The Contributors

Nicholas Sambanis is Economist in the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University. He researches the political economy of civil wars.

Patrick Heller is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University. He is the author of The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India (1999) and is currently conducting research on democratization and local governance in South Africa.

Hilary Appel is Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of several articles on the political-economic transformation in Russia and Eastern Europe. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the ideological foundations of postcommunist economic reform.

Richard Ned Lebow is Director of the Mershon Center and Professor of Political Science, History and Psychology at The Ohio State University. His recent books include We All Lost the Cold War (1994), coauthored with Janice Gross Stein, and The Art of Bargaining (1996). He has a forthcoming study, Ethics, War and Society, a novel, Play it Again Ilsa, and three coedited works: Unmaking the West: Counterfactual and Contingency, Learning from the Cold War, and Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations.

Shu-Yun Ma is Associate Professor of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of a number of recent articles that have appeared in journals of comparative politics and communist and postcommunist studies..

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