ALISON STANGER - Rohatyn Institute for International Affairs, USA

Allison Stanger is the James Jermain Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. Stanger is the co-editor and co-translator (with Michael Kraus) of "Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution" (2000). Her essays and op-eds have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar, Democratization, East European Constitutional Review, Financial Times (with Felix Rohatyn), Lateral (Barcelona), Literární Noviny (Prague), New England Review, Oxford International Review, Yale International Review, and in numerous edited volumes.  She is presently writing a book on the privatization of American power.

She received her doctorate in political science from Harvard University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academic Leadership Council of Business for Diplomatic Action, and the Board of the American Friends of the Václav Havel Library.  She is also a contributor to the Booz Allen Hamilton project on the World's Most Enduring Institutions and the Princeton Project on National Security.

First panel audio recording - T.Klvana, T. Patterson, A. Stanger, R. Yeoh, F. Kazemi, J. Jarab