Contributors

Stefan Auer

Dr Stefan Auer is Senior Lecturer in History and Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Innovative Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne. His book Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004, pb 2006) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) awarded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). His recent publications include ‘“New Europe”: between cosmopolitan dreams and nationalist nightmares’ (Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 48, no. 5, 2010).

John Burgess

John Burgess was the Australian Ambassador to Poland from 1980 to 1984. His earlier diplomatic experience included a posting in the Australian Embassy in Indonesia from 1965 to 1967, which covered the abortive communist coup there; a posting in Hong Kong from 1969 to 1972 in a China-watching position; and a posting to the USSR from 1975 to 1977 as deputy to the then Australian Ambassador, Sir James Plimsoll. During a later posting as Ambassador to Denmark and Norway from 1991 to 1995, he was in addition appointed Australian Ambassador to Latvia and Lithuania following the declarations of independence of those two countries, and he made numerous visits to both. Since his retirement in 1997, his occasional articles and reviews relating to his diplomatic experience have been published in magazines and newspapers.

Antoni Z ..Kamiński

Professor Antoni Z. Kamiński holds the Chair of International Security and Strategic Studies at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also Professor of Political Science at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. In 2006, he was Visiting Professor of Politics and Laporte Visiting Professor at Princeton University and, in 2000–02, was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Catholic University of Lublin. In 1993, he was Director of the Department of Strategic Studies at the Polish Ministry of Defence, and earlier, in 1990–91, Deputy Director of the Department of Europe at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His many publications include:Politics Without Strategy: East-Central European security from the perspective of global

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order (ISP PAN Press, 2008, in Polish); Korupcja rzadów: Kraje pokomunistyczne wobec globalizacji [Corrupt Governance: Post-communist states and globalization] (with B. Kamiński, Institute of Political Studies PAN Press and Trio Press, 2004, in Polish); and An Institutional Theory of Communist Regimes: Design, function, and breakdown (ICS Press, 1992).

Bartłomiej Kamiński

Professor Bartłomiej Kamiński teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and University of Information Technology in Rzeszów, Poland, and has written extensively on the collapse of and transition from communism. He has authored several books, including The Collapse of State Socialism: The Case of Poland (Princeton University Press, 1992), and co-authored with A. Kamiński Korupcja rzadów: Kraje pokomunistyczne wobec globalizacji [Corrupt Governance: Post-communist states and globalization] (Institute of Political Studies PAN Press and Trio Press, 2004), and with Saumya Mitra Borderless Bazaars and Regional Integration in Central Asia (forthcoming in 2010). In 1986-89, he was an economic advisor to the International Office ofSolidarno ść in Brussels. In November 1989, he joined a group of Polish expatriate economists invited by the Polish Senate to comment on the draft stabilisation-cum-transformation program subsequently referred to as the Balcerowicz Program. In 1990, he was a member of the Task Force on Poland set up the US Atlantic Council and, in 1991; he was an advisor to the Committee of Experts assisting President Wałęsa. In 1990, he co-founded the Centre for Post-communist Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and was the inaugural director of the Centre between 1990 and 1996.

Martin Krygier

Professor Martin Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Indisciplinary Studies of Law at the University of New South Wales. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Regulatory Institutions Network (REGNET) at The Australian National University. His work overlaps legal, social and political theory. Since 1989, he has been writing about the prospects for the rule of law and civil society in post-communist Europe. Since 2005, he has been recurrent Visiting Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw, and, in 2005– 06, he was a Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His many publications include: Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law? Implications of EU enlargement for the rule of law, democracy and constitutionalism in post- communist legal orders (edited with W. Sadurski and A. Czarnota, Springer Verlag, 2005); Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism: Constitutionalism, viii Contributors dealing with the past, and the rule of law (edited with A. Czarnota and W. Sadurski, Central European University Press, 2005); The Rule of Law after Communism (edited with A. Czarnota, Dartmouth, 1999); and Marxism and Communism: Posthumous reflections on politics, society, and law (Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi, 1994).

Stefan Markowski

A/Professor Stefan Markowski obtained a Master’s Degree in economics at the University of Warsaw and a Doctorate at the London School of Economics, where he was also Lecturer in the Economics of the Communist World. In 1975, he joined the Centre for Environmental Studies in London as an urban economist. In 1980, he began his longstanding association with a firm of land and urban economists, Roger Tym and Partners. As an academic researcher and professional consultant, Dr Markowski completed several land, housing, transport and employment studies in the United Kingdom. Following a two-year sabbatical at the Bureau of Industry Economics in Canberra, he moved to Australia in 1988 to take up a position at the University of New South Wales, the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). Since 1989, he has also worked as an economic consultant with ACIL Consulting (now ACIL Tasman). Dr Markowski is Associate Professor of Economics and Management at the University of New South Wales and Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies. His current teaching and research interests at the School of Business, UNSW@ ADFA, include strategic procurement, logistics engineering and operations management, defence technology management, small arms proliferation, private military companies, and international mobility of factors of production. He has published widely in these and related areas.

Jan Pakulski

Professor Jan Pakulski, MA (Warsaw), PhD (ANU), holds a Chair of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. Professor Pakulski migrated to Australia in 1975. His publications include Social Movements (Longman Cheshire, 1991), Postmodernization (with S. Crook and M. Waters, Sage, 1992); The Death of Class (with M. Waters, Sage, 1996); Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (edited with J. Higley and W. Wesołowski, Macmillan, 1998); and Globalizing Inequalities (Allen & Unwin, 2004). His current research interests focus on elites, democratisation, post-communism, social movements and social inequality. Jan Pakulski has been President of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs and Director of POLCUL Foundation.

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Professor Murray Raff, B. Juris, LLB (Hons) (Monash), PhD (Melb.), is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Canberra. Before taking up his Chair in the Canberra Law School in 2006, he was the Head of the new Law School at Victoria University from 2003. He helped to establish that school from 2001, before which he had worked in the Law School at the University of Melbourne for eight years. He is enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and was involved in development of the Law Reform Commission’s contributions to much legislation in the State of Victoria. Professor Raff was a founding member of the Environment Defenders’ Office (EDO), a community legal centre specialising in environmental and planning law cases. At the EDO, he has frequently advised community groups on a pro bono basis about the law of environmental impact assessments, and participated in the EDO’s seminar programs for governmental agencies, community groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and the legal profession. He was elected to chair the EDO in 2000 and continued in that position until 2006 when he took up his Chair in the Canberra Law School. His many publications include Private Property and Environmental Responsibility: A comparative study of German real property law (Kluwer Law International, 2003) and articles and book chapters in the fields of comparative law, property law, and environmental and planning law.

Nicolas Rothwell

Nicolas Rothwell was born in New York, and was educated in Switzerland, London and Oxford. He comes from a long line of Australian journalists, and has worked on newspapers in Sydney, Singapore, London and New York. He spent the 1980s and early 1990s as a foreign correspondent for The Australian newspaper in the Americas, the Pacific and Western and Eastern Europe, where he covered revolutionary upheavals, including the rise of the Solidarity movement.

Tracey Rowland

Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean and Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Continental Theology at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Faith, Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, and a member of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. (The John Paul II Institute was personally founded by John Paul II on 13 May 1981, the day of the assassination attempt against him.) In 1989, Professor Rowland lived in Krakow while writing her Masters dissertation on the Polish dissident intellectuals. x Contributors

Her current research focuses on contemporary Catholic theology, including the thought of John Paul II and related cultural and political issues. Her publications include: Ratzinger’s Faith: The theology of Pope Benedict XVI (Oxford University Press, 2008, Spanish translation in 2009 and Polish in 2010), the Benedict XVI volume in the T & T Clark Guide for the Perplexed series on prominent European intelectuals, and Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Routledge, 2003).She has also published an occasiaonal piece in Tygodnik Powszechny.

Andrzej Snarski

Dr Andrzej Snarski was born in Poland. Both his parents were members of the Polish (underground) Home Army during World War II. He studied medicine at the Gdańsk Medical School in the 1960s, where he also obtained his Doctorate, in 1972. He specialises in nuclear medicine. In 1978–82, he was the Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Gdańsk Medical School. As a resident of Gdańsk, he witnessed the birth and later brutal suppression of the Solidarity movement. Since his arrival in Australia, Dr Snarski has been the Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Medical School, University of Tasmania, and the Director of Northern Nuclear Medicine, Tasmania.

John Zubrzycki

John Zubrzycki is a Sydney-based award-winning journalist who has worked for a number of media outlets including The Age, Radio Australia, The South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor. He is currently a senior writer at The Australian newspaper in Sydney. He has reported from the Pacific, South-East Asia, South Asia and Europe, including four years as a correspondent based in New Delhi. He is also a published author. His first book, The Last Nizam: An Indian prince in the Australian outback (Pan Macmillan, 2007), has been a best-seller in Australia and India.

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