is professor of International Studies and of Sociology, University of Washington. His publications include How Societies Change, Newbury Park 1994; Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, New York 1994; Editor, The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe, University of California Press, Berkeley 1989; Co-editor (with Martin Seligman), Ethnopolitical Warfare, Washington, DC 2001; Co-editor (with Anthony Reid), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, University of Washington Press, Seattle 1997.