Preparing Liberty in Central Europe (PDF)

The author: Josette Baer, P.D. (Zurich 2006), Ph.D. (Zurich 1996), is lecturer of political thought with a particular focus on Slavonic political thought at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001-2004, she was a stipendiate of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Baer's publications include papers in Democratisation, East Central Europe-L'Europe du Centre-Est-Mitteleuropa, Studies in East European Thought and Balkanistica. Her latest research Slavic Thinkers or the Creation of Polities will be forthcoming in winter 2006/7. The foreword author: Zdenek V. David, Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., Slavic bibliographer and lecturer at Princeton University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, librarian of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Educated as a historian (Ph.D. Harvard, 1960), he is co-author of The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918 with the late Robert A. Kann. David's contributions were published in Bohemia, Austrian History yearbook, Historický Casopis, European Jewish Affairs, Folia Historica Bohemica, Slavic Review and Slavonic and East European Review. His latest publication is Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther.