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Biography

Alexander J. Motyl

Alexander J. Motyl (Ph.D., 1984, Columbia University) is Professor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the Division of Global Affairs, and co-director of the Central and East European Studies Program at Rutgers-Newark.

Professor Motyl is the author of six books,

· Imperial Ends: The Decline, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001);
· Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities(1999);
· Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism (1993);
· Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (1990);
· Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1987);
· The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (1980).

He is also editor of the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Nationalism (2000) ; Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities (1992); Post-Soviet Nations (1992); and the annual Nations in Transit studies published by Freedom House. He is currently working on a metatheoretical study entitled Theories of Everything and Theories of Something.

His recent grants include one from the Carnegie Corporation of New York is for a multi-university team study of "Integrating Russia into Europe: Problems, Prospects, and Policies" and another from the Rockefeller Foundation for a conference at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio on European national identities in an era of both regionalism and globalization.