Penulis: Francoise Dauce

The editors: Françoise Daucé, Ph D (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris), is Lecturer of Soviet History and Russian Politics at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand. Her papers have appeared in Critique Internationale, Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest and Hérodote. She is the author of L’État, l’armée et le citoyen en Russie post-soviétique (Paris: L’Harmattan 2001).Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Ph D (University of Nanterre-Paris X), is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (http//:www.pipss.org). Her papers have appeared in Problèmes Politiques et Sociaux, Cultures & Conflits and Courrier des Pays de l’Est. She co-authored, with A. Toumarkine, Géopolitique de la mer Noire: Turquie et pays de l’ex-URSS (Paris: Karthala 2000).The foreword author: Dr. Dale Herspring is Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University and member of the Council of Foreign Relations.