Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political science and deputy director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University-Newark. He served as associate director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in 1992-1998. He is the author of six non-fiction books, including Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (Columbia University Press, 2001) and Revolutions, Nations, Empires (Columbia University Press, 1999), and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (Academic Press, 2001). He is also the author of two novels, Whiskey Priest...more
