The author Josette Baer, PhD, is adjunct professor of political theory with a focus on Central and Eastern European political thought at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich UZH, Switzerland. The foreword author PhDr. Milan Zemko, CSc., was a historian at the Department of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia (HÚ SAV). He was a renowned expert on Czechoslovak and Slovak history.