Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Joan DeBardeleben is Chancellor’s Professor in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood Relations and is President of the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C). She is also the founder and director of Carleton University’s EU Centre of Excellence, and is director of the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, a major network of Canadian and European scholars working on EU-Canada relations and European policy issues. Her current research project deals with EU-Russian relations, including attention to the interaction of EU policy toward Russia with policies of selected EU member states, particularly the Federal Republic of Germany, Poland, Estonia, and Latvia. DeBardeleben has written extensively on the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbors, and on topics related to federalism, environmental politics, elections, and public opinion in Eastern Europe and Russia. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her most recent edited volumes include (with Crina Viju) Economic Crisis in Europe: What It Means for the EU and Russia (2013); (with Achim Hurrelmann) Transnational Europe: Promise, Paradox, Limits (2011); The Boundaries of EU Enlargement: Finding a Place for Neighbours (2008); and (with Jon H. Pammett) Activating the Citizenship: Dilemmas ofCitizen Participation in Europe and Canada (2009).
Daniel J. Epstein is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University in New York. He previously served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, and as a Fulbright Research Fellow and Lecturer at Briansk State University. His research is on political parties and elections in recently democratized states, and on sub-national politics, specifically. His geographic specialization is divided between the post-communist states of Eastern Europe, especially Russia, and the third wave democracies of Latin America, focusing on Brazil. His published works include “Clientelism vs. Ideology: Problems of Party Development in Brazil,” in Party Politics 15, no. 3 (May 2009): 335–57.
J. Paul Goode is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He also serves as director of the newly established Center for the Study of Nationalism and coordinator [End Page 183] for Russian and East European Studies in the College of International Studies at OU. His book is The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (New York: Routledge, 2005), and he has published articles in scholarly and professional journals including Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, and Russian Analytical Digest. His current research focuses on nationalism and legitimacy among electoral authoritarian regimes in the post-Soviet region.
Ivan Kurilla is a Professor of History and International Relations and a Department Chair at Volgograd State University, Russia. He is a member of the Program on the New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), an international network of scholars studying political and social development in Russia and Eurasia. During 2012–13 academic year Kurilla was a visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC. His research interests span from history of US-Russian relations, to the use of history in the Post-Soviet political discourse, and to the regional social and political development in Russia. He monitored regional development for Russian Regional Report, published by the East-West Institute (http://www.ewi.info), and for the Carnegie Moscow Center Program on the Russian regions. He is an author of three books, including Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiia ν 1830–1850e [Partners Across the Ocean: America and Russia in the 1850–60s] (Volgograd: Volgograd University Press, 2005), and co-author and editor of the collection of articles Rossiia i SShA na stranitsakh uchebnikov: Opyt vzaimnykh reprezentatsii [Russia and the United States in Textbooks: Mutual Representations] (with Victoria Zhuravleva; Volgograd: Volgograd University Press/Kennan Institute, 2009), and of collective monographs: Mezhdunarodnaia Integratsiia Rossiiskikh Regionov [International Integration of Russian Regions] (Moscow: Logos, INO-center, 2007); Rossiia dvukhtysiachnykh [Russia...
