Sharon L. Wolchik is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. She has served as Director of the Russian and East European Studies Program and the mid-career Masters in International Policy and Practice Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs and is a member of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. She has served on the board of the American Association for Slavic Studies, the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution, the Associ...