Auteur: Philipp Casula

The editors: Philipp Casula studied political sociology at the Free University of Berlin and is currently a research fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Basel. Among his latest publications are contributions to the edited volumes “Revolutions: Reframed, Revisited, Revised” (Peter Lang 2007) and “Nationalism and Democracy” (Routledge 2009). Dr. Jeronim Perovic studied history, political science and Russian literature at the University of Zurich. He is currently a senior researcher with the Institute of History at the University of Basel and visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich. He is a co-editor of “Energy and the Transformation of International Relations” (OUP 2009), “Russian Energy Power” (Routledge 2009) and “Russian Business Power” (Routledge 2009) as well as the author of, among other studies, “Die Regionen Russlands als neue politische Kraft” (Peter Lang 2001). The author of the foreword: Dr. Heiko Haumann is Professor of East European and Contemporary History at the University of Basel.