started me on my way and have helped me ever since.