The Contributors

Virginia Page Fortna is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University.Her research is on the duration of peace and war termination in both interstate and civil conflicts.She is the author of Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace (2004) and is currently working on a manuscript on peacekeeping in civil wars.

Conor O'Dwyer is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. He is completing a book manuscript on state reform and patronage politics in new democracies, especially those in the postcommunist region.

Jessica Allina-Pisano is an assistant professor of political science at Colgate University. She has published articles and book chapters on identity and rural political economy in the former Soviet Union. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the development of property rights to land in contemporary Russia and Ukraine.

Daniela Donno is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, working on the role of international organizations in democratic transitions and consolidation.

Bruce Russett is a professor of political science and international relations at Yale University. He is coauthor, with John R. Oneal, of Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001). Much of his recently published work is on the long-term and indirect human costs of war.

Marcus Kreuzer is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University. His work focuses on how electoral and legislative institutions shape the organizational and electioneering practices of parties in interwar Europe and postcommunist democracies. He also is studying the origins of liberal democracy in nineteenth-century Europe. He is the author of Institutions and Innovation—Voters, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy—France and Germany, 1870-1939 (2001).

Vello Pettai is a lecturer in political science at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He specializes in comparative ethnopolitics and party politics. He has published previously in Nations and Nationalism, Post-Soviet Affairs, East European Politics and Society, and the Journal of Democracy.