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Contents
Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokosa
Cathal M c Call
James Wesley Scott
Alexander Sergunin
Mikhail A. Molchanov
Jussi Laine
Andrey Makarychev And Alexandra Yatsyk
Dovil Jakninait
Ilvija Brue and Krlis Bukovskis
Kornely Kakachia
Corneliu Pintilescu and Onoriu Colcel
Katarzyna Stokosa
Justyna Misigiewicz
Cameron Ross
Gerhard Besier
Jukka Korpela
Gerhard Besier is a historian (PhD), theologian (DD and Habilitation) and psychologist (Diploma). In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden. He has held chairs in Contemporary (Church) History and European Studies at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Dresden, and is currently Director of the Sigmund Neumann Institute (Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg) and teaches at Stanford University, USA. He has published widely on the themes of GermanPolish antagonisms, transformation processes in Europe since 1945, European dictatorships, denominational controversies in Germany, Europe and the USA and on stereotypes and prejudices. His latest books include Why Human Beings Behave How They Do (2014) and Intimately Associated for Many Years , a two-part edition reproducing the correspondence between George K. A. Bell and Willem A. Visser t Hooft from 1938 to 1958 (2015). Both are published by CSP.
Ilvija Bru e is a researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and a PhD student in Political Science at Riga Stradins University, Latvia. She holds degrees in Political Science (BA) and International Relations (MA) from Riga Stradins University, as well as in Social Anthropology (MSc) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research experience includes work as a research analyst for a UK-based political risk advisory service, which involved making contributions to the international research project, Varieties of Democracy . Her current research interests are related to political, economic, historical and socio-cultural developments in the post-Soviet area, and Ukraine in particular. Bru e s most recent publications include: Latvias Ukraine Policy: The Ukraine Crisis and Bilateral Relations in 2015 ( Latvian Foreign and Security Policy Yearbook 2016 , eds. A. Sprds and I. Bru e , Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2016) and The Baltic States Foreign Policies: Relations with Russia and the Impact of the Ukraine Conflict, ( Russian Analytical Digest 176, 2015).
K rlis Bukovskis is Deputy Director and a researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. He is also a guest lecturer on Global Political Economy and Economic Diplomacy of the EU at several universities in Latvia, including the Riga Graduate School of Law and Riga Stradins University (RSU). He acquired masters degrees from the University of Latvia and the University of Helsinki, and prior to that studied at the University of Trier, Germany and at the RSU. Bukovskis has served with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, dealing with European Union institutional affairs and cooperation with the European Parliament. He was also engaged in the preparation of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, where he was in charge of developing the Presidencys six-month work program and dealing with matters under the ECOFIN. Bukovskis also currently works as a consultant to the Ministry of Finance of Latvia on the future of the EU. Among his topics of interest are international political economy, the international financial system and European Union institutional affairs. He is also the author of numerous articles and the scientific editor of several books: among others, Ten Years in the EuroAtlantic Community (with A. Sprds; Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2014), Economic Diplomacy of the Baltic States (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2014) and Eiro ievieanas Latvij politisk dimensija (Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2014).
