Dr. John B. Dunlop is Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University. Among his books are The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism (Princeton UP 1983), The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Princeton UP 1995), Russia Confronts Chechnya (Cambridge UP 1998), The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan Hostage Crises (ibidem 2006), and The Moscow Bombings of September 1999 (ibidem 2014). His essays have appeared in, among other journals, Demokratizatsiya, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Cold-War Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and Survival.