Henry E. Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington DC. His previous work has won two awards from the American Political Science Association, the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Why Not Parties in Russia (Cambridge, 2006) and the Alexander L. George Article Award for 'Divided We Stand' (World Politics, 2005). His other publications include Foundations of Ethnic Politics (Cambridge, 2008), two edited volumes, and numerous articles in leading, peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, and Post-Soviet Affairs. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research. In 2009–12, he served as director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He currently serves as editorial board chair of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.