Cindy R Jebb Author

Cindy R. Jebb, Colonel, USA, is Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Before reporting to West Point, she served in numerous command and staff positions in the United States and overseas. She coauthored Mapping Macedonia, Idea and Identity (Praeger, 2004) with P. H. Liotta. She is also the author of Bridging the Gap: Ethnicity, Legitimacy, and State Alignment in the International System (2004).

P. H. Liotta is the Director of the Pell Center, Salve Regina University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Yugoslavia during its breakup as a nation-state. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and the first International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, he is the author of numerous books, among them A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in The Greater Near East (2006), coauthored with James F. Miskel.

Thomas Sherlock is Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he is also Head of Comparative Politics in the Department of Social Sciences. He is the author of the forthcoming Insurgent History and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ruth Margolies Beitler is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point. She is the author of The Path to Mass Rebellion: An Analysis of Two Intifadas (2004).