Scott P. Handler (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Assistant Professor of international relations and deputy director of the international relations program at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is an active-duty Army officer who studies international cyber strategy and policy, state-building, and post-conflict reconstruction. At Stanford he was a Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, and a Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. Robert Person is an associate professor of International Affairs at the United States Military Academy (West Point), where he teaches courses in international relations, comparative politics, political economy, and post-Soviet politics. He holds a PhD in political science from Yale University, as well as an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Stanford University. His research focuses on foreign and domestic politics of Russia and other former Soviet states, democratization, nationalism, and political culture. He has published several scholarly articles and book chapters on the politics of the post-Soviet states, as well as numerous articles in media outlets on contemporary challenges in the post-Soviet space. He is currently writing a book on Russian grand strategy in the 21st century.
