Karen Dawisha is professor and director of the Center for the Study of Post Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Bruce Parrott is professor and director of Russian Area and East European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he has taught for twenty years.
Part I Theoretical Perspectives on the Forms and Development of Empires;
Chapter 1 Analyzing the Transformation of the Soviet Union in Comparative
Perspective, Bruce Parrott; Chapter 2 The Rise, Fall, and Future of the
Russian Empire, David A. Lake; Part II Imperial Disintegration; Chapter 3
The Fall of the Tsarist Empire and the USSR, Roman Szporluk; Chapter 4 The
Disintegration of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, Solomon Wank; Chapter 5
Decolonization, Michael Graham Fry; Part III Peripheral Successor States
and the Legacies of Empire; Chapter 6 State Building in the Shadow of an
Empire-State, Mark R. Beissinger; Chapter 7 The Habsburg and Ottoman
Empires and Their Aftermaths, Dankwart A. Rustow; Chapter 8 Peripheral
Successor States and the Legacy of Empire, Robert I. Rotberg; Chapter 9 The
Imperial Culture of North-South Relations, Ali A. Mazrui; Part IV
Metropolitan Successor States and the Question of Imperial Reconstitution;
Chapter 10 The Fate of Empire in Post-Tsarist Russia and in the Post-Soviet
Era, S. Frederick Starr; Chapter 11 Between the Second and Third Reichs,
Carole Fink; Chapter 12 Empires, Neo-Empires, and Political Change, Miles
Kahler; partV Changing Forms and Prospects of Empire; Chapter 13 The
Prospects for Neo-Imperial and Nonimperial Outcomes in the Former Soviet
Space, Hendrik Spruyt; Chapter 14 Constructing and Deconstructing Empire in
the Post-Soviet Space, Karen Dawisha;
