From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions
Reform and Revolution after Socialism
Edited by Vicken Cheterian
A Hurst Publication
Author Information
Vicken Cheterian is director of CIMERA in Geneva and author of War and Peace in the Caucasus.
Contributors:
CONTRIBUTORS
Dominique Arel is Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies
and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research
focuses on the political memory of mass violence in Ukraine in the 1930s
and 1940s, the categorization of identities by states, language politics, and
regime transition in Ukraine since the Orange Revolution. He has coedited
Le gouvernement des langues: Russes et Soviétiques face au multilinguisme
(Éditions CNRS, 2010), Rebounding Identities: The Politics of
Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Johns Hopkins, 2006) and Census and
Identity (Cambridge, 2002). His articles have recently appeared in Critique
Internationale, Population, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Survival. He has served
as President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) since
2004 and hosted, as Chair, the international Danyliw Seminar on Contemporary
Ukraine since 2005.
Vicken Cheterian is Professor of International Communication at Webster
University in Geneva, and Research Associate at the Department of Development
Studies, SOAS. His research interests include developments in the
Middle East and post-Soviet republics, violent conflicts, transition, media
and democratization, environment degradation, climate change and conflict.
He started his career in Beirut, reporting on Middle East conflicts, and
later worked on the collapse of the Soviet Union, reporting on the conflicts
that emerged in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He is the founder of the
Caucasus Media Institute (Yerevan, Armenia) which he directed from 2002
to 2005. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia's Troubled
Frontier (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2008).
Jean-Arnault Dérens is a historian and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief
of Courrier des Balkans, and a regular contributor to numerous French
publications. He has several books in French on contemporary Balkans,
including Comprendre les Balkans. Histoire, sociétés, perspectives (Paris, 2007)
and Le piège du Kosovo (Paris, 2008).
Ghia Nodia is the professor of politics and director of the International
School of Caucasus Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He
is also a founder of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development
(CIPDD), an independent public policy think tank in Tbilisi,
which he headed in 1992-2008 and has headed again since August 2009.
He has published extensively on two sets of topics: regional security, statebuilding
and democratization in the Caucasus, and theories of nationalism
and democratic transition in the post-Cold-War context. He has been
involved in pro-democracy advocacy efforts in Georgia and internationally,
and has been a frequent participant in international congresses and conferences
on the related topics. In February-December 2008, he served as
Georgia's Minister of Education and Science.
Catherine Samary is an economist and a specialist in the Balkans and Eastern
Europe. She teaches at the Université Paris-Dauphine and at the Institut
d'Etudes Européennes (Université Paris 8), and is involved as researcher at
the IRISSO (Inter-disciplinary Institute of Research in Social Sciences). She
is also a member of the scientific board of the French association ATTAC,
and a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique. She has published
several books on the Balkans, including Yugoslavia Dismembered (trans.
Peter Drucker, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1995). Her most recent
book is Yougoslavie: de la décomposition aux enjeux européens (Paris, Editions
du Cygne, 2008). Her personal website is at http://csamary.free.fr.
Anara Tabyshalieva is a research fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies
of Kyrgyzstan. She has worked on Central Asian issues for more than twenty
years. Born and raised in the Kyrgyz Republic, Anara received her MA and
PhD from the Kyrgyz National University and a second Master's degree
from Johns Hopkins University. Between 1994 and 2001, she served as
Director of the Institute for Regional Studies in Kyrgyzstan. She was a senior
fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and a Fulbright scholar at Johns
Hopkins University. Anara was invited to work in residence at the United
Nations University in Japan and the Centre of Study of Islam and
Christian Relations at Selly Oak, UK. The UNESCO Hirayama Silk Road
Program (France), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
United States Institute of Peace, the United Nations Development Program
and other organizations have supported her projects in Kyrgyzstan
and Central Asia. In addition to a number of publications, she co-edited the
UNESCO volume on the history of civilizations of Central Asia.
