Robert K. Schaeffer is Professor of Global Sociology at Kansas State University. He is the author of "Warpaths: The Politics of Partition" (Hill and Wang, 1990), "Power to the People: Democratization Around the World" (Westview Press, 1997), "Understanding Globalization" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2009), "Severed States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), and with Torry D. Dickinson, coauthor of "Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and "Transformations: Feminist Pathways to Global Change" (...