Alexander J. Motyl is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University, Newark, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance. The editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Nationalism," he is also the author of "Revolutions, Nations, Empires" (Columbia, 1999); "Post-Soviet Nations" (Columbia, 1995); "Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities" (Columbia, 1995); and "Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality" (Columbia 1990)..