Janusz Bugajski is the holder of the Lavrentis Lavrentiadis Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. Bugajski runs the South-Central Europe area studies program at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Departmnt of State, and has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development, among other organizations. His most recent books include Atlantic Bridges: America’s New European Allies, with Ilona Teleki (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and Cold Peace: Russia’s New Imperialism (Praeger Publishers, 2004). He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.